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Camera+ 3.0 now available, integrated into other apps via API

by Steven Sande (Mar 13th, 2012)

The popular Camera+ app (US$0.99) has just received an update to version 3.0 that adds new functionality as well as an API that has already been used by a number of top name developers to add the Camera+ functionality to a variety of apps. When I say that Camera+ is popular, I'm not exaggerating ...

Camera+ updated, VolumeSnap returns at last

by Chris Rawson (Nov 16th, 2011)

In August of 2010, tap tap tap's Camera+ got pulled from the App Store because it implemented a feature which violated Apple's Developer Agreement at the time. VolumeSnap allowed Camera+ users to use the "+" volume button on the iPhone as a physical shutter switch for taking photos with the ...

How to photograph jewelry with an iPhone 4

by Steven Sande (Jul 12th, 2011)

You know those beautiful photos of jewelry that you see in ads and catalogs? The folks at Modahaus wanted to see if their table top studios could be used with an iPhone 4 to make images that would be good enough for a professional photographer to sell. The results were astonishingly good. The ...

Camera+ 2.2.1 adds SMS sharing, on sale for 99 cents

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 8th, 2011)

Camera+, which will remain my preferred iPhone camera app even after iOS 5 debuts, rolled out a minor upgrade that included a major feature from the upcoming Camera+ 2.3 -- sharing via SMS. The sharing works by uploading your photos to taptaptap's server, then sets up an SMS text message with a ...

tap tap tap makes a million - in both sales and profit - from Camera+

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 7th, 2011)

With much glee, tap tap tap announced today that not only has it sold the millionth copy of Camera+ for the iPhone, but it's also made a million dollars in revenue from that app plus the effects pack that's an in-app purchase (after Apple's cut, of course). Fellow blogger Steve Sande reviewed ...

Camera+ 2.0 is in the App Store, contains 328% more wow

by Steven Sande (Dec 21st, 2010)

We let you know yesterday that Camera+ was coming back to the App Store with a host of changes. The development team has given us the heads-up that Camera+ 2.0 (on sale for $0.99, normal price is $1.99) is now available in the App Store, and the changes are amazing. The team at tap tap tap obviously ...

Camera+ coming back to the App Store

by Steven Sande (Dec 20th, 2010)

Do you remember Camera+? It was the amazing US$1.99 photography app from development house tap tap tap that ended up getting yanked from the App Store after the developers used the iPhone volume button as a camera shutter button. In a postscript to a blog entry today, tap tap tap let it slip that ...

Camera+ pulled from App Store for 'volume button as camera shutter' workaround

by Chris Rawson (Aug 12th, 2010)

From the "It Was Only a Matter of Time Department" comes news that Camera+, the top-rated photography app from developer tap tap tap, has been pulled from the App Store, most likely for violating Apple's developer agreement. Apple previously rejected an update to the Camera+ app which would have ...

How to use your iPhone's volume buttons for shutter control in Camera+

by Richard Gaywood (Aug 10th, 2010)

If you use Camera+ -- and you should; we love it -- you might have been excited by the recent talk of using the volume control buttons on the side of your iPhone to take pictures with. We've all found fumbling with the touchscreen button a little fiddly from time to time, right? I've come worryingly ...

TUAW review: Camera+ for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Jul 20th, 2010)

Last week, TUAW featured a post about how development house tap tap tap has been able to string together a series of App Store successes. In that post, we used tap tap tap's sales stats for Camera+ to demonstrate the company's success not only in the U.S. App Store, but internationally as well. That ...

Tapbots releases Calcbot, Macheist makes it cheap

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2010)

taptaptap, Tapbots, and Macheist have released a very well-designed calculator app for the iPhone and iPad called Calcbot -- it's available for 99 cents right now on the App Store. I would say that I don't know why we need another calculator app on the store, but this one's designed by Tapbots, so ...

tap tap tap reveals secrets of how to succeed in the App Store

by Steven Sande (Jul 13th, 2010)

tap tap tap, developers of a number of popular iPhone apps, recently posted an entry on their in-house blog about how they made their most recent launch -- Camera+ -- succeed in the App Store. According to the company, the classy photography app launched very successfully, making over $250,000 ...

TUAW First Look: Digg's iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (Mar 25th, 2010)

Digg released its official iPhone app this morning, and after playing with it for a little while, I can tell you that it does what it says on the box: it will let you browse, interact, and comment on the popular news aggregator without many problems (there was one major issue -- I'll mention it in ...

TapTapTap creates 10,000 iPhone apps mosaic

by Mike Schramm (Dec 5th, 2008)

This is awesome. TapTapTap, in order to celebrate over 10,000 apps in the App Store, has created a mosaic of (what else?) an iPhone loaded up with apps -- out of the icons of App Store apps. It's crazy. You can see the entire thing full scale over on Flickr, and World of Apple is selling a poster ...

More App Store sales figures

by Christina Warren (Aug 14th, 2008)

Last week, iPhone app shop tap tap tap released preliminary sales data for its iPhone applications. The figures were interesting (and impressive), but at the time, only seven days of data was available. As Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal on Monday, the App Store's first month generated about ...