Tag: Instagram
Instagram adds accessibility tools for visually impaired users
Instagram has announced the introduction of new accessibility tools designed to help users with visual impairments. The photo-sharing platform is introducing “automatic alternative text” which will describe photos posted to the platform to those who need it. Working with screen readers, it will describe images that appear in the Instagram feed, explore and profile sections.…
Instagram rolls out time management tools to improve ‘digital wellbeing’
Instagram has begun to roll out the time management tools the Facebook-owned social network announced in the summer. As part of a notable shift by major technology firms to better address digital wellbeing, Facebook and Instagram said a new Activity tool would be added to the site to enable users to track their time on…
Facebook and Instagram using AI to detect drug dealers
Facebook and Instagram are starting to detect drug dealers trying to sell on the social networks with the help of artificial intelligence. Proactive detection technology will be used across the two platforms to look out for signs that someone is attempting to sell drugs, such as images, alongside prices, phone numbers or usernames for other…
How to photograph cars for Instagram. Top 6 tips to make your pictures stand out from the crowd
On average 80 million photos are shared on Instagram every day and the social media channel is the fastest growing social network. So, how can car fans make sure their photos stand out from the ever-growing crowd? ŠKODA teamed up with British photographer Julian Calverley to share his tips for capturing the best car photos…
Instagram launches two new “creative tools”
Ever wished your Instagram photos could be slightly more tinted? Well today is your lucky day as the company has released an update to its apps which will let you apply different "colour" and "fade" settings. The new tools do pretty much what they say on the tin - with Fade softening photos, and colour…
Stephen Fry ‘hounded off’ Instagram, blames the newspapers. Katie Hopkins suggests Milliband should ‘gas his wife’. Nice.
Stephen Fry has quit social media site Instagram, telling his fans he was “hounded off” it by the press. The comedian and actor, who has a huge following on social media with 92,000 Instagram followers, said: “Newspapers, as ever, suck all the joy out of everything. Closing down. It was, briefly, fun. Bye.” In his description…
Developer annoyed by Instagram’s Layout app stealing his name
Mike Swanson is an independent developer who in 2012 published an app called "Layout", which lets you combine multiple photos into one. Fast-forward to 2015 and Instagram (which is owned by Facebook, don't forget) publishes a new app that lets you combine multiple photos into one, and called it... Umm... Layout. As you might expect,…
“Gramography Cinegrams” will turn your Instagram photos into fridge magnets
Weird stuff retailer Firebox has just launched a new product that will turn your Instagram photos into lenticular fridge magnets - so that the image displayed will change depending on the image you look at it. The new service starts at £7.99 and all you have to is upload your snaps, and they will be…
Does Instagram now have more users than Twitter?
Instagram has announced it has topped 300m users... has it finally overtaken Twitter? In a great spot by Mashable, it looks likely that the photo app now has more users than Twitter - which in October said it had just 281m users. Instagram is, of course, owned by Facebook which itself has over 1.1bn users…
Instagram launches “Hyperlapse” app
Instagram has this evening launched a new app - "Hyperlapse" is designed for creating short timelapse videos. Apparently the way it works is by slowing the frame rate at which video is recorded, so that when you play it back events happen much quicker. It also appears to apply some smoothing algorithms (not unlike this)…
