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Today Instragram has released a major update to the insanely popular photo sharing social service. The update comes to both iOS and Android devices together and offers the following new features:

• Ability to view your photos on a map
• Redesign profile screen
• Redesigned upload screens
• Interface improvements throughout
• Infinite scrolling on photo feeds
• Ability to flag inappropriate comments

The update also includes the prerequisite bug fixes too. I did a quick run through of the app after ...

Receiving the message “Error: You can’t follow anymore people”?

I have been getting a lot of emails and comments here on the blog from people who are frustrated because they can’t follow more people. The team at Instagram decided to institute a limit to the number of people an account can follow to 7,500. Here is the exact wording of the explanation from Instagram:

“In order to reduce unwanted spam, Instagram has ...

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Instagram, the popular 4 billion dollar photo sharing service has just released a new update bring the version up to 2.5.0. Full details of the update are available here. Highlights include:

• An updated profile tab
• Improvements to commenting
• UI improvements
• Speed improvements

This update also includes what everyone has been expecting, a more tightly integrated experience with Facebook in the form of being able to share your likes to your Facebook ...

My #1 most recommended iPhone photo editing app Snapseed is free right now on the App Store. I use Snapseed 99% percent of the time in my post-processing workflow. The app is consistently updated with new tools and features. If I was lost on a deserted island and could only have my iPhone and one photo editing app, I’d choose Snapseed. Other than retouching or masking, this app does ...

I have spent a large number of hours studying the Instagram Popular Page. Those articles resulted in first this article and then this one. I am not Popular Page obsessed despite the amount of time and energy I’ve expended on understanding how it works. The truth is, I enjoy scoring models and analyses, and reverse engineering how things work. When I was a wee ...

This is not a new topic for me. Several months ago I wrote this article on how the popular page algorithm might work. That has been my most viewed and most commented on post to date. It just goes to show exactly how popular Instagram is today. Despite the recent news that the service is changing hands, I think it will continue to be a ...

Facebook will acquire Instagram…

Wow. Yes, wow. That’s all I can say at the moment. Not because the price was crazy high – $1,000,000,000 (yes that’s 9 zeroes!) but because the much beloved Instagram community, which is so much at the heart of many burgeoning young photographers, myself include, is going to be affected in a BIG way. Is this a happy day ...

Hello Android! Instagram, the social photo sharing app has just been released to the Android community. If you don’t already have the app on your Andriod device, you can download Instagram for Android here. As of the writing of this post there are over 27 million Instagram users. With the release of the Instagram App for Android that number is sure to get ...

Camera+ the perennial best seller among iPhone photography apps has just received a major update to version 3! Aside from a shinier app icon, they’ve added sharing features, support for importing multiple photos from your library into Camera+ at the same time, something they call Workflows which apparently let you decide if you want to shoot and edit ...

There are so many free apps today that I thought I’d round them all up and list them out for easy nabbing!

FiLMiC Pro – Great app for those who like shooting video on their iPhone. Some pro looks available. I’ve only played around and haven’t used it seriously but it gets mentioned a lot so worth grabbing while it is free.

Infinicam - I really don’t care for ...