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Flickr Introduces Android App With Photo Sessions

It took a while, but Flickr finally has an Android app. It provides plenty of browsing, uploading, and sharing features, much like its iPhone counterpart. Additionally, Flickr has added a neat feature called Photo Sessions, allowing you and your friends to view a slideshow of photos at the same time.

September 13, 2011
Design

What Makes You Buy A Photobook?

Lifehacker AU

Digital cameras might have all but killed off the film market, but they don’t appear to have totally dented our enthusiasm for physical photos. An analysis by Futuresource Consulting suggests that we’re increasingly keen on photobooks (entire bound collections of photos, often centred on a single theme). Sales are expected to grow 25 per cent, with the US alone seeing 25 million sold this year, rising to 29 million in 2012.

September 7, 2011
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JPEGmini Shrinks Photos’ File Sizes Online, Without Reducing Quality

Free web app JPEGmini can quickly take your JPEG images and reduce their file sizes by up to 80 per cent — all within your browser and while preserving their image quality.

August 30, 2011
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Déjà Vu Creates An iPhone Visual Memory Database

iOS: Chances are you use your iPhone’s camera to take pictures of things you want to remember. Déjà Vu is an app that helps you keep track of everything in your virtual visual memory by taking those photos and using image recognition to automatically categorise them for you. Of course, you can also categorise them yourself, but that’s not quite as fun.

August 26, 2011
Work

What’s The Proper Way To Tag Photos On Facebook?

Have you ever been tagged in a photo in which one of your eyes is closed, your hair is mussed and your makeup looks like it was applied by the Joker? Or worse, been tagged in photo taken during a drunken night out that’s now shared with everyone you know? Or worst of all, being tagged as photo evidence of a lie? If so, it sounds like someone should familiarise themselves with the etiquette of Facebook photo tagging.

August 25, 2011
Work

PhotoLive For Chrome Downloads Your Facebook Photos For Easy Migration

Chrome: Whether or not you’re planning to migrate from Facebook to some other service or you just want to back up all of your Facebook photos for posterity, PhotoLive is a Chrome extension that lets you download your photos an album at a time.

August 23, 2011
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PicPlum Sends Photos To Your Friends Via Email, Snail Mail

If you have family consistently bothering you for pictures and updates on your life, PicPlum might be the solution you’re looking for. It’s an automated, subscription-based mail service that lets you curate and choose pictures to send to people of your choosing on a monthly basis.

August 18, 2011
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Photovine Lets You Publicly Share Photos Based On Specific Topics

iOS: Photovine is a free app that lets you pick a topic (called a “vine”) that interests you, such as “Smiling With Your Mouth Closed” or “Cute Dogs”, and add a relevant photo. It provides a new and interesting way to publicly share your photos with others in the large community that is the internet.

August 17, 2011
Work

How To Email As Many Photos As You Want From Your iPhone

iOS 4 has an artificial restriction that prevents you from emailing more than five photos (or other images) at a time. While you’re probably not emailing more than that in most cases, this is really annoying when you have to send a second email just for a sixth. Fortunately there’s a workaround. It’s not perfect, but it’ll do.

August 12, 2011
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Photos In Your Wallet Increase Likeliness Of It Being Returned

Losing your wallet can be devastating, because it doesn’t just mean lost money, but rather several cards that will take many hours to replace. Plus, if it results in identity theft you could be paying for that one little error for several years. According to personal finance magazine SmartMoney, you can improve your chances of getting your lost wallet returned by simply including a photo:

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