Polaroids In The Wind: Have You Backed Up Your Instagram Account?
Ah, Instagram. There isn’t much that hasn’t been said about the photo-sharing phenomena. When I think about it, it still surprises me how a simple app like Instagram achieved such am superior status, but even the greatest social-media hater can’t deny its power and allure. Being a tech blog, we haven’t exactly ignored Instagram either. We’ve already told you about sites that enhance your Instagram experience - except for backup.
Auto-Share Facebook & Instagram Photos With People Without Accounts
Sharing photos online has become an integral part of our lives, but what about our loved ones who don’t have a Facebook account, or Instagram? While sharing digital photos with the world is easier than ever before, each network is still limited to those who actually take part in it. If you’re not lazy, this is not a real problem: you just post your photos on several social networks, upload them to Dropbox, or email them directly when necessary.
Bring Your Flickr, Instagram, Facebook Photos & More In One Place With Stipple
Between Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, you probably have a lot of photographs that you've uploaded to the web. It becomes a pretty unwieldy task trying to keep track of all your images in so many different places. While there have been a few sites to pop up that aim to merge the experience, making it easy to access all of your online photos in one place, few do it as well as Stipple.
Instagram And Twitter Integration: What Are Your Options?
With Twitter and Instagram now in a position of rivalry, since Facebook bought the photo-sharing app, the pair have slowly been killing off ways in which users can integrate their Instagram and Twitter experiences. Instagram recently pulled a pretty significant Twitter-related feature. Luckily there are a few workarounds that will make it possible to keep viewing your Instagram photos - be it filtered images of your breakfast or something a little more serious - in your Twitter timeline.
Starmatic - Kodak's 1959 Toy Camera Revived As An iOS Social Network
There's no denying that Instagram has the monopoly on vintage, filtered photography, and mobile photosharing. Competitors have come and gone, and Instagram is still going strong. That hasn't stopped the team behind Starmatic from putting together a slick app which is a joy to use. Starmatic's photo-taking interface allows you to use the front and back cameras, turn the flash on and off, and turn on grid guidelines.
Geek it Out On Pinterest: 10 Users You Should Follow
It's no secret we're big fans of Pinterest here at MakeUseOf. The virtual pinning board of the Internet has helped us while away many an hour, getting lost in the many photos, ideas and posts that the site has to offer. For the geek, Pinterest can be the ultimate source of inspiration, and a great way to discover new and interesting things. For that reason, we've put together a list of geeky Pinterest users you should be following.
Mobile Photo App WeHeartPics: Part Inspiration, Part Visual Diary
WeHeartPics is part social network, part photo-sharing app, and part daily inspiration for your photography. Available as a free iOS or Android app, the network can also be accessed through its web-based interface. WeHeartPics brings its users fresh ideas to take photos of, turning your mobile photography into a game of sorts, pushing you to get more creative and see things differently.
FxCamera Is An Instagram Alternative On Steroids - Try It! [Android]
Yes, Instagram is great, Instagram is cool, but why did it become so popular when there are much better apps around? The answer to that probably lies with Instagram’s own community, and not in the app itself, but when it comes to apps, there are many awesome Instagram alternatives that can get you much better results. Today I’m going to tell you about another one. It’s called FxCamera.
2 More Slick Ways To Browse Instagram On Your Computer
Rather than squint at your smartphone screen, why not take your Instagram browsing to your browser, and view the gorgeous photos posted using the photo-sharing app on your computer screen instead. By using services like Ink361 or Instadash, replying to comments, adding new comments, and discovering new users to follow couldn't be easier.
How To Use a Digital Camera With Linux
The days when working with digital cameras and other common consumer hardware on Linux was a chore that involved fiddling with terminal commands are over. Using a digital camera with modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu is an extremely simple process. In fact, the built-in software on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions is better than Windows for this, as it allows you to easily do basic photo-editing and upload your photos to web services.
imgur Is A Fantastic Chrome Extension For Uploading And Sharing Photos
imgur is a fantastic way to share photos for many reasons. It loads extremely fast, is easy to use, and does not have all the restrictions that some other photo sharing sites have. There is a reason that the picky folks at Reddit use imgur as their go-to place for sharing the latest memes and other awesome photographs.
Find Instagram Photos By Location With Worldcam
Do you remember the thrill you experienced the first time you heard about Google Street View? The fact that you could zoom in on a map right down to street level and travel around a town or city just about blew my mind when it made its debut in 2007. Now, it's standard, and I rarely even bother using it. Sorry, Google, but all that effort has been wasted.
MyImgur Lets You Use The Best Image Host Right From Your Desktop [Windows]
Hugely thanks to internet superpower Reddit, Imgur is definitely regarded as the web's most elite all-purpose image host. The website's emergence took a huge chunk out of similar sites like Tinypic. Imgur just does free image hosting better. The look and feel of the uploading interface is so much nicer than other sites in the same class and it'll definitely help when you aren't barraging users with ads.
5 Reasons To Use Fancy Instead Of Pinterest
Since the Pinterest explosion, which has admittedly recently died down a little, there have been all sorts of clones popping up left and right catering to niche audiences, or even just unabashedly copying the social networking site. One social network that has already earned itself comparisons to Pinterest is Fancy, by allowing users to save and share photos on boards, with the difference of calling them 'lists' instead of 'boards.'
Store And Discover Gorgeous Online Photo Collections In One Place With Pelfind
Every day hundreds of sites put together amazing collections of images: photography, typography, graphic design and more. Pelfind is a cool new site which makes it easy to find all of these posts on one convenient page. You can use Pelfind simply as an online visual magazine of sorts without having to sign up at all. Simply go to the homepage and browse the latest finds, or search for a specific topic or keyword.
Instagram Meets Life: 5 Novel Instagram Projects From Around The World
When a community based application like Instagram becomes popular, it connects the world in interesting ways. Pictures and photographs have always been great ‘focal’ if not vocal ways to communicate. The easy worldwide appeal of Instagram has also meant that people are using the photo application in unique ways. Here’s a filtered look at the world around us with these five Instagram projects.
Bored With Just Photosharing? Here Are 5 More Things You Can Do With Instagram
With millions of filter-embellished pictures uploaded, Instagram has become a community of its own. And just like any popular community it has giving rise to its own eco-system. Do you stop at clicking nice photos and sharing them? Or do you go beyond to discover what else the world of Instagram has to offer? Maybe, you can try these 5 things with the help of Instagram.
Instagram Isn't a Photography App, It's a Community [Opinion]
Over the past month, there's been a renewed deluge of articles arguing over Instagram's merit as a photography tool. Every so often, tech bloggers, photographers and journalists come together in a discussion over the merits of Instagram, asking whether or not the app has added anything to the world of online photography. Some characterizations have been less than flattering, alluding to a bunch of 'kids'.
How To Get Facebook Photos To Look Like Pinterest Using FriendSheet [Weekly Facebook Tips]
Facebook's pretty good at letting you waste your day away checking out pictures from your friends. But could it be better? You bet! Consider Pinterest and how easy it is to just keep browsing through an infinitely scrolling page of interesting pictures and pithy comments about them. Now here's the neat thing - Facebook can be like this too. Yes, the folks at FriendSheet realised that Facebook was good, but not perfect, at sharing all those photos with you.
Cure Backup Anxiety! Use PicBackMan To Automatically Bulk Upload Your Photos To Multiple Accounts
It’s time to hitch up the pants and do some backing up of all my precious memories captured in the snaps. In geek-speak, I am going to create redundant backups of my photos using multiple online storage services. Sounds impressive I bet! But doff your hats to the free software I have picked for this bulk job – PicBackMan.