This week, Myke and I talk about Instagram, after Myke gets his head in order. And Lego. And Back to the Future.
- Quit #3: Are You Employed, Sir?
- After Dark #307: After Quit! #3
- Privacy and Terms of Service Changes on Instagram
- The Verge: Instagram’s Backlash is Flickr’s Gain
- One37: Instagram Attempts to Monetize, World Doesn’t End
- The Verge: No, Instagram Can’t Sell Your Photos
- TNW: Why you should want to pay for apps
- CMD+SPACE 020 - Twitterrific, with Gedeon Maheux
Chris Foresman:
Apple announced the acquisition of NeXT on December 20, 1996, noting it wanted NeXT’s object-oriented software development technology and its operating system know-how. As part of the deal, Jobs came back to Apple, eventually taking over as CEO and making the company into the consumer electronics giant it is today. Sixteen years later, several technologies developed or championed by NeXT still survive in OS X and in its mobile cousin, iOS.
Well, I’m $4 lighter.
My App.net iOS client of choice is out of beta and on the App Store for $5. If you’re a heavy user of the service, check it out.
Kevin Systrom:
Yesterday we introduced a new version of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that will take effect in thirty days. These two documents help communicate as clearly as possible our relationship with the users of Instagram so you understand how your data will be used, and the rules that govern the thriving and active Instagram community. Since making these changes, we’ve heard loud and clear that many users are confused and upset about what the changes mean.
In both 2008 and 2009, I completed a “Project 365,” which is a year-long series of photos, one shot, edited and posted each day.
I’ve decided to this again for 2013. I’ve gotten away from my photography over the last two or three years for lots of reasons, and I think this will be a great way to get back on the horse with it.
Incidentally, this meant re-joining Flickr. (I’ve come to regret shutting down my account a few years ago.) While I’m not thrilled with Instagram’s new Terms of Service, I’m not leaving the service. However, Instagram is not the right service for this kind of project.
Anyways, if you want to follow along, all of the photos in the series will be on this Flickr page.
Julianne Pepitone:
CNNMoney contacted the creators of the 50 highest-funded Kickstarter campaigns with estimated delivery dates of November 2012 or earlier to determine their shipping status. We found that only eight of those 50 projects hit their deadline.
Sixteen of the 50 projects haven’t yet shipped. Among the 26 projects that shipped but went out late, the median delay was two months, although some outliers took much longer.
Michael Schechter:
As you you start toying with contexts or looking at the way others create their own, there’s really no right or wrong way to go about this. It’s more about finding what works best for you and what doesn’t. In my case, I needed to boil everything down as far as I could; others crave a hierarchy that has thought of everything, most will fall somewhere in-between the two. I’ve found tremendous value in determining the contexts that are essential and in naming tasks consistently for recall, but that’s just what works for me.
I think contexts is one of those areas on OmniFocus (and GTD on the whole) that freak people out. Michael’s article is a great place to start if you’re struggling with this.
Snapheal is the photo editor for Mac that first showed up on the App Store in December 2011. It was updated few days ago to version 2.1, bringing the brand new look, noticeable performance boost and the whole set of new handy tools. Mashable called Snapheal “Inexpensive alternative to Photoshop” and just recently Apple named it one of “2012 Best Mac App Store Apps”. So what’s this app about?
Snapheal is incredibly simple, yet powerful tool for removing extra objects from images, getting rid of skin imperfections and performing other complex edits with no special knowledge required. It does quite an amazing job in erasing unwanted stuff from pictures, like stones, wires, people, signs, text and more. Just highlight the extra object with a brush or lasso; click “Erase” button and seconds later imperfection disappears. There is a very handy “Clone & Stamp” tool to enhance the fixed area, but usually its not required.
Here’s a video comparing healing tools in Snapheal and Photoshop. As you can see both apps bring similar results, but Snapheal is much faster
It’s fair to mention that Photoshop is not just about spot healing. But Snapheal is not just about erasing objects, either. The app features retouching and photo adjustment tools that let you enhance the whole image at once or pick individual areas to improve. Editing tools include gamma, hue, saturation adjustments; controls for shadows, highlights, exposure; clarity tool and more. Snapheal has all the tools an average photographer would need to fix and enhance pictures taken. But as we mentioned, doesn’t require any special learning or massive amounts of time to perform edits.
Snapheal is usually priced $20, but is currently available for just $9.99 on Mac App Store. For this price, the app’s simplicity and high quality image processing is available an absolute steal and definitely gives more expensive photo editors run for their money.
I felt really weird reading Jeremy Allaire’s dream diary on All Things D.
Also, this is how his company is described:
Jeremy Allaire is the founder, chairman and CEO of Brightcove, a leading provider of cloud platforms for distributing media and apps, with a suite of platform APIs, SDKs and Web services aimed at Web and app developers and the businesses they help to drive.
I’m not all that sure I understand what he does for a living.
Well, Viticci wins the “most badass post of the day” award today.
A great speech that will hopefully be followed by strides in the right direction when it comes to gun control and care for those with mental health issues.