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Cinemagram – It’s Like a Moving Instagram

November 8, 2012 By Douglas Leave a Comment

There are all kinds of apps the are trying to get in on the Instagram popularity. Many apps are just knockoffs or just plain junk. Cinemagram is not one of those apps. It allows you to create a moving gif image, kind of like a very short video but in a picture format. The kewl thing is, you can have the image loop, go forward & back, or loop backwards. You can also make only part of the image move. There are some amazing and hilarious Cimemagrams. Here are a few to show you how it looks: [Read more...]

Filed Under: App Store, Cinemagram, Free, Instagram, iPhone, iPod touch, Photography

Instacube – A Living Canvas for your Instagram Photos [Kickstarter]

August 24, 2012 By Douglas Leave a Comment

I love photostream because all the photos my wife and I take get pushed to a flat screen that is hooked to our Mac mini with a screensaver displaying our photos from photostream. We had a small LCD picture frame but it fried after only a few months. The one problem with our photos is that most of them are square because we use Instagram a lot. Instacube is the solution! A decent sized, wireless, battery powered, square screen for $150. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accessories, Instagram, Photography

Hipstamatic – Update 251

April 13, 2012 By Douglas 2 Comments

I haven’t used this app lately because I have Instagram now and don’t use many other apps for photo effects. One of the recent features to be added is the ability to directly post to Instagram from Hipstamatic so I thought I’d give it a try. Here are some pictures I took: [Read more...]

Filed Under: App Store, Instagram, iPhone, iPod touch, Photography, updates Tagged With: Photography

Instagram Acquired by Facebook for $1 Billion

April 10, 2012 By Douglas Leave a Comment

Instagram recently announced it was purchased by Facebook. In their blog post the current Instagram CEO said the app will “still be the same one you know and love. You’ll still have all the same people you follow and that follow you.You’ll still be able to share to other social networks. And you’ll still have all the other features that make the app so fun and unique.” It’s been said that the sale price was $1 billion dollars. Feedback so far from the community is not so positive expecting Facebook to ruin the app/service. [Read more...]

Filed Under: facebook, Instagram, Photography Tagged With: facebook, Instagram, iPhone, iPod touch, Photography

Instagram – Photo Networking Application

April 27, 2011 By Brooke Leave a Comment

Instagram is by far my new favorite image sharing/networking app! I love everything about the application… I love that it will share images to multiple places at once (Twitter, Facebook, Email, Flickr, Tumblr, Foursquare and Posterous), I love the photo filters… they are some of the best I have seen, I love that the networking part of the app is fun and easy to use, I love how well designed the overall application is and I love that it is free! :)
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