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Facebook launches Instagram-like "Camera" app

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:15:00 UTC +00:00

What do you do after spending a billion dollars buying a popular photography app? If you're Facebook, you then release your own branded app that does the exact same thing. Yes, Facebook has just launched the Facebook Camera app. The app allows you to take photos or select current photos from your iPhone's camera roll and upload them directly to your Facebook Timeline. Like Instagram, Facebook camera allows you to apply filters (though there are only 16 for now) before uploading your pics. Besides filter support, the app also allows you to crop and rotate your photos, batch upload them (something the current Facebook app can't do), and follow your friends' photo feeds. All in all, if you're an Instagram fan, you won't be too impressed with Facebook Camera because Instagram can do much more (such as hash tag, tilt-shift, etc). And fans of Instagram, worry not. The Instagram app is Read More

iMore community spotlight for April 2012

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:17:07 UTC +00:00

The iPhone Blog

iMore isn’t just a website, it’s a community fueled by millions of people who comment on the stories, give and get help on the iPhone and iPad forums, and join us each and every month in discovering great new ways to enjoy our iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. This month we chose Ty (aka EmceeGeek) and she is exactly that kind of super engaged, incredibly helpful, truly awesome iMore community member. But enough from us, let’s let Ty do the talking. Tell us a little about yourself? My name is Ty, I’m an unordinary girl from Metro Detroit. I’ve been into technology my whole life, and have been fortunate enough to have the means to support my Tech Addiction. I’m a student majoring in psychology; pre-major computer science. I am also a YouTube partner; with hopes of expanding my channel. I just need more subscribers! EmceeGeek Channel How long have you Read More

What the back of the Instagram icon looks like

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:40:32 UTC +00:00

iPhone Savior

Have you ever imagined what the back of any app icon might look like? San Francisco photographer , has done a very clever job creating a view of the icon from the other side. His instamatic film camera aesthetic adds so much fun to the icon — offering all of us a glimpse into the great unknown of the dollar iPhone app. I really like the idea that one commenter had — which could easily spin off into a crowd sourced designed coffee table book that explores the dark side of app icons. Imagine app icons as Pop Art. "You should totally make a series called "The Dark Side Of The Icon" and do the backside of a whole bunch of famous app icons." - Joaquim Marques Nielsen wrote. It's a very cool concept that could even spawn a slew of fine art gallery prints. Read More

Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:11:49 UTC +00:00

MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - Front Page

...years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we'll be able to work even more closely... Read More

The Ups and Downs of iPhoto on iOS

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:11:21 UTC +00:00

iSource

I’ve been looking for a single app to be the photo editing kit on my iPhone and iPad, and – to my surprise – iPhoto might just be that app. There’s definitely quite a learning curve to iPhoto on iOS, but I really like how the app focuses more on slider controls than quick-fix presets. I don’t have anything against apps like Instagram and PhotoToaster (I think they’re great, actually), but there are just a few too many app candidates out there that are overly eager to head butt me right out of the photo editing process. I appreciate photo apps saving me time and adding pizazz to my pictures in a single tap, but there’s also something refreshing about iPhoto’s take on sliders controls (you can opt to use sliders or gesture right over the photo). The only app that I’ve seen come close to this approach is Snapseed, and Read More

TechCrunch Primer: A Crash Course In Cool Camera Apps

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:56:28 UTC +00:00

MobileCrunch

Let’s face it — there are too many camera and photo sharing apps out there, and not enough time in the day to give each one of them a try. If you’ve been mulling over which camera app deserves your love and affection, or just have no earthly idea where to start, take a gander below at some of your best options for shooting and sharing your life on the go. Instagram Does this thing really need an introduction? Instagram took concept of applying artsy filters (the app has 16 of them), and combined it with a strong social element to become the mobile photo sharing service to beat. Oh, and let’s not forget that it has something like 27 million users at last glance — there’s a good chance your friends are already onboard. Aside from its famed filters, Instagram also packs a slew of other features — dead simple Read More

TechCrunch Primer: A Crash Course In Cool Camera Apps

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:56:28 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

Let’s face it — there are too many camera and photo sharing apps out there, and not enough time in the day to give each one of them a try. If you’ve been mulling over which camera app deserves your love and affection, or just have no earthly idea where to start, take a gander below at some of your best options for shooting and sharing your life on the go. Instagram Does this thing really need an introduction? Instagram took concept of applying artsy filters (the app has 16 of them), and combined it with a strong social element to become the mobile photo sharing service to beat. Oh, and let’s not forget that it has something like 27 million users at last glance — there’s a good chance your friends are already onboard. Aside from its famed filters, Instagram also packs a slew of other features — dead simple Read More

Canon 5D Mark II surpasses iPhone 4 as Flickr's most popular camera

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mashable notes this morning that the iPhone is no longer the most popular camera used by Flickr users. That honor now goes to the Canon 5D Mark II. Canon's numbers have been rising for months, and pics from that Canon model totaled 4,643 yesterday. The iPhone 4 users posted 4,460. The iPhone 4 was the number one image contributor when rankings were released last June. There's one thing to take into consideration. The iPhone numbers only reflect the use of the Apple provided camera app. If you're using Instagram or Hipstamatic or any of the 3rd party HDR apps your photos won't be tagged as iPhone images. Canon recently lowered the price of the 5D Mark II because its been replaced by the Mark III, so some of the boost comes from that. Also, numbers for the iPhone 4 are dropping as the iPhone 4S grows in popularity. Looking at the Read More

Homescreens – März 2012 (iPhone + iPad)

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:23:58 UTC +00:00

iPhoneBlog.de

...(11.99 €); OmniFocus for iPad (31.99 €); Reeder for iPad (3.99 €); Screens VNC (15.99 €); Facebook (kostenlos); WordPress (kostenlos)... Read More

Hipstamatic-Fotos auf Instagram

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:40:31 UTC +00:00

iPhoneBlog.de

Hipstamatic will have exclusive access to Instagram’s network, and will likely receive a huge amount of promotion from the tags hugging underneath every ported photograph. […] For Instagram, the partnership provides the network with access to Hipstamatic’s high-quality content creators–a photography community of 4 million users who upload 48 million photos per month. […] Most significantly, however, the partnership helps frame Instagram as a social networking platform–a platform that other services will contribute to in the future, and one that could soon see ports from Camera+ and other camera apps. Instagram (kostenlos; App Store-Link) entwickelt sich mit seinen 27 Millionen Nutzern zu einer bedeutenden Foto-Plattform. Die iPhone-Aufnahmen der Hipstamatic-Nutzer (1.59 €; App Store-Link) passen ins Bild zu der dort gepflegten Fotografie-Kultur. Passend dazu: iPhoto für iOS verkauft seine erste Download-Million innerhalb von zehn Tagen. Read More

Instaprint will print your Instagram photos right on the spot

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:31:53 UTC +00:00

iPhone Download Blog

By now, you should be familiar with the iPhone-exclusive social network called Instagram. Instagram is used by many and allows you to share photos taken with your iPhone’s camera. We love showing you guys cool projects over at Kickstarter, and today, we have one that’s based around Instagram. The crew over at BREAKFAST have created a new device called Instaprint that prints Instagram photos, based on the location of where the photos are taken at… Instaprint is a location based photo booth that can transform parties and events by putting a camera in everyone’s hand. By setting Instaprint to look out for specific locations or hashtags, any Instagram tagged appropriately will automatically be printed out on inkless paper. Get one for your next party, event, wedding, fiesta…. That’s right, every party goer that uses Instagram will be able to take a photo, hashtag it, and then the Instaprint will automatically print the pictures on inkless Read More

Instaprint goes Kickstarter to fund its Instagram photo booth hardware

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Have you ever kept a journal or diary? For writers, it's almost a given that you're going to keep a personal log of what you do during each day, how you feel, or interesting things that might create that prize-winning book some day. For others, it's a way to keep track of health issues, emotions, relationships, the growth of a child or... Read More

Apple Closing in on 25 Billionth App Download and Giving Away $10K to Celebrate

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:11:42 UTC +00:00

Mashable

by Apple has launched a countdown to its 25 billionth app downloaded from the App Store, but more is at stake than the glory of a historic download. The company is giving away a $10,000 gift card to spend in the App Store. Think of all the Zynga games — without the frequent pop-up ads of the free editions — you could by with that kind of money! What’s strange about the giveaway is that you don’t need to download anything to enter the contest. You can fill out an online form to be entered to win. The winner must agree to publicity, such as sharing your name, photo and some of your App Store picks with the Apple community. Yes, that means others will know that you’re spending your hefty gift card on several versions of Angry Birds. What would you do with $10,000 from the App Store? Let us Read More

Instagram Gets a Prettier UI and New Features - Prelude to an Android App?

