If you have albums and shoeboxes stuffed with old photos, a startup called Photomyne wants to help you scan those photos, in order to bring them online where they can be saved and shared. Now the Tel Aviv-based company has raised $2.6 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business, which today is closing in on its first million users, over half of whom are paying…
1000Memories, the startup that’s helping consumers get their old-fashioned printed photos online, is bringing its ShoeBox mobile application to the Android platform today, while also rolling out a completely revamped version of its iOS app. Both apps allow you to scan your old photographs simply by snapping a photo of them using your smartphone’s camera. Once scanned, the photos can be organized into virtual “shoeboxes,” which can then be shared with others or posted to Facebook.
iPhone apps that'll make your new photographs look old are nothing new. But what about taking your old photos and turning them high-tech? ShoeBox is looking to help preserve memories — the shoebox of photos we've all got stashed under our beds and in our attics — by letting you use the iPhone's decidedly excellent camera to shoot the old pictures, crop them, annotate them, and upload them to share with friends and family. It's a simple concept, looks easy enough to use, and — most importantly —...
If you have a stack of old pictures—like, real pictures from your primitive days—they're probably just sitting around collecting dust. Don't you want to move those pictures to the modern age by digitizing 'em? Of course! Shoebox, an iPhone app, can do it for you. Of course, there are other ways to digitize old photos—scan 'em all to get the bestest quality you can or something—but I'm much too lazy to do that. Shoebox makes the steps really easy, you just use the iPhone camera to take a picture...
I’m drinking a lot of coffee today because I was up well past my bedtime last night playing around with the test build of the newly launched ShoeBox iPhone application from 1000memories, now live in iTunes. This simple app provides a much-needed function: a way to scan old photographs using your smartphone and post them online. Oh, sure. I know you don’t necessarily need an app to scan a photo – you can just take a picture of the print and post it to Facebook. But the ShoeBox app provides a handy set of...