With the holidays just around the corner, Google is rolling out some new features for its Google+ social network. Bradley Horowitz, the vice president of Google+, said that the new features they are releasing includes a tool called the noise filter, which can fine tune a user’s stream to control which posts can be seen. “We’re adding fine-grained controls...
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Hammacher Schlemmer, an online store for quirky, unusual, odd and quite expensive inventions, has announced the availability of the World’s Smallest Camera. The device is not really the smallest in the world, but it the smallest commercial camera available. The World’s Smallest Camera, as it is listed in the site, measures just 26 mm squared. The camera’s...
Photo sharing site 1000 Memories revealed just how big Facebook, which now has 375 billion photos, is as a photo site compared to other services such as Instagram and Flickr. In a revealing article posted in the site, it states that around 375 billion photos could be captured in a year if everyone took at least 150 photos in that one year. It goes on to say that around...
An Israel-based company called ICVT has developed a new image compression technology for JPEG pictures called JPEGmini, which reduces the image’s overall file size by up to 5 times while preserving its resolution and quality. The new technology was designed specifically for the Web as more photographers, professional and amateur, use the internet for archiving and...
Images of what claims to be the real iPhone 5 recently emerged, giving us the first look at Apple’s new iPhone 5 smartphone. Posted by a Mac Rumors forum member, the image revealed what looks like a longer smartphone that is thinner than the Apple’s iPhone 4 model. The poster, known as guigsh, said that the image was taken “in the office of a French operator.”...
A number of photos, which claim to be a new iPhone 4 prototype, have been leaked by a Vietnamese site. The site is no stranger to outing new devices and has previously released details of prototypes for the iPhone 4 and the iPod Touch, correctly unveiling details of a new camera. The site said that the new iPhone 4s is lighter, faster and instead of glass, sports a...
Panoramas are some of the more creative and fun things you can create when you’re using a camera, but it is a little difficult to capture good photos due to the camera’s lens when it comes to pasting the photos together. The guys from Pixeet have managed to develop a way to overcome these problems by making a fish-eye lens and a very helpful app. The Pixeet...
According to Flicker, the iPhone 4’s camera is the most used camera in the world, which is a little crazy because the device is primarily a phone. So with a phone that a lot of purposes, a new add-on comes that allows camera lenses to be mounted to your iPhone. The iPhone SLR Mount is a new case from Photojojo enables any Nikon or Canon lens to be attached to your...