Tag archive: photo

Rolling out gradually to Facebook users, the social network is launching a new version of the photo viewer that allows pictures to be displayed at a significantly larger resolution than previous designs. On a typical 15″ laptop, pictures display as large as 960 pixels wide and 720 pixels tall. After the user clicks on a photo, the new interface launches and covers the entire screen with the photo as well as a white space on the right… Read More

Likely announced during CES week, Warner Bros Advanced Digital Services is prepping a photo sharing service called Out My Window according to a report from Fusible. Users can visit www.outmywindow.com and enter an email address to be notified when the photo sharing network launches. Using the tag line “Share your view at the speed of life,” the one-page site also tries to market the concept with “A perfect picture. The urge to… Read More

Likely designed for people that haven't upgraded to a smartphone just yet, Twitter launched support for photo posting through sending a simple text message. While updating a Twitter account through text messages has long been a feature of the service, users haven't been able to transmit mobile pictures without the help of a Twitter application. Since Twitter launched text messaging support for users, approximately four billion SMS… Read More

While the Google Street car has been known to capture some crazy situations, this is the first time that the vehicle has snapped several photographs of a naked woman within the United States. Captured standing outside her house holding a water jug, the Miami-based woman catches the Google automobile turning the corner and continues to put her hand up to her mouth in shock in subsequent pictures. The vehicle captured at least three images of the… Read More

Announced during June of this year, Twitter rolled out the ability to upload photos to all users today. When users log into the Web version of Twitter, they will be greeted with a prompt that directs users to click the new camera icon underneath the messaging box to choose a photo to upload. Twitter has put a 3MB limit on the size of photos and photos immediately appear in thumbnail mode before a user completes the message. The user also has… Read More

In the shadow of more impressive announcements from Google about Plus’s skyrocketing user base, Instagram has released some numbers that should give pause as well. Having only launched in October of 2010, the iPhone-only app now boasts over 150 million pictures across its 7 million worldwide users. Each day these users upload 1.3 million photos; that’s about 900 photos each minute, 15 each second. Where the free iPhone-only app goes from here… Read More

Twitter is about to unveil its own photo-sharing service, according to a TechCrunch report. Citing “multiple sources,” the report says the service could be up and running as early as Tuesday. Since TechCrunch published its claim, All Things D has reported that an announcement will be made by Twitter at the D9 conference (organized, incidentally, by All Things D) in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo lined-up to speak… Read More

The newly launched public photo-sharing app Color, available for iOS and Android devices, took the tech world by storm Thursday after it received a massive $41 million pre-release cash injection from venture capitalists. Much of the enthusiasm surrounding the app also came from its radical functionality, which treats all photos taken in the app as public, and shares those photos with any other Color user within 150 feet, friend and stranger… Read More

As one of the largest photo-sharing sites in the world, Facebook has acknowledged the need to beef up its photo capabilities. The update will include hi-res photos, bulk tagging capabilites and a lightbox interface for viewing images from anywhere on the site. Facebook began rolling out these new features yesterday, brining the ability to upload and download hi-res photos up to 2048 pixels wide or high.  All the photos can be downloaded as a… Read More

Joining the slew of pharmacies and other box retailers already offering digital photo prints, Office Depot on Monday announced a new partnership with Kodak and LifePics that will turn the office retailer into a photo shop. By introducing a new online digital photo center, Office Depot will leverage its 1,200 retail locations to bring customers on-demand digital photo prints and other custom-printed items from the Web. Besides offering… Read More

Every day seems to bring a new announcement from Google. No sooner was its new Chrome browser out of the block than the company announced a public beta of Picasa 3.0, its photo management system, along with a redesign of Picasa Web Albums. According to a blog by product manager Mike Horowitz, Picasa 3.0 includes a “new 'sync to web' feature that automatically updates online albums when you add or edit photos on your… Read More

Samsung has taken unveiled four new digital photo frames that offer stylish display of images throughout the house and—via Samsung's UbiSync technology—can act as secondary displays for PCs just by plugging them into a USB port. The new photo frames stick with Samsung's traditional photo frame design, with a piano-black bezel with capacitive touch controls built into the bezel: touch to make them appear, and when… Read More

Canon added to its already burgeoning line of All-in-One photo printers on Monday with an affordable duo of machines. The Pixma MP480 and MP190 come in under $100 and offer printing, scanning and copying in one machine. The MP480 gets a full-color 1.8-inch LCD screen, which helps users navigate an array of onboard editing options. For instance, Auto Photo Fix will automatically pick out common defects from scanned photos… Read More

Pandigital has been making LCD photo frames for a while, but now the company is expanding out into multifunction devices, announcing its Kitchen HDTV/Digital Cookbook/Digital Photo Frame (PDF) that combines a digital photo frame with HD television capability…and the ability to display your recipes as you cook. "As the hub of today's busy home, the kitchen is now incorporating new technologies that have already been… Read More