11 posts and columns on Smugmug

News Byte

Camera Awesome Lowers Photo Effects Pricing, Shares with Instagram

in News on March 27 at 12:57 pm PT

Camera Awesome, the photo app from SmugMug that boasts a whopping 297 photo effects and an impressive download rate of more than four million in four weeks, now works with popular photo-sharing app Instagram, allowing users to share their “awesomized” photos to Instagram’s mobile photo network. The company is now bundling all of Camera Awesome’s photo effects for a one-time purchase of $9.99, after previously charging 99 cents per bundle for 29 bundles of effects.

SmugMug’s Camera Awesome App Sees Two Million Downloads in First Week

in Mobile on March 6 at 9:57 am PT

SmugMug’s new “awesomizing” photo app is getting an awesome response. (You knew that was coming.)
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A Photo App That Makes “Awesome” a Verb

in The Digital Solution on February 28 at 3:03 pm PT

Katie reviews an app that gives smartphone camera photos a major boost with powerful in-app editing: Camera Awesome.
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Last Night’s Amazing 9/11 Memorial Photo Is a Year Old

in Media on September 12, 2011 at 8:23 am PT

But more important: Photographer John de Guzman isn’t particularly happy that the image went viral.
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Today in Hyperbole (or Possibly Reality): What Did Apple Just Kill?

in News on June 6, 2011 at 12:46 pm PT

Many of Apple’s software and Web updates announced today come quite close to products already offered by other companies. Here’s the rundown of affected apps.
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Video Editing Made Easier

in The Mossberg Solution on October 26, 2010 at 3:18 pm PT

Katie tests Adobe’s Premiere Elements 9 video-editing software program.
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Making Hotmail Hot Again

in The Mossberg Solution on June 8, 2010 at 5:07 pm PT

Microsoft hopes a revamped version of the Web-based program will heat up interest among emailers.
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Mapping Your Digital Photo World

in The Mossberg Solution on August 19, 2008 at 6:02 pm PT

The Eye-Fi Explore Card, a wireless memory card with a geotagging feature that geographically prelabels photos, was unreliable in one scenario, but we found it to be a great way to automatically organize and label photos.
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Flock Web Browser Eases Multitasking But Has Drawbacks

in Personal Technology on August 6, 2008 at 6:26 pm PT

Flock, a little-known Web browser, attempts to take the pain out of online multitasking by keeping your social networks, photo sites or news feeds visible at all times. The browser works well, but it isn’t for everyone.
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Now, It’s a Picnik To Edit Your Photos Using a Web Program

in Personal Technology on July 26, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Walt Mossberg says Picnik — a Web-based photo-editing application — is good for tweaking and improving photos, then posting them to photo Web sites, saving them to a computer, emailing them, or even printing them.
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Choosing a Photo-Sharing Web Site

in Mossberg’s Mailbox, October 19, 2006 at 12:01 am PT