A Day In The Life Of Lisa Waddell – A Most Inspirational And Talented Flower iPhone Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting new column on theappwhisperer.com, this section is entitled ‘A day in the life of …’ and we’ll be taking a look some hugely influential and interesting people in the mobile app world. Ones that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our twelfth installment to our new series, you can read the others here, if you have missed them so far. Kicking us off today is Lisa Waddell. A Special Educational Needs Teacher from Houston, Texas in the United States. Lisa lives with her husband, father-in-law and Sam, the cutest Boston Terrier ever created! Lisa’s work is extraordinary, botanical in a…
Facebook Buys Instagram
So, would you Adam and Eve it? Mark Zuckerberg let it slip earlier today that Facebook will buy out Instagram. We know that Facebook has been valued at $500bn so the $1 billion it needs to secure the deal is small fry. Mark Zuckerberg declared his excitement on his Timeline when he said, ‘I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook. For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences…
Android – Instagram – Updated
No sooner has it launched and notched up over 1 million downloads on its first day but its now also had an update. Despite many iOS users up in arms over Android ‘trespassing’ on their Instagram territory, those poor Android guys had enough to contend with anyway. Reports were flooding in of camera related crashes, file not found errors, images too small, search not working on HTC devices and many more. Well, they’ve fixed all those now guys, so get uploading, we really want to see your Instagram images. Come on iOS guys, share! Just go here to either download for the first time, or update Instagram for Android. If…
A Day In The Life Of Vincenzo Truden aka Vince Truden – A Truly Inspirational Mobile Street Photographer
Welcome to our exciting new column on theappwhisperer.com, this section is entitled ‘A day in the life of …’ and we’ll be taking a look some hugely influential and interesting people in the mobile app world. Ones that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our sixth installment to our new series, you can read the others here, if you have missed them so far. Kicking us off today is Vincenzo Truden aka Vince Truden. Vincenzo lives in Turin, Italy and for a living is a computer technician in the public service. He is a casual photographer who built up his photographic experience by photographing many…
Android – The Rise of Instagram
As we’ve been reporting for a while now, Instagram for Android is definitely enroute. Kevin Systrom co-founder of Instagram reportedly said at this years SXSW ‘in some ways, it’s better than our iOS version’, and we all know how popular that is. Well, we are still not exactly sure when Instagram for Android will be rolling out but we do know that a new ‘sign up’ page has popped up. It’s not entirely clear what you’re signing up for, whether it’s a simple mail list or perhaps early access but we are pretty excited about it as it definitely points to Instagram for Android happening sooner rather than later. If…
A Day In The Life Of Lene Basma – Another Incredibly Talented iPhone Photographer
Welcome to our exciting new column on theappwhisperer.com, this section is entitled ‘A day in the life of …’ and we’ll be taking a look some hugely influential and interesting people in the mobile app world. Ones that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our third installment to our new series, we previously published ‘A Day In The Life Of Ernesto Diaz’, if you missed that you can read it here and ‘A Day In The Life Of Veevs’, you can read that here. Kicking us off today is Lene Basma another iPhone photographer that has caught our attention because of her thrilling and quite…
iPhone – Hipstamatic – The Caring Sharing Update
Wonderful news, Hipstamatic has now been updated allowing you to share your awesome HipstaPrints directly to Instagram, there’s also a brand new HipstaShare system. Users can now easily swipe and zoom through their HipstaPrints and share to multiple photo networks at once. You can also tag your friends in Facebook and view the history of where your image was taken and where it was shared too. This is exactly the kind of update that Hipstamatic needed, this is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not you can download it here, it retails for $1.99/£1.49/download.
iOS – Instagram – Updated
Instagram has been updated again today and it’s all the better for it, it’s much faster to startup, there’s also fixes for email sharing and a few other bug fixes. If you haven’t downloaded Instagram before you can do so here, it’s free as is the update of course.
Instagram Coming Soon To Android
As we’ve been reporting for some time now, Instagram is porting to Android and following co-founder of Instagram, Kevin Systroms comments over SXSW weekend, it is going to happen very soon. Systrom demoed the app briefly on stage at SXSW, not the full walk-through as they’re not quite ready for that yet. Mike Krieger, co-founder, commented that ‘folks over at Android have been pretty impressed with the way the app leverages the platform. Its taken a while to come to Android simply because the company was focused on scaling on iOS", he told TechCrunch. When asked why it has taken so long to create Instagram for Android, he went on…
iPhoneography – Instagram – Updated
This wonderful app has now got even better, this new version, 2.1 adds a new ‘Sierra’ filter and Lux which automatically brightens up your images with one tap. There’s also a redesigned UI with improved head and menu icons. This app is free, as if you didn’t know and you can pick it up here, if you have’t already, otherwise just download the free update, right now. Lux Feature Applied Before Lux Feature Applied New Sierra Filter Simplified and Improved UI The improved header and menu buttons in this release are the first steps towards making it easier to understand and interact with the app. Tappable Notifications Now, when…
