Mat Honan at Gizmodo: Do you remember Flickr’s tag line? It reads “almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.” It was an epic humble brag, a momentously tongue in cheek understatement. Because until three years ago, of course Flickr was the best photo sharing service in the world. Nothing [...]
Be still, my heart.
MG Siegler: The beauty of it being cross platform to me is situations like this. Because Instagram is becoming the ubiquitous camera app, it’s a great point of comparison. (It’s something we would have used Flickr for in the past, but no one seems to use Flickr anymore — at least not in the same [...]
Matthew Panzarino: Android fragmentation rears its head once again with Instagram on Android, forcing the company to leave out features it could have otherwise shipped in order to support the wide array of OS versions and hardware out there. I know people like to pretend this isn’t a problem, but it is. Instagram for Android [...]
Interestingly, Instagram is the only iPhone app I run on my iPad.
Most iOS photo apps are all about applying rich, heavy-handed filters. 1-Bit Camera is an exception. The 99¢ app shoots in 1-bit mode, leaving just black and white dithered images. There are options to select high or low contrast, and to use either Atkinson and Bayer dithering algorithms. You an share via Facebook, Twitter or [...]
Cash was such a bad-ass.
Today, with iOS 5.1, Apple’s added a second gesture to the lock screen. Previously, getting to the camera required a tap on the camera button, which only appeared after double-clicking the home button. While that’s not that convoluted, in hindsight it clearly lacked the ease of discovery Apple usually ships features with. The new gesture, [...]
John’s photo of this classic Mac is my new wallpaper. As with all of his work, this image is stunning.
Michael Muchmore at PCMag: The new version adds basic video editing and playing, integrated maps that support GPS data, new content-aware auto-fix, more localized adjustment brushes, and integrate book creation tools. Upgraders from any previous version will only pay $79. The full retail price is now $149. I switched to Lightroom 3 about 4 months [...]
