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PastBook secures new investment round and launches collaborative photo-book platform
After one year from its seed-investment, PastBook has received a new undisclosed amount of funding from a group of investors as a bridge round to Series A. The new investment will boost the development and distribution of the new product that the Company launched today: a collaborative photo-book platform the lets people collaborate to put photos together in creating keepsake book, in just a few seconds, from any device. PastBook is also opening up its technology to businesses, with white-label solutions (i.e. for weddings or funeral companies) and RESTful API integration (i.e. offering to 3rd party apps a new revenue stream with photo-book book print on demand). ‘I started PastBook…
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Photo Eraser – Temporarily Free
Many iOS photographers/editors like to use Photo Eraser to remove unwanted objects from images. It’s quite a popular app and today it’s free. Usually Photo Eraser retails for $0.99/£0.69 but if you click here, you can pick it up for free today.
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Mobile phone photographer wins prize for ‘model-like’ image of Doc Martin’s Port Isaac
A surreal and captivating image of one of Cornwall’s favourite spots – and the setting for the popular TV series Doc Martin – has beaten the competition to win the South West Coast Path Motographer of the Year 2013 competition, designed to capture a moment in time on the UK’s longest National Trail. The winning shot was taken on a mobile phone by photographer Bob Small, and chosen by the South West Coast Path team from a shortlist of entrants who submitted their images via Social Media. The runner-up prize went to Nikki Theopil for her shot of walkers taking on a steep incline at Lulworth Ranges in Dorset, which…
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Huemore – iOS Photography App – Temporary Price Drop
Huemore from the developers of Hueless is a great app to add colour to your iOS images. It’s currently sporting a price drop. You can pick it up for $0.99/£0.69 today instead of the more usual $2.99/£1.99. Click here to download
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Vodafone and O2 smash speed records with new 4G services – New London report by RootMetrics
Mobile internet speeds in London and surrounding areas have more than doubled since the launch of O2 and Vodafone’s 4G services two months ago. According to thousands of independent scientific tests by RootMetrics across the capital, Vodafone has the edge on O2, recording download speeds of 9.5 Mbps and upload speeds of 4.7 Mbps (upload) compared to O2’s 7.1Mbps (download) and 3.7 Mbps (upload). Despite the positive start by Vodafone and O2’s 4G offering, EE remains the fastest and highest rated overall network. Following the launch of its double speed 4G network, it has recorded exceptionally fast average speeds of 19.3 Mbps (download) and 12.9 Mbps (upload). Its speeds are…
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Fotomecha – iOS Technical Tutorial By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish our latest Technical Tutorial by Jerry Jobe, this is the first of a two-part tutorial on two apps, Fotomecha and ClassicSAMP, they take multiple exposures and put them into grids. Jerry starts with Fotomecha. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). Fotomecha retails for $0.99/£0.69/download ClassicSMAP retails for $1.99/£1.49/download ‘Back in the 1950s, filmmakers began bringing the split screen effect into the mainstream as Doris Day talked to Rock Hudson on the phone. As directors continued to experiment, the screen was increasingly divided into multiple slices – most famously in the opening to the TV show The Brady Bunch. Mobile photo apps allow for…
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LG G Flex Stays Ahead of the Curve to Lead Evolution of Smartphones with Breakthrough Innovations
Rumoured for a long time and now announced the new LG G Flex smartphone looks good, I’m confused with the terminology of ‘flex’ as it does not flex, it is purely a hardened curved screen but perhaps I’m being cynical and of course the LG G Hardened Curve doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, take a look below, it does look interesting… The LG G Flex is a smartphone curved to follow the contour of the face, the first device to offer such a design in the smartphone market. The latest device in LG’s premium G Series, the G Flex incorporates proprietary innovations from other LG companies in…
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The App Nerds Workshop – Spontaneity – By Lola Mitchell
We’re delighted to publish Lola Mitchell’s latest article to her App Nerds Workshop column with us. In case you’re new to this wonderful column we wanted to give you a little background. Lola’s bi-weekly Column is called ‘The App Nerds Workshop‘. It is a virtual classroom, an environment for new talent to share their work, for Lola to share some of the ways she uses apps and for the not so new talent to share some secrets. Lola sometimes assigns broad themes to keep the creative juices flowing. Your minds will be tickled into creating, experimenting, daring, dreaming, making and doing. We have a dedicated Flickr group where you can…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #12
Welcome back to our twelfth 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… Robin Hammond :…
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Apple Announces iPad Air and Upto 128 GB Storage
Apple yesterday announced iPad Air, the latest generation of its category-defining device, featuring a 9.7-inch Retina display in a thinner and lighter design and weighing just one pound. The new iPad model features the powerful and power-efficient Apple-designed A7 chip with 64-bit desktop-class architecture, ultrafast wireless with faster built-in Wi-Fi and expanded LTE cellular connectivity, and iOS 7 featuring hundreds of great new features. “iPad created an entirely new mobile computing experience, and the new iPad Air is another big leap ahead,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “It is so thin, light and powerful, once you hold one in your hand you will understand what…
