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Yesterday we asked you to post your best optical illusions on Vine using the #WiredOpticalIllusion hashtag. Well, your 24 hours are up. Here we’ve collected our five top picks for you to enjoy.

A new of version of Vine for Android brings the app up to par with its iOS sibling, which received bug fixes and new tools earlier this July. In addition to new channels, Vine 1.3.1 gives you a hand in making better six-second clips by introducing the focus, grid and ghost (shows your previous shots) camera tools. You can now also revine — the company’s word for repost, à la retweet — friends’ posts from within the app and mute all the short but rackety videos through a new button in the menu. The most notable entry on the changelog, however, is the Capture widget designed to launch recording mode right from your home screen. It’s exclusive to Android at the moment, but who knows what surprises Vine may have when it launches on WP8.

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Source: Vine (Twitter), Google Play

Here’s another app that’s finally made it to Microsoft’s mobile OS, Flipboard. We’ll admit, we’re fans, so it was great to see the news aggregator’s icon line up alongside several other apps looking to take advantage of Nokia’s new imaging SDK. Vine, however, wasn’t mentioned there and was nestled within Nokia’s official press release Unfortunately, there was no mention of a release date for either (although Hipstamatic will finally arrive when the Lumia 1020 does), but we’ll update you when we hear more.

Check out all the news from today’s Nokia event at our hub!

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Mario Bros. level recreated using food in Vine.

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In what is most likely a response to Instagram’s recently-announced video features, Vine has added some hefty new features to its iOS app, including channels, new camera tools, as well as a “revining” feature that lets you share Vines on your own profile, similar to how retweets work.

Vine has added channels (or categories) to the Explore section in the app, as well as categories that feature popular Vines and Vines that are “on the rise.” There are 15 channels total, and include categories like entertainment, comedy, food & drink, sports, and even cat and dog categories, because those are really popular on the internet apparently.

The app has also been updated with some new camera tools, including a new grid view, as well as a focus button to allow users to select the area of the video to focus on by tapping on the screen. There’s also a ghost button that saves transparent frames from the previous shot. Still no filters, though.

As for revines, Vine is letting users reshare a Vine that they enjoy and have it show up for their friends. They also made it a single-tap process, where if you find a Vine that you find entertaining, all you have to do is tap the revine button and it’ll show up in your feed as a revined Vine. Fancy, eh?

In this update, Vine also added the ability to protect your account from strangers, meaning that only people you approve will be able to follow you and view your posts. Other than that, the app update comes with your usual bugfixes and performance improvements. It seems this update is only good for iOS, so it seems we’ll be waiting a bit for it to show up on Android, but hang tight!

SOURCE: Vine Blog

Vine for iOS updates with channels, new camera tools, and “revining” is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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