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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,082) via Instagram

03/08/2019 by Joanne Carter

Here’s day one thousand and eighty two of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.

Today, we congratulate @clixit2020 – Clint Cline with this image, entitled ‘TRI . Five..’. Click here to view his gallery here.

To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.

To view more of her work, please go here

Mobile Photography & Art – ‘Intimate Interview’ with Deb Field from New Brunswick, Canada

25/07/201925/07/2019 by Joanne Carter

Mobile digital artist, Deb Field writes vividly, managing to convey breadth as well as depth in our thirty fourth intimate interview of this new series. Field combines easy narrative whilst simultaneously celebrating her art with a cornucopia of images opening up new vistas of imagination to inspire and delight all who view, ensuring this interview … Read moreMobile Photography & Art – ‘Intimate Interview’ with Deb Field from New Brunswick, Canada

Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,070) via Instagram

16/07/201916/07/2019 by Joanne Carter

Here’s day one thousand and seventy of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.

Today, we congratulate @diane.neubauer – Diane Neubauer with this image, entitled ‘Lost in 3D’.

To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.

To view more of her work, please go here

App Revenue Grows to 15% Globally $39 Billion in H1 2019

16/07/201916/07/2019 by Joanne Carter

Despite what you may have read from other sources, consumers spent an estimated $25.5 billion globally in the Apple App Store in the first half of 2019. Google Play’s estimated gross revenue exceeds that to $14.2 billion for the same period.

Interestingly, Tinder was the highest grossing non-game app in this period. It generated an estimated $497 million in revenue across both the Apple App Store and Google Play. This is up 32% over the same period of 2018.

Other high grossing non gaming apps include Netflix ($399 million globally estimated for Q1 and Q2), Tencent Video ($278 million), IQ1YI and YouTube. And TikTok continues to beat Instagram, claiming fourth position in the list of most downloaded apps globally.

WhatsApp, Telegram Files Could be Hacked – ‘Media File Jacking’

16/07/201916/07/2019 by Joanne Carter

‘Media File Jacking’ is the new buzzword phrase that describes a security flaw and enables hackers to manipulate images and audio files on various platforms, and in this case ‘end-to-end encryption’ apps WhatsApp and Telegram on Android. Symantec’s Modern OS Security team explained ‘neither apps have any system in place to protect users from a Media File Jacking attack’.

“If the security flaw is exploited, a malicious attacker could misuse and manipulate sensitive information such as personal photos and videos, corporate documents, invoices, and voice memos,” wrote Software Engineer Alon Gat and Yair Amit, Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, Modern OS Security, Symantec.

Image and payment manipulation are arguably the most damaging Media File Jacking threats. For example, in one of the most damaging Media File Jacking attacks, a malicious actor can manipulate an invoice sent by a vendor to a customer, to trick the customer into making a payment to an illegitimate account. As in the previous scenario, an app that appears to be legitimate but is in fact malicious, watches for PDF invoice files received via WhatsApp, then programmatically swaps the displayed bank account information in the invoice with that of the bad actor. The customer receives the invoice, which they were expecting to begin with, but has no knowledge that it’s been altered. By the time the trick is exposed, the money may be long gone. To make matters worse, the invoice hack could be broadly distributed in a non-targeted way, looking for any invoices to manipulate, affecting multiple victims who use IM apps like WhatsApp to conduct business, explained the team.

We detail below how to mitigate these threats:

Mobile Photography & Art – ‘Intimate Interview’ with Andrea Bigiarini from Florence, Italy

17/07/201916/07/2019 by Joanne Carter

Andrea Bigiarini is the founder and president of the New Era Museum. Bigiarini promotes the creation of visual art on mobile devices and creates the most spectacular multi-media exhibitions throughout the world, these have included shows in Rome, Florence, Kansas, United States and Paris France, He is based in Florence, Italy.

This is our 29th interview in this series of intimate interviews. TheAppWhisperer is the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website and we feel it is important that our community feel close to one another, as it is this support that helps us to nurture each others art, gain confidence and continue to grow.

To read the other published interviews in this series including artists, Adria Ellis, Rino Rossi, Mehmet Duyulmus, Alexis Rotella, Lou Ann Sanford Donahue, Irene Oleksiuk, Kerry Mitchell, Filiz Ak, Dale Botha, Lisa Mitchell, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago, Deborah McMillion, Rita Colantonio, Amy Ecenbarger, Jane Schultz, Anca Balaj, Joyce Harkin, Armineh Hovanesian, Kate Zari Roberts, Vicki Cooper, Peter Wilkin, Barbara Braman, Becky Menzies, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Sarah Bichachi, Michel Pretterklieber, Alon Goldsmith, Judy Lurie Whalberg and myself, go here.

