Update: October 21, 2014! A lot of people must have complained, because Camera Roll and My PhotoStream have resurrected. Download the latest software update, iOS 8.1, and everything will be like it was. Really unhappy that camera roll is gone from is iOS 8 @APPLEOFFIClAL #why?— Rene Gaudreau (@rgaudreau) September 20, 2014 People who downloaded…
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Forget Apple’s PhotoStream: Flickr Has Automatic Photo Uploads to 1000GB!
Flickr, a photo service that was very popular a few years ago, is making a huge comeback. It seemed like no one was using it the past couple years since Yahoo purchased Flickr in 2005. However, it now has an amazing couple of FREE features that you won’t want to miss. You can now back…
How To Effortlessly Back Up Your iPad/iPhone Videos using Camera Uploads In Dropbox
In my ongoing effort to manage storage on my iDevices, I wanted to share with you guys a neat feature, once again, that Dropbox offers (I wrote a similar post a few months back). For those of us who enjoy taking photos and videos with our devices, we know that they will take up a…
How To Manage Storage On Your iPad
Basic Post: Free up space on your iPad and iPhone! (**Update: I’ve written a second part: Click here after reading this post!) With all the apps that I download on my iPad on iPhone, I am finding myself constantly worrying about running out of storage. I have a 16gb iPad2. When I bought my iPhone5,…
How to use Instagram’s great features without its social sharing issues
Instagram is a free photo app that makes your iPhone and iPad photos look great without too much work. It literally only takes me just a few seconds to snap a photo, crop, then add a filter and share with my followers. However, you may have heard about the recent privacy concerns regarding your Instagram…
App #23: Squaready
Squaready (iTunes link) is a cool photography app that I have frequently used alongside Instagram. What it does is that it removes the ugly black bars you get when you do not fully crop your Instagram into a square. So essentially it will take your portrait-sized photos and create a square using white borders. …
What’s on my iPhone, part 2
I like to read about new apps and am downloading and trying them out all the time. I read this post awhile back that encouraged users to organize their App folders by actions, rather than categories, such as Photography or Games. I tried it out and have liked the organization of the apps. Here is…
App #21: Pinterest for iPad & Pinterest for Education
What is Pinterest? I am sure you've heard your friends talk about Pinterest. It has become extremely popular in the past year. My wife was the one who originally told me about it back in 2010. It has definitely hit the Internet by storm. Pinterest is yet another social site where users curate interesting…
Apps #17 and #18: iSmug and uSmug
Following my short review of the photo backup and sharing service Smugmug, I'd like to share two apps that allow for photo viewing on the iPad or iPhone. First, iSmug ($1.99, iTunes link) is an app for people who already have a Smugmug account. It is a universal app where you can fluidly view all…
Smugmug: Peace of mind in photo and video backup
For the past few years, my wife and I have taken thousands of photos. Vacations and the birth of our child in 2010 have been the highlight and majority of them. While I make a conscious effort to back up my photos on to our external harddrives, my wife has always shuddered at the thought…
More free promo codes: Diptic (photography app)
Good news! The people at Diptic were kind enough to offer a few free promo codes for their app, a great photography app as described in this previous post. To have a chance at winning, simply: Follow me on Twitter. Leave a comment here (specify Diptic promo, as I have another promo at the same…
App #15: Photosync (and a chance to win it for free!)
PhotoSync ($1.99, app link) is a photo syncing and back-up app that has proved to be quite useful while on holidays. Usually while on longer trips, I backed up my photos on a laptop each day, just in case I would lose my memory card. However, I did not bring a laptop with me on…