Pixiq

Anyone who has been reading my posts since March knows that I am enamored with my IPhone, which allowed my son to have voice during an emergency, and has an extraordinary lens in its smart phone container. Okay, so  I hate that the battery may have issues and that its inability to function requires a complete overhaul, e.g. an eniterly new phone. And frankly, on some level, who care about the GPS? They can track my every move, but I just want a phone that will last more than 4 hours without wane, especially when the device is brand spanking new. So this battery issue should be the real FTC issue, not the GPS.

Nevertheless, what I really want Iphone users to witness is the latest social media darling of photo apps,  the Instagram and Inkstagram, its social web feed were you can communicate with millions of other users.This new-fangled tool and social media darling made a big splash in the NY Times. This app can make cool postcard images, with effects that rival Kubota tools for Photoshop. I particularly like the following effects: Toaster, Hefe, 1977, and Lord Kelvin. But what this does to your images, in literally a snap, makes art possible. As I said before, digital camera sales are weak, and soon may be replaced entirely by smartphones. But thanks to cellphone apps like Instagram, picture-taking has never been easier or in fact more fun. In the words of this article, "Now a wave of mobile applications is letting people tweak their cellphone snapshots and share them with friends and strangers." Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom, the founders of the photo-sharing service Instagram have realy struck pay dirt with this Wunderkind. Move over Facebook and Flickr; there's a new game in town. And Instagram has a milion new users every month. Read about it below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/technology/04photosharing.html?ref=technology