Your Digital Life

Today, our photos are increasingly scattered between hard drives, camera memory cards, phones, social networks and the cloud. A new software program from Nero, dubbed NeroKwik promises to help — at least with your photos stored on social networks. NeroKwik is an app for your iPhone or Android phone that connects to both Facebook and [...]

Corel is adding several new features to its Pinnacle Studio for iPad video editing app. What will you get? New fast-and slow-motion creative effects, updated title styles, faster performance and greater stability. The Studio app costs $12.99 in the apps store and the feature upgrade will be free to current Studio app owners. Using the app you [...]

Sometimes a picture isn’t worth a thousand words. For those times, a new iPhone app called SpeakingPhoto ($0.99) can fill in the needed context. SpeakingPhoto lets you add audio to images — either those stored on your iPhone or iPad’s camera roll, or to new photos that you can snap using the app. If you choose [...]

Polaroid may be a shadow of its former self, but the fascination with Polaroid-style prints endures. If you’ve been dying to transform your digital images into Polaroid-style prints, a new iPhone app dubbed Printic will do just that for just $1 a piece (that includes shipping). It’s a pretty straightforward app. You select a photo [...]

If you’re looking for a simple, elegant app for adding text onto your images, the aptly-named Photolettering caught our eye. For iPhones and iPads, Photolettering does one thing: adds letters to your photos. Big deal, you say? Well, it comes from a bona-fide type foundry (i.e. they create font styles), so they’re not just ripping off common [...]

While smartphones are great for taking photos, it’s a lot harder to do any editing on their small screens. To address this problem researchers at the Adobe Imagination Lab have teamed with the University of Michigan to develop something called PixelTone – an app that would allow you to speak image editing commands to the computer [...]

There’s no better way to tell a story today than by combining photos and videos and with Photobucket’s new “Photobucket Stories” feature the story-teller in all of us has a much easier way to accomplish this. Photobucket Stories allows you to easily create and collaborate on living stories by inviting your friends and family to [...]

HP has a new “Live Photo” app for the iPhone that lets merges the world of print photos with videos. Here’s how it works: using the app, you find a video in your phone’s camera roll and isolate one picture from that video to print out (you need to have an AirPlay-compatible printer for this [...]

There’s loads of image editing apps out there that allow you to instantly turn your images into some fairly interesting looking works of art and the latest that has crossed out paths is dubbed PicLab for iOS. The app lets you easily add typography, masks and other effects to your photos and share them across [...]

There are some of us, this author included, who don’t really care to show the world how old and haggard he looks on Facebook. Others are less inhibited. And good for them. Either way, there’s no reason you need to drop any old self-portrait onto Facebook and call it a day. There are plenty of apps [...]