All images ©Andrea Bigiarini

Mobile Photography & Art – ‘Intimate Interview’ with Alon Goldsmith from Los Angeles, California, United States

05/07/201905/07/2019 by Joanne Carter

We have decided to launch a new intimate style of interview into TheAppWhisperer – the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website. We feel it is important that our community feel close to each other, as it is this support that helps us to nurture one another, gain confidence and continue to grow.

Today, we are publishing this fresh, enlightening and accessible interview with Alon Goldsmith from Los Angeles, California. This is our twenty seventh interview, to read the other published interviews in this series including artists, Adria Ellis, Rino Rossi, Mehmet Duyulmus, Alexis Rotella, Lou Ann Sanford Donahue, Irene Oleksiuk, Kerry Mitchell, Filiz Ak, Dale Botha, Lisa Mitchell, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago, Deborah McMillion, Rita Colantonio, Amy Ecenbarger, Jane Schultz, Anca Balaj, Joyce Harkin, Armineh Hovanesian, Kate Zari Roberts, Vicki Cooper, Peter Wilkin, Barbara Braman, Becky Menzies, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Sarah Bichachi, Michel Pretterklieber and myself, go here.

All images ©Alon Goldsmith

Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,065) via Instagram

04/07/2019 by Joanne Carter

Here’s day one thousand and sixty five of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.

Today, we congratulate @micheldev – Michel with this image, entitled ‘Vlissingen’.

To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.

To view more of his work, please go here

Mobile Photography & Art – ‘Intimate Interview’ with Rino Rossi from Alba Adriatica, Italy

02/07/201902/07/2019 by Joanne Carter

This is our twenty fourth interview, to read the others, please go here. Today, we are publishing this brutally honest and endearing interview with Rino Rossi from Alba Adriatica, Italy.

Sixth New Assignment Announced ‘Recognition’ for our Forthcoming Book ‘Away with Words’

16/07/201902/07/2019 by Joanne Carter

In January we announced a brand new Assignment section to TheAppWhisperer offering an opportunity for mobile photographers and artists to enter into a monthly assignment on a subject matter that we have individually crafted. This new section is another ground breaking topic within our community. Like so many of the sections within TheAppWhisperer, has not been done before, in this way.

Photographic images have reflected and shaped culture since the inception of the medium and this is non more so apparent than shown within mobile photography and art. The power of mobile art today is inevitably entangled with the diverse tolerances that cultures have in relation to photographs and the vast divergence within different cultures too. Over the past ten years of mobile photography and art we have all experienced great controversies in the world and still, they ensue. Mobile photography is inextricably linked to personal accountability and each member of our mobile community represents a force to relation to our continually changing cultural values, whether by challenging them or reflecting them; photography is co-creating them.

At the end of each month, we will gather the images that have been contributed and select one for an immersive critique. I will personally write this with over 1000 words. Each critique will identify the elements, contextual meaning of these elements, interpretation and conclusion. Each critique will then be published not only on TheAppWhisperer, the world’s most popular mobile photography & art website but also throughout our vast social media channels. At the end of the year, we will publish a book featuring all of these critiques. As you can appreciate each critique will take some time to create well, so we ask, if you would like to take part to donate £10 per image that you submit (there is no limit to the number of images you submit), we feel this is fair. To do this, just select the appropriate allowance at the bottom of our donation section at the end of this post.

We have just published our fourth chapter entitled ‘Beauty and Awe’ with Becky Menzies’ image. To read the previous published chapters, with Rita Colantonio, Valeria Cammeria and Peter Wilkin, please go here.

Today we are announcing our sixth Assignment with the topic entitled ‘Recognition’. Creating art, photography or otherwise, is an outlet to express our emotions. This sixth assignment can be interpreted in your art literally or metaphorically, or any other interpretations you may draw, all entries are welcome. This assignment window will close on 29 July 2019, when we will announce the new one. To take part please send your image(s) to my email address – joanne@theappwhisperer.com and/or to Instagram with this hashtag #tawrecognition. Please send £10 per image to enter this assignment via the donation table below.