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Streets Ahead – Thirteenth Edition
We’re delighted to publish the Thirteenth Edition of Streets Ahead, the wonderful Women’s Street Photography Column that we publish each week. If you would like to join the Streets Ahead Flickr group, please go here. ‘The enthusiasm and support for this collective has been tremendous – and we can’t thank you all enough! Our membership in the Flickr group is now over 100 and keeps growing every week. If you haven’t joined our Facebook Streets Ahead group yet, then you must! Please go here. For this week’s showcase, we thought it would be far more interesting to present a quality sampling of the work that was submitted, instead of selecting…
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The App Nerds Workshop – Let’s Talk About Social Media Platforms – By Lola Mitchell
We’re delighted to published the latest article to Lola Mitchell’s App Nerds Workshop Column. 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 submit your…
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NEM/The Hungry Ghost – ‘Void’ Competition – Reworked!
Last month we published details of the NEM and The Hungry Ghost Facebook group competition. This competition involved artists creating artwork that depicted the term ‘Void’. Sixteen artists’ works were selected and these then went to a public vote. Finally the top three were determined and their t-shirts auctioned off for charity. The charities were to be determined but recently it was annouced that Edyta Lipinska a most talented mobile photographer/artist was experiencing very difficult and expensive health issues. A fundraising appeal on Facebook has been announced to help her and Steve Cooper from The Hungry Ghost has decided to pledge the entire amount to this organisation. We all wish…
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A Day in the Life Ali Jardine – An Incredibly Creative iPhone Photographer & Artist
Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our eighty fourth installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Ali Jardine. From the moment Ali got her first iPhone in 2009, she knew that Phone photography and art was her passion. Today she shoots and edits using her iPhone 5. It is a challenge that constantly pushes her to…
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The Hungry Ghost Facebook Group Screenshow
The Hungry Ghost Facebook group set up by Steve Cooper is a hugely inspiring mobile photography/art group to me and so many others. I’ve selected some of the images and created a screenshow of them, I hope you all enjoy this. This is how Steve describes the group: “Within the world of Buddhism there is a myth about a hell-realm populated by beings whose appetites exceed their capacity for satisfaction. Their stomachs are huge but their throats are tiny. No matter how much they try to eat, their hunger remains. We are all in some sense, hungry ghosts. It doesn’t matter how much we accumulate we always seem to want…
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Twitter Adds Photo Filters To Android Mobile App – iOS Version To Follow
We knew Twitter would be launching an all out war shortly with Instagram and Facebook and this is just the start. So far only for the Android version of Twitter has updated to include photo filters. The iOS version is due to follow on shortly. Aviary are the powerhorses behind this update, very much as they were for Flickr earlier in the year. There are currently eight filters available for the Android version right now. You select a filter by comparing all your options in a convenient grid view or by swiping through each version. There’s the facility to make your photos pop with balanced light and colors by tapping…
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Facebook Paid $715 Million For Instagram
Facebook’s accountants have been busy and added up all the figures and stock and have confirmed that the final total purchase price of Instagram totals $715 million. According to thenextweb, ‘that figure was arrived at by adding the $300 million in cash that Facebook promised, and the price of 12 million vested shares of Class B common stock. This stock was given to “non-employee stockholders” – investors. Adding to the tally, Facebook has issued 11 million un-vested shares to Instagram’s employees, a pool that includes its founders. These shares will vest over a three year period. They have an “aggregate fair value of $194 million.” Adding the two together, Facebook’s final payment…
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Win A DiffCase Bundle Worth $90 With TheAppWhisperer.com
We have teamed up with DiffCase to offer four of our lucky readers an incredible prize in our latest awesome competition. Not only that, even if you’re not a winner of this stunning $90/£56 bundle, we have negotiated a special deal with 30% off their products until September 17, 2012, for all our readers that click on this link and buy through theappwhisperer/Diff store. This deal is not limited to just our readers, it can be extended to your family and friends too, so let them know about it as well. First of all let us tell you what you can win. The four individual bundles we have include one…
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Facebook For Android – Updated – Faster Photo Sharing
This new update to Facebook for Android allows for faster photo sharing, you can also add emjoi and photos into messages too. You can also add multiple images into messages too. This is definitely worth upgrading to. Facebook for Android is free to download and you can do so here.
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A Day In The Life Of Fernando Prats – An Incredibly Talented iPhone Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting new column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled ‘A day in the life of …’ and this is where we’ll be taking a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world. People that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our forty ninth installment of the series, you can read the others here if you have missed them so far. Fernando was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in Barcelona for the past ten years. He is the Creative Director of Estudi Prats and the author of countless short stories and poetry books. Fernando’s photographic…