Company’s PD-450 is the Best of Both Worlds for your Photos

Kodak is not only one of the oldest continuously operating businesses in America and the world, but it was one of the first to sell cameras, film, and other accessories commercially. While it has had struggles adapting to changing technology in the more recent past, it has since found ways to keep up in the growing tech market. One of its most creative, innovative, and most advanced products thus far is its PD-450 dock and wifi photo printer. Technology in photography had grown well past the point of taking and holding physical pictures, not to mention the vast improvements in quality, and mobile technology has taken it further than that. With the PD-450, Kodak has found a way to merge both into something even better. Read more »

Many photo-editing apps offering many different features are now available to us.  Some are overly simplistic, many offer no unique or new features, and some are unnecessarily complicated or designed for the technically minded.  Fotor is an app that anyone can use and allows extensive photo editing with some extra features, including the ability to create collages or use your photos to create personalized cards.  It utilizes cloud computing to provide a set of tools allowing for anything from basic cropping to advanced photo processing, making professional-level photo editing accessible to everyday users through a neat, intuitive interface. With Fotor, users have a high quality photo-editing tool without the need for the skills or equipment it would typically require. Read more »

Technology continues to improve our media and entertainment, and it has many practical uses as well.  It is also increasingly helpful for those who want to employ it in more creative ways than simply getting information sooner or making everyday tasks faster.  For those with more of an imaginative streak and an artistic side, there are apps such as Halftone, which allows users to turn their images into comics and scrap books.  Beyond just the formatting, you can turn your finished product into one of several different media formats.  There are also dozens of features offering broad customization to make the end result uniquely yours. Read more »

Social networks were once online spaces that people used to communicate only with their friends and others in their immediate social circle.  That is no longer the case as companies like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr have all made social networks completely open and public.  Now, when a user shares an update, link, or set of pictures on any of these sites, they are sharing it with the world, not just their friends.  People still want private online spaces to communicate only with their close friends.  Cool person in technology Brendan Mulligan has responded to this demand with his mobile app Cluster.  Cluster allows users to create digital spaces that are invite-only.  People create a Cluster space on their smartphone and then invite all the specific friends and family they want to have access to that space.  Each invitee receives a notification on his or her phone to join the new Cluster group.  In these private spaces, users can share pictures, links, media and other information that they want to share but would not be comfortable doing so on publicly open sites such as Facebook.  Anyone who has trouble inviting people to their spaces via Cluster should find a source of mobile tech support. Read more »

People often look at social networking sites and public blogs as a way of journaling or recording one’s life online.  However, there is one inconsistency with the “journal” metaphor.  Most people have never posted the content of their physical journals or diaries in a public place for anyone to see and add comments whenever they want.  Meanwhile, social networks and blogging sites such as Facebook and Tumblr set everyone’s status updates and photos to public by default so that anyone can see or comment on them.  Cool person in technology Siqi Chen has created an app that seeks to address this inconsistency by giving users a truly private multimedia journaling experience.  Chen calls this new app “Heyday”.  While users can update their Heyday profiles the same way they would update their social network accounts and even set automatic updates, none of the information on Heyday appears to a public audience.  Chen wants Heyday to be a private experience, unlike so much of what social media is on the rest of the web.  Read more »

Finding the perfect image for a website, brochure, or presentation is not as easy as it sounds.  Purchasing a unique image can take an excessive amount of time.  People can spend hours or even several days looking for exactly what they need on the web.  Cool product ImageBrief wants to make life easier for people looking for specific types of images to buy.  The team at this startup wants to utilize the unused photographs taken by many professionals to fill the needs of those hoping to find the perfect image.  Professional photographers often have thousands of photos that they have taken but never sold or posted to a portfolio.  ImageBrief gives photographers a chance to make money selling these pictures while helping others find the exact type of picture are looking for on the web.  People ask for specific kinds of photos on ImageBrief and photographers search through their past pictures to find appropriate matches.  If a user likes a particular image that a photographer submits, the two can then make the transaction for the image directly through the website.  Users should not hesitate to contact tech support if they have trouble viewing images offered to them through the site. Read more »

One of the most difficult aspects of trying to lose weight is keeping track of calorie intake.  In order to keep weight off once someone loses it, that person needs to know what foods may help and hurt them as they continue.  A general idea about what food is healthy doesn’t always cut it when trying to maintain a physique.  Cool person in technology Dr. Mark Boguski wants to help people maintain their weight with his company PhotoCalorie.  Boguski’s company gives users a mobile app and web platform to keep a digital journal that allows them to keep track of nutrition information for all the food they intake.  With PhotoCalorie, people can easily search for the nutrition information of the food they eat.  PhotoCalorie’s database contains specific nutrition facts about thousands of different foods.  Users maintain a journal of everything they eat and tag the nutrition information to each entry.  This process lets people find out what helps them lose weight and what hurts their efforts. Any users who experience unexpected problems signing up for PhotoCalorie can get help from a remote tech support provider. Read more »

A constant complaint from those that switch from Apple mobile products to Android-based ones is the loss of iTunes.  While Google Play is useful for streaming music, it lacks many of the features that iTunes fans love.  These features include the ability to sync several devices quickly and easily as well as a centralized local music player software for users’ home computers.  Dazzboard is a cool product that includes these features so that Android users can have an experience close to what Apple users have with iTunes.  The Dazzboard team makes their product open so that any Android user can use their software regardless of what device they own.  Dazzboard has software available for users’ computers that links to the Android apps they download for their phone.  The Dazzboard desktop program manages a person’s digital music library locally, organizing it in a convenient fashion for users in a single program.  The Android app does the same for mobile devices and syncs up directly with the Dazzboard app.  This level of convenience is something many people who have switched from iPhone to Android will appreciate.  Any users who have trouble handling the Dazzboard app should get Android tech support service. Read more »

Bands and musical artists have used photos from concerts as promotional items for years.  However, getting good pictorial content from gigs can cost a lot of money and require a lot of resources for artists, especially if a major label doesn’t back them.  Bands need a paid photographer to get the content and need to put up on their website or across social media.  Cool product Vivogig wants to take the effort out of this process by allowing bands an easy way to use their fans best photos for promotional and marketing content.  Fans download the Vivogig app to their phone and upload their gig photos to a band’s profile, where other users can vote on and rate their photographs.  This system creates competition between fans to upload the best photos and get their content featured on the app.  Competition like this ensures that Vivogig only features the best quality fan photos on a band’s profile page.  Fans who use the app but have trouble with their phone’s camera may need smartphone computer repair to fix the issue. Read more »

Cool person in technology Alex Austin used to send emails to his parents and attach his recent pictures to them every month so his family could keep up with his activities.  However, this proved awkward and cumbersome, especially since his parents had to take the effort and time to print out their favorite photos locally. Austin felt that there had to be a better way to handle this process.  As a solution, he created Kindred, a mobile application that collects all your digital photos and lets you quickly and simply design print photobooks to send to whomever you want directly from your phone.  His app lets you automatically send photos to those family members who might need hours of computer support to print one out normally. Read more »