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:30:42 UTC +00:00

ReadWriteWeb

Everyone's favorite photo filtering and sharing app for iOS got a significant update on Friday afternoon. Version 2.1 of Instagram adds a new filter, a tool for easily enhancing low-lit photos and a redesigned navigation. Sierra, the latest filter to join the Instagram family, is a white-bordered filter that adds a lightened, low-contrast vintage look to photos. As far as Instagram filters go, it's pretty standard stuff, but it's always nice to have new options. The more substantial addition to the app is a feature called Lux, which lets users automatically increase the brightness of photos and boost the contrast. The option is meant to offer a way to improve underexposed photos and make them more Instagrammable. The visual overhaul of the navigation UI comes five months after the app's camera was redesigned in version 2.0. This iteration appears to complete a larger redesign process was undertaken last year. The new Read More

Instagram 2.1 comes with new feature (Lux), new filter (Sierra), improved UI and tappable notifications

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:24:26 UTC +00:00

IntoMobile

A new version of the popular photo taking/sharing app Instagram is in the AppStore, bringing few additional features to the mix. The first thing you’ll notice in Instagram 2.1 is slightly revamped UI, which comes with improved header and menu buttons that will make it “easier to understand and interact” with the app. Moreover, there are tappable notifications that bring you directly to the relevant photo, comment or user profile page. And that’s not all. With the new feature, Lux, you get a new way to transform the look and feel of your photos by making them more vibrant and bringing out details you couldn’t see before. Finally, there’s a new filter called Sierra. Instagram remains the free app and if you still don’t have it running on your iPhone, grab it now. After all, it’s one of the most popular iOS apps ever released… Instagram (FREE) [iTunes link] SPONSORED MESSAGE Read More

The most talked about #iPhone app in the...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:30:52 UTC +00:00

appstorehq - Twitter Search

...most talked about #iPhone app in the last 24hrs was: Instagram http://t.co/0GcH9SYB... Read More

Instagram Update Adds Epic Fill Lighting Feature

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:56:44 UTC +00:00

iPhone Savior

There is already so much to love about the Instagram app for iPhone, but creators of the photo sharing phenom have just added a powerful new image enhancement with Lux. Instagram has delivered a real god send with this magic fill light and rapid photo correction option wrapped into one click. Lux is a standout feature that transforms underexposed images with a single tap by instantly balancing exposure, adding contrast, detail, and a color boost to photos with the greatest of ease. The effect is most useful for landscapes and cityscapes where shadows can prevail. Instagram version 2.1 also introduces a simplified user interface and new Sierra effect filter to the app. While some might initially struggle with the improved interface, I could appreciate the changes after spending only a few minutes tooling around on the new version. I'm confident that the community of over 15 million active users will Read More

Instagram 2.1 Released with Fresh UI and More

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:01:21 UTC +00:00

iPod Touch Fans

posted by Jacob Penderworth on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 3:01 pm. The popular photography app Instagram has received an update that refreshes its user interface, adds a new “Sierra” filter, improves push notifications, allows for profile picture changes in-app, and adds Lux to enhance your photos. The new user interface is definitely a big improvement from the previous one as it adds a lot of simplicity to the app and also has more of a modern feel to it… However, while the most major change in version 2.1 is the new user interface, the addition of Lux will also prove to be very helpful for those pictures that came out very under-exposed, either due to low light or bad lighting in areas. The developers don’t explain how Lux works, though it seems to be something like the iPhone’s HDR setting in the Camera app. If you’d like to see Read More

Instagram Upgrade Introduces a Powerful New Feature

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:42:25 UTC +00:00

Mashable

by Take a look at your App Store icon, iPhone users, and if you’re an avid Instagram user, there’s a big surprise for you inside. Instagram just received a big upgrade, and it’s going to make your pictures on the social networking service look a lot better. The standout new feature is called Lux, and it can be a godsend for pics that look too dark in some areas. It can enhance photos that already look good, too. It acts like a magic fill light that you can shine on your picture, bringing up the brightness in the shadowy areas so you can see things you couldn’t see before. Lux is like HDR that you can apply after the picture’s been taken. This brings an entirely new dimension to Instagram, the explosively popular app that’s for iPhone only. The app has attracted a network of users consisting of 15 million photo Read More

Instagram iPhone app update brings in Lux effect, still no sign of Android app

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:36:23 UTC +00:00

Appletell

...the Instagram folks better hurry up in releasing the Android version of their app. Many Instagram fans are getting restless by now in antici... Read More

Instagram updated with simplified UI, ‘Lux’ image enhancement and new filter

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:58:04 UTC +00:00

iPhone Download Blog

Instagram has blown up as one of the most popular iOS apps on the App Store, allowing users to simply share moments in their life through photos. Tonight, the Instagram app has been updated to version 2.1, which has added three new features… Instagram 2.1′s coolest new feature is Lux. Lux is a new way to enhance your photos, and can be done by simply clicking the image. The Next Web shows off the enhancements lux adds above. The app has also been updated with a new and simplified UI. The new UI is noticeably quicker, less cluttered, and also features a new notification system. Instagram’s new designer Tim Van Damme, who was hired in December, is responsible for most of the UI enhancements. Lastly, Instagram has added a new filter called Sierra — which has a 70s look to it. You can download the updated Instagram on the iTunes App Store. Read More

College Introduces Course On iPhoneography

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:30:09 UTC +00:00

iPhone Download Blog

iPhone photography, dubbed ‘iPhoneography‘, seems to be the new hip thing among iPhone users. It’s much easier to carry your iPhone around to take photos than an expensive DSLR, and with popular apps like Camera+, Instagram, and Camera Bag, you can take equally stunning shots. Interestingly, a UK college wants to teach its students this new method… BBC reports that London’s Kensington and Chelsea College is launching a new course to teach students about iPhoneography. The college thinks many iPhone users don’t know how to use their iPhone to take photographs properly. The course, led by Richard Gray, requires each student to have an iPhone. Mr. Gray will teach students about the basics of photography like color, light, and composition, but will also teach them to use iOS apps to make collages and more. Along with this upcoming class at Kensington and Chelsea College, Mr. Gray hosts a workshop at local London Read More

Five For Friday: Week of January 5

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:30:54 UTC +00:00

148 Apps

Five highlights of the App Store from the past week. It’s been a somewhat lean week for new releases to the App Store thanks to the remnants of Christmas and New Year. I know my brain’s still fuzzy from such merriment. Despite such eventful times, we’ve managed to round up five of the best apps and games to be released over the past 7 days. Legendary HeroesPreviously mentioned last month, Legendary Heroes is a compelling mix of castle defense gaming alongside hero class strategizing similar to the likes of . All the better, it’s free to play with the promise of quick and intense matches being ideal for the handheld nature of the iOS platform. Players control 3 heroes in the same match, each with their own unique special abilities and a levelling system to boot. FREE! + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad Released: 2012-01-03 :: Category: Entertainment Read More

Instaflow Makes Discovering Instagram Photos Easy

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:04:31 UTC +00:00

148 Apps

By Carter Dotson on January 4th, 2012 Instaflow, with its easy-to-use interface, makes discovering Instagram photos easy, and lets iPad users explore photos on the service. Love Instagram photos? Want to find ways to discover interesting photos outside of friends on Instagram or those posted to other social networks? Have an iPad and want to view friends’ photos on the tablet screen? Instaflow is here to help. Instaflow offers several different ways to view Instagram photos. There’s the ability to view the latest photos from Instagram friends, with the ability to like and comment on the photos. Photos can be swiped through, or pinch-zoom commands can be used to enlarge photos and to return to the main gallery. As well, liked photos and the user’s own photos can be viewed. Discovery of other users’ photos is also here, and can be explored using the same swiping and pinch-zooming commands. The most Read More

iFans’ Staff Picks of 2011

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:00:36 UTC +00:00

iPod Touch Fans

posted by Marcus Nguyen on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 7:00 pm. Originally submitted by Tkf1 With the new year dawning before us, Tkf1, the poster behind all of the Weekly Rewinds has come out and found each of the staff’s favorite apps of 2011. Take a look below for our favorites of 2011: Kiks52: Tiny Wings – $0.99! Indestructible: Prey Anti-Theft – Free! Danls92: Turntable.fm – free! Renegade: Spotify – free! _JKK_: FlipBoard – free! Tinyman392: NBA Jam – $0.99! TREYisRAD: Batch – free! Jacob: FlipBoard – free! Gizmoloon: Tweetbot – $2.99 Bryster and Appman: Infinity Blade 2 – $6.99! iPwn: Dead Space – $0.99! RMC08: Instagram – free! Jug: Early Bird – Android – free! Now that you have seen their favorites, what was yours? Read More

Here are some of our favorite apps of 2011

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:00:27 UTC +00:00

GigaOm

Apps are, at the end of the day, very personal pieces of software. And your favorite mobile app isn’t mine. So we decided to poll the staff here at GigaOM to see what apps changed our lives in 2011. It could be apps that just launched this year, or it could be programs that really came of age or matured greatly through updates. Or it could just be an app we missed before. Some are very familiar but others may be new to you, but all have played a big part in our lives this year. Take a look and then tell us your favorite app in the comments. Android typically takes a backseat to iOS when it comes to getting slick apps. That’s why it’s so refreshing that Hipmunk, the travel search engine, put real time and effort into making its Android app just as awesome as its web and Read More

App for That: How to create a collage of photos for Instagram

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:15:20 UTC +00:00

The iPhone Blog

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 | There are hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps for just about everything — so how come the one you need, the one you know just has to be there, is so hard to find? Enter TiPb’s new weekly feature where staff and readers alike sort through the App Store and help you find just the right App for That. This week, @llofte (yes, that’s me!) asks: What app is it that I see people use with Instagram to make a collage/storyboard of more than one photo? To see what was suggested to me, follow along after the break! Diptic [$0.99 - App Store link] is an iPhone and iPad app for creating simple collages of your photos. The templates are designed in the shape of a square, so Diptic is commonly used in conjunction with Instagram [Free - App Read More

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone photo and video apps

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing the winner in just a few days. Vote early and often! TUAW is asking for your votes for the best iPhone photography and video apps of 2011. The iPhone is one of the best point-and-shoot cameras possible. That's not because it has stellar lenses, great low-light capabilities, or high shutter speeds -- because it doesn't -- but because it's always with you. Developers have stepped up to the plate with some of the most innovative apps for iPhone, all in the photography and video app categories. In the photo app category, readers nominated FX Read More

