There are all sorts of slideshow creation tools out there, from Animoto to Picasa, but Easy Hi is launching a new slideshow creation tool in an attempt to make slideshow creation easier and faster than ever. It’s called Slide.ly and it lets users create video slideshows using pictures from across the web, set to popular music literally in seconds.
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Announcing the Facebook Antivirus Marketplace (Facebook Newsroom)
We’re announcing the Antivirus Marketplace, developed with industry partners to enhance protection for people on Facebook. AllFacebook The Antivirus Marketplace features free downloads and six-month licenses from Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec. GeekWire The social network says its URL blacklist — which aims to stop its users from accessing malicious sites from Facebook — will also now incorporate the databases of those companies. The Next Web To access the new protection tools, all you have to do is visit the Facebook Security Page and select from the options listed on the page. Read more
We’ve covered Instagram plenty of times as the service has improved and won awards over the last few months — its quality filters combined with dead simple interfaces make it one of the best photo apps around. Well, at the 2011 Music Hack Day Boston conference, Johannes Wagener and Katharina Birkenbach combined it with SoundCloud to create StoryWheel, and it’s pretty cool.
Most location-based sharing apps center the sharing activity around the idea of checking in at a location. Trover takes a different approach by focusing sharing on pictures. Previously only available for the iPhone, the free Trover app is now available for Android.
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Earlier this year a photo sharing app called Color launched and shortly disappeared in a cloud of controversy. The controversy related to $41 million of venture capital it earned despite having what many people considered to be limited functionality. Color’s return features a combination of its original proximity based photo sharing with deep Facebook integration.
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In a crowded market of alternative camera apps for Android, SayCheese attempts to stand out by providing a number of unique features. For example, with SayCheese running and voice recognition turned on you can tell your camera to take a picture. The overwhelming number of features in SayCheese, which is free, makes it worth checking out.
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Few smartphones have a camera that is as good as a standard digital camera, but they are good enough for snapshots when you are out with friends. One area in which smartphone cameras excel is in effects, which compensates for low resolution by turning pictures into works of art. Paper Camera turns pictures that you take with an Android or iOS phone into drawings.
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SlideShare, a site that is popularly known for hosting and sharing photos, slide shows, and business documents is now more deeply integrated with LinkedIn, one of the world’s most popular professional social networks.
I recently uploaded a batch of photos of my birthday to my Facebook account using Windows Live Photo Gallery on my PC. If I had taken those photos on my Android smartphone the process of uploading them directly from my phone would be very cumbersome with the Facebook app because it only allows uploading one picture at a time. Speedy Uploader is an Android app that provides the ability to upload a batch of photos and videos to Facebook.
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If you upload photos to Facebook or Flickr, you are probably familiar with the ability to tag your friends that are in the photos. The process involves uploading the photos to the service, then logging on to the service using a desktop computer to tag the photos. Viewdle SocialCamera is an Android app that provides the ability to tag photos on the phone using your Facebook friends as a source for names.
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