Bring Your Photo Gallery to Life with PhotoSocial for iPhone

First iPhone Application Designed to Instantly Organize your Photo Collection

The world's first upgrade to the iPhone's built-in photo gallery, PhotoSocial starts by separating your photos out by day, then adding functionality in subtle yet immediately familiar ways:

• View photos full-screen, in a grid, and in the new stream view for more casual browsing.
• Toss photos off screen to move them to the trash; makes cleanup fast and easy.
• Name any day by tapping its date, and get to favorite albums fast from the navigation menu.
• Press and hold to reorganize.

 PhotoSocial is available in iTunes for an introductory price of $1.99. www.photosocialapp.com

Bring Your Photo Gallery to Life with PhotoSocial for iPhone

Dogsly - Photograph, Love, and Share Your Dog Pics

Ok, if you know me then you're likely well aware that there's 3 things that I'm really into... these are mobile technology, photography, and dogs, specifically, my best friends Zoe and Nash! Over the years I've likely photographed them hundreds of times and shared their pics widely. Well now, thanks to the cool Dogsly app I have an Instagram-like service that enables me to snap a photo, add an effect, geotag the location, add a description, and share via social media (like Twitter and others).
Dogsly is available for iOS - I use it on the iPad2 and is a very awesome way to catalog and preserve your pooch pics while on the go... kudos to the developer for a great idea on this one! See Dogsly.com or search "dogsly" in the iTunes store.

Using Dogsly on iPad2 to add an effect to a photo of Nash

Dogsly - Photograph, Love, and Share Your Dog Pics

Mapping Your Dog Walk With MapMyDogWalk

I'm a fan of the "MapMyFitness" suite of apps, (you know, these are cool tracking services that store your walks, runs, rides etc... using a mobile client and provide for sophisticated social sharing and more) and now I can even track and share my dog walks thanks to the latest solution, MapMyDoogWalk. The app was recently released for iOS (iPhone) and logs your dog walks, tracks calories burnt, and syncs with. The app provides the following and more:
•An interactive map that lets you view your current location and exactly where you have traveled along your route
•Real-time tracking that measures and displays time, distance, pace, speed and elevation  - Synchronization with your online Training Log on MapMyWalk.com
•Manual entry of workout data directly from the app so you can easily record your indoor activities like gym workouts and cardio sessions on the treadmill
•Twitter integration that enables you to tweet your workout data to friends and family
•iPod integration that allows you to select and control your music while the app is running
•A geo-tagging photo capability that automatically uploads any photos you take along your walk to your saved route on MapMyWalk.com

See  more in the iTunes Store

Mapping Your Dog Walk With MapMyDogWalk

Photog App Tip - Vintage Camera for iPhone (iOS)

Here's a tip off about another cool photo effects app for iPhone (iOS) called Vintage Camera App, designed to enable you to apply cool, vintage effects to your photos. Similar to Instagram, this app puts some very cool photo effects in the hands of the user. Simply snap a photo, apply one of a number of effects (there's free and some added paid for effects), save, and share your photo via Twitter facebook or via email. More details on the app release can be found here, or see also "Vintage Camera" in the iTunes store.

Photog App Tip - Vintage Camera for iPhone (iOS)

InstaShirt Custom T-Shirts From Your Instagram Account

We all love to capture and share photos, however, what else can you do with all that fabulous media that's gathering dust and taking up space on your storage drive? Well, sure you can create a custom card, maybe slap your photo on a calendar or mug (yawn) but now, thanks to some of the awesome tools and APIs out there there's some really cool, custom services that you can take advantage of. Case in point, InstaShirt is an awesome service that enables users of Instagram (think awesome photo effects for iOS users) to connect their InstaGram account to InstaShirt, select some favorite photos from your account, then via functionality provided by Zazzle you can preview, customize and order a really cool shirt that has a mosaic of your Instagram photos. This is freakin awesome! 4.5 Stars from me... See http://www.instashirt.me/ -  Inspiration for this post from ProgrammableWeb.

This custom InstaShirt costs about $15 + $8 shipping - not bad!

InstaShirt Custom T-Shirts From Your Instagram Account

Android, iPhone users Prefer Adding Cool Effects To Photos

Some recent research takes a look at free photo apps, perhaps one of the most popular form of app for smartphone users. According to CatchFree, which sifts through the responses of tens of thousands of users, the most important uses of free photo sites and applications include: adding effects to photos, creating albums, sharing photos. What the research showed though was that users of different mobile devices expect different functionality. For example, iPhone users prefer to add cool effects to their photos, iPad users prefer to share, and Android users overwhelmingly like to add cool effects, much more so than the iPhone users.
Some additional results from the findings:

iPhones
48 percent said “adding cool effects to photos” was their most useful activity
28 percent said “sharing photos”
24 percent said “creating photo albums”
58.3 percent said they would be “very disappointed” if they could not use their photo app/service on their iPhone.

