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The Instacube displays your Instagram pictures with class

by Mike Schramm (Aug 24th, 2012)

Usually, I'm a little leery of not-yet-funded Kickstarter projects like this, but what the heck, it's Friday, and the Instacube seems pretty awesome. It's just a few thousand dollars away from being funded anyway, so the odds are pretty good that if you order one, you'll get it without a ...

Instagram 3's new Photo Maps feature adds location to your photo stories

by Steven Sande (Aug 16th, 2012)

Instagram 3.0, the free photo sharing app for iPhone, is available and provides a number of enhancements. The most impressive is the new Photo Maps feature. By grabbing geolocation information that is saved with each photo, Instagram creates a world map of your images by location. As you zoom ...

Instagram update disables "Find Twitter Friends" feature

by Steven Sande (Jul 27th, 2012)

A new version of Instagram (free) just arrived this morning, along with the news that the photoblogging tool now has 80 million users. But there's something missing in the update. If you've ever used the "Twitter Friends" feature, you'll be dismayed to find that it's no longer available. As you ...

TIME calls for Instagram pics as Sports Illustrated uses them in print

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 18th, 2012)

TIME magazine is looking for Instagram photos to showcase them in a piece on mobile technology. They're looking for a variety of images from daily life. To join the project, add the hashtag #TIMEwireless to Instagram submissions. Make sure you're not infringing on anyone's rights in the ...

Facebook launches Instagram-like "Camera" app

by Michael Grothaus (May 24th, 2012)

What do you do after spending a billion dollars buying a popular photography app? If you're Facebook, you then release your own branded app that does the exact same thing. Yes, Facebook has just launched the Facebook Camera app. The app allows you to take photos or select current photos from ...

Platter: novel photo-sharing social network for keen cooks

by Richard Gaywood (May 24th, 2012)

How do you launch a social networking site in this day and age, long after the likes of Facebook and Twitter seized the world? One answer is "micro-social networks": designed with a clear and specific purpose in mind, they can fulfill that purpose better than any of the generalists like ...

TwitPic launches app, way too late

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2012)

TwitPic, which was the first photo sharing service for Twitter (and probably the most popular for a while, at least until competing services like Instagram stepped up) has finally released an iPhone app. It's ill-timed to say the least, considering that Twitter now has an official service ...

Daily Update for April 9, 2012

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 9th, 2012)

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 ...

Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 9th, 2012)

Facebook confirmed on its website that it has reached an agreement to purchase Instagram. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, "I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook." The release says the photo-sharing app ...

Instaprint goes to Kickstarter to fund its Instagram photo booth hardware

by Steven Sande (Mar 5th, 2012)

Almost exactly a year ago, TUAW posted about Instaprint, a location-based printer for Instagram photos. Brooklyn, NY-based ad agency Breakfast even set up a live stream showing images spewing out of their printer from around the world. Now the company is back again, printing any Instagram photos ...

Instamatch turns Instagram into an engaging iOS game

by Steven Sande (Feb 22nd, 2012)

Are you a fan of Instagram? I often find myself taking snaps with the app, adding some special effects, and then posting them for close friends and complete strangers to enjoy. Now the folks at Tiny Hearts, the developers of the fun Pocket Zoo app I reviewed last year, have come up with Instamatch ...

App developers skirt Apple's 100-device testing limit

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2011)

The Wall Street Journal reports that some big iOS developers are having a real issue with Apple's limit on testing devices. According to the App Store rules, developers are restricted to 100 devices for testing via ad-hoc distribution. That may sound like a lot (and it likely is for small or ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone photo and video apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 20th, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Daily Update for November 11, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 11th, 2011)

Instagram CEO hints at video sharing

by Mike Schramm (Nov 7th, 2011)

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing last week, and hinted that video sharing would be coming soon to the popular mostly iOS-driven photo sharing service. "We really want to go after something bigger than filtered photos," he said, explaining that the service ...