Forget 8-megapixel pictures and HDR — if you want photos that instantly look cool, then it’s time to take a step back… all the way back to the eighties. Camera C64 is a free iPhone app that helps you relive the days when the Commodore C64 was considered cutting-edge technology by delivering authentic 16-color photos that are almost guaranteed to look good.
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Repix Gives Your iPhone Photos a Fantastic New Look 2
March 19th at 9:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsTired of using Instagram to spruce up your smartphone photos? Meet Repix, a free iOS app that lets you remix your snapshots by "painting" on them using different preset brushes. The app comes with a number of free built-in brushes, including a "Cartoonize" brush for turning your photo into a cartoon and a "Charcoal" brush for making it a drawing.
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Photo Sharing App Pictorious Adds Branded Photo Challenges And Photo Showdown 0
April 24th at 3:04pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsPictorious is a photo sharing startup that is faced with the unenviable task of crawling its way out of Instagram’s gigantic shadow. Today they’re releasing a bevy of updates to their iOS app, which will hopefully help it mount a better challenge against the photo sharing juggernaut.
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Hands-On With The Week's Top Apps 0
May 12th at 11:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsLots of great new apps launched this week. Disney released Story, a new app that uses the location and time stamp on photos you take with your iPhone to instantly create a digital storybook based on different events. Zynga released a new game in its "With Friends" series called Running With Friends, an infinite running game that has you compete against friends to see how long you can survive, and Flipboard updated its Android app, bringing support for magazines and other content to the platform.
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Instafeed Lets Instagram Addicts Create Custom Photo Feeds 0
June 7th at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWant to check out Instagrams from celebrities, artists, brands, or specific topics without cluttering your main feed? Instafeed’s free iOS app lets you build and browse custom feeds of Instagram accounts or enjoy pre-curated feeds in a bunch of categories.
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Top iOS apps and games go free ahead of App Store's fifth anniversary 1
July 8th at 10:09am / The Verge / 0 opinionsA host of highly regarded apps for iPhone and iPad have gone free today in what could be a major celebration to mark five years since Apple launched the App Store. So far, games such as Infinity Blade II, Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, Where's My Water?, Badland and Tiny Wings are all on offer for nothing, alongside apps such as Traktor DJ, Day One, Over, and Barefoot World Atlas....
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Hands-on: Loom makes it increasingly tempting to ditch iPhoto and Photo Stream 1
July 26th at 5:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsThere are many services bidding for the chance to store and share our digital memories. Apple’s Photo Stream, Flickr, Instagram, 500px, Everpix, and many more all pitch various ways to hold and showcase your photographs, but all do so slightly differently—and not always successfully....
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I tried 5 photo apps to help you look more beautiful online. Are they better than plastic surgery? 1
August 16th at 5:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsI always thought it was unfair how so many people look gorgeous in all their photos on Facebook or Instagram — flawless skin, bright eyes and sparkling teeth — while my photos mostly featured a shiny face and ultimately a not-very-glamourous me. But now I think I know why....
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First look: Sony's iPhone-compatible QX10 and QX100 Cyber-shot lenses 2
September 4th at 9:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsSony held an event in New York on Wednesday to give members of the press their first hands-on with its new iPhone-compatible QX10 and QX100 high-quality camera lenses. AppleInsider was on-hand for a first look at the new accessories.
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The Hero3+ is GoPro’s smallest and lightest action camera yet 1
October 1st at 12:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsGoPro has launched its new Hero3+ line of cameras that are 20 percent smaller and lighter, and have 30 percent better battery life than previous models. The latest cameras also have an improved lens and new video capture modes, making it “the most advanced and easy-to-use GoPro, yet,” the company says....
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Capture 3D Photos on Your iPhone With This App 1
October 26th at 8:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsSeene, a free app developed by tech company Obvious Engineering, uses "scene reconstruction technology" to give your iPhone the ability to capture 3D photos.
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Space-Saving iCloud Alternative Loom Now Syncs & Stores Video, Too 0
December 12th at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsLoom, a simple but well-built photo-sharing app targeting the mainstream, has been focused on building something of an iCloud alternative which also helps users to free up disk space on their smartphones or iPads. Today, it's taking another step closer to that larger goal with the introduction of video support in Loom. Before, the app was able to store, optimize and sync photos between devices…
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Nine photo collage iOS apps that help you bridge the snap gap 0
December 5th at 4:00am / Macworld / 0 opinionsThere are snapshots and photo albums, but it seems like there’s nothing in between—at least for still images. Except, that’s not true....
