Not exact matches
Once Krieger joined, the two were able to build Burbn
into a
mobile Web app that let people check in to locations, make plans, earn points for hanging out with friends, post
photos, and more.
One company to have catapulted from a startup
into a serious firm backed by significant investment is EyeEm, a
photo - sharing
mobile app that connects amateur photographers with potential buyers.
In looking at Facebook's efforts to continue innovating its core product — adding more features like Places and Deals, taking away the friction of page - loads to access parts of the site like
Photos, going further
into mobile with new apps, and generally trying to make itself easier to access and more available anywhere — one can see how it is working to get there.
As we mentioned earlier, swiping based on a
photo and a couple of facts has sort of turned online and
mobile dating
into a game — it can be fun to make these quick judgments about people, right?
But the number one problem people seem to run
into on
mobile and online dating sites is feeling like they've been deceived by dishonest
photos / profiles, so the most important thing you can do to increase your chances of success is to be honest, and be yourself.
Today, digital cameras, phones, and screenshots can capture visuals that can be placed
into software like
Photo Story (free from Microsoft) or a
mobile storyboard (such as Cinemek).
Specific projects embedded instruction about
mobile group collaboration, blogs, microblog hashtags,
photo and video uploads, and aggregating posts
into an online publication.
Facebook albums and
photos are now integrated
into the Xperia image gallery, as if they are already on the
mobile phone and FB notification alerts are viewable inside of the lock - screen too.
Amazon did add some fancy custom features, like the ability to strip ads,
photos and other miscellaneous items out of articles — similar to the Reader feature Apple built
into Mobile Safari to make reading web articles easier.
You can deposit funds
into the account via ATMs, mail, direct deposits or a
mobile app's
photo - check feature.
Photofunia is a free online
photo editor (not a
mobile app) that puts your image
into a stock collage - style background.
Photos: Matthew HofmannTiny homes, retrofitting old trailers
into eco-friendly
mobile homes are becoming more widespread as people are questioning the need for «stuff» and a mortgage.
Once the
photo of the business card is taken, WorldCard
Mobile uses OCR to translate the image
into text and adds that text
into your iPhone contacts.
The currently neat thing is that they nicely bridge the gap between print and digital, because you can take a
photo of one with your
mobile phone and a small application will convert the graphic data
into other forms, typically a URL.
Sony's
Mobile Bravia Engine tech kicks
into action when viewing
photo and videos, just as it does on the manufacturer's phones, and on a tablet the effect is even more staggering, making colors appear even bolder and images sharper, while cutting down on visible noise.
I imagine this research will eventually find its way
into Google
Photos» editing tools, or in the company's other
mobile editing app, Snapseed.
But first, Derrick Harris and I discuss Amazon's official entry
into mobile app development platform a la Parse, which will launch (hopefully) on Thursday; the land grab in cloud storage gateways, and why it's sort of great that Yahoo (s yahoo) Flickr has released a ginormous data set from all those flickr
photos and videos for analysis by data scientists or just people who want to experiment with ginormous data sets.
Fire up Google
Photos on your
mobile device of choice, tap on an image to bring it fully
into view, and you'll see the Lens button down at the bottom — it's an Instagram-esque dot with three - quarters of a square around it.
The Seagate
Mobile Backup app for iOS and Android also backs up contacts, messages,
photos, and other data from your smartphone to your hard drive via Wi - Fi or your phone's data connection as long as the drive is plugged
into a computer running the Dashboard software.
We already use
mobile devices for snapping
photos on the go, but there are a bunch of apps that turn our tablets
into photo editors as well.
Read next: PostalPix finally lands on Android, enabling more users to turn
mobile photos into professional prints
This setup also lets you use an Epson app to print
photos stored on your
mobile device, a quick and easy way to get those
photos off the phone and
into a more semi-permanent state of being.
Google
Photos remains one of the most popular apps from the Alphabet - owned company and a flagship example of its efforts to deeply integrate computer vision, machine learning, and general artificial intelligence technologies
into its
mobile apps with the goal of providing consumers with versatile and highly intuitive services capable of learning one's habits and becoming more efficient with time.
Sony's
Mobile Bravia Engine 2 technology is present on the Xperia Z, and kicks
into action when viewing
photos or video content unless you manually disable it via the «display settings» menu.
For one, high - speed internet is not as widespread, meaning simple text messaging and other standard features built
into WhatsApp, like
photo and location sharing, are more efficient on
mobile when compared to more data - heavy software like the main Facebook app.
BlackBerry claims its patents cover cryptographic techniques designed to protect user privacy by encrypting communications between users, the integration of
mobile games
into messaging services, and user interface elements such as notification bubbles, message timestamps and the ability to tag people in
photos.
If you're not really
into mobile gaming at all and you're just planning on using this for other forms of entertainment, say for media streaming, in addition to things like web browsing, social media,
photos, and email, then the Idol 5 will do just fine for these things too.
As Web 2.0 evolves
into the increasingly
mobile - friendly Web 3.0, there is no shortage of ways to share your
photos online: your Web site, Facebook, Flickr, Snapfish, YouTube, and more.
This newest social media craze available for free in the
mobile App Store — allows users to edit
photos taken on their smartphone cameras using a variety of filters — from sepia tones to 1970s - inspired hues — which transform ordinary snapshots
into professional - quality
photos.