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The Company Behind RealPlayer Wants to Turn Your Photos Into Home Movies Whether you’re old enough to remember Super 8 movies or you obsessively record your life 24/7 with an iPhone 6 , you know that taking the pictures is the easy part. The hard part is getting them into a format where they’re easy to share. Most of the time, they never leave the device you used to capture them.  RealNetworks — yes, the guys behind the Rhapsody music service and RealPlayer video software — have a quick-and-easy solution for this conundrum: the RealTimes app, which is available in free and paid versions. Every picture tells a story RealTimes can take the photos and videos stored on your iPhone , Android handset, or Windows PC and instantly create montages on the fly, complete with Instagram-like filters, transition effects, and music. (The Mac OS X version was still in beta at publication time.) RealTimes automatically ignores duplicate or blurry photos and zero...

Apple Maps is finally getting public transportation directions (Flickr / Michael Trapp)  Apple will update its Maps app in iOS 9 to feature public transit directions. Apple is set to update its Maps app with public transit directions in the new version of iOS 9, which is expected to be announced at its WWDC event in early June.  Apple Maps had a rocky start when it completely replaced Google Maps in iOS 6 back in 2012. It was so bad that Tim Cook  posted an apology  on the Apple website because it was giving people the wrong directions, which sometimes ended in dangerous situations.  Since then, Apple Maps has improved to be as trustworthy as Google Maps, but still lacking public transit directions. That has given city-slicking iPhone owners little reason to use Apple Maps for the last three years. There was a glimmer of hope last year as Apple announced it would integrate public transportation directions into its Maps app in iOS 8, but...