Top 20 Android Photography Apps

Top 20 Android Photography Apps

via hongkiat.com by hongkiat on 12/6/10

Android is an amazing mobile platform from Google which has recently created a great amount of buzz in the mobile market. Being completely open, this mobile platform allows application developers to unleash their creativity and in the same time giving end users the privilege to experience freedom of experimenting new possibilities. There has been a plethora of android powered devices in the mobile market lately and that effectively increase the amount of great apps in the marketplace!

Today, we’ll be giving you a complete round up of Best Android Apps for all your photography needs. It doesn’t matter if you’re a pro or just a beginner at photography. These apps combined with creativity will make that tiny-winy camera of your mobile phone, a power-house of amazing photography. So without further ado, here’s then entire list.

Photoshop.com Mobile

Straight from Adobe, with Photoshop mobile app, you can edit and share photos virtually anywhere. Other functions include Touch to crop, rotate, adjust color, and add artistic effects. You can also access all your photos and videos directly from your free Photoshop.com account. and quickly share with family and friends.

Vignette

Vignette app allows you to add extra light flairs to your photographs and make them even more amazing than they already are.

Photoid

An all round photo app with frames, effects, rich hi-res clip-art,high resolution save, stickers, rotation, brushes and mask modes.

PhotoWonder

PhotoWonder is a fun app to edit pics on mobile. With amazing effects like LOMO, BlueTone and Ageing, lovely stickers and frames, this app is a great fun!

PRO Paint Camera

Want to take better pictures? PRO Paint Camera app is what you’ll need. With cliparts, contrast correction, text-fonts, toy-camera and x-ray mode, you can’t ask for more!

Love Photo Frames

This app allows you to make a very special personalized framed picture, save in your album or send to your loved one by email.

Camera 360

Turn your phone into professional camera by aplying filters like LOMO, HDR, axis shift, draft, ghost, etc.

PicSay

Powerful and award winning photo editor. Color-correct your pictures and add word balloons, titles, graphics, and effects like distortion. All in a fun, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface.

Camera Fun Pro

The only Android app to apply LIVE Photoshop lens to your Android camera.

Camera Zoom FX

Camera ZOOM FX gives you the ability to apply 40 effects (vignette, lomo, retro, polaroid, etc.) to your photo.

Fast Camera

The quickest camera ever. Just press the camera button and take pictures instantly, the preview doesn’t even stop.

FX Camera

FxCamera enables you to take a picture with various effects like ToyCam, Polandroid, Fisheye, SymmetriCam, Warhol, Normal etc.

Multi Camera

Take multiple shots with your camera and get a single image.

onSite Photo

OnSite Photo lets you take photos and instantly upload them to a specific project within ConstructionOnline.

Photo Album Organizer

Photo Album Organizer will copy selected pictures on your phone into a new photo album that you create. It also organizes your photos for better viewing.

Photo Mail

With PhotoMail app, you can edit and send photos quickly, copy photos from the gallery, edit photos with text and graphics and also E-mail selected photos.

Pic Bubbler

Pic Bubbler is a simple and fun way to make pics more exciting. Turn pics of your favorite guy or girl into titillating memories. Edit pics of your favorite models. Sometimes it’s what you don’t see that makes all the difference.

Retro Camera

With Retro Camera you’ll take delicious old-school pics your friends will drool over. 5 cameras, 5 sets of vintage vignetting, film scratch, black and white & cross processing effects for that off-the-hip analog look. Inspired by the Lomo, Holga, Polaroid, Diana, the toy cameras and Hipstamatic.

Photo Scrapbook

Create a scrapbook of photos on your homescreen. Tap the widget to display full screen version of pictures of your children, friends, kids, pets, babies, holidays, etc.

Photo Effects

Turn your photos into art with amazing effects, similar to instagram.

Image credits: Appbrain, Androidzoom, Androidpit, Androlib.

How to Verify an Email Address?

How to Verify an Email Address?

via Digital Inspiration Technology Blog by Amit on 11/22/10

How do you verify if a given email address is real or fake? Well an obvious solution is that you send a test mail to that email address and if your message doesn’t bounce, it is safe to assume* that the address is real.

[*] Some web domains may have configured a catch-all email address meaning that messages addressed to a non-existent mailbox will not be returned to the sender but in most cases, such email messages will bounce.

Ping an Email Address to Validate it!

When you send an email to someone, the message goes to an SMTP server which then looks for the MX (Mail Exchange) records of the email recipient’s domain.

For instance, when you send an email to hello@gmail.com, the mail server will try to find the MX records for the gmail.com domain. If the records exist, the next step would be to determine whether that email username (hello in our example) is present or not.

Using a similar logic, we can verify an email address from the computer without actually sending a test message. Here’s how:

Let say that we want to verify if the address billgates@gmail.com exists or not?

Step 1. Enable telnet in Windows.  Or if you already have the PuTTY utility, skip this step.

Step 2. Open the command prompt and type the following command:

nslookup –type=mx gmail.com

This command will extract and list the MX records of a domain as shown below. Replace gmail.com with the domain of the email address that you are trying to verify.

gmail.com MX preference=30, exchanger = alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com gmail.com MX preference=20, exchanger = alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com gmail.com MX preference=5, exchanger = gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com gmail.com MX preference=10, exchanger = alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com gmail.com MX preference=40, exchanger = alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com

Step 3. As you may have noticed, it is not uncommon to have multiple MX records for a domain. Pick any one of the servers mentioned in the MX records, may be the one with the lowest preference level number (in our example, gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com), and “pretend” to send a test message to that server from you computer.

For that, go to command prompt window and type the following commands in the listed sequence:

3a: Connect to the mail server:

telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25

3b: Say hello to the other server

HELO

3c: Identify yourself with some fictitious email address

mail from:<labnol@labnol.org>

3d: Type the recipient’s email address that you are trying to verify:

rcpt to:<billgates@gmail.com>

The server response for ‘rcpt to’ command will give you an idea whether an email address is valid or not. You’ll get an “OK” if the address exists else a 550 error like:

• abc@gmail.com -- The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.
• support@gmail.com -- The email account that you tried to reach is disabled.

That’s it! If the address is valid, you may perform reverse email search to find the person behind the address. And if you get stuck somewhere, this step-by-step video should help: