Make your Android tablet a socially-connected photo frame

Make your Android tablet a socially-connected photo frame

Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:26 PM PST

Breathe new life into that dying Android tablet with Dayframe's digital picture frame app.

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There's an incredibly handy application in the Google Play Store that lets you turn your Android smartphone or tablet into a socially connected digital picture frame. Called Dayframe (free), it's similar to the Daydream mode that comes with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and later, except that Dayframe is much more social, more photo-friendly, and allows for very specific user-defined settings.

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As to what makes this a "social connected" digital picture frame experience comes from the app's integration with various social networks. Dayframe displays pictures from services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as 500px, Tumblr, Google+, Dropbox, and Flickr.

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Nokia's Refocus app makes its way to Lumia PureView devices

Posted: 13 Nov 2013 09:11 AM PST

A look at the Refocus app's Color Pop.

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Nokia's Refocus Windows Phone application is now available, the company announced on Wednesday.

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Microsoft's Windows Phone store is offering the free app, which allows users to snap a photo and then adjust the depth of field -- in other words, choose which parts of the image are clear and which segments are out of focus. The application also includes support for "Color Pop," a feature that allows users to turn on color in one section of the image and turn the rest of it to black-and-white... [Read more]