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Google Glass gets camera update, caption support

Google Glass just got a little bit better.

The search giant on Tuesday announced new software for the Google Glass camera that will improve photo taking. The update gives Glass the ability to snap multiple photos at once and combine them, so users can get the best shot. The camera can now also detect low-light environments and will automatically brighten an image to make it clearer. It's also capable of doing a better job of capturing movement.

In addition to the new camera features, users can now also add captions to photos they take.

Of course, there's one … Read more

Review: Old Picture reskins your images but with severe limitations

Old Picture does what many other filter apps do, but in a single interface and with more options than other old-time filter apps tend to have. With different filters for old-time photographs, Old Picture has a lot of options that put a fun spin on the filter craze on the iPhone; but it has some serious limitations that make it harder than necessary to use.

The app's home screen is fairly straightforward. Open an image on your device and then choose a filter for it. There are 10 to choose from, initially, and then all of the options are … Read more

Review: PictureSync lets you quickly upload batches of photos to the Internet

For those users who have and want to share tons of images and videos, PictureSync for Mac's features, design, and instructions make it a very useful tool for batch uploading of image files.

PictureSync for Mac, available as freeware, starts with a tutorial that opened automatically to prompt the user to enter log-in information for sites where photos would be uploaded. A program menu then came up, which explicitly stated there was no technical support available. This could make less experienced users uneasy, but we didn't experience any issues that would require support in our tests. The main … Read more

Review: Picture Perfect! offers many fine photo editing features, but is messy

Picture Perfect! combines a number of features common in other free photo editing apps into a full scale iPad tool that is effective, but ultimately weighed down by a messy interface. While it is an effective app, it lacks many of the features needed to make it a must-have tool.

The app opens to the main editing screen where you can take or import a photo, reset the photo onscreen back to the original, or adjust the app by drawing on it, changing colors, auto-correcting for things like brightness and contrast, and more. The onscreen guide shows you what each … Read more

Top social photo sites for browsing and sharing

With high-quality digital cameras on every smartphone and apps that make your pictures even better, just about anyone can be an accomplished photographer. Sure, you may not be an accomplished photographer in any serious sense, but you can certainly upload your images to photo-sharing sites to get them out to the public and receive feedback to make your shots even better.

As most people know, there are a number of popular services already out there that let you take your shot, add effects and other enhancements, then upload it for all to see. But the other thing that's great … Read more

Review: Picture IQ tests your image savvy

Picture IQ is challenging, thought provoking, and never-ending. Even though it's a basic puzzle game that features a format repeated often on the market, it still executes it very efficiently compared to its competitors.

Picture IQ installs and sets up incredibly fast. Within seconds, users will be playing the game with little or no instruction. The gameplay is very intuitive and the clean user interface adds to the usability. The four pictures that are displayed at the top half of the screen are clear and fairly easy to see. The images are not in the highest resolution and some … Read more

The Week in Pictures: Google's utopia to a stem cell burger

The technology world was buzzing with news this week. From Google's annual I/O conference to some very tiny robotics, these are the images from the week's tech stories that stood out.

Google CEO Larry Page took the stage at Google I/O this week. He held a Q&A session at the end of the keynote presentation, during which he reinforced the idea of a technology-driven utopia and criticized anything that stood in the way of Google's vision.

Bugs, of the real and robotic kind, also saw a lot of attention. Researchers at Harvard conducted … Read more

The Week in Pictures: Atomic movies to galactic storms

Today, we're looking back at some of the most memorable photos of the week. From the geeky to the grand, these are the images from the week's tech stories that stood out, defining the future and all that the world might become. There were gigantic storms on Saturn, 3D printed ears, and Google's new heads-up, augmented reality interface, Glass, which is expected to make it's way to public availability next year. Being made available in limited release, it's decidedly very geeky, and a little weird. Virgin Galactic reached an important milestone when the commercial passenger … Read more

Talking Pictures 1.2 Review

The iPhone is a perfect device for integrating audio and images into a single interface. While this usually means creating videos, it doesn't have to. There are dozens of ways to use the technology in new and creative ways. Case in point: Talking Pictures. This app allows you to tag a photo with different audio tracks that can be activated by other users with the same app -- a potentially innovative way to share information.

When you open the app, you can choose to view your gallery (which will be empty) or create a new talking picture. Choose the … Read more