Pixels pixels everywhere

There is an interesting article in the BBC News Magazine on the digital camera and how it’s changed photography (and the way we take photographs). It also discusses how the camera phone (iPhone in particular as it’s arguably the most used phone camera) has changed the digital camera. It asks: does the fact that we [...]

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Flickr Fun

At Jaggr we love that there’s a Flickr group devoted to 6×6 and 6×7 iPhone app photography. It’s not the biggest group, but many of the members are prolific and talented. A number of them have a real eye for pattern. Have a look at some of the more abstract images here: beautiful birds on wires [...]

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Winning Phoneography

The new Mobile Photography Awards (MPAs) has just announced the winners of its first annual competition. Phoneography is fast becoming accepted as a legitimate form of photography and a valid art-form and MPAs immediate goal is to showcase the photographers, the developers and the work produced.   While filters and effects can – in the [...]

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Celebrate with Santa’s ToyCam!

Santa

The festive season is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by taking some fun photographs?And the best way to do that this year is with Jaggr’s Limited Edition release of Santa’s ToyCam!   Santa has given us special permission to let the world have access to his own, personal ToyCam for just two [...]

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If you smell a rat

From time to time we’ve read comments about “shill” (dishonest) reviews on the iTunes App Store. The be honest, we’ve tended to dismiss them as simply sour grapes. But then… A few days ago we got an unsolicited mail from a company offering to market our apps for a fee (nothing odd in that). However [...]

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6×6 & 6×7 for iPhone get Image Review

Available on the iTunes App Store

Take a photograph and then instantly review what you’ve taken. That’s what the new Image Review option adds to the new releases of 6×6 for iPhone and 6×7 for iPhone, available from the iTunes App Store today. Like all these features we’ve been adding recently, this is strictly optional – you have to turn it [...]

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Crooks!

The Justice & Police Museum in Sydney, Australia has archived (and on display) the “rogues galleries”, 6×4-inch glass plate negatives produced in the New South Wales prisons and police stations between 1912 and 1930.  These “special photographs” (as they are described in the police documents of the period) were taken in the various inner-city police stations [...]

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Gold Stars with AppTudes

AppTudes says in its review published today, “6×7 focuses on taking photographs and does not contain unnecessary features such as filters, crop tools or saturation controls.” It’s awarded the app 4.5 stars; the readers have gone one better, giving it a 5 star rating! Read the full review here.

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