Posts Tagged ‘ photos ’

Google’s new Google+ photo features: 15GB full-size storage, Auto Highlight, Auto Enhance and more

May 15, 2013
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Google’s new Google+ photo features: 15GB full-size storage, Auto Highlight, Auto Enhance and more

Google announced a number of features for your photos during its I/O developer conference today, including an Auto Backup tool with 15 GBs of free storage for full-size photos; an Auto Highlight feature which selects the best photos out of hundreds; Auto Enhance, which Google called “an easy button to make your images look beautiful” and Auto Awesome, which…

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Google now offers 15GB of shared storage for Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos, Apps customers get 30GB

May 13, 2013
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Google now offers 15GB of shared storage for Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos, Apps customers get 30GB

Google on Monday announced a change to how it offers free cloud storage to its users: 15GB will now be shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+. This change will start rolling out over the next couple of weeks. Previously, Google offered 10GB for Gmail plus another 5GB for Drive and Google+ Photos. Now the…

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Microsoft rolls out new SkyDrive timeline and filmstrip views, speeds up photo upload time three-fold, and more

May 13, 2013
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Microsoft rolls out new SkyDrive timeline and filmstrip views, speeds up photo upload time three-fold, and more

Microsoft on Monday announced new features and improvements for its SkyDrive cloud storage service, with a particular focus on photos. The updates are available starting now, but you may not see them for up to 48 hours as the company rolls them out gradually. New views The biggest addition is the new photos timeline view.…

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TNW Pick of the Day: Flayvr for Android automatically creates photo & video albums from the camera roll

May 6, 2013
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TNW Pick of the Day: Flayvr for Android automatically creates photo & video albums from the camera roll

We last caught up with Flayvr back in December, just as the startup announced it was making it even easier to share automatically-created photo and video albums. The idea behind Flayvr is simple – it essentially monitors your Camera Roll for photos and videos, and groups them into albums based on the time and location…

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Days: A charming new iPhone app for telling your life story, one day at a time

May 3, 2013
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Days: A charming new iPhone app for telling your life story, one day at a time

Wander, a rather secretive startup which graduated from TechStars NY’s third class last year, is launching something you’ll want to use every day — or, that’s the gamble CEO Jeremy Fisher is taking. Built as a tool for chronicling your life, Days is a free, just-launched iPhone app with a mission to become your visual diary. The app fits somewhere…

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Google Glass code hints at spatial gestures, including two-finger browser zoom and winking to take a photo

April 22, 2013
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Google Glass code hints at spatial gestures, including two-finger browser zoom and winking to take a photo

Google appears to be planning an interesting set of gestures for its Glass project, letting you apparently use your fingers, head, and eyes to perform certain functions. Two examples include being able to use two fingers to zoom in and out of the browser, apparently just like on a touch device, as well as winking…

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Woods stays in contention despite 2-stroke penalty

April 13, 2013
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Woods stays in contention despite 2-stroke penalty

Buy AP Photo Reprints AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods dropped two strokes at the Masters before he even hit a shot Saturday, and he still has a chance to wear another green jacket.Woods shot a 2-under 70 in the third round at Augusta National, shaking off a two-stroke penalty assessed before he went out…

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SkyDrive for iOS updated with new design, full resolution photos, iPhone 5 and iPad mini support, and more

April 3, 2013
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SkyDrive for iOS updated with new design, full resolution photos, iPhone 5 and iPad mini support, and more

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the release of SkyDrive 3.0 for iOS, featuring a slew of new features. You can download the latest version of the app now directly from Apple’s App Store. TNW readers will remember that this is the same app that Apple and Microsoft were at war over. Microsoft rolled out the ability…

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PicLab lets you easily add text and masks to photos, and it had 100K downloads in its first 13 days

March 22, 2013
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PicLab lets you easily add text and masks to photos, and it had 100K downloads in its first 13 days

There’s no shortage of mobile apps geared towards helping amateur snappers shoot and share the world around them. Besides the obvious ones such as Instagram, there’s PowerSketch which we covered last year, which transforms your iOS snaps and videos into artwork. Then there’s PIP Camera, which serves up photo-in-photo effects. Another one that’s just hit…

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TripAdvisor focuses on social with acquisition of photo storytelling app Tiny Post

March 22, 2013
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TripAdvisor focuses on social with acquisition of photo storytelling app Tiny Post

TripAdvisor has announced it has acquired Tiny Post, an app that lets you tell stories by writing over photos. Though full terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, TripAdvisor say that the Tiny Post team will be now be based out of TripAdvisor’s office in Palo Alto. “The Tiny Post team have created a wonderful…

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