Your Digital Life

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 [...]

Canon has just announced that it is enabling Apple’s AirPrint on three models of its Pixma printers – the MG8220, MG6220 and MG5320. Using AirPrint, you can send photos and documents to any printer on a home network from your iOS device (iPhone, iPod and iPad). If you own one of the aforementioned Canons you [...]

The big complaint from many iPhone owners is that there has been no convenient way for them to get prints from the images they are capturing. If you’re a print-at-home kind of person, check out VuPoint’s new Picture Cube. The device allows you to view, print and charge your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or Android [...]

Photo book maker Blurb has integrated with Instagram to let users of the popular iPhone photography app make photo books from their images. Blurb users can sign into their Instagram account from the Blurb website. From there, the most popular photo in your collection (based on the number of likes) gets tossed on the cover [...]

Kodak recently announced a new printing application for Android devices. The Kodak PicFlick app is free and lets users print to their wireless Kodak inkjet printers or send photos directly to Kodak Pulse digital frames or the W820, W1020 frames. The app supports some basic editing functions for photos – such as rotating and cropping [...]

Epson just announced an update to its iPhone photo-print app. Epson iPrint (v2.0) works with the company’s line of wireless all-in-one printers. The app tackles photo printing, document printing, web-page printing – you get the idea. New for version 2.0 is the ability to connect to “cloud” storage services like Box.net to access and print [...]

LifePics is a useful service that lets you order photo prints online or via mobile phones and have them printed by a local retailer. They’ve recently updated their Android app so that smartphone users can have their phone photos professionally printed. In some cases, your photos can be printed in an hour or the same [...]

iPhone users probably don’t need to be told this, but the mobile photo-sharing service/image-enhancing Instagram is pretty popular. How popular? TechCrunch reports that they have 5 million users (adding users at a rate of 625,000 users per month). They’re also approaching the 100 million photo mark. This is a blistering pace, considering the service is just [...]

Earlier in the week we flagged an item in the Times about the trend toward bringing iPhone photos out of the virtual world and into the real one (there still is a world outside the Internet, or so I’m told). One such company, Keepsy aims to make creating printed photo books as simple as turning [...]

We cover many photo printing and sharing apps for phones, but if you’re ever in the mood for a good old fashion photo print out of your smartphone, check out Polaroid’s Pogo – a compact mobile printer, roughly the size of a deck of cards, that will instantly print images from compatible blue-tooth enabled smartphones [...]