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Daily Update for November 22, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 22nd, 2011)

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 ...

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 ...

Keepsy Calendars: Doing something fun with all those Instagram photos

by Steven Sande (Nov 1st, 2011)

Every once in a while a product shows up unexpectedly at the TUAW Labs that makes me really, really happy. A flat white box arrived at my door a few days ago, and when I opened it I saw a calendar and something about Instagram. I didn't bother to actually look at the calendar until a few days ...

Is this the first iPhone 5 test photo?

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 7th, 2011)

An image that appeared on Flickr could be the first shared image that was taken by the iPhone 5. As discovered by PocketNow, this photo of a plate of sushi was supposedly shot by an Apple engineer on his lunch break. What's interesting is that the EXIF data for the photo makes it look like it ...

iPhone 4 most popular camera on Flickr [Updated]

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 21st, 2011)

[Update] TechCrunch's MG Siegler notes that the iPhone has likely dominated Flickr for a long time, as app-based photos aren't identified as being from an iPhone. In other words, all those shots from Instagram, Hipstamatic etc. aren't counted towards the iPhone's totals. Goodness. The iPhone ...

iOS 5 contacts app has fields for Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Myspace info

by Steven Sande (Jun 10th, 2011)

One of the more interesting iOS 5 features revealed this week during the Monday keynote was seamless integration with Twitter. Now a report published by All Things D shows that fields for other social networking sites also appear in the iOS 5 contacts app, including Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, ...

MobileMe: Some speculation about the transition to iCloud

by Steven Sande (Jun 7th, 2011)

I'll start this post off by stating the obvious -- there's a lot about how MobileMe services will transition to iCloud that we don't know yet. But I'm going to take a stab at some of the most pressing questions we've received from TUAW readers regarding the transition. As more facts come in, ...

Heatmap shows Fifth Avenue Apple Store is hot place for photos

by Mike Schramm (May 31st, 2011)

The image above is a heatmap of photo locations on popular pic sharing site Flickr, put together by developer Eric Fischer. Each dot on the map indicates where a photo was taken in New York's Manhattan borough, with each circled area representing a hot spot of location photography. As ...

Internet braces for royal wedding

by Dana Franklin (Apr 28th, 2011)

As the bride climbs into her dress, the groom adjusts his cufflinks, the 1,900 invited guests arrive, and chefs make final preparations for the festivities to follow the ceremony, popular websites like YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter will be tuning their systems for a surge of wedding ...

iPhone 4 rocketing to the top of Flickr's camera list

by Steven Sande (Apr 18th, 2011)

It's no surprise that the iPhone 4 is not only a popular smartphone, but also a well-liked digital camera. The 5-megapixel back camera doesn't have the highest pixel count of all smartphone cameras, and the specifications of that camera don't hold a candle to many of the digital SLRs and ...

Flickr gets iPad-friendly with slideshows

by Matt Tinsley (Mar 18th, 2011)

Flickr has announced some improvements to its photo-browsing/sharing website for iPad users. The new light box photo viewer (aka slideshow) enables you to view photos from Flickr's website in a larger format on a black background, similar to what happens when you click on a photo on Flickr's ...

Flickery is on the Mac App Store, and you can win a free copy

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 21st, 2011)

We've mentioned Flickery a couple of times, and I've been using it for over a year now as my desktop client for Flickr. Developer Matthias Gansrigler has added quite a few new features since the last time we covered it, and the performance has increased significantly. Now that Flickery is available ...

Yahoo! making you queasy? Here's how to backup Flickr photos to your Mac

by Steven Sande (Dec 17th, 2010)

Yesterday, Yahoo!'s secret plans to shut down their Delicious bookmark sharing service were made public. While there are no published plans to shut down the popular Yahoo!-owned Flickr photography service, the general shakiness of all things Yahoo! seems to be making many people nervous. Since many ...

New version of Flipboard adds Google Reader, Facebook Groups and more

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 16th, 2010)

Popular magazine-style reading app Flipboard has announced major changes to its iPad application, bringing with it support for Flickr, Facebook Groups and Google Reader. The new version also includes improved Twitter and social networking integration. Named iPad App of the Year, Flipboard has ...

FlickrExport for iPhoto and Aperture updated to version 4

by David Quilty (Dec 3rd, 2010)

FlickrExport, Connected Flow's popular photo management plug-in, has been upgraded to version 4 for both iPhoto and Aperture. Full of new features like video uploading, support for multiple Flickr accounts, the ability to add photos to multiple photosets during uploading and metadata-only uploads in ...