by Lee Mathews on March 17, 2011 at 12:40 PM

Looking for a clean, simple way to display and share your Instagram photos as a gallery? Check out Instagrid, a new Web app that makes the process about as painless as it can be. Just create an account, plug in your Instagram account details, and starting choosing photos. Photos can be viewed in a single-column display at full size, or as a neatly laid-out array of thumbnails. Clicking a ...
by Vlad Bobleanta on March 14, 2011 at 04:30 PM

Instagallery is an iPad app that lets you view a gallery of Instagram photos. The app shows you popular Instagram photos once you start it up, but you can also sign in with your Instagram account. If you do that, you'll be able to see photos from the people you follow, view your own photos, "like" photos, view and add comments, and see who your friends are following.
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by Jay Hathaway on March 11, 2011 at 03:00 PM

Instagram, the trendiest iPhone photo sharing app in the land, is on a roll. Fresh off the launch of an API, Instagram has updated its iOS apps with an improved news feed and a tilt-shift option to add some punch to your photos.
The news feed used to show only activity on your own photos -- likes, comments, and new followers. Now it has a second tab that shows what your friends are liking ...
by Samuel Gibbs on March 10, 2011 at 04:00 AM

Flipboard has just updated its social-feed reading iPad app to version 1.2. This new version adds a performance boost and bug-fixes, with the highlight being Instagram integration.
Instagram integration
Taking advantage of the recent API access Instagram made available, the Flipboard team have enabled users to browse through the plethora of user-made photos in a digital representation of ...
by Jay Hathaway on February 25, 2011 at 12:30 PM

Popular iPhone photo-sharing app Instagram has just released a real-time updates API that allows developers to use Instagram photos, tags, and locations in their own apps. The announcement wasn't all theoretical either: you can already see the new API in action with apps including Foodspotting, Dropbox and Momento. Other trendy apps will be launching Instagram integration soon, Flipboard and ...
by Jay Hathaway on February 8, 2011 at 01:00 PM

In the mobile photoblogging space, Instagram is the hot and trendy iPhone app of the moment. It faces competition from PicPlz, which doesn't have the same brand caché, but keeps beating Instagram to the punch on new features. PicPlz just launched a developer API mere hours before Instagram, and then followed that up with built-in analytics and Creative Commons support that Instagram doesn't ...
by Samuel Gibbs on February 4, 2011 at 01:30 PM

Ever since the introduction of cameras to mobile phones people have been snapping photos of just about everything on their daily travels. The dawn of the smartphone brought the ability to share things to a wider audience than MMS could reach, and when the smartphone collided with decent-enough camera modules, the social photo sharing craze kicked off.
The iPhone hasn't escaped the deluge of ...
by Vlad Bobleanta on January 28, 2011 at 10:30 AM

Instagram -- the app all the cool kids with iPhones use to snap, filter, and share pictures -- has received an update yesterday that adds support for hashtags. These work in a similar fashion to the way they do on Twitter. You can tag a photo you share by adding a hashtag either in the caption or comment field. Each hashtag gets its own page , which you can get to by clicking on a hashtag ...
by Vlad Bobleanta on January 20, 2011 at 02:30 PM

Instagram seems to be the talk of all the cool kids these days, but they forget one thing -- it's still iOS-only, at least for now. One of its major competitors in the mobile image sharing with filters space is PicPlz, which has apps for both iOS and Android. Just last week, the PicPlz app for iOS received many improvements, and today they have made the jump to Android.
PicPlz for Android now ...
by Samuel Gibbs on January 18, 2011 at 04:25 AM

Instagram, the wildly popular social photo sharing app for iOS, has just been updated to add two brand new filters to its armory: 'Walden' and 'Hefe.' Also back by popular demand is 'Poprocket,' which got turfed out with the last update, much to the dismay of many Instagram users.
Given that Instagram isn't the only player in the iPhone photo-sharing space, rapid innovation seems key to the ...
by Jay Hathaway on January 11, 2011 at 03:30 PM

Instagram is a great way to share photos and follow friends' photo posts if you have an iPhone. You can even share links to your individual photos on the web. Unfortunately, there's no web interface for sharing your Instagram photostream. That's where Followgram came in, until it was shut down this afternoon. Now this message has been posted:
Sorry folks, looks like we have to say goodbye for ...
by Samuel Gibbs on January 10, 2011 at 05:00 AM

Have you ever wanted to browse a collection of Instagram-produced photos, but don't have an iOS device? Well now you can with Instagram Shuffle.
Essentially displaying Twitter shared Instagram photos in real-time, Instagram Shuffle displays a new photo every time you hit refresh or click 'Shuffle.' Although Instagram photos aren't necessarily always shared on Twitter, there are enough to give ...
by Lee Mathews on December 23, 2010 at 09:30 AM

Platform envy is pretty common with smartphone users. It's pretty much inevitable that popular apps will eventually make the jump from one mobile OS to the other, but the waiting game can often be frustrating. Still, at least you know it's coming -- and that's now the case with Instagram, the immensely popular photo filtering and sharing app for iOS.
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom ...
by Samuel Gibbs on December 22, 2010 at 01:40 PM

Santa's just hand-delivered you a brand-spanking new iPhone or iPod touch. You've ripped the wrapping paper off, charged it, and have been playing with it non-stop, but your home screen looks a bit bare. Well look no further: DLS has your back! We love all kinds of apps, but here are our essential, must-download apps for your new and shiny iDevice. ...
by Samuel Gibbs on December 19, 2010 at 05:00 AM

Instagram seems all the rage at the moment, taking the social sharing of photos in new and interesting ways. But Burbn, Inc, the company behind Instagram, isn't sitting on its laurels, actively refining and adding features to the app and service. The latest update released today brings with it two new photo filters, 'Sutro' and 'Toaster' with the later seemingly named after the dog of the popular ...