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Fleksy gesture-based keyboard SDK now available to all iOS developers 0
February 20th at 6:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsJust over two months after launching a new SDK for their gesture-based keyboard into beta, Fleksy on Thursday announced that the free program is now open to all developers and that a slew of new apps have come on board.
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A-List Investors, 1 Million Downloads: Is Selfie App 'Shots' For Real? 3
April 13th at 4:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThere are two days that Shots CEO John Shahidi says he will never forget. The first happened in December of 2011, when Shahidi was still running the mobile gaming company RockLive. He woke up to find one of his company's top mobile games, Heads Up, had crashed inexplicably. After quickly scanning Twitter to see what the game's users were saying, he found the problem. See also: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time Justin Bieber had played the game and posted his top score on Twitter.
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Facebook’s Slingshot Challenges Snapchat With ‘Reply To Unlock’ 0
June 17th at 9:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsFacebook wants to break the “1% Rule” of Internet culture that says a tiny fraction of users create the content for everyone else. So after a momentary leak last week, today Facebook officially launches Slingshot for iOS and Android, an app where friends send you photos and videos, but you have to reply with your own before you can see them. “Everyone is a creator and no one is…
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Overswipe’s Photo App Makes It Safe To Hand Over Your Phone 3
July 25th at 7:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThere are a number of third-party applications that offer up a “secret folder” on your iPhone for hiding certain, ahem, private photos from prying eyes. But most of these require a bit of photo management to take place first – you have to import your photos into the app, then delete the original from the Photo Stream. A new app called Overswipe takes a different approach.
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EyeEm iOS Update Makes It Easier To Choose Your Best Shot 0
September 17th at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsPhoto-sharing service EyeEm has released an update to its iOS app that brings some niceties to the camera and camera roll interfaces. The changes make it easier to see which photos are worth uploading and to get them up with fewer taps and swipes.
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Snapchat partners with Square to debut Snapcash money transfers 1
November 18th at 12:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn a surprise announcement on Monday, ephemeral photo and video messaging service Snapchat unveiled Snapcash, a person-to-person payments platform powered by Square.
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Prezi Launches Nutshell, An App To Turn Photos Into ‘Mini-Movies’ 1
February 10th at 3:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsPrezi’s online presentation software already offers a popular alternative to creating otherwise tedious and visually uninspiring PowerPoint presentations, but now it seems the startup wants in on the consumer ‘video’ sharing trend. Taking the same dynamic zooming tech used to spruce up Prezi presentations, the company has created a new app called Nutshell.
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IFTTT's streamlined 'Do' apps get Apple Watch treatment, iPad support 0
April 16th at 2:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsPopular Web-based productivity tool If This Then That on Wednesday announced Apple Watch support for its one-touch workflow activation apps Do Button and Do Note, as well as iPad compatibility for all three titles in the "Do" apps collection.
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Adobe Creative Cloud adds Android apps, stock photo service 0
June 16th at 7:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsAdobe is finally beginning to bring its Android offerings up to date.
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Yahoo’s Audio-Free Video Messaging App Livetext Is Now Available Worldwide 1
August 14th at 7:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIf you were intrigued by Livetext, the audio-free video messaging app launched by Yahoo last month, but don’t live in the U.S. or the handful of test markets where it was available, then we have good news for you. The app is now live worldwide, which means anyone with an iOS and Android device can get hold of it.
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5 can't-miss apps: Hipstamatic, Kibo, InstaSnoop and more 1
October 4th at 6:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes Hipstamatic's new reboot, a balloon-themed "endless floater" game and an app to help you stealthily browse Instagram
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You can now reply to individual story snaps in Snapchat 0
November 21st at 5:49am / The Verge / 0 opinionsSnapchat quietly dropped an update last night that makes its chat feature a lot more interesting. Now, when viewing a snap in someoneâs story, you can swipe upward to send that user a direct chat message. The original poster receives a notification and can hop into a private message thread tied directly to the original snap....