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“We were talking about another company that dropped the e before the r, and we realized we wanted to make Flickr awesome again.” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said before the redesigned Flickr‘s big reveal. Of course she was referring to Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr, which we reported on earlier today. But the redesign of Flickr, it’s lovely…
The creaters behind the well-known photo sharing app, Hipstamatic has announced the release of a new app called Oggl. Oggl is basically the same app as Hipstamatic, but with a bevy of new photo editing options. Oggl is free to use, with the free version coming pre-loaded with five “favorites” for shooting, including nightlife, food, portraits…
Wikipedia users, get ready to see a slew of new pictures on your favorite subjects soon. The Wikimedia Commons app has been released today for both Android and iOS, allowing users to upload pictures directly to the Wikipedia website, adding some much-needed vibrancy to the incredible Creative Commons knowledge base. The Wikimedia Commons app makes…
Instagram’s level of success continues to rise at a rapid pace despite reports claiming the opposite a few months back. The startup announced today on its blog that the app now has 100 million monthly active users, meaning 100 million people are using Instagram at least once a month and many are probably using it…
If HTC has its way, soon the term Megapixel will deleted from our lexicon. Instead, “Ultrapixel” will become the new way to measure the capacity of smartphone cameras. Pocket-Lint has reported that HTC is to use this new camera technology, already in use by a host of manufacturers, in the upcoming M7. HTC will use…
Instagram released some interesting statistics about its users and how they use the app. The photo-sharing app now has 90 million monthly active users — a pretty impressive feat for a mere app, and one that blossomed and thrived for quite some time without compatibility with Android. Those 90 million people are sharing 40 million photos…
Thanks to the advent of Kickstarter, many interesting and innovative products are making the jump from prototype to reality. Kickstarter funded products made a big splash at CES this year, while some big name vendors were absent from the show altogether. A new Kickstarter funded project from Lomography is bringing a new twist to analog…
The previously announced Samsung Galaxy Camera, an Android-powered touchscreen digital camera with 4G LTE connectivity, is on its way to Verizon Wireless. Though the Galaxy Camera was announced for AT&T’s network in November, its speeds were limited to HSPA+. The Verizon version is the first to ship with 4G LTE. This announcement doesn’t come as…
What do you get when you take an ordinary-looking Samsung Android smartphone and build it in to the back of a compact camera? The Samsung Galaxy Camera. It’s real and minus the phone functionality, that’s pretty much what it is. The Galaxy Camera is a bulky device, but it has its reasons. The camera lens…
It doesn’t seem like too long ago that Instagram unveiled version 2.0 of its popular photo sharing app with a redesigned UI for snapping pictures, but the team has been hard at work and almost a year after that update, version 3.0 just hit Google Play and the App Store. With it comes a new…