App Store Rewind: Apple’s Top Apps of 2011

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:51:06 UTC +00:00

Mashable

by Apple released the list of its best and most popular apps on Thursday. The App Store Rewind features 20 categories from Travel to Games, and names the top five apps of each category. This year the Rewind separated iPhone and iPad apps, with some of the apps overlapping. You probably won’t be all that surprised by some of this year’s top winners: Instagram and djay, to name a couple. Read on to discover some of our favorites. Are you surprised by any of Apple’s choices? What didn’t make the cut that should have? Sound off in the comments below. 1 of 18 The most popular photo app to ever hit iOS, Instagram currently has 50 million users, and will soon launch on Android platforms. Price: FREE 1 Freemium game Tiny Tower lets the player build towers and open businesses inside them. Price: FREE 2 HBO GO made both the iPhone Read More

Apple Picks Instagram As The “iPhone App Of The Year”

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:14:04 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

Apple released its iTunes Rewind 2011 and App Store Rewind 2011 today, the company’s annual lists detailing of the top selling apps, music, TV shows, movies and podcasts for the year. This year, the biggest winner on the apps front was Angry Birds, which ran away with the number one spot on the iPhone and iPad in all categories except top free iPhone app, which was awarded to Facebook. Apple also selects its own favorite applications, and one of our preferred apps, Instagram, won the honor of being Apple’s “iPhone App of the Year.” Angry Birds, which is available on iOS as both a paid and free application, not only dominated the year-end lists as the number one download in several cases, it also occupied additional slots on multiple lists for its spinoffs, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio. Several other games also appeared on the year-end listings, including Fruit Ninja, Read More

'iTunes Rewind' Highlights the Best of 2011; Instagram, Tiny Tower Win Best of Year Awards

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:54:17 UTC +00:00

MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - Front Page

Apple has released the 2011 edition of its annual iTunes Rewind feature in the iTunes Store. The piece offers a look at what the company has judged to be the best music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, and podcasts of 2011. Some of the notable winners: Apps: - iPhone App of the Year: Instagram - iPhone Game of the Year: Tiny Tower - iPad App of the Year: Snapseed - iPad Game of the Year: Dead Space for iPad Music: - Song of the Year: Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People - Artist of the Year: Adele - Album of the Year: Wasting Light by Foo Fighters Books: - Best Novel: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obeht - Best Nonfiction: Boomerang by Michael Lewis It's important to note that these awards are all for the United States iTunes Store. In some cases, Apple gave awards to different items in different Read More

CanvasPop's Instagram prints: Art from your iPhone

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

See those nice art prints on the wall in the image above? They were all taken using Instagram on an iPhone, and then printed on canvas by CanvasPop. The canvas prints are a wonderful personalized gift idea, and come ready for hanging on your wall. The introductory pricing for the Instagram prints is pretty nice, too -- a 12" x 12" print sells for US$29.95, while the 20" x 20" is a big bargain at $59.95. If you have an Instagram photo or three that you're particularly proud of, then CanvasPop turns them into works of art that are the ultimate in personalized gift-giving. I have one of their prints, which is an Instagram photo of the Blue Yeti microphone that I use for TUAW TV Live and the Daily Update. As you can see from the photos in the gallery, these prints are high quality, featuring a canvas wrap over Read More

Favorite Four Apps for Photo Effects

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:30:12 UTC +00:00

148 Apps

By Lisa Caplan on November 9th, 2011 We look at four classic favorite apps for creating or editing photos with stunning special effects. Last week we looked at the best camera replacement apps for the iPhone native app. So, this week we wanted to continue the theme, this time looking at apps that focus on adding those ever-popular effects and filters. Many of the choices feature a camera replacement component, but all do unique things to produce end results that are anything but the average cell camera shot, no matter how high the resolution. All of these apps will make even casual photographers look like virtual experts. Instagram Instagram is all about effects and sharing and it’s completely free. This long-time user favorite allows shutter bugs to shoot right from the app or use existing images in the photo album and easily add custom filters. Most photo apps have social media Read More

Instagram CEO hints at video sharing

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:30:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing last week, and hinted that video sharing would be coming soon to the popular mostly iOS-driven photo sharing service. "We really want to go after something bigger than filtered photos," he said, explaining that the service really wanted to let users share their entire lives, not just photos. That's likely music to many Instagram users' ears -- there are more than 9 million people using the app already, and it's been praised quite a bit for its ease-of-use and excellent interface. And while, yes, there are plenty of ways to share video from the iPhone and the iPad as well, lots of users already have Instagram built into their social flow, so having video available on the service will be that much easier. Unfortunately, Systrom said that while video is in the plans, it may be a while -- obviously including Read More

Instagram Now Has 12 Million Users, 100K Weekly Downloads In China Alone

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:44:23 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

Alexia Tsotsis currently works for TechCrunch as a writer. She is also a blogger who attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. She majored in Writing and Art, moving to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Entertainment/Media industry. After four years of living in New York City and attending courses at New York... → Learn More Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing to talk about the photosharing startup’s international efforts and how it plans to deal with the onslaught of clones, including over ten Chinese copycats. During the talk Systrom revealed that the startup has now hit the 12 million user milestone, with 100K weekly downloads coming just from China, impressively. The app sees around one download per second worldwide, with that rate increasing on the weekends. “The amount of interest people have [in Asia] is huge,” Systrom Read More

Homescreens – Oktober 2011 (iPhone + iPad)

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:09:11 UTC +00:00

iPhoneBlog.de

Oft nachgefragt: ein Beitrags-Update über meine ‘Homescreens‘. Seit März 2011, als die letzte Aktualisierung dieser Artikel-Serie erfolgte, hat sich die eine oder andere App verschoben, geändert und aussortiert. Der derzeit aktuellen Stand ist an dieser Stelle festgehalten. Vielleicht finden an diesem Montag ja speziell frische 4S-Käufer, die einen ersten Grundbedarf an Software benötigen, die eine oder andere Anregung. Ich persönlich ziehe jede individuelle Empfehlungen allen generischen ‘Hitlisten’ vor. Genau deshalb soll mein privater Einblick auch nicht alleine bleiben: Wer Screenshots oder Tipps von seinen verwendeten Apps in den Kommentaren kundtun möchte, ist dazu herzlich eingeladen. Zwei Anmerkungen noch: Die zwei benutzten Hintergrundbilder gibt es hier und hier. Auf meinem Standby-Screen befinden sich dieses und dieses Bild. Außerdem führe ich zwei Ordner mit ‘Review’-Software, die ich mir für dieses Blog noch genauer anschauen möchte. Da diese Programme (noch) keine Empfehlungen sind, verbleiben sie für diesen Artikel ohne Erwähnung. Außerdem verstecken sich in Read More

With Version 2.0 On Fire, Instagram Zooms Past 10 Million Users

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:52:00 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More Six days ago, Instagram pushed version 2.0 live in the App Store. A big time upgrade with a focus on the camera, co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom expected signups to pick up some significant steam. But it was more like they caught fire. Over the weekend, Instagram was seeing a signup rate of over one new user a second — roughly 75 per minute, Systrom says. This pushed them past the 10 million user milestone. Remarkably, it took the hot startup Foursquare just over two years to Read More

Instagram Upgrades, Adds Filters and Increases Image Size

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:59:01 UTC +00:00

NYTimes Gadgetwise Blog

Fans of Instagram, the popular free iPhone photo-sharing app, has given users at least four new reasons to snap and share: It has added four new filters in an update. Moreover, it has upgraded the app so that it can take larger images. Instagram have also added improvements to its editing tools. Perhaps the most significant change is in the size of images. The new Instagram app can produce images roughly 10 times larger than before, meaning your snaps can be print worthy and ready for framing. Another change is that instead of taking a photo and then applying filters to see how it looks, you can turn on the filters before you shoot. You can then pan around an get an idea of what the final effect will be. Tilt shift – blurring a section of the photo – used to be a bit of a hidden feature, but it Read More

Instagram iPhone app hits 2.0 – Still no Android version

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:43:19 UTC +00:00

IntoMobile

For the most part, I truly believe that the Android Market has caught up with the App Store in terms of overall look and feel and app selection but there still are a few exceptions of great apps which only iPhone users can get. Instagram is one of those apps and the program’s 2.0 version just landed and it’s packed full of new features. The Instagram 2.0 app looks very similar to previous versions when you boot it up but once you go to take a picture, you’ll notice a major change in the camera UI. You now have controls on top of the screen to control the flash, switch which camera you’re using and more. Those wonderful filters now pop up after you’ve taken the picture on the bottom and that UI has also been tweaked for a more user-friendly look and experience. It’s not just the UI though, as Read More

With Version 2.0, Instagram Focuses On Re-engineering The Camera

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:03:06 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

It was exactly one year ago today that I wrote up my initial lengthy preview of Instagram. I had a feeling that when it launched, it was going to be big. I underestimated it. Fast forward to today. Instagram is just about to hit 10 million users. They are the nimble upstart that has become the gold standard in the mobile social photo space . Everyone is gunning for them. And so it’s fitting that today, a year after my initial post, they’re unveiling version 2.0 of their app. First, it’s important to note what Instagram 2.0 is not: a completely new app. If the adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” applies to anyone, it applies to Instagram. At its core, what they’ve built is clearly working, so there’s no reason to change that. But the Instagram team realized there was a way to dramatically improve the service while retaining the elements users Read More

Filters for Photos! Ten iPhone Camera Apps with Cool Filters

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:13:12 UTC +00:00

iPhoneFreak

Loved by some, hated by others, the art of applying a special filter to a picture taken with your iPhone has exploded in popularity over the past year or so. In fact, it has become so popular, there’s talk of a similar feature becoming standard in iOS 5. In the meantime, those wanting to add filters to their pictures should take a look at any one of the following apps, all of which have a catalog of filters to give even the dreariest of snaps a new lease of life. A great cross-platform photo-sharing social network. Take a photo from within the app, or select one from your Camera Roll, then add a filter of your choice. There are nine to choose from, each with the option of adding a border, and the chance to share your uploaded pic through Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and many others. Free. One of the very Read More

