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OS X Mavericks Available Free from the Mac App Store
As we’re sure you’ve all heard by now yesterday, whilst we were at AppsWorld, Apple announced some great new products and updates including the 10th major release of ‘the world’s most advanced desktop operating system’ – OS X Mavericks. We’ve been busy installing it on all our machines this morning and despite a few discrepancies, all seems good, so far, although it did take well over an hour to fully install and set up. Check out What’s New in Mavericks below: iBooks With OS X Mavericks, a new chapter in the iBooks story begins. Now you can launch the iBooks app on your Mac and the books you’ve already…
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Nokia Unveil Six New Devices Including Nokia’s First Windows Tablet – The Lumia 2520
I’m delighted to announce that Nokia have today unveiled six new devices alongside new accessories, Nokia experiences and third-party developer applications. Nokia introduced its first ever Windows tablet, the Nokia Lumia 2520, and launched a portfolio of large screen Lumia smartphones: the Lumia 1520 and 1320. Three new Asha models – including the first 3G device in the Asha Platform family of smartphones – deliver industry leading design, new vibrant colors and a more intuitive user interface, all at an accessible price. Building on Nokia’s industry-leading innovation in imaging, the latest range of Lumia and Asha products enables people to capture and share the world around them like never before.…
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Cycloramic Studio 360 Panorama – Temporarily Free
Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) and whom I should be meeting tomorrow at Apps World, described Cyclormaic as ”Unexpected, fanciful and useful all at the same time!” If you haven’t picked it up yet, then today is a good time to do so. It’s currently free, instead of $1.99/£1.49. Download it here.
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Retromatic HD 2.0 – Temporary Price Drop
‘Retromatic provides 18 original retro-style filters, 17 background images and over 70 authentic retro-style ornaments. All these images aim to reflect a social atmosphere of early 20th century’. Usually this app retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for only $1.99/£1.49/download.
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Samsung Opens Pop-Up Space In London’s Portobello Road
Samsung Mobile UK today announced a network of retail collaborations across West London’s fashion, beauty, food and lifestyle communities, to mark the opening of its new temporary pop-up space, the Samsung Galaxy Studio, located on Portobello Road. From tomorrow, members of the public will have the chance to visit the Samsung Galaxy Studio, and experience for themselves Samsung’s brand new mobile devices – the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Gear, Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 edition) and Galaxy Tab 3 Kids. Visitors to London’s Portobello Road between Saturday 19th October – Sunday 24th November, will have the opportunity to see the new range of Galaxy devices, perhaps for the first…
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Streets Ahead Interview: Vivi Hanson Sacerdote
This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is pleased and honored to feature Vivi Hanson Sacerdote in our interview segment. For those of you who follow Vivi on the various Social Media Platforms, you’ll know her as Veevs. Vivi is recent convert to street photography. And we think that she brings an interesting artistic perspective to this genre. Vivi doesn’t follow any traditional rules, conventions or aesthetics for street photography. Instead, she uses images from the street as the foundation for digital painting… and her results are truly beautiful! We hope you enjoy learning more about Vivi… and when you’ve finished reading this article, we highly recommend…
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Distressed FX – Temporarily Free
Distressed FX is a hugely popular app for iPhone photography and one that we have mentioned many times on theappwhisperer.com, not least in Lee Atwell’s beautiful ‘A Picture’s Worth’ article that we published here. It has been used (among other apps) in the edit below. Distressed FX usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today it is free. Click here to download.
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Competition – Photo Ambassador for 2014 – Mobile!
Following a survey commissioned by Celebrity Cruises* that a staggering 67% of people now take pictures on their mobile on holiday, the leading luxury cruise company has launched a search – alongside worldwide known and award-winning photographers – for the best travel photo ever taken on a smartphone. Surprisingly, Samsung is the leader in the mobile camera market with a 24% share of the overall market – 4% of those questioned were more likely to use the brand over an iPhone. Despite the much-hyped recent launch of the Lumia 925, Nokia and HTC proved the least popular at 6% each. The dominance of Facebook and Twitter seems to be a…
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Streets Ahead – Twenty Second Edition
Welcome to the twenty second edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general. So, if…
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ProCamera HD – Temporary Price Drop
ProCamera HD is a renown app for your iPad, we’ve published several great tutorials about it in the past, if you’ve missed those, please go here. Usually ProCamera HD retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today you can pick it up for just $0.99/£0.69 – click here to download.
