Tag archive: Photos

Announced by Google Senior Software Engineer Colin McMillen on his Google+ account, Google is adding the ability to create new Internet meme designs using photos that are uploaded to Google+. After the user drops a photo into the sharebox on the Google+ feed page, they can click the ”Add text” button that's located underneath the uploaded photo. This launches a new window that allows the user to type words on the photo at the… Read More

Perhaps an upcoming feature on the next version of the iPhone or iPad, Apple filed a patent over a year ago with the United States Patent and Trademark Office that outlines a method of face recognition for taking an iOS device out of sleep mode. Likely built into a future version of iOS, an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad would recognize that a user is in the vicinity after the user picks up the device and utilize the camera to scan the user's… Read More

Everyone knows there are a fair few photos on Facebook that show people three sheets to the wind, but just over three-quarters of all pictures? That’s the figure photo book website MyMemory.com came up with after asking 1,781 Brits aged 18 and over how many of their Facebook pictures showed them under the influence of alcohol. It’s a large figure, 76 percent, and one that over this weekend will no doubt get even larger as hungover office workers… Read More

Lenovo has unveiled and launched three new tablets and a phone for the Chinese market. The Lenovo LePad S2005 S2007, S2010, and S2 are all hitting Chinese store shelves soon and have screens ranging from 4 to 10 inches. We weren't able to attend this event, but the Chinese version of Engadget (1, 2, 3) was able to get the details on the new devices.  LePad S2005: This is a 5-inch Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) tablet. It has a 800×480… Read More

If someone asked you how many pictures are uploaded to Flickr in a typical day, the answer “lots” would be a fair, if rather unspecific, response. It appears that artist Erik Kessels not only wanted to know how many photos are uploaded, but also how it would look if he printed all of them. So, armed with a printer, a ton of paper and several gallons of ink, he set about printing every photo put up on Flickr in a single 24-hour period. The result… Read More

Vancouver-based social media and promotions agency Popcorn released an infographic on its blog detailing actions taking place across the major social networks every 60 seconds. With more than 800 million users on Facebook at of late, over half a million comments are posted on Facebook every single minute. Over 290,000 status updates are posted to profiles and nearly 140,000 photos are uploaded per minute. At that rate, it would take about 15… Read More

Photo-sharing service Flickr unveiled Photo Session and the Flickr Android app on Thursday. Photo Session is a feature designed to encourage friends and family to share photos at the same time, no matter where they are in the world. Say you’ve taken a thousand photos on your recent trip to Vietnam and you want to share them with relatives and friends at the same time. Well, the first thing to do is edit them down to the best 50, because you can… Read More