Fairphone releases open version of Android 6
Today Fairphone has released Fairphone Open, an open version of Android 6 Marshmallow, to its users. This version of Android has publically available source code and does not have pre-installed Google Mobile Services (GMS), while the standard Fairphone OS comes with these popular services. Fairphone Open gets the same support, regular updates and security fixes as the regular Fairphone OS. Fairphone also announced a partnership with Qwant, the European search engine that protects its users privacy. Fairphone aims to include the search engine on the Fairphone 2. Based in France, Qwant provides an ethical and comprehensive search engine that does not collect any personal information. Giving choice to our community…
‘Brought To Light’ – Mobile Photography / Art Interview with Catherine Caddigan from the US
Our ‘Brought to Light‘ interview section explores the mobile photographers and mobile artists behind their art. Each question has been carefully crafted and is designed to allow us to get to know them a little more intimately. To view others that we have published in this series, please go here. Today we are featuring Catherine Caddigan, from the United States. Caddigan is an experienced photographer and artist with a strong belief in the transformative power of photography and art. Creativity, has Caddigan bravely reveals within our intimate interview, helped her to become a better human being and mother. Many people describe tragedy as creating a shift like presence, it changes…
‘One Day Odyssey’ Mobile Photography & Art Challenge with Lisa Mitchell from England, UK
On 30th May 2017, we launched a new Challenge, relevant to all genres of mobile photography and art. A Challenge like no other, as our main requirement is for you to spend at least seven hours, taking or creating mobile images. The idea of this is project is that you take yourself on a journey and spend all day taking mobile photographs and/or creating mobile art. Not only does this give each viewer a wonderful series of images to enjoy, it’s against the backdrop of knowledge that you gave this day to yourselves and that fills us with immense joy. Please keep sending them through and we will feature each…
Mobile Photography and Art – A Picture’s Worth with Rino Rossi from Italy
‘A Picture’s Worth‘… is where we ask mobile photographers that have created powerful mobile photography/art to explain the processes they took. This includes their initial thoughts as to what they wanted to create, why they wanted to create it, how they created it, including all apps used and what they wanted to convey. We also ask these incredible artists to explain their emotions and how the image projects those feelings. We have published a few A Picture’s Worth articles recently, if you have missed those – please go here. In this ‘A Picture’s Worth’ today we asked Rino Rossi to tell us more about his image featured here entitled “Shape…
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (580) via Instagram
Here’s day five hundred and eighty of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @mae_mcmlxxv, with this breathtaking image entitled ‘The M-files’. Please view more of her images here. [Please visit our Artist Directory and find out how we can add you too!] While you’re here… ….we have a small favour to ask. More people than ever are reading TheAppWhisperer.com and we…
Latest Apple iPad Pro 10.5 inch Review via iMore
I want to thank Susan Murtaugh for sending me a link to this fabulous and it really is, review of the Apple iPad 10.5″ via iMore. In this review the author compares many features of the previous models with regards, display, speed -chipsets, connectivity, cameras, video, apps and accessories. The author is Rene Ritchie from Montreal and I will definitely make a point to get to know him better. I will attach a link to his full review. In the meantime, Murtaugh is crafting a dedicated iPad review for us, specifically relating to Mobile Art, of which she is of course renowned. As soon as we have that, we will…
Mobile Photography and Art – A Picture’s Worth with Tricia Dewey from Texas, US
‘A Picture’s Worth‘… is where we ask mobile photographers that have created powerful mobile photography/art to explain the processes they took. This includes their initial thoughts as to what they wanted to create, why they wanted to create it, how they created it, including all apps used and what they wanted to convey. We also ask these incredible artists to explain their emotions and how the image projects those feelings. We have published a few A Picture’s Worth articles recently, if you have missed those – please go here. In this ‘A Picture’s Worth’ today we asked Tricia Dewey to tell us more about her image featured here. Dewey has…
Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead Interview – Karen Axelrad – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (StreetsAhead) is pleased and honoured to feature Karen Axelrad in our interview segment by our co-editor of this group, Cara Gallardo Weil. Thank you both for this, our readers are going to love it! (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I highly recommend a visit to Karen’s gallery on flickr and her instagram account where you will see some of her other work as well as her street photography”. www.flickr.com/photos/karenaxe/ www.instagram.com/iphotami/ Selfie at the Belvedere in Vienna ©Karen Axelrad Please tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do. Have you always been interested in photography? I grew up in…
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (579) via Instagram
Here’s day five hundred and seventy nine of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @wphotonick, with this breathtaking image. Please view more of her images here. [Please visit our Artist Directory and find out how we can add you too!]
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Showcase – 11 June 2017
“The only people who can still strike us as normal are those we don’t yet know very well. The best cure for love is to get to know them better“, speaks Alain de Botton in his book ‘The Course of Love’, that I have been reading this week and highly recommend. There’s true warmth and wit in this book. “Infatuations aren’t delusions. That way they have of holding their head may truly indicate someone confident, wry, and sensitive; they really may have the humor and intelligence implied by their eyes and the tenderness suggested by their mouth. The error of the infatuation is more subtle: a failure to keep in…
