Instagram Web allows photo and video embedding

It won’t be long until you start seeing Instagram photos and videos on news sites and blogs all over the internet since the photo- and video-sharing service now lets you embed content to other sites from its Web version. A share button is now visible under the comment button which provides you with the embed code.

Snaplay aims to become the “Shazam for images”

You know how Shazam makes it easier for you to look for that elusive song? Snaplay, a reverse images search app, wants to make it easier for you to look for videos and music online using photos. Acting much like a QR code reader (sans the QR code), Snaplay lets you take a photo of an album cover or movie poster or the like and have the app bring back related media content.

On the video side, it integrates with YouTube; while for music, it integrates with Spotify or uses songs you’ve stored on your device.

Any.Do's new CAL app innovates the mobile calendar space

If you find your calendar app on iOS a little boring then check out Any.Do's CAL app. Using an elegant and clean interface that's reminiscent of Google Now's Cards, schedules, events and appointments come to life . Replete with intuitive touches, CAL doesn't just remind you it's someone's birthday, it also offers various options on how to contact and greet them complete with their photo. Currently free on the iOS App store, CAL is coming to Android sometime soon.

Videos of Lumia 1020 show of pro-style software features

A series of videos from Nokia focusing on the newly-launched Lumia 1020 show off the 41-megapixel smartphone's various features as well as its strength as a camera. So far, the Nokia Pro Camera app looks very promising. With the ability to take both large oversampled photos and smaller, regular sized smartphone camera photos, users now have the option of blowing up a scene and picking out details and making those the focal point of the picture. So that's what they meant by Zoom. Reinvented.

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