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Snapchat – Photo Sharing App – Now Worth $800 Million
Launched in 2011 the developers behind the photo sharing app Snapchat have just secured around $60 million in fundng, according to Petapixel, this investment ‘pegs the value of the company at a staggering $800 million’. It’s a well known fact that the best ideas are the simple ones and Snapchat fits that remit. The purpose of the app is to transmit images to their friends mobile devices – but the ‘catch’ is that the photo only display for tens seconds or less – the app sends a notification message to the sender when the recipient screencaps the image. That’s it and believe it or not over 200 million snaps are…
Typic Pro – Temporarily Free
With Typic Pro, you can let your creativity fly while writing the best captions to go with your images, and turning them into something very special with the design elements to go with them. This app usually retails for $1.99/£1.49 but is temporarily free. Click here to download.
American Aperture Awards – Last Day For Entry
Bob Weil has just dropped me a line to ask me to remind you all that today is the last day to enter the American Aperture Awards. See our original post here – they extended the deadline to 24th from 17th June 2013. Bob Weil and Daria Polichetti (iPhoneArt.com) are jurors for the mobile component of the American Aperture Awards. It is not primarily a mobile arts competition. Founded by Chris Davies, the publisher of Fabrik Magazine in LA (a former LA photography gallery owner) and a select collection of art books, AX3 should be an interesting new addition to the cross-genre photography exhibition scene. I’m sure looking forward to…
The Guardian Eyewitness App – Updated – Removal of Subscription for Premium Feature
The Guardian Eyewitness app for iPad showcases the world’s most striking and beautiful photographs, providing a daily, visual reflection of global events. The Guardian Eyewitness has been developed to offer a customised iPad experience, bringing thought-provoking imagery direct to your device on a daily basis. Created by the same team that developed the Guardian iPhone app and the Guardian iPad edition, the app offers: • Rolling access to the latest 100 images from our award-winning photography series – free • Custom designed interface built specifically to take advantage of the iPad • ‘Pro tips’ written by our award-winning photography team to offer technical insights • Photographic EXIF data, when available…
iStopMotion for iPad – Temporary Price Drop
iStopMotion for iPad is a very popular app for the iPad filmaker, it has won numerous Macworld Awards and is currently sporting a price drop. You can pick it up today for $4.99/£2.99 instead of $9.99/£6.99. Click here to download.
Wood Camera – Vintage Photo Editor – Temporary Price Drop
Wood Camera – Vintage Photo Editor is a popular app and the price has gradually been creeping up. It peaked at $6.99/£4.99 four days ago and is now currently available for $3.99/£2.49. Click here to download.
GridPic – Temporarily Free
GridPic for iOS photography allows you to take multiple pictures that form a grid, in the easiest way: simply start shooting, and GridPic keeps expanding the grid (in a spiral fashion), allowing any size grids like 2×2, 2×3, 3×3, 3×4 etc, with no limit. This app usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today it is free. Click here to download and give it a try today.
iColorama – iPad – Temporary Price Drop
One of the most popular photographic apps for iPad has just received a temporary price drop. If you haven’t picked up this app yet, then we strongly suggest you do. It’s currently retailing at $1.99/£1.49 instead of the more usual $2.99/£1.99. Click here to download.
Instagram Gets Movie Mode
If you needed even more reason to join our brand new Mobile Movies flickr group, then you just got it – Facebook held a press event yesterday afternoon announcing the addition of video recording and of course sharing to Instagram. So now, not only can you share photos but also 15 second ‘movies’/clips if you like, too. The update is in the app store and is available for both iOS and Android versions – we suggest you update/download the app, make some cool movies and then upload them to our Mobile Movies flickr group, which is curated every Saturday by Donna Donato and featured on our main site, see here.…
All Dan Marcolina’s iOS Photography App Books – On Sale!
This is a great opportunity to grab all of the fabulous books by Dan Marcolina, if you haven’t already, for just $0.99/£0.69 today. The list includes: AppAlchemy iPad 6.99 > .99 App Store Link / Video Overview Link AppAlchemy Pocket (iPhone) 4.99 > .99 (in app purchase) App Store Link / Video Overview Link Mobile Masters 2.99 > .99 App Store Link / Video Overview link iObsessed Companion 2.99 > .99 App Store Link / Video Overview Link
