On the 5th September Apple presented their new iPod touch to the press. It’s like an iPhone without the phone. But if that isn’t enough Steve Jobs showed the next generations of the iPod nano and the classical iPod.
iPod touch
The iPod touch is an iPod with a huge touchscreen and integrated Wi-Fi. So you can listen to your favorite music, watch Tv shows, see your photoalbums or even browse through in the internet (and watch videos on YouTube!). Also you can toggle to a Cover Flow mode as seen on the iPhone. Apple offers a 8GB version for 299$ and a 16GB version for 399$ (shipping starts 28th September).
image from engadget.
iPod nano
The third generation iPod of the successful nano series, lovingly called “fatty”, has a bigger screen and enabled video-playback. The nano is available in 5 colors (red, green, blue, silver and black) and 2 storage sizes - 4/8GB (149$/199$).
Zooomr has recently added a people search to it’s site. Now you can find other users and friends on Zooomr by searching for their names or email addresses. After starting your search you will be prompted to the normal photoresults-page. But you can click on a ‘People’-tab and it displays you all the people found in their databases.
All-in-all the people search is a useful update and leads Zooomr closer to social networking.
Peteris Krumins’ did it again! After building a Reddit clone with integrated picture previews (Reddit Media) he now coded a photoversion of digg.com - digpicz!
All he needed was the digg API and a bit code, to create a service many users were waiting for. Until now just a short announcement has been made on the official digg-blog that a picture page will be added to digg in the following weeks.. and he did it in about 7 hours!
To get more details on how Peteris build the site, see his blog.
As you may noticed, we have a small button on the right sidebar which shows the number of recent visitors. It’s a service of amung.us, called whos.amung.us. When you click on the button it used to show a list of what sub-sites your visitors are surfing on and you could see hourly, daily, monthly and yearly graphs (graphs.amung.us). At the beginning of this week they re-designed the page a bit and added a handy feature called maps.amung.us. It enables you to see where your visitors are from - on a map.
The maps have a clean design and if needed they can be customized a little. The cool thing about amung.us is that you only have to insert one of their widgets to make all of the three services work for you!
similar services: clustrmaps, gvisit, frappr
Over the last few months a lot of photo editing services launched. To name a few popular sites: Picnik, Fauxto, Phixr, picture2life. And now a new startup wants to beat’em all - FotoFlexer.
With FotoFlexer you can easily import and export pictures from social networks (Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, MySpace) and edit them on the go. It seems as if FotoFlexer combines all the great functionalities of other existing sites and bundled them into one masterpiece! I don’t want to say that desktop photo editing is dead, but it has another big competitor. Professionals will probably stick to Photoshop or GIMP however normal people can make use of this sites to edit,share and store photos with ease.