Free App Friday: Social Photo Sharing

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:00:40 UTC +00:00

Mac|Life

Posted 08/19/2011 at 2:00pm | by Florence Ion Summer time is almost to an end, and you've probably got a ton of photos to sift through and upload to the web. Our suggestion is that you start with the incriminating blackmail photos first to get that over with, and then work your way up to the all-smiles group pictures. To get those photos to the web from your phone, here are four free apps that work in conjunction with your favorite social networks. Because it's Free App Friday and no one should have to pay for an app on a day like today. You know it because your friends used it, but have you jumped on the Instagram train yet? The app lets you share your photos across a spectrum of social networks, and gives you the option to add a vintage hue to them or even tilt-shift your photo. Like Read More

Photo finish: Upstart Photovine vs. reigning champ Instagram

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:18:37 UTC +00:00

TheAppleBlog

Google wants to eat everyone’s cake. Android successfully got in on the smartphone action iOS was enjoying, and Google+ is nipping at Facebook’s heels. Photovine, the photo-sharing app built by Google’s Slide team, is now open to public use after an initial beta period, and is gunning for Instagram‘s crown. How does it stack up against the champ? I was sort of hoping that Photovine would allow me to just sign in using my Google credentials, but maybe because Slide operates like an independent startup within Google, that’s not the case. Signing up is fairly easy though. It consists of just one screen, where you enter your name and email address, choose a username, and password, and optionally supply your phone number if you want to speed along the friend-finding process. Instagram also features just one screen for sign-up. Enter your email, username, password and optionally a phone number to get Read More

Photo finish: Upstart Photovine vs. reigning champ Instagram

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:18:39 UTC +00:00

GigaOm

Google wants to eat everyone’s cake. Android successfully got in on the smartphone action iOS was enjoying, and Google+ is nipping at Facebook’s heels. Photovine, the photo-sharing app built by Google’s Slide team, is now open to public use after an initial beta period, and is gunning for Instagram‘s crown. How does it stack up against the champ? I was sort of hoping that Photovine would allow me to just sign in using my Google credentials, but maybe because Slide operates like an independent startup within Google, that’s not the case. Signing up is fairly easy though. It consists of just one screen, where you enter your name and email address, choose a username, and password, and optionally supply your phone number if you want to speed along the friend-finding process. Instagram also features just one screen for sign-up. Enter your email, username, password and optionally a phone number to get Read More

Instagram users have uploaded over 150 million photos

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Instagram's 4-person team has announced that the service's users have posted over 150 million photos. Consider that the free, social photo-sharing service now receives about 1.3 million photos per day -- that's 15 shots per second -- and you realize one thing: people really like sharing photos. Make that process easy and convenient, as Instagram has with its iPhone app, and you've got yourself a winner. Kevin Systrom, one of the company's founders, described the diversity he's seen from users: "There are Instagram photos from major events like the World Series and the Grammys, and some Instagram photos have even made the national news. Artists and celebrities have begun to give fans a unique look into their lives." The app is simple and fun. Once you've created a free account, just launch Instagram as you would Apple's own Camera app and start shooting. You can then apply one of several artistic Read More

App Starter Kit – Ten Apps You Need to Download for Your New iPhone

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:05:51 UTC +00:00

iPhoneFreak

So you’ve got your new iPhone, you’ve activated it with iTunes and now you’re keen to get started – but modern smartphone ownership is all about the apps, and without them there isn’t all that much to do. But with the App Store brimming with more than 400,000 apps to download, how does a new user know where to start? This is where you need our iPhone Starter Kit! Here are ten applications you should download to get the most out of your new device. They’re going to cost a total of $13.93/£9.73 (excluding the GPS apps), but we consider them to be standout examples of their genre, and worth every penny. Even though we’ve not included the usual social networking apps such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare, they’re all available too. There’s a reason Camera+ usually turns up on must-have iPhone apps lists, it’s really good! Aside from adding Read More

iSource “Best of” Picks of the Week

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:58:35 UTC +00:00

iSource

This week for our weekly installment of Picks of the Week we are changing things up a little bit. It’s hard to believe that we have been running the POTW post for 30 weeks now! So far our writers at iSource have highlighted almost 150 separate iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac and Apple TV related items. In the spirit of fun, and to give our hard-working writers a bye week, I thought it would be nice to take some of my favorite posts and create a “Best of” Picks of the Week post this week instead. Sorry for the one day delay, but it was harder than I thought to sort through nearly 150 posts form ten different contributors. Hope you like my selections. Feel free to leave a comment below and let me know some of your favorites you have seen on former POTW posts, or would like to see on Read More

5 tips for a more social iPhone on Social Media Day

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:28:49 UTC +00:00

TheAppleBlog

Thursday is Social Media Day, so in honor of that, I’d like to offer a few tips about making your iPhone a more social device. It’d be easy to just say “register as a developer and install iOS 5,” since that brings Twitter integration, but here are some options that don’t cost $99 and involve using pre-release software on your primary device. This is actually a tip for your Mac, but it makes it much easier to share photos to Facebook and Flickr if you set up Events in iPhoto ’11 that you can dump content to in bulk. Using uploading apps on the iPhone itself usually works best if you’re only doing one photo at a time, and if you’re on vacation, that can get annoying very fast. Connecting your social accounts in iPhoto will make it much easier to create organized albums on Facebook and Flicker with only a Read More

Top 5 summer vacation apps for iPhone

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:45:21 UTC +00:00

The iPhone Blog

School’s out and it’s time for a break from work. Curious which are the absolute best apps and games to take with you on your much deserved summer vacation? Odds are you’ll want to share your adventures, brush up on local attractions, and stay connected while you’re having fun. Luckily there are tons of apps available in the App Store that makes organizing and sharing your vacation from your iPhone super simple. Whether you want informational apps for your own use or social apps to share, we’ve got you covered. Read on for TiPb’s top 10 most recommended, most must-have summer vacation apps to get your started. For regular everyday check-ins, I typically use Foursquare. But for trips, Gowalla wins hands down. It acts as somewhat of a “digital passport”. They offer stamps and pins for completing trips and checking in at certain places (similar to Foursquare badges). You can also Read More

10 Instagram Tips For Bands, By Bands

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:06:24 UTC +00:00

Mashable

by Tour diaries: They are the satisfying sustenance required by every hardcore music fan to feed a band addiction. A glimpse into the backstage, on-tour-bus life of one’s favorite band. Now, thanks to the marvels of modern technology, it’s easier than ever to create a highly visual tour diary to sate the appetite of your friends and followers. One word, my musically inclined friends: Instagram. Instagram, that increasingly popular photo app that launched near the end of 2010, has become the darling of many a news outlet and brand, but has yet to really catch on among the musician set. Still, according to Josh Riedel, head of business development at Instagram, more and more bands are getting hip to the site. The most popular is undoubtedly The National (@ntnl). Riedel, for one, hopes to see more bands joining the platform. “We see bands on stage, but most people don’t get to Read More

Piictu puts the fun into iOS picture sharing

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:30:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

What? Another iOS photo sharing app? No, wait, keep reading! The just-released Piictu app (official site, iTunes) has some new tricks to show you. Piictu's big idea is to treat the photos you post not as the traditional timeline view we associate with blogs and apps like Instagram, but rather as a series of conversations, each on a certain theme. Suppose I post a picture of my dogs, Daisy and Jake. Any of my friends who see that -- or anyone on the service as a whole -- can then post a picture reply to that photo, perhaps of their own dogs, or some other pet. Someone else can post another reply, and so on. Piictu groups responses together to encourage an ongoing conversation. The power of this simple idea is perhaps best demonstrated by this photo thread pictured in the second half of this post, where an impromptu multiplayer game Read More

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Carousel

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:45:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Carousel from Mobelux isn't the first Instagram client for the Mac, but it is one of the most elegant. The program culls your Instagram feed and streams these images to your desktop in a gorgeous UI that resembles an old-fashioned photo album. Three buttons along the bottom toggle your view among current favorites, your feed and your photos. On each image, you select a person's avatar to see their profile, like the image by clicking on a heart or add a comment by clicking on the word bubble. You can save images by dragging them to iPhoto or saving through the drop-down menu. Carousel features a number of keyboard shortcuts that expands usability of the app, but you can only view pictures, not upload them from your Mac. You also can't search for other Instagram users, photos or tags at this point, which is a drawback. You'll have to do this Read More

New and updated iPhone and iPad apps for Monday, June 6

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:07:28 UTC +00:00

The iPhone Blog

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Jun 6, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! Cube Dog: Cube Dogs are adorable, 3D, interactive pets that you can customize to your hearts content! They love it when you rub their tummies, they play baseball, and they even fend of ninja attacks. Build the perfect pet, and snap photos to share with friends! [Free - iTunes link] Instagram: Now you can view photos that you’ve liked, add a link to your website in your profile, and auto-complete for hashtags. [Free - iTunes link] ScoreMyDay: An everyday app to register your daily scores and achievements. It’s also a great way to share them with the world, without losing Read More

Instagram schlägt seine Zähne in Drittanbieter-Apps

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:08:01 UTC +00:00

iPhoneBlog.de

Innerhalb von acht Monaten baute sich der Fotoservice Instagram eine fünf Millionen starke Fangemeinde auf – zur ‘Halbzeit’ waren es lediglich eine Million Anhänger. Die iPhone-App (kostenlos; App Store-Link) kommt weiterhin ohne Desktop-, Web- oder Android-Uploader aus. Das vierköpfige Team erhielt am heutigen Morgen ein feines NYTimes-Feature. Darin fehlt die Betonung, dass Instagram (entgegen unzähliger seiner Konkurrenten) nicht ausschließlich auf Twitter vertraut sondern sich seine Eigenständigkeit bewahrte. Ein guter Schritte, wenn man sich den Photobucket-Deal mit dem Kurzmitteilungsnetzwerk aus der letzten Woche vor Augen hält. Noch wichtiger: Nach der Schnittstellen-Ankündigung im Februar, die tolle Apps wie Instamap (1.59 €; App Store-Link), oder Carousel (3.99 €; MAS) hervorbrachte, lässt sich über ‘iPhone Hooks‘ nun auch für Entwickler von Drittanbieter-Apps ein ‘Instagram-Export’ bewerkstelligen. Dessen erste Implementation nahm ‘100 Cameras in 1‘ (0.79 €; App Store-Link) vor. Read More

