by Tyler Riggs on December 11, 2012 in Apps
Tweeting photos with artsy filters is about to become easier than ever, with Twitter announcing Monday that its Aviary-powered photo filter and effects technology is launching in its apps, bringing Twitter toe-to-toe with Instagram in the stylized mobile photo wars. The new Twitter feature has long been rumored, and comes a week after Instagram pulled [...]
by Mike Beauchamp on November 30, 2012 in Android, News, Social Media, iPad, iPhone
When you open the Facebook app on your iPhone today, you’ll see a small announcement at the top of your News Feed telling you about Photo Sync. If you’re a Google Plus user, you’ve had this functionality since the beginning of time; the photos you take on your Android phone are automatically uploaded to your [...]
by Mike Beauchamp on November 14, 2012 in Gadgets, Social Media, iPad
Two new iPad mini ads are out: ‘Photos’ and ‘Books’. Of course, they’re hitting on two big uses of the smaller iPad with these. Undoubtedly, there IS no better iPad for reading books. As for photos, the iPad mini’s big brother would be more desirable for viewing photos, but then again, if you aren’t carrying [...]
by Mike Beauchamp on November 6, 2012 in How To
Today’s the day we, as Americans, pick the next leader of the free world. As you’re getting out to vote today (or if you already have), here’s something to keep in mind: certain states expressly prohibit taking photos / videos at your polling station and of your ballot. Others don’t have any laws against it. [...]
by Joshua H. on November 2, 2012 in Apps, Product Reviews, iPad
Joshua Topolsky posted to Twitter an interesting post about his iPad Mini wallpaper. He found the wallpaper from a UK site: simoncpage.co.uk. The writer and designer Simon C Page loved the iPad 3 when it came out with a Retina Display: Apple’s new iPad 3, with it’s retina display, is so good it’s just crying [...]
by Mike Beauchamp on September 24, 2012 in Gadgets, Product Reviews
This is the first of a three-part ‘Camera Shootout’ arguably between the three best smartphones on the market. In Part 1, I’ll put the three devices head-to-head indoors. Part 2 will be outdoors during the day. Part 3 will be low-light scenarios with a mix of indoor and outdoor. For the first scenario, Indoor photos, [...]
by Joshua H. on August 20, 2012 in Apps, New Technology
Yahoo isn’t going to be an easy nut for Marissa mayer to crack. The company needs solid products to bring it on par with competitors. Mayer hopes to hire engineers. She wants to emphasize products rather than media. Maybe Mayer ‘gets it’ and the future of Yahoo is more than closing down Flickr. A picture [...]
by Trevor McKendrick on August 17, 2012 in News, Product Reviews, Social Media
You know you’ve been there. You wake up one morning, get on your computer and groggily log into Facebook and wake up instantly when you see those, well, unglamorous pictures from the night before. Texts From Last Night has made an entire business out of that moment. What happens next is you go to delete the [...]
by Caleb Hicks on June 27, 2012 in Apps
As they say, the best camera is the one that you have with you. Smart phones manufacturers are packing in better cameras with each release, and users are uploading terabytes of photos to Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr every day. ReadWriteWeb recently published a roundup of the 9 best photo filter apps to make mobile photos [...]
by Joshua H. on June 6, 2012 in Apps, News, Product Reviews
We all know about Bump. It’s an app that makes things easy to share. When it first launched it was all about sharing your contact information. Now Bump for both Android and iOS is updated to give it a bit more sharing power. Sharing Simple and Fun Bump doesn’t just make it easy to share, [...]