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Daily Update for June 13, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Yahoo! acquires GhostBird Software, apps pulled from App Store

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 13th, 2013)

GhostBird Software is known for its KitCam camera app and PhotoForge, an image editing app that first hit the App Store in 2009. Late Wednesday afternoon, the Canadian company announced that it is closing its doors and joining the Flickr team at Yahoo! GhostBird's website is now just a ...

Yahoo raises the stakes for free Flickr storage: 1 terabyte

by Steven Sande (May 20th, 2013)

It's official: Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer has gone completely bonkers, as the Yahoo-owned Flickr has just announced that all users now have a free terabyte of storage. That's a thousand gigabytes, folks. For free. As the Flickr website touts, one terabyte will hold 537,731 photos at an average size ...

Flickr Find: iPad on a G4 iMac base

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 11th, 2013)

Remember the G4 iMac, lovingly called the iLamp because of its unique design that resembled Luxor Jr. of Pixar fame? Spotted on Flickr is this clever iPad stand that uses the base of the G4 as its centerpiece. It was created a few years ago by Flickr member Jamie37211, who documented the ...

Tweetbot for Mac updated, adds user-specific notifications, Vine and Flickr previews and more

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 20th, 2013)

Following on the heels of the recent update for the iOS version, Tweetbot -- the Twitter client for iOS and Mac -- has today updated its Mac app to version 1.2, bringing a host of welcome new features. Most notably, the new version of Tweetbot for Mac brings user-specific notification (disable ...

Flickr Find: A history of Apple OS installer CDs

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 8th, 2013)

Remember when all Mac computers shipped with install CDs? With the debut of the Mac App Store and digital distribution, those days are gone. Like album cover art, the decorative designs of install discs are collectibles that we can admire while we reminisce about the Mac's earlier days. Nigel ...

Flickr find: Nice vintage Mac software collection

by Dave Caolo (Feb 7th, 2013)

Flickr user colecamp has posted a very nice collection of vintage Apple software, pamphlets, promotional material and more. I'm especially envious of the Matt Groening "Life in Hell" piece. He's also got an original 128k Mac manual in fantastic condition. Nice job, colecamp! We love seeing your ...

Yahoo's Flickr iOS app sees renewed popularity following redesign and Instagram woes

by Mike Wehner (Jan 29th, 2013)

In the wake of Instagram's recent woes and aided by a well-received redesign, Yahoo saw use of its Flickr iOS app jump by a whopping 25 percent. As TNW reports, the update was definitely catered to Instagram expatriates, adding more than a dozen photo filters as well as the ability to use Facebook ...

Flickr for iPhone 2.0 is a complete redesign

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 12th, 2012)

Yahoo! has released a completely redesigned iOS app today. According to the company, Flickr for iPhone 2.0 is "now easier to use, more beautiful and includes more of the great features you love using on Flickr.com." Besides UI changes, the new app features 16 unique camera filters, full Groups ...

Send Instagram to Dropbox for a cool Apple TV screen saver

by Mike Schramm (Sep 4th, 2012)

Just recently, I posted about the Instacube, a Kickstarter project that allows you to more easily show off your great (or at least well-filtered) photography work on Instagram. But it turns out you don't need a whole cube to do that. With the proper tweaking of IFTTT (a tool we at TUAW also ...

Getting Ready for Mountain Lion: Preview

by Erica Sadun (Jun 28th, 2012)

Preview, the app that lets you view pictures and read PDFs in OS X, is one of Apple's unsung heroes. There's so much you can do with this app. It goes far beyond simply looking at images. It's a minimal image editor. You can crop your pictures, reorient them, and export them to new ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me store my photos

by Erica Sadun (Jun 25th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I have a MacBook Air with only 120 GB of storage. My iPhoto Library is over 40 GB. I don't need all the the photos on my Mac but don't want to lose them or the events that they have been sorted into. Is there a way to keep my iPhoto library stored on iCloud and only download the ...

Canon 5D Mark II surpasses iPhone 4 as Flickr's most popular camera

by Mel Martin (Mar 29th, 2012)

Mashable notes this morning that the iPhone is no longer the most popular camera used by Flickr users. That honor now goes to the Canon 5D Mark II. Canon's numbers have been rising for months, and pics from that Canon model totaled 4,643 yesterday. The iPhone 4 users posted 4,460. The iPhone 4 ...

Daily Update for November 22, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 22nd, 2011)

iPhone 4S now second most popular camera phone on Flickr

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 22nd, 2011)

The iPhone 4 sits at the top of Flickr's most popular camera phone list, but its days in the #1 slot may be numbered. Sneaking into the second place, a mere month after its launch, is the iPhone 4S. As pointed out by Macrumors, The iPhone 4S has climbed past the iPhone 3G, the 3GS, and the HTC ...