Tickle Your Fancy – #22
Welcome back to our twenty second post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… The Sam…
Mobile Photographer Interview – A Day In The Life Of Ioannis Sidiropoulos/devine1225aaa – An Artist With True Vision
Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our ninety sixth installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Ioannis Sidiropoulos also known as devine1225aa on Flickr and Instagram. Ioannis describes himself as a Greek born amateur artist, a dreamer, a romantic insane who is desperately looking to find tranquility in sinister worlds and circumstances. He explains that art…
You Are The PROOF – Mobile Masters Photo Contest – We Donate Prizes!
We’re delighted to be part of the Mobile Masters Photo Contest 2014. The aim of this second edition of the Mobile Masters interactive eBook is to showcase Mobile Photography as a distinctive and expanding new movement in the history of the art form. It will curate the best work of some of the most passionate early innovators of this underground movement with images that would not have been made just 3 or 4 years ago. Last year’s edition was by invitation only, but with so much new and exciting work emerging from a diverse range of people and locations, the organisers wanted to invite all, from novice to pro, to…
Channel Tunnel Set For Superfast 4G Mobile From EE
EE, the UK’s most advanced communications company, today announced that the Channel Tunnel will be covered by superfast 4GEE mobile services by summer 2014. The 35 minute journey underground from the UK to France is going to be enhanced for commuting business workers and holidaymakers through access to the superfast 4GEE network. The time underground can be spent online preparing for meetings, checking emails, planning travel routes, researching a holiday destination or watching streamed movies. Around 20 million people travel through the Channel Tunnel each year, either on the Eurotunnel shuttle in their cars or lorries or on a Eurostar train. 2G and 3G services are also set to…
OKDOTHIS – iOS Photography App – Updated
OKDOTHIS is an idea community app for photographers and it’s proving to be very popular. It launched at the end of of last year, November 2013 and has been through several update reiterations since then and has hit the mark, for now at least, with many people pleased of the inspiration for the New Year. This new update brings with it a new DO of the Day, which suggests something for you to DO each day. If you find this kind of app appealing and its quite unique, at least for now, then why not give it a whirl. It’s free and you can download/update here. Check out What’s New…
Creative iPhone Photography – Workshop by Karen Divine
We’re delighted to announce within our Mob-Entrepeneurs section of the site that incredibly talented iPhone artist Karen Divine has launched a new photographic workshop running between March 10 – March 14, 2014. Click here to register and read below to learn more about the course ethos, structure and conclusion: ‘Tapping into your own creative spirit is, first and foremost, a matter of developing awareness. This awareness allows you to bring together information and material, expand your mind, quiet the senses, and allows the unconscious to reveal rich imagery. As Rainer Maria Rilke expressed so beautifully in Letters to a Young Poet, “…describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass…
Camera+ iOS Photography App – Updated
Camera+ is a hugely popular camera replacement app and it’s just received a brand new update. It’s mainly a stability and bug killing update but we’ll let the team behind it, taptaptap, tell you about it in their own words, as follows: ‘This update is one of those stability releases that we all know and love. We’ve put the kibosh on a bunch of bugs and improved several little things that’ll make the whole Camera+ experience a bit better, especially with the shiny, new Lab that we added in Camera+ 5. The app would sometimes crash when you tried to save photos edited in The Lab. That should be all…
Mophie Launches New Space Packs – Battery Power with Built-In Storage for iPhone
These look good, Mophie produce fabulous battery packs but now they’ve gone one step further and announced the Mophie Space pack, including storage facility. There are two varieties available to increase not only the life of your iPhone 5/5s but also increase your storage capacity at the same time. Available in both 16 GB and 32 GB capacities along with a free app called Space which allows the user to organise local files. The 32GB storage capacity will give you effectively space for 16,000 images, 9,140 songs and 40 hours of video. The battery pack is a powerful 1700mAH, which when fully charged offers 8 hours talk time, 10 hours…
Tiffen’s New Steadicam CURVE Captures the Action and Attention of GoPro HERO Users
The Tiffen Company, a leading manufacturer of award-winning digital imaging accessories, today announced the availability of its new Steadicam® CURVE™ for GoPro® HERO® camera stabilizer system. Making its official launch at CES 2014 in Tiffen booth 9143, which is located right next to the GoPro booth in Central Hall, Steadicam CURVE for GoPro HERO is a stealth camera stabilizing system from the Academy Award-winning Steadicam family of products. Designed for action-packed, one-handed GoPro HERO camera shoots, Steadicam CURVE weighs in at a mere half-pound. Its compact form factor gives GoPro HERO users the freedom to shoot shake-free video using Steadicam’s legendary stabilization technology with clever options to lock the camera…
WiTricity Announces Breakthrough Wireless Charging System for iPhone 5 / 5s
WiTricity, the industry pioneer in wireless power over distance, has just introduced the world’s first system for wireless charging of consumer devices such as the iPhone 5 using the company’s patented highly resonant wireless power transfer technology. A quantum leap forward in convenience and ease of use for wireless charging of consumer electronics, the WiTricity system charges gadgets over distance and through a variety of materials – including wood, granite, plastic and glass. Initially designed for the iPhone 5/5s, the WiTricity charging system is available as a reference design for companies who want to apply the technology for charging other smartphones, tablets, or consumer electronic devices. The WiTricity charging system…
