A Day In The Life Of Lars Rehm – A Talented Mobile Photographer With High Tech Edge
Welcome to our very exciting interview 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 and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our ninety ninth installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Lars Rehm; Lars has an academic background in Supply Chain and Logistics but in 2007 decided that optimizing the European Logistics Industry was a futile task and joined the editorial team at dpreview.com as a camera reviewer.…
Mobile Photographer Interview – A Day In The Life Of Ioannis Sidiropoulos/devine1225aaa – An Artist With True Vision
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 ninety sixth installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Ioannis Sidiropoulos also known as devine1225aa on Flickr and Instagram. Ioannis describes himself as a Greek born amateur artist, a dreamer, a romantic insane who is desperately looking to find tranquility in sinister worlds and circumstances. He explains that art…
Instagram – Updated With Instagram Direct!
Instagram was updated last night (GMT) with a brand new photo messaging service – similar to Snapchat. Instagram Direct allows you to send images and videos directly through the app to other people. There’s no ‘chat’ facility per se, it’s more about sending a singular image or video and then chatting about it. A photo or video is required to start a new conversation but up to 15 members can discuss the same media. When you open Instagram, you’ll now see a new icon in the top right corner of your home feed. Tap it to open your inbox where you’ll see photos and videos that people have sent to…
iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘Social Media Sharing For Mobile Photographers’ By Paul Brown
We’re delighted to publish Paul Brown’s Social Media Sharing workflow tutorial for mobile photographers – it’s an area that we all either take for granted or know not enough about, hopefully for the latter of our readers, it will be all the more clearer after reading this. We have published several of Paul Brown’s workflows recently. Please take a look at our Paul Brown archive here. Over to you Paul (foreword by Joanne Carter)… “iPhone photography and social media very often go hand in hand. Many iPhoneography apps have built in social sharing functionality. In some cases the social media capability far exceeds the photographic functionality of the…
Instagram Coming To Windows Phone Very Soon
Today at Nokia World: Abu Dhabi, Nokia debuted a wide range of third-party applications to enhance the Asha and Lumia experiences. DreamWorks Animation, Flipboard, Electronic Arts, Vine and WhatsApp are among leading developers who have built new applications for the latest larger screen Lumia devices and intuitive Asha phones, including Nokia’s first tablet, which were also launched at Nokia World today. Perhaps the one we’re most excited about is Instagram arriving to Windows Phone in the next few weeks but there are plenty of other apps to get excited about, including Flipboard, Vine, EA Sports and many more. We just announced that Nokia has also unveiled six new devices including…
Find Pope Francis On Instagram
Well, not many people know, or at least they didn’t until huffingtonpost.com published a feature that Pope Francis has an account on Instagram. It’s been kept low-key to date but the Catholic News Service has reported ‘after a trial run of several months, the Vatican Instagram is set to become one of News.va’s main platforms for social media communication.’ Pope Francis is very popular on Twitter, take a look at @Pontifex and you’ll see that it’s currently sporting 3,062,959 followers. He appears to tweet daily, with posts like this: ‘Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy’. ‘Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring…
Instagram and Vine Affected By Amazon Server Glitch
Instagram, Twitter’s Vine as well as AirBnB suffered outages and slowdowns yesterday, all their web servers are run by Amazon Web Services. Instagram and Vine tweeted their understanding of the situation, acknowledging that some users were unable to load their images/videos. All sites are now working again, although Instagram and AirBnB are a little slow.
Instagram For iOS and Android – Updated To V. 4.1
Just over a month ago, Instagram launched Video on Instagram and we also launched our Mobile Movies flickr group to coincide with that – please go here to check it out send us your movies for consideration in our Mobile Movies showcase each week, see here for more information on that. The latest version of Instagram now allows you to upload videos from your phone’s media library and share those moments to Instagram regardless of when they were captured. Once you select the video clip that you want to import, you can trim it down to the specific part you like the best. You can also choose how you square-crop…
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…
Gray’s Anatomy – ‘So Many Platforms, So Little Time’ – By Richard Gray
It’s Friday, so that means it’s Gray’s Anatomy! Each Friday, Richard Gray graces us with his humorous mobile photography column, Gray’s Anatomy and this week Richard humorously expresses his frustrations with platforms. Whether this is weather induced, who knows… we’ll let you decide but you’re sure to enjoy this. Over to you Richard (forward by Joanne Carter). My head is spinning. And it’s not because of the heatwave we’re having in the UK at the moment. I’ve just come back from a small visit to Google+. I’d been looking for the digital whereabouts of France Freeman who was recently featured on the App Whisperer. I loved her Slow Shutter…
