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Instamail Photo for iOS offers unlimited photo attachments

by Mel Martin (Sep 3rd, 2012)

Mail on iOS allows five photo attachments per mail. If you're sending lots of photos to friends or family from a vacation, you'll have to split up your photos among multiple emails. Here's a solution, just in time for sharing those Labor Day snapshots. It's called Instamail Photo. It's free and ...

Daily iPhone App: Sing! shares music and voices around the world

by Mike Schramm (Aug 15th, 2012)

Smule has released another musical app called Sing!. It's a Karaoke app that leverages Smule's technological know-how to make the act of singing a social activity on a global scale. As with Smule's other offerings, you can buy various songs with in-app purchase, and there are a few standards ...

Mountain Lion 101: Sharing and Twitter (but not Facebook yet)

by Mike Schramm (Jul 25th, 2012)

Mountain Lion adds direct Twitter support in the OS, just as iOS users have had for a while. If you haven't set up your Twitter account yet, you'll want to go into System Preferences, and then choose Mail, Contacts & Calendars to set up your various accounts. Just like on the iPhone and ...

Socialcam sells to Autodesk for $60 million

by Mike Schramm (Jul 17th, 2012)

Autodesk has added yet another feather to its growing cap, buying mobile video sharing app Socialcam for a price of $60 million. Socialcam was launched only about 18 months ago, but it's been a big hit since then, attracting lots of high profile investors and a prestigious spot at the Y ...

Daily iPhone App: Ocarina 2 makes for more virtual tunes

by Mike Schramm (Jun 25th, 2012)

I'll be honest -- since the first Ocarina app came out, I've become a fan of Smule, the company behind it. Its mix of creative energy and technical know-how is a great match for Apple and a good example of software made well. But I have never really been a fan of Ocarina the app, just because I ...

Zynga-owned Draw Something finally gets update for sharing, undo

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2012)

Most of our stories about Draw Something since the game's launch have been business related. After it garnered tens of millions of users in its first few weeks, the company that makes the game, OMGPOP, was bought by Zynga for a whopping $200 million. But here's finally something to show after ...

Givit makes private video sharing from iOS quick and easy

by Mike Schramm (Jan 10th, 2012)

There are plenty of video sharing services online these days -- from the enormously popular YouTube to Apple's own video integration with Twitter, it's quite easy for almost anyone to upload and share video with the public. But Givit's CEO Greg Kostello, who previously worked for both Apple and ...

Quickly share website addresses to your iPhone with AirLink

by Michael Rose (Dec 9th, 2011)

Last week, Erica and Victor shared a hack for transferring the URL of an open webpage from your computer to your iPhone via the intermediary of a QR code. It's easy and quick, but as is often the case our astute commenters pointed to a slew of alternative solutions to tackle the same ...

Snap and send photos from your iPhone to Ceiva the networked picture frame

by Erica Sadun (Dec 1st, 2011)

Right now for about a hundred bucks, you can buy a Ceiva picture frame. This device allows you to email pictures to a physical photo frame, allowing you to connect your digital lifestyle to your loved ones. If you have parents or grandparents who don't spend their days hunched over email and ...

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 ...

Daily iPad App: SoundCloud

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 28th, 2011)

Popular social music network SoundCloud released its iPad app on Thursday and we took the app for a quick spin. For those that have never used SoundCloud, it's an online service that lets you upload and share audio clips with other SoundCloud members. The clips can be short sound bites, music ...

SoundCloud iPad app out now

by Mike Schramm (Oct 28th, 2011)

Music sharing site SoundCloud has had an iPhone app for a while, but the company has just released a version of the service built specifically for the iPad. SoundCloud generally opted for the dual-pane look in the app, which means you can browse around your friends and their shares, all while ...

iCloud going live on October 12

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2011)

Apple has announced that the long-awaited iCloud service will finally go live on October 12. The service will be free for Lion and iOS 5 users (the new mobile OS releases on the same day), and will enable cloud sharing of user contacts, pictures, and other pertinent user data across all of your ...

Daily Mac App: DropCopy

by Samuel Gibbs (Sep 30th, 2011)

Mac OS X Lion introduced AirDrop, which offers zero-configuration, Wi-Fi file sharing between Lion users. DropCopy offered a similar service when we wrote about it in 2007. Today, DropCopy still deserves a place on your Mac, as it does a few things that AirDrop doesn't. For one, DropCopy ...

NearPics is a clever idea that could be a lot better

by Mel Martin (Sep 12th, 2011)

I'm always looking for free apps that blend well with my passion for photography. I've been playing with NearPics, a free app from UK developers The Mac Box. The idea is simple. Start the app on your iPhone and photos that have been taken near your location appear in a slide show. I tried ...