Instagram Updated With "Liked" Photos Slideshow [Apps]

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:50:45 UTC +00:00

Gizmodo

Until now, you could only see a real-time stream of photos on the Instagram app. With a new update pushed out, however, you can now see all the photos you've ever "liked," plus store profile photos in your iPhone's photo library as well as in Instagram. [iTunes via TechCrunch] Read More

Instagram Turns Your Likes Into Photo Albums

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:06:01 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

Erick Schonfeld is the Editor of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to... → Learn More Social photo app Instagram pushed out a new update today on the iPhone. The first thing you notice is that uploads are a lot faster. Speed, quite frankly, is one of Instagram’s competitive advantages. But the update also includes some new features, the most important of which is the ability to see all the photos you’ve liked in the past. It sounds pretty basic—and it is—but up until now Instagram has been a fleeting slideshow. Just like a stream of tweets, the Instagram feed is a realtime stream of photos. You Read More

Why Fashion Photographers Are Flocking to Instagram

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:07:31 UTC +00:00

Mashable

UPDATE: The photos in this article were processed using a variety of apps, including Camera+, Hipstamatic and Filter Mania. All were shared to Instagram after processing. It’s little wonder that Instagram, a leading iPhone application for stylizing and sharing photos on the web, is proving so popular among street style photographers, some of whom have amassed followings in the thousands. What is unusual is that before Instagram, many of these well-followed photographers had done little to no street style photography in their portfolios. “I started using Instagram about two weeks after it launched in the App Store and just fiddled around with pictures of my family and friends,” says Anthony Danielle, who publishes images (right) of stylish New Yorkers to some 18,000 followers under the pseudonym takinyerphoto. “I’d see other people doing street work and thought, ‘I could do that,’ and I just started taking pictures of people on the street.” Read More

Instagram gets an update to comments, autocomplete for usernames

Thu, 26 May 2011 23:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The Burbn boys have released a new version of Instagram into the wild. Instagram 1.8 is the latest version of the iPhone-meets-Polaroid-Swinger-meets-Twitter social photography app, and it's available for an update on the App Store now. What's changed? The app is somewhat faster and more reliable, but the big change is in how you can "like" a photo in your Instagram stream, interact with comments and enter usernames. First, photos can now be marked with "like" by double-tapping them. With that simple gesture and a big white heart icon appearing briefly (see image at right) for feedback, you know that you've just sent someone a big thumbs-up on their photographic effort. In comments, you can now start mentioning someone by typing @ and the first few characters of someone's username, and Instagram will do its best to autocomplete the name. The Instagram comment feature also gained an interactive comment screen where Read More

Printsgram – New Instagram Printing Service Now in Public Beta

Tue, 17 May 2011 20:31:10 UTC +00:00

iSource

Printsgram is a new online printing service for photos taken with the massively popular Instagram app. The service doesn’t do the actual printing for you, but provides printable PDF files so that you can print them yourself or get them printed at a local print shop. The service is free and offers a nice range of layout templates for your Instagram images. These include stickers, photo cubes, and posters. You can choose to share your creations on the site if you like as well. I haven’t tried the service out as yet, but it looks like another promising one (the first I saw was this one) and at the low, low cost of free it can’t hurt to give it a whirl if you’re looking for ways to print and share your Instagram creations. Check out Printsgam here: Thanks to iPhoneography for the heads-up on this service. Read More

Instagram Adds Bios, Grid View For Profile Pages

Tue, 17 May 2011 02:17:44 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

If you’re like me Instagram has become a service you check the first thing you wake up in the morning, alongside Twitter and Facebook. My Instagram addiction has seriously gotten to the point where I anticipate the app’s bi-monthly updates (Tilt Shift is the best thing to happen to photo sharing addicts since sliced bread, or something). So what’s new in Version 1.7? The most obvious change is that when you click on someone’s photo history, the app now shows you a grid view instead of a laborious feed view, but lets you toggle between them both. Users also now have the option to add a bio to their profiles by going to Account > Edit profile > Bio, upload a profile picture from Twitter and Facebook (Account > Change profile picture) and drill down into which profile notifications they actually want to receive based on their Instagram follow graph. The update also Read More

New and updated iPhone and iPad apps for Wednesday, May 4 [give-away]

Wed, 04 May 2011 16:48:14 UTC +00:00

The iPhone Blog

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! My Daily Journal (give-away): Now a universal application for iPhone and iPad, improved animations, 3 new paper designs, design enhancements, and the ability to export to Facebook. [$0.99 - iTunes link] Penultimate: Now you can create your own photorealistic paper from any image you have and a new option to include the paper design when sending or printing a notebook. [$1.99 - iTunes link] Instagram: Now with a radial tilt-shift mode. [Free - iTunes link] picfx: Take a regular photo and apply 36 effects and frames + 13 styles to create a fantastic, unique looking picture. Now with the ability Read More

How To Use Tilt-Shift in Instagram

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:42:22 UTC +00:00

Mac|Life

Posted 03/29/2011 at 8:42am | by Ambika Subramony Instagram is our favorite photo sharing and editing app -- not just because it's free, but because it's packed with fun features. The app's newest update brings us something we've long been doing with various other apps: tilt-shift editing. Tilt-shift photography, normally done with an actual tilt-shift lens, alters the depth of field of what you're capturing, allowing you to emphasize certain objects in the photo. This effect can easily be imitated using Photoshop, or more easily with an app like Instagram. It isn't true tilt-shifting (some call it tilt-shift faking), but it's very similar to it. The resulting effect blurs the setting around your chosen subject, making the subject look small and toy-like. Pretty simple, right? Simple, but you don't want to tilt-shift just any photo. So, we're going to show you how to produce beautiful tilt-shift images! Instagram now has tilt-shift Read More

Instagram app gets small, but welcomed update

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:43:38 UTC +00:00

Appletell

The Instagram app has once again been updated. The latest update brings the version up to 1.5.2 and while it may not be as exciting feature wise as the previous update which brought tilt-shift mode, this one does have a few fixes that may be just as welcomed for some users. Anyway, the latest Instagram update contains; Read More

Flare 1.0: like Instagram for your Mac

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:24:02 UTC +00:00

iSource

If you’ve been having fun editing pictures with apps like Hipstamatic ($1.99) and Instagram (Free) on your iPhone, then you might really using Flare for Mac from the Iconfactory (the folks who brought us Twitterrific). This super-easy, filter-based image editor comes with a variety of colour, lens, and “creative” effects (probably textures) for quickly tweaking photos you’d like to post or print. The cool part, however, is the mini social aspect of creating and sharing your own custom presets and checking out the ones that others have made. Once you’re done, you can post your pictures to Flickr or e-mail them as JPEG, PNG or TIFF files. Flare is currently $9.99 (50% off) on the Mac App Store, but you can pick up a demo over at the FlareApp website if you’re simply curious. Read More

New and updated iPhone and iPad apps for Monday, March 14

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:39:40 UTC +00:00

The iPhone Blog

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Mar 14, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! Instagram: Updated with a tilt-shift effect and an updated social news stream. [Free - iTunes link] PowerVocab: Personalizes the English vocabulary learning for GRE, GMAT or SAT exams and personal improvement. Now visualize your progress in graph form! [Free - iTunes link] Reeder: Can now send to Readability. [$2.99 - iTunes link] Connect’m: Five new levels! [Free - iTunes link] Calculate Pi: As the name implies, calculate the number Pi to thousands of decimal places. Happy Pi Day! [Free - iTunes link] Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let Read More

Instagram Gets a Tilt-Shift Effect and a More Useful News Feed [Apps]

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:53:18 UTC +00:00

Gizmodo

Instagram, the popular (and ever getting more popular) photo sharing app, just got a nice new update for SXSW (because if you've got a "cool" app and you're not updating it for SXSW, then you might as well just shut down shop altogether). First, for photos, there's a new tilt-shift effect, resulting in those sort of miniature train model-looking scenes that you're probably used to from HP advertisements and Vimeo videos and the like. It's Instagram's first foray into an effect, per se, as opposed to a simple filter, so that's fun. And then there's the new news feed—it's been revamped to be more like Facebook's, emphasizing your friends' activity over your own in an effort to help you find new people to follow. The app, as always, is free. [iTunes, Screenshots via TechCrunch] Read More

With Tilt-Shift And A News Feed, Instagram Is Ready To Rock SXSW

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:30:48 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

For all the talk of group messaging apps being the breakout hits at SXSW this year, most people are overlooking another genre: mobile photo-sharing apps. But that’s probably because a few of those apps already are pretty big hits. Take Instagram, for example. The app already has well over 2 million users, even though it’s not even six months old yet. For some context, when Foursquare successfully launched at SXSW two years ago, they left town with just 5,000 users. But just because Instagram has had some early success, that doesn’t mean they don’t recognize the value of putting out a new app in time for SXSW. And this morning we get just that. And it’s brings two pretty significant upgrades. The first big addition is a new camera feature called tilt-shift. If you’re a camera app fanatic, you’ll undoubtedly already know what this is. For everyone else, it’s a new Read More

iPad Magazine Flipboard Updates with Instagram Support and a Serious Speed Increase [Downloads]

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:00:00 UTC +00:00

Lifehacker

iPad: Flipboard, the social "digital magazine" for the iPad, dropped an update today that not only added support for social photogrophy network Instagram, but also a neat social search function and some awesome speed improvements that make it much more usable. Flipboard was pretty cool when it first came out, and it's slowly been stepping up its game ever since, first adding Flickr and Google Reader support, and now adding Instagram support along with a bunch of usability improvements. You can add Instagram's photo feed just like any other feed, and the social search function lets you see posts across all your different feeds on a specific subject, by using keywords and hashtags. My personal favorite part of the update, though, is the speed increase. I like Flipboard a lot, but it moved pretty darn sluggishly before, which is annoying when you're trying to flip through articles. This update makes the Read More

Instagram User? Meet Stickygram!

