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10 New & Fresh iPhone Photography Apps

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10 New & Fresh iPhone Photography Apps


10 New & Fresh iPhone Photography Apps

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 10:32 PM PST

The iPhone is one of the many smartphones in the market which has a good stock camera built in it. However, the stock camera app has limited features, so users may need to depend on third party apps to get better end products from the iPhone camera.

The good news is that there are tons of camera apps out there in the App Store for both amaterus and professionals, and everyone else in between. We’ve picked a list of 10 new and fresh iPhone photography apps that you might want to check out.

1. PicsArt Photo Studio

PicsArt Photo Studio is a well-known Android app and is now available for the iPhone. It offers features such as editing and applying filters on a new photo or the ones in the camera roll. Photos can be arranged in a collage and users can import their images from their Facebook, Picasa, Flickr or Dropbox accounts. [Free]

PicsArt Photo Studio

2. SeeMail

Here’s a new way to send pictures to your friends. SeeMail lets you send photos with an attached audio clip. With this app you can record up to 33 seconds of audio to the photo instead of attaching a caption to it. [Free]

SeeMail

3. SymbolGram

SymbolGram allows you to turn your photo into any shape. You can crop and turn your photos into various shapes: triangles, circles, hearts, balloons and more. If you’re bored of normal looking picture you might wanna give this a go. [Free]

SymbolGram

4. Digisocial

Digisocial is something similar to Instagram, in that it has its own social community, but with Digisocial you can send and receive high-quality audio alongside your photos. If you prefer to send voice clips, this is also the app to use. [Free]

Digisocial

5. Camera bag 2

Camera Bag 2 has 23 different presets/filters that you can choose to apply on your photos; adjust the intensity of the filters after application, or crop and add frames and borders to your photos. If 23 presets/filters is not enough for you, you can get 30 more with an upgrade of $1.99 only. [Free]

Camera bag 2

6. Cycloramic

Take panoramic photos or record views of up to 360 degrees with Cycloramic. As taking a panaroma photo is not that easy, this app also will emit a sound or a vibration when you’re going too fast, too slow or if your camera moves too far out of range to make the panorama perfect. [$0.99]

Cycloramic

7. Wood Camera

Wood Camera is a grunge/retro/vintage photo app. Since you can change between effects while capturing the photo, you can see the end effect before the picture is taken. This app also allows you to edit and crop your photos. [$0.99]

Wood Camera

8. LightLeaker

Light leak was a type of error back in the days of taking photos on negative rolls but now for some reason, it is a popular photography style. This app, LightLeaker, offers 30 different types of light leaks that you can apply on your photo. [$0.99]

LightLeaker

9. Space Paint

Want more than just photo filters? Space Paint lets you put bokehs, star formations, paint splatter, smoky effects, light effects and more to your images. Change the intensity of each effect to give a great sci-fi touch to your photos. [$0.99]

Space Paint

10. Swipe

Swipe is where photography and typography meet. Choose from 100 different fonts to add text to your images. You can also adjust the font size, colour, alignment and more before sharing it to your favorite social network platforms: Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. [$1.99]

Swipe

Bloggers: Blogging For Need vs. For Greed

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 01:31 AM PST

Editor’s note: This article is contributed by Jedi (J-e-d-d-y) Nyachiro, an Internet based entrepreneur living in Canada and founder of ThemeTemplateReviews.com, a website that helps both entrepreneurs and small business owners find the right tools to put together successful websites. You can follow Jedi on Twitter.

Are you thinking about starting a blog right now or in the near future? Well, what’s taking you so long?Jokes aside, Its important to know your reasons for starting your own blog. There are millions of blogs out there, However just because there are lots of them, it doesn’t mean that each and every blog is doing well financially.

It’s common knowledge that you can make money blogging, however do not allow greed to overshadow your main purpose. Greed can ultimately lead to your site’s downfall if you are not careful.


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You’ll need to consider the skills you have that will help you be an asset to the online world of blogging. You don’t have to be a deep thinker, an amazing writer or a fountain of endless ideas.

The building blocks of any successful blog is to have useful and interesting content, and the ability to provide information and content that other people need and are looking for.

Early beginnings

For whatever reasons you have for starting a blog, the motivation varies from person to person. In the beginning people started blogs mainly because the concept was still very new.

