Tag: PICS

Flickr has announced that visitors who browse the site using an iPad can now view photos using a lightbox-style viewer. On any photo page, simply tap the picture you'd like to view and the background will darken and the higher-resolution image will load in the foreground. It's a subtle change, but one which definitely makes browsing Flickr on an iPad a more enjoyable (and efficient) ...

Picplz, the popular photo sharing app for Android and iOS, has introduced two more handy features: photo collections and border effects. Collections are easy to compile -- just tap a button on the Picplz web viewer or your mobile app (updates for iOS and Android will appear shortly). The new border effects give you yet another fun way to jazz up your photos prior to sharing them. They can be ...

If you're a serious Facebook user, you and your friends have posted hundreds of thousands of photos. Pixable's Photofeed is a new Facebook app that shows you which ones you should care about. It ranks photos in categories like "Popular of the week," "Popular of the day," "Top profile pics," and "Best of 2010," using each photo's number of "likes" and comments. The "popular" categories are ...

An innovative an dinteresting venture by the University of Southern California called Viewfinder seeks to spatially locate 2D pictures within a 3D environment like Google Earth. The end result places the pictures within Google Earth so that they seamlessly integrate within their environment. Can't picture it? Just check out the video after the jump, and check out the site for more information on ...

ZoneTag is a new app from Yahoo! Research that enables certain Nokia Series 60 to upload cameraphone pics directly to Flickr with two keypresses. The cool part, though, is that the photos are automatically location-tagged via some magic with cell tower IDs. Now I wish I had a Series 60 phone. Conveniently, ZoneTag is free. [Via the Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog] ...