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:02:01 UTC +00:00

iPhoneFreak

I’m a fan of Instagram, and use it to add filters to pictures I intend to post on my Tumbr blog, however I’m sure I nowhere near as prolific a user as many others out there. If you’re one of them, then take a look at Stickygram, a service directly linked with Instagram. What Stickygram does is turn your Instagram pictures into cool magnets to stick on your fridge, shelves or metal helper-robot. They’re not open to the public just yet, but according to the site they will be soon; however they are doing occasional print runs to get their product out there. You can sign-up on their web page to be alerted when the next one will happen. Read More

Print real Instagram photos with Instaprint

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:30:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Some of us here at TUAW are real fans of Instagram, which is a fun and easy to use free app that takes photos with your iPhone camera, then gives you the option to add various effects, frames, and filters to those photos before sending them out to your favorite social network. Others deride Instagram for being the "auto-tune of iPhone photography," but I've found it to be a fast and fun way to send out quick snapshots of daily life. Back in the dinosaur days of the 60's and 70's, Polaroid instant cameras were the way to get quick, easily viewable snapshots. Now advertising renegades Breakfast have come up with a way to mash Polaroid snapshots with Instagram -- Instaprint! That box you see up above is a modified Zink photo printer that prints Instagram photos that are marked with a specific hashtag. Breakfast will set up Instaprint at parties Read More

TiPb Picks of the Week

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:37:29 UTC +00:00

The iPhone Blog

By Leanna Lofte, Sunday, Feb 20, 2011 | Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game. To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break! Do you listen to or watch podcasts? Do you want a choice of storing them on your device (when you want), or streaming (if you want)? Do you want to be able to search from thousands of podcasts by name or genre? Do you want it all? Then you need Mediafly. Download the free Mediafly player, and set up a free account online. It is from your online account that you will choose what podcasts Read More

Instagram photo sharing service reaches two million users

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Picture-sharing service Instagram (driven only by the popularity of its free iOS app) has hit a whopping 2 million users already. As TechCrunch notes, the service hit its first million users in just three months, and six weeks after that, it has doubled that number. That's pretty astounding growth -- even other popular sharing services usually don't hit those milestones until a year or more after they start operation. But Instagram certainly seems like it's hitting at the right place and time -- it's a super simple sharing service that offers a lot of features that tie in very well with all of its users walking around with connected HD cameras in their pockets. Instagram doesn't even have an Android app yet (though presumably we'll see one very soon), and also noted by TechCrunch, you can't even sign up for the service on the website -- it's all driven through Apple's Read More

My top 3 iPhone apps: John Gruber

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Time for this week's "Three Apps" video! We caught up with the Daring Fireball himself, John Gruber, at Macworld and asked what his favorite or most-used iPhone apps were. As a highly productive and insightful writer, his answers weren't surprising. 3 apps interviews by Kelly Guimont Read More

Instagram introduces hashtags to latest App update

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:57:50 UTC +00:00

iSource

In my review of the photo-sharing app meets community Instagram I voiced my concern that the developers would spoil the app in future updates. I needn’t have worried. The latest version dropped this past Thursday, adding hashtags, smart comment management and the option of blocking/flagging unwanted folllowers. So far, so good. The introduction of hashtags to Instagram feels like one of those natural evolutionary features that you kinda felt always needed to be there, it was only a matter of time. Those familiar with twitter already use this feature as an effective way to find topics/tweets/links using tags. Over the past few days I’ve been testing it in IG like many others, tagging 50 of my own new and archived photos in various ways; the results are immensely satisfying. Now there’s not only the feed or popular pages to browse through – but also pages with tags according to techniques (eg. Read More

Instagram adds hashtags, brands already love them

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:30:00 UTC +00:00

Download Squad

Instagram -- the app all the cool kids with iPhones use to snap, filter, and share pictures -- has received an update yesterday that adds support for hashtags. These work in a similar fashion to the way they do on Twitter. You can tag a photo you share by adding a hashtag either in the caption or comment field. Each hashtag gets its own page , which you can get to by clicking on a hashtag underneath a photo you're viewing or searching for hashtags using the new search functionality that you can find after you tap on your account name in the app. Each tag even has its own RSS feed that you can subscribe to, if you wish -- these are available by replacing "yourhashtag" from the following URL with the name of the tag you want to follow: http://instagr.am/tags/yourhashtag/feed/recent.rss Basically, an Instagram hashtag is much like a photo Read More

Instagram Taps Hashtags To Bundle Pictures; Brands Quickly Jump On Board

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:00:11 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

Did you come to the Crunchies? If so, did you use Instagram to take a picture? If so, did you hashtag it with anything? If you did, you helped create something cool, you just didn’t realize it. One of the things that makes Instagram great is its simplicity. You take a picture, add a filter, upload, and then off you go to explore other pictures in the stream. Unfortunately, unless you happen to be looking at the stream around the time a picture is taken, you may never see it. Sure, Twitter, Facebook and other integration points help with this somewhat, but there simply hasn’t been a good way to surface older pictures on Instagram before. A new feature launching today may change that. Instagram is launching hashtag support with the latest version of the app today. Users of Twitter will be well aware of the hashtag phenomenon, but it actually Read More

TiPb Asks: If you could only have 5 apps on your iPhone what would they be?

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:48:55 UTC +00:00

The iPhone Blog

By Georgia, Wednesday, Jan 26, 2011 | If you could only have 5 apps on your iPhone what would they be and why? We’re talking App Store apps here, not built-in apps like Safari. For example, if I were stranded on a desert island (that just happened to have Wi-Fi and electricity to charge — you know, thanks to Dharma) these would be my must-have apps: What apps would you simply not want to live without? Read More

Do You Use Instagram?

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:45:37 UTC +00:00

iPhoneFreak

Instagram has been in the news a lot over the past week, hitting the headlines for passing the 1 million user mark and for several well-known brands joining the fun. Yesterday saw the iPhone app receive a small update too, bringing a pair of new filters, the return of an old filter and a few performance tweaks too. If you’re not familiar with Instagram, it’s a photo-based social network that’s currently only for iPhone users, where you can upload any picture on your phone, add various filter effects and publish it on your own Instagram page. We particularly like how easy it is to cross post that snap to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and so on. The app is free to download and simple to use. The ability to share between other social networks is a big advantage, because you don’t have to build up a following on yet another social site, Read More

‘Instagram’-Fotospaß zwischen den zwei Foto Profi-Werkzeugen ‘FlickStackr’ und ‘Flickr Studio’

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:03:05 UTC +00:00

iPhoneBlog.de

Am 07. Januar 2011 jubilierte der Online-Fotoservice ‘Instagr.am‘ mit seinem ersten Lebensquartal. Zu Buche stehen beeindruckende drei Start-Monate. Die erste Million an registrierten Nutzern, die sich vom iPhone aus anmeldeten, ließen sich noch vor Weihnachten verkünden. Das Erfolgsrezept lässt sich mit dem kostenfreien Zugang und der strengen Design-Disziplin, mit der sich Fotos und Schnappschüsse erstellen und verteilen lassen, nur unzureichend skizzieren. Es ist das Gesamtkonzept, welches von der kinderleichten Anmeldung bis zur pfeilschnellen Veröffentlichung reicht. Instagram (kostenlos; App Store-Link) traute sich entgegen vieler Mitbewerber, das Web-Interface auf ein Minimum zu reduzieren. Und wenn Apples Senior Vice President Phil Schiller bereits eigenständig Fotos über sein iPhone mit Instagram publiziert weiß man, dass man sich auf einem guten Weg befindet. Das dieser intuitive Ansatz ohne Zweifel enge Begrenzungen für Foto-Freunde steckt, ist nachzuvollziehen. Wer mehr als 12 Filter und eine einzige (Web-)Qualitätsstufe für seine Aufnahmen wünscht, landet dann doch wieder bei ‘den Großen’. Read More

Weinig verdiensten voor makers van iPhone foto-apps

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:57:46 UTC +00:00

iPhoneclub.nl

...Wall Street Journal schrijft over de moeite die ontwikkelaars van iPhone-fotoapplicaties hebben om geld te verdienen. De afgelopen maanden zijn er... Read More

Mac|Life Editors' 2010 Picks

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:47:21 UTC +00:00

Mac|Life

Posted 12/31/2010 at 1:47pm | by Roberto Baldwin We thought about throwing a bunch of hardware on the floor and letting our pets pick the winner. Sure that sounds awesome in theory, but the bosses said we were being lazy, that we needed to put our animals away and get back to work. By the way, they picked the MacBook Air. Pets love the Macbook Air. A piece of paper that fell into the pile came in a close second. So here is the top wares for 2010 as picked by the Mac|Life editors. Editor in Chief Paul: Senior Editor Susie: Reviews Editor Ray: Associate Online Editor Flo: Associate Editor Nic: Editor in Chief Paul: Senior Editor Susie: Online Editor Robbie: Associate Online Editor Flo: Associate Editor Nic: Editor in Chief Paul: Online Editor Robbie: Reviews Editor Ray: Associate Online Editor Flo: Associate Editor Nic: Editor in Chief Paul: Senior Editor Read More

You Got An iPhone. Now What?

