Picle – Sometimes, a simple picture just isn’t enough. That’s the thinking that inspired young, bearded Brit Alex Harding to create a free iPhone app that allows you to create ‘sound images’: an Instagram-style picture accompanied by a short sound clip recorded at the time you take the photo. The question we ask is whether adding sound to images really can enhance storytelling? 

Pocket (the app previously known as Read It Later) lets you save images, videos and articles  you find on the Internet to one place, on your iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone or Kindle Fire.

Whether or not you’re the proud owner of an iPhone or an Android smartphone, there’s a high chance that at least 1 Facebook photo in every 3 of yours was taken on one. Since the rise of the App Store the number of cool looking photography apps offering to edit your pictures into photo masterpieces has become almost mind-boggling. Cutting through the rubbish is what we do at All My Faves, so read this list of the top 10 best camera apps in the iPhone appstore and Android market before you download.

Stadistics indicate that 10% of people are employed in a job they love. If you are in the other 90% – and you either dislike or hate your work – it means that you probably spend the whole year saving money and waiting for your two or three week vacation to run away from it. But what if you could spend your 6 or 8 hour shift on a great vacation in Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon or the Great Smokey Mountains? Wouldn’t it be a much better deal?

Picmonkey – Picmonkey is an online Photoshop for the masses: Free (for now), easy and fun. It’s a genius piece of photo editing software that allows you to drag any photo from your computer to the online editor at Picmonkey.com… and give that drab photo you took on your last vacation the  extra bit of sparkle it needs before you upload it to Facebook!

PurePhoto.com is all about making photography collection social: it connects art collectors to brilliant photographers and their work. So artists struggling to break free from the shackles of namelessness in the commercial world of photography can use PurePhoto to post their work, and be  seen directly and purchased by the collectors using it. A reciprocal social art network then, where you can discover new talents or get your talent discovered, that makes a buzz around what is worth buzzing about!

Who actually wants to see those baby photos…

Here’s a question for you: How many of your ‘friends’ on Facebook would you actually consider to be your friend? (Answers in the comments box below!) If you’re like me and shuffled uncomfortably in your seat when trying to answer that question, you’ve probably also wondered this: Do you really want to be sharing the photos from your vacation, your baby’s birthday or your latest night out with all 800 of your Facebook acquaintances and that guy, Bob, who you met at the 2009 office Christmas party and hastily added as a friend only to perpetually ignore him ever since…

A Reminder of the Beauty of Satellite Images of Earth

Have you ever gone on Google Maps, and tried to find all those incredible places you read about or see on the Travel Channel? If you’re that person, then this little marvel of a site is right up your street!

 It’s not a photo, It’s not a video, It’s a ‘Spin’!

We’ve asked this before (see the brilliant TourWrist or Cinemagram): Are photos becoming outdated? As more and more apps start creating dynamic, moving alternatives to the traditional, flat photo, this question is getting asked more and more often. Whether this is actually a replacement for taking photos (we don’t think it is yet…), Spincam is a really fun, novelty $1 app that allows you to create an often hilarious spinning 360 degree dynamic image of what’s around you.

Read, click through and listen to the North

This Land – Is it an e-book? Is it an audiobook? Is it a photo expose? Or is it an interactive point-n-click adventure? Actually, it’s all of them. And it’s eye opening, engaging and above all, beautiful. Come discover with us the amazing story of documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan’s 16 day snowmobile expedition across 2000km to Canada’s northernmost tip…

The “Photo Collage of the Future”:

Get Loupe – Sometimes you just have so many photos you want to share with your friends. And sometimes Facebook just doesn’t cut it. 1) It’s not personal or private enough. 2) It’s just not that interesting, and it’s certainly not creative… Loupe on the other hand, is as personal as you want it to be, and about as interesting & creative as online photo sharing gets!

Emphas.is -Photojournalism. It’s something we often take for granted. But it’s what makes so many news stories that we follow so engaging. Photojournalism also allows news to extend its boundaries, because reading about runaway toddlers and sparring Republican Presidential candidates only remains interesting for so long… It brings us incredible images from around the world, like those you’re currently seeing of the conflict in Syria, or those of the scenes following the recent death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. There is however one problem… Photojournalism about so many world issues that matter costs money to produce. And there are so many potentially groundbreaking projects to be fulfilled out there.