Android Phone
70 percent said “adding cool effects to photos” was their most useful feature
13.3 percent said “creating photo albums”
13.3 percent said “sharing photos”
55.2 percent said they would be “very disappointed” if they could not use their photo app/service on their Android Phone.

See more details of the research in this report – Most Users of Free Photo Apps Say Adding Cool Effects is Most Useful

Android, iPhone users Prefer Adding Cool Effects To Photos

Photog Tip - BeProNow guide to photography (for iOS and Android)

BeProNow has released two versions of its simple to understand guide to photography: the PhotoGuide App.
Photo Guide will give you expert advice with quick and easy instructions on:
-       The best angles for the shot
-       Best composition for landscapes, action shots and portraits
-       Choosing the correct F-stop
-       Working with different lighting situations
-       The best framing for the shot

For more information and details about the Photo Guide App please visit http://bepronow.com/inphotography/

Photog Tip - BeProNow guide to photography (for iOS and Android)

1197 one-day conference dedicated to mobile & iPhone photography

The first camera phone photo was taken on June 11th, 1997. In honor of that date, 1197 is a one-day conference dedicated to mobile & iPhone photography, presented by Bolt | Peters and Blurb.
Save the date, Saturday, Oct 22nd. ATTEND REMOTELY  Via a Live streaming of Talks. Give aways included! See http://www.1197.is/

1197 one-day conference dedicated to mobile & iPhone photography

Mobile Photog Tip - Share your Instagrams with Copygram

Instagram is an awesome mobile photog enhancement and sharing service for iPhone users, however, the service has always fallen a bit short when it comes to the archival and sharing of your instagram set. Copygr.am is a cool solution that gets the user  a custom url and provides fast, simple access to your entire Instagram collection and also provides the ability to download and share them. See my Copygr.am at http://copygr.am/gletham/

Mobile Photog Tip - Share your Instagrams with Copygram

Mobile Photog Tip - GPS Tag your Flickr Photos

Here's a tip for Flickr users who want to share their GPS information with their photos... note, in order to do this you'll need to be capturing photos using a GPS-enabled or GPS-aware camera (see you're smartphone hardware settings to ensure that GPS or location sharing is turned "ON". You'll notice that photos on Flickr can optionally be Geo-Tagged, this will enable you to view the photos on a map or access all your streams Geo Tagged photos from the GeoRSS feed (Flickr provides this to all users - see the very bottom of your Flickr page for a link to it). You can actually view all your stream's GeoTagged photos on Google maps by copy/pasting the GeoRSS feed url into Google maps or Google Earth!

To auto Geo Tag your Flickr phot uploads you'll need to enable this functionality in your Flickr account settings. When logged into Flickr, see  your Account Settings / Privacy & Permissions, and set the "Import EXIF location data" to YES - by default it is set to NO. Once you do so you should be able to see your Geo Tagged photo uploads on the map that is provided. See my Flickr Stream HERE

Mobile Photog Tip - GPS Tag your Flickr Photos

Resting on the lawn at the B.C capital

Don't think its possible to snap a nice photo with an iPhone 3GS? Think again... this photo was grabbed with a 3GS and then a slight contrast color enhancement applied using PhotoShop mobile app - fast, simple, and pretty nice!

Resting on the lawn at the B.C capital

Turn your iPhone photos into real postcards using TouchNote

TouchNote is a fun, simple mobile app (iPhone) that enables users to easily create a nice postcard that is printed, stamped, and mailed to anyone you want. Add a photo, create a custom tag line, add a message and address it to a recipient. All you need is an account and for about $1.50 it will be posted any place you like. See "TouchNote" in the iTunes store

Turn your iPhone photos into real postcards using TouchNote

Tip - Tourism Victoria mobile app (iPhone)

 

Today we share a mobile tip for those interested in Victoria, BC, enter the Tourism Victoria mobile app for iPhone. The app is location-aware, meaning is will optionally detect your location and provide tips that are relevant to your current position. Use the tool to browse an excellent calendar of local events and things to do, see tips on local places of interest, get transportation tips, route yourself to places on a map, and use the apps built in Augmented Reality (AR) functionality - a handy way to see cool things near you using your iPhone camera. Search "Tourism Victoria" in iTunes store to download (free)

Tip - Tourism Victoria mobile app (iPhone)

Victoria iphone photofunia

 

Yes indeed, I'm an iPhone junkie as well as a photo nut, so, naturally I have loads of cool tips and tricks for enhancing and getting creative with photos via mobile. Enter PhotoFunia, this is hands-down one of the coolest (free) mobile apps I've stumbled onto in a long time. The app is constantly evolving and provides for easy and fast creation of very cool effects from your photos. 

Victoria iphone photofunia