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:12:20 UTC +00:00

IntoMobile

The gift-giving holidays have just wrapped up (no pun intended) and that means ‘s have been unwrapped all around the world this year. If this is your first iPhone, congratulations and welcome to the club (even though you are a bit late to the game). There are thousands of apps, customizations, and accessories to try, but where should you start? Here’s an IntoMobile list of the best ways to take advantage of your new iPhone. Battery life on the iPhone has been a problem since Apple first released Push email functionality. Turning off Push email significantly increases battery life. To do this go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Fetch New Data and toggle the “Push” setting to the “OFF” position. Note: Push email and Push notifications are not the same thing. I constantly receive Push notifications from Twitter and Instagram without affecting battery life. Unfortunately, if you are an iPhone owner, Read More

8mm Vintage Camera maakt iPhone-video’s in retrostijl

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:27:03 UTC +00:00

iPhoneclub.nl

...en Instagram zijn populaire foto-applicaties voor de iPhone waarmee je je foto’s een retro-uiterlijk kunt geven. Voor video’s is er nu... Read More

Camera+ kehrt nach 131 Tagen zurück in den App Store

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:40:49 UTC +00:00

iPhoneBlog.de

Die bereits an dieser Stelle mehrfach vorgestellte Foto-Anwendung ‘Camera+‘ (0.79 €; App Store-Link) kehrt nach 131 Tagen zurück in den App Store. Apple verbannte die Anwendung für über vier Monate aus seinem Download-Portal nachdem der Entwickler TapTapTap bereits vom App-Store-Genehmigungsprozess abgelehnten Programmcode versteckt implementierte. Der mehr als offensichtliche PR-Stunt beinhaltete die nachträgliche ‘Scharfschaltung’ einer unautorisierten Funktion über den Webbrowser Safari. Die Lautstärke-Knöpfe des iPhones konnten dadurch als Foto-Auslöser dienten. TapTapTap versuchte dies zuerst auf offiziellem Weg einzureichen und erhielt eine (dokumentierte) Ablehnung. Nachdem die nicht genehmigte Funktion in einer erneuten Aktualisierung heimlich eingebaut wurde und später im Netz viral an Bekanntheit erlangte, setzte Apple diese Anwendung des Entwicklers vor die Tür. Sowohl das Entwickler-Studio als auch seine prominente Frontfrau Lisa Bettany schwiegen sich über die komplette Zeit zum aktuellen Informationsstand aus. Selbst jetzt, einige Stunden nach der Veröffentlichung, findet keine Kommunikation mit den bisherigen Kunden statt. Ob es ein ‘Recht auf Read More

Camera+ coming back to the App Store

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Do you remember Camera+? It was the amazing US$1.99 photography app from development house tap tap tap that ended up getting yanked from the App Store after the developers used the iPhone volume button as a camera shutter button. In a postscript to a blog entry today, tap tap tap let it slip that Camera+ is on the way back to the App Store. The teaser comment says that it's currently in review, and that this will be the "biggest update yet." Let's hope that they stay within the sometimes ridiculous guidelines for App Store approval, and that the app is as successful in its second incarnation as it was in the first. Camera+ might face an uphill battle for renewed market share, however. One of the cool features of the app was its ability to share apps to Twitter, Facebook and Flickr with one tap. Since Camera+ went missing, the Read More

Instagram hits version 1.0.6, adds support for 7 new languages and 2 new filters

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:00:27 UTC +00:00

IntoMobile

iPhone wielding hipsters rejoice, Instragram just released an update for their popular image sharing application that adds support for 7 languages (Japanese, German, Russian, French, Chinese, Italian, and Spanish), 2 new filters called “Sutro” and “Toaster”, and a “suggested users” feature that pairs you up with people who hang out in the same parts of town that you roam around while showing off your skinny jeans and new MacBook Air. There’s little else to comment on here, so just head on over to iTunes, grab the app, and start snapping away! Do you use photo sharing applications or just wait until you get home to upload your pics to the net? That’s the category I belong to, and while that might make me boring compared to today’s constantly connected generation with their heads buried in their iPhone, I’ve yet to take a picture that needed immediate display to my Facebook friends. Read More

Instagram Gains Suggested Users, 7 New Languages, And Yes, 2 New Filters

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:53:00 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More An update to Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app for the iPhone, has just hit the App Store. And while the version numbering (1.0.6) may not make it seem like a big update, there are a few notable things about the latest version. First of all, in an effort to drive more social connections for new users, they’ve added a suggested users list. Second, they’ve added seven new languages (Japanese, German, Russian, French, Chinese, Italian, and Spanish). Third, they’ve fixed a number of bugs and increased performance. And Read More

So You Got an iPod Touch This Holiday Season: Now What?

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:18:50 UTC +00:00

Mashable

This post is part of the Mashable 10, Mashable’s gift guide of the 10 hottest gadgets that our editors think should be on everyone’s wish lists this holiday season. If you were lucky enough to receive one of those gifts, our handy quick start guides should get you up and running. To view the entire gift guide, click here. So you’ve received an iPod touch this holiday season. Bravo! Whether it was a surprise gift or the result of months of thinly veiled hints, your next move is to get your new gadget kitted out. It’s certainly true that the iPod touch is the funnest iPod ever, but it can still be improved with some choice accessories and, of course, some fantastic apps. See below for our lists of five must-have accessories for the iPod touch and five must-download apps, and let us know your recommendations for the iDevice in the Read More

2010 App Rewind: Apple's Top Apps of 2010

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:45:00 UTC +00:00

iSmashPhone

Apple has compiled a list called their 2010 Rewind. In it, they have named the top Apps of the year, and gathered them all up into one page so that they can easily be found. Let’s take a look at their top Apps in each category. On this list, you will find Apple’s best apps of 2010. Everything from best iPhone games of 2010 to best educational apps of 2010. Note that these are not our picks (though many of our favorites did make the list) but it’s a compilation of Apple’s favorite Apps of the 2010. Let’s take a look at Apple’s iTunes 2010 rewind: Shoot, Edit, Share – Best of iPhone Camera Utility Apps of 2010 1) Hipstamatic – 99 cents 2) Path – Free 3) Instagram – Free 4) Pocketbooth – 99 cents 5) iMovie – $4.99 6) Splice – Video Editor – 99 cents 7) Read More

I’m Alex Jordan, and Here Are My Top Five iOS Apps

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:38:21 UTC +00:00

iSource

Hello everyone. I’m Alex Jordan, one of the new authors here at iSource. I thought I’d break the ice by telling you the top five iOS apps I can’t live without. So, let’s jump right in. Instagram is a unique social network, that as far as I can tell, stems solely from an iOS app. There is no website to go to, no other clients to access the service except for the official Instagram app. What is Instagram? Well, you take pictures, apply filters (or not), and post them, and view other’s photos. Like any other social network, you can comment on other’s posts, or “like” them. Think of it as “Facebook, but only for pictures.” On the surface it seems a little pointless, I’ll admit. However, you really should give it a try. It’s free, and easy to sign up. Surprise, surprise, Pandora Radio made the list. Yeah, Pandora has Read More

Homescreens – Dezember 2010 (iPhone + iPad)

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:35:56 UTC +00:00

iPhoneBlog.de

In unregelmäßigen Abständen halte ich an dieser Stelle meine ersten beiden Homescreen-Seiten vom iPhone fest. Zuletzt erfolgte dies im August 2010, Januar 2010 sowie September 2009. Für mich von Spannung ist dabei welche Apps sich immer noch auf meinem Geräte befinden, welche komplett verschwanden oder sich eventuell (nur) verschoben haben. Dabei greife ich die (für mich) wesentlichen Änderungen heraus. Ansonsten überraschend wenig Veränderungen: BeejiveIM flog dank Push-Benachrichtigungen in einen Ordner auf der zweiten Seite. Außerdem verstecken sich innerhalb der Ordner folgende Apps*: Amazon.de (kostenlos; App Store-Link), Convertbot (1.59 €; App Store-Link), AnalyticsPro (5.49 €; App Store-Link), Delivery Status touch (3.99 €; universal; App Store-Link), Dropbox (kostenlos; universal; App Store-Link), iCabMobile (1.59 €; universal; App Store-Link), Skype (kostenlos; App Store-Link), WeatherPro (2.99 €; App Store-Link), Pastebot (2.99 €; App Store-Link), LogMeIn (23.99 €; universal; App Store-Link), OffMaps (1.59 €; universal; App Store-Link), Kik (kostenlos; App Store-Link), PayPal (kostenlos; App Store-Link), Linkie (0.79 Read More

RT @appstorehq: The most talked about #i...

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:46:23 UTC +00:00

appstorehq - Twitter Search

...@appstorehq: The most talked about #iPhone app in the last 24hrs was: Instagram http://bit.ly/hX9gzv... Read More

The most talked about #iPhone app in the...

