Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on April 09, 2010 by CyberNet.

Sharing content, particularly photos, has exploded in popularity over the last decade. It’s easy, it’s fun, and as a result, many websites offer services that help you create photo collages. One standout in this area is called Photovisi.

We like Photovisi for several reasons; ease of use, it looks good (nice templates), it’s free, and it’s available as a Facebook app in addition to the Photovisi website. We’ve tested out both methods (Facebook, and their website) for creating collages, and both prove to be outstanding.

There are basically three steps involved in the creation process – first you choose a template (shown below are some examples), add your photos (you browse for photos already saved on your computer), crop photos if you’d like, and then you can save, download, and or print your collage. As you are creating your collage, you can select a background color or choose an image to be displayed as your background.

When you’re ready to save your collage, choose the resolution you’d like for your download – 800×600, 1024×768, or 1600×1200. Additionally, Photovisi has partnered with Zazzle so that you can print your collage as magnets, postcards, mugs and more.

If you’re using the Facebook app, you choose an album of photos you’ve already uploaded to Facebook to work with. When you save your collage to Facebook, you can post it to your profile and save it to an album. Below is an actual collage that I created using photos from an album I had already uploaded to Facebook.

You’ll see one ad at the top of the page (I saw ads for Google’s Picasa and Intuit), but good services have to make money somehow, and it’s really the only ad you’ll come across, so it’s not bad.

One feature we would like to see would be integration with online photo services. Instead of browsing for photos on the computer, it would be great to be able to access collections from sites like Flickr, Smug Mug, etc. Other than that, we’re impressed with Photovisi. It produces great results for the amount of effort required to create a collage and will be fun to share with family and friends.

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PopBooth turns digital pictures into real prints, just like a real photo booth

PopBooth is an iOS photo booth app with one big difference. It actually prints out real strips of photos. These pictures don’t pop out of a slot in the side of the iPad of course, but ordering them is as easy as posting your photos to Twitter.

In fact, you can post these photos to Twitter and Facebook, or send them by email, but the point is the real paper photos. Just specify the recipient from within the app and hit send. The prints will drop onto the doormat three to five days later.

The service comes from Sincerely, the folks behind Postagram. Postagram is a similar app which lets you use an iPhone or Android phone to send postcards containing your camera snaps or Instagram photos. These cost $1 a pop, and although Sincerely hasn’t yet revealed the price for PopBooth, it will be a little more than a dollar per strip.

I love the convenience of this idea. I’m always meaning to print my best photos, but I’m not willing to buy a printer, and I have no idea where I would get decent quality prints anyway. Snapping a photo and then having it turn up a few days later could get expensively addictive.

PopBooth will be available in a couple of weeks.

PopBooth [PopBooth via Tech Crunch]

See Also:

• Postagram Prints, Mails Instagram Photos
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• HP Announces Wireless Printing App for iPhone

Photo editors are pretty useful: boosting pics to bring out colors, adjusting settings to bring out quality, adding filters to bring out hipsters, etc. Snapseed for iPad is a great photo editor that’s incredibly easy to use. More »

So you still can’t stun ’em in a pair of Haus of Gaga-designed camera glasses, but the Polaroid GL10 instant mobile printer is now officially available for pre-order — and rumored to be making an early debut in the men’s accessories section at Bloomingdale’s in NYC. The first of the pop star’s Grey Label devices to make it to market, the GL10 connects wirelessly via Bluetooth to smartphones (including Android, Blackberry, and Windows phones) and via USB to computers and digital cameras. The little thing weighs 15 ounces, prints 3 x 4-inch classic Polaroid-style or full bleed prints, and boasts a Li-ion battery apparently capable of spitting out 35 photos per charge. Now you can make a real gallery of all those “this is my lunch” pictures you’ve been forcing on your Facebook friends for the past few years — that is, if you’re willing to drop $170 for a surprisingly understated celebrity-backed photo printer.

Polaroid GL10 instant mobile printer now available for pre-order, Lady Gaga-approved originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 May 2011 14:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s taken the US Patent and Trademark Office four and half years to consider it, but Facebook now finally has a patent on one of its central features: photo tagging. Applied for in October 2006 and just granted this week, this legal doc gives Mark Zuckerberg and a couple of his buddies credit for designing a method for identifying users in “a selection of an item of digital media.” That could be photos, video, audio, or text — the main drive of the patent is that it lets people associate a given chunk of media with a person and inform others of this association. The wording of Facebook’s claims is rather specific — you have to, for example, allow the identified person the opportunity to reject the identification — so having this patent need not necessarily preclude other sites like Flickr from engaging in similar, but not identical, behavior.

Facebook granted patent for tagging digital media originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 May 2011 03:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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