Competition was scarce and readers were hungry for materials, so it was easy to gather a fanbase fairly early in the game. Once blogging platforms became more accessible to the general public, just about anyone can get a blog up and running in minutes.

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The Rush Begins

All of a sudden everybody was writing and reading blogs, and online dairies start popping up. As the number of blogs keep rising, advertising agencies started coming in, asking for ad space in well-read blogs. More bloggers starting writing and more requests for ad space came rolling in.

In time, every square inch of the Internet real estate was covered with ads and banners.

Impacts of blogging for ads

Blogging suddenly became a great source of income and everyoen wanted in. This lead many things happening, include:

Cheating

This capitalistic view of the Internet led many people to do whatever it is they had to do in order to play the system and earn more money from ad revenue. This gave rise to the Black Hat SEO as many shady individuals started creating lots of blogs and placing identical content across blogs in order to attempt to attract more traffic and get more ad space.

Fake Meta-Tags

Lots of meta-tags became filled with popular search terms regardless of whether they were related to the blog’s content or not. Content became virtually unreadable and forced, as many people take to stuffing keywords into their blog posts, forgoing grammar, spelling, accurate and useful information.

Rise of Content Mills

To work a content mill is the practice of paying writers low fees to generate tons of content to push a blog site to the top of the search engine results. These articles are usually not high-quality and contains a lot of keywords to help push the rankings higher up. It would have worked if Google wasn’t paying attention.

Policing the blogs

Google is the number one search engine in the world. To get on Google’s bad side is to ask for an eviction notice. Consider Google the landlord on the Internet. If you are always breaking house rules, drumming up a bad reputation for yourself, even if your landlord cannot evict you, they can use other ways to make your life harder, such as by increaing your rent when it comes the time to renew your lease.

Google does not have a grudge against individuals who have banner-riddled websites, or irrelevant meta tags. They are just looking out for the quality of their own product. High-ranking, low-quality websites undermine the effectiveness of Google as a search engine. It’s time to wrestle back some control.

google panda algo

Of Pandas and Penguins

A few tweaks of the Google algorithm, and with constant updates, once again everyone is able to gain access to useful information via the search engine. If your site makes money with shady practices such as buying links and duplicating content, Google will make sure you do not turn up anywhere. If however your contents are useful and are worth reading, Google has every reason to push up the rankings.

for a quick Buck

If you’re starting a blog for the sole purpose of making money, then you should take a step back and re-evaluate your priorities because blogs don’t automatically generate you a nice income. It requires a lot of hard work, time and effort. Compared one-for-one with a 9-to-5 job, managing a blog would give you slower and lower returns.


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And that’s when you may start blogging for ads instead of blogging for your passion, or enlist the help of black hat SEO and other shady techniquest, or worst still, quit! Truth be told, if you want a six-figure income, working from the comforts of home, you’re better off buying a lottery ticket.

Conclusion

You need a lot of patience and resilience to avoid turning over to the dark side and losing out to your greed. Provide something of value, build a loyal readership base and your blog will grow. When that happens, the money will come.

How To Add Expiration Date To Shared Google Drive Folders

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 10:28 PM PST

Tired of manually changing access permissions of your Google Drive files? It will be easier to set a cease-sharing date, something like an expiration date for the sharing permission. Beyond this date, the file no longer can be shared with the person you share it to.

By adding this Google Script on your Google Drive, you can set an expiration date to your Google Drive shared files. And all it needs is a script.

Integrating Google Drive

The first step is to make a copy of this script on Google Script. Click on File > Make A Copy.

Under EXPIRY_TIME put in the date (yyyy-mm-dd) and time the folder ceases to be shared. Under FOLDER_URL, change the url path to the folder you want to set an expiration time to.

The folder URL that needs replacing must be the ‘link to share’ of the folder. To obtain the ‘Link to share’ URL, tick the folder you want to share and click on Share.

After doing so, you’ll see the ‘Sharing Settings’ page. Copy the ‘Link to share’ and replaced it in the script.

After all the changes, your script should look something like this.

Next, click on Run > Initialize.

It will ask for permission to access your data, click on Authorize.

After authorizing permission, click on Run > Start, and your folder now has an expiry date. You will receive this notification in an email. Easy isn’t it?

This script only works on Google Drive folder, so if you want to share a single file but with an expiration date, you need to place the file in its own folder. For now you can only set expiration dates for one folder at a time.

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