Archive for Android – Page 3

Droidography – Introduction to Craig L. Johnson

Craig L. Johnson is a degreed Forester and has worked as a Park Naturalist/Interpreter and in Park Law Enforcement for most of his career. His interest in photography began over 20 years ago as a Boy Scout working towards his Photography Merit Badge. His time with the state parks has afforded him many opportunities to polish his skills and has presented many unique and beautiful areas to photograph. His interest in nature and photography has taken him to more than half of the lower 48, with his goal being to photograph all 50 states.

Craig lives in Texas with his wife, Melynie, 14 yr old son Cailean and 4 cats. He and his family stay busy by spending time Outdoors, Boy Scouting, and family activities.

Another of Craig’s passions is technology and gadgets. He will be covering photo applications for the Android Phone Operating system here on CurrentPhotographer.com. Fortunately there are many photo apps out there. Craig hopes his new column will help you to consider the best apps for your particular needs.

MediaStory SlideShow App for iPhone, Android and Facebook

CyberLink LogoPRESS SUMMARY – CyberLink Corp. announced launch of MediaStory, a unique slideshow creator application for iPhones, Android Phones and Facebook.

CyberLink MediaStory allows consumers to create slideshows from their smart phone photos in three easy steps. The application comes with pre-designed slideshow templates with various themes that can be applied to turn photos into animated slideshows on-the-fly. The slideshows can be played on the smart phone or uploaded to their Facebook walls to share with friends. Read More→

Photobucket Mobile App Now Available to BlackBerry Users

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June 16, 2010 – PRESS SUMMARY – Photobucket Corporation announced that its “Photobucket Mobile” application is available now in RIM’s BlackBerry App World. The service puts users’ images at their fingertips, allowing them to interact with their Photobucket albums no matter where they are right from their phone. Users can upload and download photos to and from the site, browse Photobucket’s popular “Find Stuff” content categories, and search through over seven billion images and photos. Read More→

What’s All the Buzz About Google Buzz?

Probably the biggest buzz going around the web this week was the announcement of Google Buzz. It’s been a trending topic on twitter and all of the tech blogs have been talking about it. So what exactly is Google Buzz?

Buzz is a new product from Google that integrates social networking into Gmail. If you’re familiar with twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook then you’ll see some similarities in this product. Rather than going out and finding people to “follow” or “friend”, Buzz does it for you by automatically following the people you email and chat with the most. You can make your posts public or private and you can easily integrate your twitter feed, photos from Picassa and Flickr, videos on YouTube and share your Google Reader subscriptions.

When new posts and comments are added, they pop in automatically so there is no need to refresh the screen. When comments are made to your posts they’re sent to your Gmail inbox so it’s easy to keep the conversation going. Buzz will even make recommendations of interesting posts and weed out the ones you may not be interested in. Read More→

WordPress for Android – Version 1.0 Released

Feb 2, 2010 – Just announced on WordPress.org, WordPress for Android 1.0 is now available in the Android Market. If you have a WordPress.com or self hosted WordPress website and use an Android phone like the Nexus One, you can now manage your sites on-the-go. If you’ve been using the wpToGo app to manage you’re site you’ll feel right at home, as its source code was used as the foundation to create this new app. Here’s a link to download WordPress for Android 1.0 and the below video shows the app in action.

Features Include:

  • Configure and manage multiple blogs
  • Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
  • Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
  • Create and Edit Pages
  • Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar

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The Nexus One Wireless Phone From Google and HTC

NEXUS-ONE-LOGOJan 9, 2010 – Google just announced their new wireless phone called the Nexus One. Now this isn’t a photography product per say, but seeing how the iPhone has been so popular for on-the-go digital photography, we shouldn’t overlook this latest addition to the smartphone market.

NEXUS-ONE-PHONEThe Nexus One features a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ chipset making it as powerful as your laptop of three to four years ago. The display is an AMOLED WVGA that measures 3.7” with a resolution of 480×800. It has a 5MP auto focus camera with an LED flash and geo tagging capabilities. 512MB of RAM is included with 512MB of onboard Flash memory for file storage and is expandable to 32GB using a removable SD card. The 3.5mm headphone jack has four contacts for inline voice and remote control. Unlike the iPhone, the 1400mAh battery is removable.

The Nexus One runs on Android 2.1 which offers advanced applications and features including:

  • Google Maps Navigation with turn-by-turn driving directions and voice output.
  • Multiple Gmail accounts and Exchange server support.
  • The phone book allows you to aggregate contacts from multiple sources including Facebook®.
  • Easily switch between communication and social applications.
  • Voice commands including a voice-enabled keyboard for all text fields.
  • Voice activated Google search.
  • Record Hi-Res MPEG4 video and upload to YouTube with one click
  • Voicemail transcription

You can purchase the Nexus One from the Google web store in the US without service for $529 or starting at $179 with a two-year contract from T-Mobile. In the near future Verizon Wireless in the US and Vodafone in Europe  plan to offer the phone with additional operators in the coming months.

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