Yesterday was a pretty busy day for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Not only did she finish ensuring that the deal to buy blogging service Tumblr had gone through she then turned her attention to the phoot sharing service Flickr which Yahoo bought a while ago.

Perhaps stung by criticism that Yahoo has not really moved the service along the company yesterday announced a new look for the desktop and its Android app and that users who pay for the service get a terabyte of storage.

By far the most important thing is the storage which means that users will now be able to store an astonishing 537,731 photos.

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive officer, said: "You can take all the pictures ever taken and upload them to Flickr... and there would [still be room].

There have been some other tweaks too. The basic service remains free and is subsidised by ads but heavy users can now opt for an ad free, paid-for option at $50 a year, called Ad Free, as well Doublr, which is targeted at heavy users and costs $500 for 2 TB of storage.

There have been some tweaks to the design too so that albums now get a new-look cover photo and images are presented in streamlined in rows.

There's a small, but rather useful tweak to Instagram today. The photo app/social network has added a new feature called Photos of You, which it is billing as a new way to add people and things to photos.

According to Instagram one of the most common things people do on Instagram is @ mention their friends when they want to add them to a photo. .

With the latest tweak when you upload a photo to Instagram, you're now able to add the people and things in the photo in a similar way to how you add a location and hashtags.

And when you get tagged you'll receive a notification and the photo will appear in your "Photos of You" - a new section on your profile where you can curate all of the photos you've been added to.

If you are picky about what shots of you get tagged you can also adjust the setting so that no photos of you appear on your profile until you approve them.

The Photos of You feature will be available on Instagram for iOS version 3.5 in the App Store and Instagram for Android version 3.5 in the Google Play Store.

Here's a quick vid from Instagram that shows how it works. More info here.

Introducing Photos of You from Instagram on Vimeo.

Back in the ancient days - well before digital cameras got any good in around 2002 - to take a picture involved pointing and shooting using a camera that captured the image on 35mm film. There was of course no reviewing or deleting images and if you made any silly mistake loading and unloading the images then you might find a whole roll of pics deleted - aaah those were the days.

Of course there are still some diehard masochists creative types who love Lomography and still capture pics on film.

Anyway if that's your or your or your family have attic full of 35mm print negatives that are just gathering dust then Firebox has a neat little gadget that is well worth having a look at.

The rather tiny Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner apparently lets you scan any image from 35mm negatives direct to you smartphone. And there, thanks to its accompanying Lomography app, you can also edit and share it.

The £59.99 scanner- which Firebox claims is a UK exclusive to them - works with both iPhones and Android handset and works by using a direct light panel that evenly and efficiently scan negatives and slides. The on board Lomo technology also lets the user create slideshows, movies and panoramas.

It is available now from here.

One of our favourite online photo editing sites, PicMonkey, has had a new, festive makeover for the Christmas season, allowing users to add all kinds of snowy, wintery and twee effects to their photos.

Just like before, you upload a photo to PicMonkey or drag one from your desktop if you're feeling fancy. You can then make all kinds of basic edits, like cropping and even adding filters, but you'll find there's a secret snowflake at the bottom of the sidebar and that's where all of the Christmas features live. You can play around with different themes like "snowfall", "frosty" and "chilly", add overlays like "holly", "flakery" and "sprigs and twigs" or position different frames and special effects over your images for cards and present tags.

We love that PicMonkey is always simple to use, but tries something a bit different every now and then to keep its fans on their toes (remember the Halloween version?!).

Check out: www.picmonkey.com

Although cool lens dials or handy tripods may seem like strange Christmas presents when the rest of your family are handing out sweaters and chocolates, there are plenty of gadgets and accessories available at the moment that'd make perfect stocking fillers for mobile photography lovers.

Whether you're buying for someone who's serious about their photography or just likes to mess around with Instagram now and again, we've collected together some of our favourite accessories that'll help them get the best results from their phone's camera. Or at least give them something to play around with on Christmas day.

It's nearly that time of year again boys and girls, we hope you're all ready to carve out pumpkins, go trick or treating and scare the living daylights out of your friends and family this Halloween.

If you're a big fan of photo apps or tweaking your images online you'll be happy to know there are plenty of apps that have been specially designed to add zombie features, scary eyes and lots of fake blood to different faces and places. However, in our round-up we've also included some of our favourite sites and apps, which have some great tools to make your photos look spooky, scary and eerie quite unintentionally too.

Related: Shiny Shiny's ultimate guide to girl geek Halloween costumes

We've written about photo printing and cool-book-making service Keepsy a few times in the past for our "awesome things you can do with your Instagram snaps" round-ups and it's a firm favourite in a sea of similar offerings.

Well now this week Keepsy differentiates itself from the competition that little bit more, because it's launched an iPhone application, complete with new sharing and printing options, as well as a whole host of other features.

The first cool feature of the Keepsy app is it sifts through all of the photos in your camera roll and then divides them into different sets based on where and when they were taken. So for instance, I have two albums called "Bethnal Green" but one is from Field Day Festival last year and the other is from a night out in Hoxton a few weeks ago, so I was pretty impressed with the way everything had been organised automatically.

