Apple App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012
Apple today announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. The App Store has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Apple’s incredible developer community has created over 775,000 apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users worldwide, and developers have been paid over seven billion dollars by Apple. “It has been an incredible year for the iOS developer community,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “Developers have made over seven billion dollars on the App Store, and we continue to invest in providing them…
Hipstamatic Releases New Tintype SnapPak
This is a brand new in-app purchase from the developers of Hipstamatic. It comes complete with the Tinto 1884 Lens, the D-Type Plate Film and C-Type Plate film for $0.99/£0.69. Ryan Dorshorst, Co-founder of Hipstamatic describes the creation of this new pack, thus: “I’m super stoked for us to release the new Tintype SnapPak, and wanted to give you all a little insight into how it works. The team has been obsessed over the last few months with tintype photography, so Aravind (our creative director) and I sat down recently and tried to figure out how we could bring it to Hipstamatic. Some of the key components with tintypes are…
Photo Slideshow Director HD – Temporarily Free
Photo Slideshow Director is a HD photo slideshow app that lets you use your iPad to organize your digital photos from camera roll, Instagram, Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive,Picasa web albums,Facebook photo albums, Flickr photo sets and create eye-catching slideshow in minutes. It’s an idea tool for you to share your great shots with family and friends on big screen HDTV with iPad, it is also a great software for you to present your business photos quickly and easily. This app usually retails for $3.99/£2.49 but today it’s free. Click here to download.
Gray’s Anatomy – Easy To Laugh
I can hardly believe that it’s Friday again, but it is and it seems to come round faster every week. Richard Gray has sent through his regular Friday post for his column ‘Gray’s Anatomy’. This week Richard discusses the influx of images uploaded to Instragam and considers whether quantity is really any match for quality. Over to you Richard (Foreword by Joanne Carter). “You may have already seen the hilarious youtube sensation (no not Gangham style) to poke fun at some of the cliched images and lack of originality on Instagram. Set to Nickelback’s Photograph song, if you haven’t, click here, you’ll see it, in all its mocking glory,…
Etchings – Updated
Etchings is a popular app for iOS photography enabling you to create etched illustrations from any image. It has just been updated to high resolution, up to 3300×3300. There’s also a ‘luscious’ new iPad UI and output and speed improvements. As well as all that, there are four new base filters, Matcha, Sedona, Nocturne and Lumen. There’s a Florence FX Pack with six beautiful new effects too available for purchase. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69.
ProCamera – Temporary Price Drop
ProCamera is an excellent app for mobile photographers and is currently sporting a lower price of only $0.99/£0.69 instead of the more usual $1.99/£1.49. We’ve published several tutorials on this app to help you make the most of it, if you’ve missed those you can read them here. If you would like to download ProCamera at this low rate today, just click here.
ShutterSnitch – Updated
ShutterSnitch is a great app allowing you to wirelessly transfer images to your iPad from your Eye-Fi card, PTP/IP enabled device or a Canon, Nikon or other file transmitter that supports uploading to an FTP server over your wireless network. This app has just been updated with WebDAV added to locations as well as the addition of a setting to show the network SSID in the status bar. There’s also the facility to sort the filmstrip on rating too now. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $15.99/£10.99 and you can download/update it here. …
PhotoStamps – Temporarily Free
PhotoStamps is a very popular way to ‘watermark’ your iOS images in a unique way. This app usually retails for $1.99/£1.49 but it is currently going free. Click here to download and give it a try.
12 Days Of Christmas – Free Apple App – Now Available – UK And Canadian Stores Only
Last year Apple released this great app for the Christmas holidays. It’s a free app that provides free content each day from December 26 to January 8. We announced each giveaway as soon as it went live at midnight and if you were following us then you would of enjoyed plenty of goodies such as free episodes of The Big Bang Theory and Mad Men, music videos and tons of music from the likes of Kings of Leon. This latest version of the app is specifically for European and Canadian iTunes customers. Click here to download the UK version Click here to download the Canadian version and we’ll keep you…
Booster! – Temporarily Free
Misskiwi the developers of this app are often reducing the price of it or dropping it entirely for a while and that’s what’s going on right now. Usually it retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can grab it for free. Click here to do so.
