If you weren't aware of all of the Instagram users posting up their Thanksgiving meals to Facebook and Twitter, we're not sure how you missed them. The photo-sharing service announced that Thanksgiving was their biggest day ever, with over 10 million photos shared in the 24-hour period, peaking at 226 photos per second.
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Microsoft releases new Photo Gallery and Movie Maker
The photo and video editors available on Windows 7 have always been somewhat basic, but Microsoft has today decided to revamp what’s available to users. Windows Photo Gallery and Movie Maker have both been updated for Windows 7 and Windows 8, offering a wealth of new functionality. Movie Maker sees the biggest change, offering some video tweaks that should help you get the most out of your smartphone or camera footage.
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Bump adds mobile to computer photo sharing
Bump was a novel little app that allowed you to share contacts and information by simply bumping two smartphones together. Now, the company is offering a new feature: the ability to transfer your photos to your computer using just the web browser. Users will be able to point their browsers to http://bu.mp in order to shift photos over from their phones to a computer without having to install any software.
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Instagram hits 40 million users after Facebook deal
News of Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram has really put the spotlight on the already popular photo sharing app, which has seen a surge in new users. Since launching an Android version of the app 10 days ago, Instagram has seen 10 million new signups, taking its total user base to 40 million.
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Canon Cinema EOS C500/C500 PL granted price and first peek
Today Canon has released information regarding their newest line of high-powered video cameras including the Canon Cinema EOS C500 and C500 PL including pricing which has preliminary plans for a price of approximately $30,000 USD. These cinematography cameras will be part of the new Canon EOS System of professional cinematography products and will be capable of outputting 4K (4096 x 2160-pixel) resolution digital motion imagery. This video will be able to be output in uncompressed RAW format for external recording as well, making them ready for high level performance at Hollywood film quality.
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Colossal Milky Way photo captures ‘one billion stars’
Dr Nick Cross from the University of Edinburgh and associates of his at that institution have completed a 10 year sky survey data combination which will allow one single image (and the information embedded within) to display "about one billion starts." This is according to Cross who notes that this "is more than has been in any other image produced by surveys." This image can be seen in an extremely zoomed-in portion of an image as well as an expanded image which reads more like a river-sized landscape than it does a photograph.
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Facebook now offers high resolution photos and fullscreen viewing
Remember back in the early days of Facebook, or the latter days of myspace when everyone had tiny pictures of low quality. Times have changed and before today, Facebook photos could only be viewed using about 3/4 of any given computers screen, that was if the quality was good enough to begin with. As of today that has all changed.
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Android apps flaw also allows photo snooping
Earlier this week, it was uncovered that iOS apps had a glitch that gave app developers access to users' photos once they allow an app to access their location information. Now a new investigation launched by the NY Times has discovered that a similar snooping can happen on Android, where third-party developers also have access to users' photos without explicitly asking for permission.
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Photojojo iPhone Rangefinder revealed and detailed
Everybody knows that Photojojo makes the strangest, most interesting, and indeed some of the highest quality oddities a camera enthusiast can buy - and today they've upped the ante for hipsters working with the iPhone. Grab you iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S, slide on the first piece of the cast, pop that into the second bit, and bam, you've got your very own retro-style analog camera that looks and feels relatively similar to the real thing, but with iPhone quality in the mix! You'll be able to tap the shutter button to take a photo, use a real viewfinder, and mount it on a tripod!
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Dropbox offering 4.5GB of cloud space to desktop bug testers
If you're an avid user of Dropbox and love to test out new builds of software for your favorite cloud storage service, today's your lucky day. Dropbox is showing off their version 1.3.12 beta release of their desktop software, offering up to 500MB of photos and video (or space for whatever you like) at a time, with 500MB more free each time you fill your space up. This testing ground software download is entirely free to download and will have you checking out a bevy of new options with the program itself including imports from iPhone, imports from SD cards, and a cleanup of the Windows user interface!
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Photojojo Photorito Lens Wrap Hands-on
When it comes to fun, cool, and otherwise amazing camera accessories, there’s no site quite like Photojojo, and with the release they just dropped this week, the Photorito Lens Wrap, they’ve entered the camera / food crossover market in a strange, strange way. We just happen to have one of these burrito-themed lens wraps right here, and we’re going to take a look at it with you. Look tasty enough to fit in your backpack, protecting you loved ones?
1811 Fourier Technique improved upon, video, images, audio set to improve
Back in 1811 there was a mathematical technique proposed, it now known to us as Joseph Fourier's Fourier Technique, a technique which eventually translated itself into one of the most basic ways we now encode and de-code images, music, and many other kinds of media - what's being proposed by MIT now is that there's a much more efficient way to go about all of it. The Fourier Technique took a complex signal, broke it down into several components, transmitted or processed them each separately, then re-combined them into what was basically there in the first place. In 1965 this technique was translated to computers, and sweet packaging did occur.
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