Tickle Your Fancy – #12
Welcome back to our twelfth 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… Robin Hammond :…
Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge With Cecily Mariece Caceu
Welcome to our Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge section of theappwhisperer.com. This is an area on our site where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers what their top five photo apps are and why. We recently published the Top Five Photo Apps as recommended by Yannick Brice , Cedric Blanchon, Irene Sneddon, our Columnist and Award Winning Mobile Artist Sarah Jarrett as well as Louise Fryer, Lisa Waddell, Davide Capponi, Ali Jardine, Clint Cline, Elaina Wilcox, France Freeman, Tess Gomm, Lola Mitchell, Vivi, Em Kachouro, Laetitia Harnie-Coussau, MaryJane Sarvis, AlyZen Moonshadow, Ginaluca Ricoveri, Jennifer Sharpe, Natali Prosvetova and David Hayes’ Top Five Photo Apps including accompanying images…
Photo Quality Check iOS App Updated And Giveaway!
Photo Quality Check is an iOS app designed to allow you to quickly check each photo’s detail and sharpness by previewing it at 100% zoom level: each photo’s pixel is matched to each display pixel, both on retina and non-retina displays. You can check the picture quality in two different ways. With tap zoom just touch your photo to zoom it to 100% and drag your finger to pan around, quickly checking every detail. With pinch zoom you can magnify your photo up to 100%. This holds the zoom level so that you can analyze a particular detail without having to keep your finger on the image. With the image…
PictureBook – ‘Bitter gifts and TakenTreats’ – By Benamon Tame
We’re delighted to publish Benamon’s 26th article to his PictureBook column with us and once again, it is outstanding, gushing with creativity and imagery both in pictures and words, don’t miss this. The concept behind the PictureBook column is not just about capturing stories but creating them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from Benamon’s own story series and also looks at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Over to you Benamon (foreword by Joanne Carter)… ‘Bitter Gift and Taken Treats’ – ©Benamon Tame Frith started to pace, his hands open and closing while the second set that…
LoryStripes – New iOS Photo App From The Developers Of Tangent
The photo app development team at Pixite LLC, the makers of the Editor’s Choice photo effects app Tangent, in partnership with Italian architect and designer Laurent Rosset, are proud to announce the next musthave photo effects app, LoryStripes for iPhone. Designed to elegantly personalize any photo, LoryStripes approach is oneofakind. Users enhance images by adding beautifully crafted ribbons and lines, or Stripes, drawing out elements in the photo while adding elegance and zing to it. Professional graphic artists have used similar techniques in advertising and artwork, but this is the first time these techniques are accessible to artists and nonartists alike. The LoryStripes experience is simple as well as delightful.…
Streets Ahead – Twenty Fourth Edition
Welcome to the twenty fourth edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general. So, if…
Apple Announces iPad Air and Upto 128 GB Storage
Apple yesterday announced iPad Air, the latest generation of its category-defining device, featuring a 9.7-inch Retina display in a thinner and lighter design and weighing just one pound. The new iPad model features the powerful and power-efficient Apple-designed A7 chip with 64-bit desktop-class architecture, ultrafast wireless with faster built-in Wi-Fi and expanded LTE cellular connectivity, and iOS 7 featuring hundreds of great new features. “iPad created an entirely new mobile computing experience, and the new iPad Air is another big leap ahead,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “It is so thin, light and powerful, once you hold one in your hand you will understand what…
OS X Mavericks Available Free from the Mac App Store
As we’re sure you’ve all heard by now yesterday, whilst we were at AppsWorld, Apple announced some great new products and updates including the 10th major release of ‘the world’s most advanced desktop operating system’ – OS X Mavericks. We’ve been busy installing it on all our machines this morning and despite a few discrepancies, all seems good, so far, although it did take well over an hour to fully install and set up. Check out What’s New in Mavericks below: iBooks With OS X Mavericks, a new chapter in the iBooks story begins. Now you can launch the iBooks app on your Mac and the books you’ve already…
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AppsWorld – Day One
Yay!! The first day of Apps World Europe is about to begin and we’ll be on our way shortly. 12,000 pre-registered for the show so we’re expecting it to be quite busy. We have a full schedule of appointments and meetings lined up for the day and will also enjoy a Google Glass presentation as well as keynotes from Steve Wozniak, co-founder Apple, Trey Hawkins founder of EA. There’s the Appssters awards which will be held at the trendy Roof Gardens in Kensington with Simon Evans, Comedian, presenting and lots lots more. It promises to be a full and very enjoyable day. If you’re attending and would like to meet…
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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…
