Category Archives: Reviews

Hipstamatic DSPO Review: Camera 2 – a day in the life

I set this camera up while stuck in a traffic jam this morning. It was a brief traffic jam—they were opening the highway after having most of it closed for construction overnight—but still long enough to start up a new camera. I shot a bunch on the way to work, a tiny bit at work, […]

Hipstamatic DSPO Review: filter options

DSPO comes with 4 filters and 5 moods, and you can add on another 5 filters and the ability to draw on pictures (not yet tested) for 99¢. Some of teh filters are pleasant, with interesting borders and color shifts; others are a bit overcooked for my taste, but might be useful in certain situations. […]

Hipstamatic DSPO Review: initial thoughts & general usage

Hipstamatic DSPO? What’s that? In short, it’s a new sharable, mock-disposable camera from Hipstamatic. In this multi-part review, I first start and shoot a Camera, in screenshot form. Then, I comment on the filters,  share the pictures from a couple of Cameras, share a fun extra, and wrap up with my thoughts on a couple […]

Snapseed vs…

So is the Workaround worth it? For some things, maybe… but it’s really just another image toy. So here’s the Original.And here’s the Snapseed edit.Compare that to a similar edit from Enlight. Pretty similar… Except for the Glow filter in Snapseed (which I quite like), and all the borders and artistic filters and whatnot in […]

Did 2.0.1 fix the problem with Snapseed?

So I noticed that Snapseed had a bug-fix update after work today, and eagerly installed it. Did 2.0.1 squash the bug? Before I get to that, I thought of something I forgot to check earlier… the newfangled Photos app I won’t be using… Sadly, it doesn’t see the edits either. (This was likely a silly […]