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Adobe frees Revel online image organizer
From $5/month to free: Adobe is now giving away its Revel photo library organizer service, which syncs your photos among multiple devices. Users can now import their entire photo libraries for free,...
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Cloud image storage Dropbox acquires Snapjoy
Where are you storing your own photos? Hopefully in more than one location, on multiple drives — and online in “the cloud.” Cloud data storage leader Dropbox — which recently updated its own photo...
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Facebook will poke you
Previously we discussed Snapchat and the new phenomenon of “self-destructing” photos — shots you can send for real-time visual communication without worrying they’ll be around forever to embarrass...
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StickyAlbums: social imaging marketing tool for photographers
In the latest episode of the DIMAcast, StickyAlbums founder Nate Grahek explains how his simple platform enables pro photographers to create branded photo album apps stored on a client’s iOS or...
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Madbits makes moments
Your customer’s smartphone shots might be too small or incidental to often warrant hardcopy — but perhaps a collage might better tempt them to hit the print button. A new app called Moments creates...
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Smartphone-caused camera crash continues?
Slowing seasonal camera sales in your shop? You’re right to suppose the likely suspect continues to be smartphones: ABI Research says the ubiquitous devices “continue to steal market share” from both...
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Software-only App spins iPhone 5 for automated panorama
We’ve all taken plenty of panoramic pics by slowly spinning in place, or at least waving the camera across the scene. Good 360-degree panoramic photos require the camera be atop a tripod and turned...
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One Billion Cameras Shipped — in phones
One billion cameras were shipped in 2012, ABI Research projects — that is, in smartphones and tablets. Almost every smartphone shipped today has an embedded rear camera and one in three smartphones...
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Facebook searches photos, more
Want to see what your friends looked like 20 years ago? Or which ones took shots on Las Vegas earlier this month? Soon it will be simple to do so. Facebook’s new “Graph Search” will let its 1 billion...
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Nikon makes Space
Hmmm… Since Kodak folded its EasyShare Gallery service, I’m not aware of any camera maker continuing to push its own online service too strongly — though many remain on the Internet from the days...
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Improved video compression approved
If you’ve played a video on your iPad, you’ve enjoyed the benefit of the H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC video coding standard. It was once the underdog to Flash and other omnipresent formats, but has now become...
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Stipple adds E-Commerce to Facebook news feed photos
When you’re looking at your friend’s photos on Facebook, do you want to buy what their wearing or showing? No? Howabout those images you see on those corporate pages you’ve “favorited”? “Interactive...
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Google finds photos faster
Have you worked with Google’s Image Search? I found many a photo execs pic there when I couldn’t track it down anywhere else. (It’s amazing how many companies in the photo industry have websites...
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I already look at more photos on Twitter than anywhere else online — and now the social messaging service is adding video clips. There goes what little productivity I had… Wait, maybe not: the clips...
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Android bestselling photo apps cost more than iPhone
All right, so I did pay a pretty penny for my latest iPhone… but the top-of-the-line Android models cost exactly the same on a carrier contract, so I can’t understand the crazy “conventional wisdom”...
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Continued growth in social photo sharing
Social network users upload photos to social networks using mobile phones or smartphones 22 percent of the time, up from 16% in 2011. That’s one of the findings from a new study from InfoTrends, which...
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Resurgence of Flickr photo sharing site?
How many of you are still enjoying photos on the Flickr sharing site? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? While its best days are past, the service isn’t dead yet — and may on the road to recovery. “When...
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Turn your iPhone into a high-tech light meter
While most of us complain smart phones are all-but replacing “real” photography, developer Adam Wilt is instead turning the ubiquitous mobile divide into a full-featured accessory for high-end image...
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Ricoh 360-degree camera to work with smartphone
Can one snap captures everything around you? It can if the camera in question has two fisheye lenses facing in opposite directions. Ricoh demonstrated a prototype omnidirectional camera that shoots...
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Instagram expands from apps
Did you know you can shop in almost-empty stores on Superbowl Sunday? Costco was a cramped cacophony of crazed consumers Saturday evening, and all-but a ghost town Sunday around noon — so my...
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