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Tickle Your Fancy – #13 – NSFW
Welcome back to our thirteenth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… ©Shauna:Sean Lee Photo…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #10 – NSFW
Welcome back to our tenth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… ‘Healing Sgt. Warren’…
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‘Paper’ iPad App Partners With Moleskin – Raises $15m
A very interesting article published by Stuart Dredge for The Guardian this afternoon discusses the developers behind the uber popular app, Paper, FiftyThree in which in their latest Series A funding, they raised $15m and ‘explicitly outlined ambitions for “moving beyond touch and into the physical world of accessories” – drawing on its team’s hardware experience within Microsoft (Kinect, Xbox and the never-launched Courier) and Sonos’. ‘In 2013, FiftyThree has been taking Paper’s digital charms into the physical world. Earlier this year, it created a customised version of the app for the Fashion Rules exhibition at Kensington Palace in London, helping visitors design their own dresses while gazing at real royal…
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Vintage The Guardian Smartphone Article, by Me
As many of our regular readers know, I have been a camera/photography technology journalist for many years. From my earliest days starting out at Which Camera? magazine through to now with my dream website, theappwhisperer.com. I thought some of you might like to read one of my very first articles for The Guardian, from 2005, when ‘cameraphones’ were becoming very popular. This is four years before the advent of the iPhone and apps were not even thought of. Did any of you have these handsets? How times move on, take a look at this….
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iPhone Photography Masterclass
The Guardian are hosting an iPhone Photography Masterclass with Richard Gray at their offices Kings Place, London, N1 9GU on 24 September 2012 between 7-10.30 pm. Notes from The Guardian explain that ‘This masterclass will take you through the key developments and features of the mobile photography world and it will give you an insight into some of the key apps and techniques that make the genre so exciting and accessible. The guest speakers are leading proponents in specialist areas of iphoneography: event photography, candid street portraiture and landscapes. Together, the speakers will give a comprehensive overview of trends and techniques in mobile photography today. Richard Gray: The UK’s first…
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iOS Apps Affected By Corruption In The App Store
My pal, Charles Arthur has just published to The Guardian that ‘more than 70 apps which have been updated since 3 July are crashing on launch, apparently due to a problem with Apple’s FairPlay DRM system’. Charles explains ‘Scores of apps, including the free version of Angry Birds, which have been updated in Apple’s App Store for both iOS and Macs over the past few days are suffering corruption that makes them crash on launch, even when they are deleted and reinstalled’. The Guardian did manage to get a response from Apple but only suffice to say they were looking into it. You can read more about what Charles has…
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The Guardian Comes To iPad
Of course I am biased, I write for The Guardian Apps Blog afterall, but this long awaited iPad version is truly magnificent. It’s a free download from the App Store, or at least this app gives you access to 86 issues for free, after that there’s a monthly subscription charge of $13.99 in the US or £9.99 in the UK. There will be six issues available everyweek, The Guardian is not published on Sundays by the way. Click here to download this app for free. The app is nicely laid out with thirteen sections to choose from. You don’t have to swipe all over the place with this app, just…
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Waste Of Time Using App Downloads As A Measure Of Success
Our pal Stuart Dredge has written an interesting piece in The Guardian Apps blog today, he talks about how ‘the mobile apps industry is suffering from ‘download-milestone overkill’. By that he explains that developers and publishers are more than happy to boast about how many times their apps have been downloaded and yet analysts and even the store owners themselves are only using downloads as a key metric to gauge success, in other words, they’re only a guide to potential success. You can read more of this interesting report by clicking here.
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The Guardian Now On Android
Call me biased for loving The Guardian, I do write for their Apps Blog after all, but most will agree it’s a great paper and now not wanting to be outdone by the iOS version any longer, it’s now available for your Android device. News, sport, comment and more; highly customizable and available on and offline. The Guardian Android app delivers all the latest content from guardian.co.uk to your phone or tablet. Read today’s news, sport, comment and reviews, watch video, listen to podcasts and browse stunning picture galleries while on the move. This app is free and you can download it here. Features – navigate by section, topic or…
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App Developers Withdraw From US As Patent Fears Mount
My friend and colleague Charles Arthur, Technology Editor at The Guardian has posted an insightful article on the Apps blog section of The Guardian relating to patent fears reaching ‘tipping point’ in the US. Charles says, "App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market for fear of being sued by companies which own software patents – just as a Mumbai-based company has made a wide-ranging claim against Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo and a number of other companies over Twitter-Style feeds, for which it claims it has applied for a patent’. You can read the full article on The…