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:53:11 UTC +00:00

appstorehq - Twitter Search

...most talked about #iPhone app in the last 24hrs was: Instagram http://bit.ly/hX9gzv... Read More

Instagram, or how point, shoot and share has become my new obsession

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:01:39 UTC +00:00

iSource

It’s hard for me to talk about Instagram without gushing about its deceptively appealing attributes and sweetly addictive nature. After 2 weeks of compulsive pointing, shooting, sharing pics, I am no longer capable of reporting objectively about it. However, I invite you to read on for my take on why it’s unique and why it’s set to establish itself as a must-have app. Instagram made its debut just weeks ago on 6 October 2010 and is rumoured to have gained close to one million avid users in that short time. Available only for iPhone at the moment, this is a decidedly astonishing number. The already countless number of great photography, cameras, filters and effects apps notwithstanding, Instagram has merged photography and iPhone to form a special kind of love affair. One where ease and aesthetics rule. The best way to describe it is to say that it’s like twitter for photos. Read More

TiPb Picks of the Week

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:28:50 UTC +00:00

The iPhone Blog

By Leanna Lofte, Sunday, Dec 5, 2010 | Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game. To see what we picked this week, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break! I haven’t used a day runner or paper calendar since my first Palm Pilot. To me, this is the real magic of using a handheld digital device. I got spoiled using Agendus on my Treo, and in addition to just noting my calendar events, I want multiple ways of viewing them, icons, and more. CalenGoo really fits that niche for me. It gives me many more options than the (lousy) iPhone calendar, and syncs Read More

Mona Lisa, Instagram Style

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:52:48 UTC +00:00

iSource

Instagram is a cool photo effects / sharing app that has become very popular. The App Store description for it says that amongst its other qualities it will let you … Select from photo filters that transform regular ol’ photos into works of art you’ll want to keep around forever. You can find Instagram in the App Store now, and it’s a free app. Read More

Instagram

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:20:34 UTC +00:00

AppVee

Photography apps are ridiculously easy to find in the app store. There are quite literally hundreds of options to choose from and it can be really hard to find one that works for you. I personally prefer Appleâ€™s default option for taking pictures, but one app did catch my eye. Instagram is a simple app for taking pictures and sharing them with the world. What makes this app so special to me is the different retro filters you can apply to your images which really add a neat look to your shots. The app is focused around a twitter-like follow feature where you can find different users and follow their updates. For power users this is an amazing way to find other awesome photography. Casual users will be happy to find they can take a photo, add an effect, and immediately post a link to it on Facebook, Twitter, and other Read More

Path photo-sharing app has finally been released

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:14:14 UTC +00:00

IntoMobile

The highly anticipated Path photo sharing app has finally been released to the masses. If you’re a heavy social-networker and you share more photos than you do little quirky status updates, you might want to give this app a shot. It’s sort of like Instagram, except right now it’s closed in that you can only share your photos with 50 people at a time. Here’s a quick rundown of who or what Path is: Path is the personal network. A place to be yourself and share life with close friends and family. The personal network doesn’t replace your existing social networks – it augments them. Path allows you to capture your life’s most personal moments and share them with the 50 close friends and family in your life who matter most. Because your personal network is limited to your 50 closest friends and family, you can always trust that you can Read More

TUAW's Daily App: Instagram

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:00:00 UTC +00:00

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

There is a plethora of various photo apps around, both for taking pictures and for sharing them on social networks. But Instagram is an excellent solution for both, and it's elegant enough to make you reconsider your current workflow. Personally, I've just been taking pictures with the standard camera app and uploading them with the official Twitter app. But Instagram adds the ability to make your photos artistic with a wide number of filters, add location and social network data to them in the app itself, then share them with any number of social networks, from simple stuff like Twitter and Facebook to more complicated connections like Flickr and even Tumblr. The app is completely free, too, and they're planning to keep it that way. There may be add-ons for filters in the future (or, I presume, some advertising on the actual Web pages created by the pictures), but how awesome Read More

Instagram, la aplicación para amantes de twitter y la fotografía

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:57:15 UTC +00:00

EsferaiPhone

Si os gustan las redes sociales y la fotografía, seguro que al terminar de leer esta entrada os descargais, si aún no lo habeis hecho, la aplicación de la que os vamos a hablar. Se trata de Instagram y con ella podreis compartir vuestras fotos al instante. Lo mejor es que podemos recibir y emitir votos y comentarios en las fotos, lo que nos permitirá entrar en el ranking de las más populares dentro de la red de Instagram. Compartir fotos es tan sencillo como tocar la pestaña de “Share”, elegir o hacer una foto, aplicarle un efecto o dejarla tal cual y darle a “hecho”. Con sólo unos toques de pantalla habremos colocado nuestra foto para que el resto pueda verla e incluso opinar a cerca de ella. Además la aplicación integra perfectamente otras redes sociales como Facebook o Twitter, haciendo que cada vez que compartimos una foto, ésta aparezca Read More

Instagram Has Made Me an iPhone Photo Addict

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:36 UTC +00:00

ReadWriteWeb

I have a new favorite iPhone app. And I'm not alone. After only a week in the iPhone App Store, the photo-sharing app Instagram has won not just the adoration of many in the tech media, but has netted well over 100,000 users. And according to co-founder Kevin Systrom, Instagram is now counting new user sign-ups by the minute and counting photo uploads by the second. Instagram is a free app, a simple photo-sharing tool that allows you to snap pictures and easily post them to your Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Flickr accounts. You can follow others via Instagram's social network, allowing you to view and comment on others' photos. Instagram also includes 11 filters for your photos, turning the photos taken by the camera phone - photos that even under the steadiest of hands and keenest of eyes tend to be rather mediocre - from the mundane to the spectacular. Read More

Five For Friday: Week of October 15, 2010

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:04:22 UTC +00:00

148 Apps

By Chris Nitz on October 15th, 2010 SpongeBob listening to TED while uploading photos...hmmmm Scene It? Horror:In celebration of the impending celebration of candy, cavities, ghosts, vampires, and other horrors, why not test your horror movie knowledge as well. Scene It? Horror pits your knowledge of great movies like 28 Days Later, American Psycho, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and a massive amount more. No cheating is allowed for you movie fanatics. That means no using IMDB or loading up the movie to get the answers. $1.99 iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Released: 2010-10-11 :: Category: Games $4.99 iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad Released: 2010-10-11 :: Category: Games SpongeBob Marbles & Slides:Head to Bikini Bottom to help the gang with their lack of slides. Use your fingers to draw slides to aid SpongeBob, and gang, reach the Krusty Krab in hopes of Read More

Instagram Snaps Up 100,000 Users In Just Six Days

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:49:36 UTC +00:00

IntoMobile

If you’re an iPhone user, and you love taking and sharing photos, you need to get Instagram. Already a user? Then you know what I’m talking about, but if not, here’s how it works: you follow and are followed by your friends, you snap pictures, adjust the photos with a handful of filters and then share them with your social networks of choice. It’s that simple. It’s so good, in fact, that Instagram had over 100,000 users just six days after it hit Apple’s App Store. Here is what’s impressive about the number, as reported by TechCrunch: Now, 100,000 may not seem that impressive in a world where Facebook has 500 million users, but again, that’s after just one week in existence and only being available on the iPhone. You can’t even sign up on their website yet, you need to get the app to be a user. As a point Read More

This Morning’s Top Stories in Social Media and Tech

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:47:46 UTC +00:00

Mashable

by Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today. AOL Looking to Acquire Yahoo [REPORT] AOL and several venture capital firms are in talks to buy Yahoo, according to . AOL’s current market value is roughly one tenth of Yahoo’s. Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group are rumored to be in on the deal. Yahoo is working with Goldman Sachs to defend against a potential takeover, three sources have told . Neither company is willing to make an official statement at this time. Verizon to Carry iPad Apple announced this morning that its iPad device will become available for purchase in Verizon stores nationwide beginning Thursday, October 28. Verizon will offer all three versions of the iPad Wi-Fi model, bundled with a Read More

Instagram Captures 100,000 Mobile Photo Addicts In Less Than A Week

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:02:46 UTC +00:00

TechCrunch

MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More Instagram has had a good week. Seven days ago, after months of testing, they released their first app into Apple’s App Store. Within a few days, my feeds on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook were inundated with Instagram images. I’m friends with a lot of early-adopter types, so I wondered if it just seemed like the app was everywhere. But it turns out it’s not just my friends using it, it’s their friends and their friend and their friends… Last night, after just six days, the service crossed Read More

Photo and Image Editing Apps for October 11 2010

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:45:00 UTC +00:00

iSmashPhone

Create, edit and just have fun! “Camera illusion” is a camera application that lets you process photos in real-time, previewing and taking amazing pictures combining filters, effects and masks. Picture effect magic is simple photo app to let you create amazing photos. TouchUp brings creative photo editing to iPad, enabling anyone to make common adjustments and create captivating art with their photos. TouchUp has over a dozen effects which can be applied in nearly unlimited layers to your photos. Instagram is an amazingly fun & simple life-sharing app for your iPhone. Snap photos wherever you go to show the world what‚Äôs going on in your life. Follow your friends‚Äô photo updates as they move through the world. Select from photo filters that transform regular ol‚Äô photos into works of art you‚Äôll want to keep around forever. With up to 30 seconds shutter speed, now enjoy creating blur and slow shutter effects Read More

Instagram photo filter and sharing app for iPhone

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:00:00 UTC +00:00

Download Squad

Here at Download Squad, we're always on the lookout for cool little mobile apps that are both fun to use and useful. Sometimes that involves tickling our creative side and that's where Instagram comes in. Instagram, like many other apps available on the iPhone, allows you to take an image and apply effect filters to it. Some like 'Lord Kelvin" age your photo, others such as "Inkwell" desaturate it turning it black and white. Instagram comes packing no less than 11 filters, but what really sets it apart from others like Hipstamatic, is the inclusion of . Once you're happy with your selection you're presented with the 11 pre-defined image effects, plus the option to leave the image as-is. Selecting the desired filter shows you a live preview ready for you to save and get your image uploaded. The sharing process is simple. Name the image, give it an optional location Read More

Just got the @instagramapp app. Impressi...

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:14:23 UTC +00:00

itunes app - Twitter Search

...got the @instagramapp app. Impressively snappy. Get it - http://bit.ly/bSAfI8... Read More

The Instagram app for iPhone is an aweso...

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:11:49 UTC +00:00

itunes app - Twitter Search

...Instagram app for iPhone is an awesome camera and photo editing app. Easy share features, too. http://bit.ly/d30C6Q... Read More

Enjoy photo sharing with friend in your ...

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:00:34 UTC +00:00

itunes app - Twitter Search

...photo sharing with friend in your iPhone.. Download Instagram http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252?mt=8 :)... Read More