Once you've browsed through your sets to check they all make sense and added in any rogue photos that didn't appear (all of ours were neat and tidy, so we didn't need to bother), you can share them to your social networks or scroll through options to have them printed with Keepsy's book services.

However, the app isn't just about sharing, using and creating new things from your photos, there are also a number of photography tips and photo projects to get you capturing more adventurous images too.

Obviously the app is geared up to get you to buy Keepsy's stuff and we can't guarantee you'll ditch your current photo sharing and organising apps in favour, but it's a cool app wrapped up in a great user experience and because it comes with sharing options and photo tips too it doesn't seem "salesy" at all.

Available from iTunes for free.

There are all kinds of different photography gadgets and camera accessories on the market at the moment, whether you're really serious about your photos or just like to fool around with Instagram on your iPhone.

We've collected together some of our favourite accessories that'll help you take better photos, transport your kit around in style and transform your photos into dreamy nightscapes.

It seems we're not the only ones who leave our fancy cameras at home in favour of our mobile phones, as a Guardian photojournalist has been attending the Olympics and taking great looking images with only an iPhone 4S.

Dan Chung has been at the games over the past few days and has been snapping photos of athletes, fans and the stadium. He has a dedicated page on the Guardian website called Dan Chung's smartphone photoblog, where you can view his images and see what he used alongside the iPhone, as one or two of the photos were taken with the help of a lens and binoculars. But regardless of what extra accessories were used, Chung's images are a great testament to the iPhone 4S' awesome camera.

Related: Photo comparison proves iPhone 4S camera really IS worth shouting about

A very cool and slick new web app called This Is Now collects real-time photos from Instagram and displays them on websites dedicated to big cities across the globe. We're going to warn you in advance that you'll be pretty damn mesmerised, so look away now if you don't have at least a few minutes to spare...

This Is Now is actually a network of different web apps, which are all tapping into Instagram's API in order to stream photos from certain locations in real-time. Right now there are dedicated sites for London, New York, Sydney, Sau Palo and Tokyo.

Once you're on the city of your choice you can watch photos scroll past you as they're uploaded to the app. If a photo takes your fancy you can click on it before it whizzes off into the ether, where you can like it, comment on it and even find out the user's name so you can go follow them later.

The sites use the geolocation data that Instagram stores whenever you take a photo, so even if you upload something when you're back from a trip to New York, it'll still appear on that website.

What we love most about This Is Now at the moment is that the London real-time feed has a fair few photos of the Olympic stadium and even some sports from inside, which we imagine there'll be more and more of as the games progress.

Visit: london-now.jit.su/

[Via Digital Trends]

Instagram has become insanely popular as a photo application, editing tool and even social network in its own right despite the fact it exists solely on our mobile phones. However, many are now wondering whether it's set to make the big leap onto the web following a number of recent changes and a discovery by web designer Cole Reinke last week.

At the end of last month Instagram launched a new way to view photos, make changes to your profile and manage the way different third party apps interact with your account all from the web. Now it seems there are set to be a whole range of other features added to the Instagram web experience, following a discovery by web designer Cole Reinke, who came across a suspicious looking "View Profile" link last week (see photo).

There's been no official confirmation from the Instagram team just yet about whether the link (which has now disappeared) means web profiles are on the horizon, but if the experience is translated onto the internetz soon it'll be interesting to see what this means for the countless third party apps that have cropped up over the past year or so. Will people stick to what they know? Will they be deemed completely useless? And most importantly will an Instagram that's available anywhere and everywhere be just as appealing?

Related: Instagram finally comes to the web (kind of) / Top 5 web apps for Instagram: Inkstagram, Webstagram and Insta-great

[Via Digital Trends Via TechCrunch Image via Cole Reinke's blog]

Another third party Instagram application has been launched to provide users with some more cool ways to view their photos. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Flipagram, a super simple way to create slideshows of your Instagram snaps and then share them all over the web.

Once you've downloaded Flipagram, you can go through your Instagram library and select images, put them in any order, add a title, adjust the speed and even overlay everything with a soundtrack. You've then got the option of sharing your creation via email, Facebook or YouTube.

The app doesn't do anything else other than allow you to create slideshows, but if you're a big fan of Instagram and have a lot of images you want to showcase then it's a fun app and not too pricey.

Available from iTunes for 69p.

[Via The Next Web]

Many of us have become so accustomed to taking photos with our mobile phones that we'll snap pictures of pretty much anything, our friends, cool buildings, things we eat (maybe stop this) and impressive scenery.

However, the majority of amateur photographers (yes, that's the title we've decided we can all call ourselves) don't tend to upload their photos to Flickr Creative Commons or online databases that would allow others to search for them, look at them, use them and possibly even buy them.

Well now a new app called Foap allows mobile photography geeks to upload and share their work and maybe (maybe) even make a few pennies from their snaps in the process if people want to reuse them elsewhere.

To get started you take a photo, or upload one you're particularly proud of, build up a portfolio, publish them to the market and start earning money from people that might want to use them for a range of editorial or commercial purposes. The deal is, you sell your images for $10 a pop, you'll get $5 of that and Foap takes the other half.

The important thing to remember is don't go overboard with filters. Foap is all about quality imagery, so if a filter looks great then it'll work, if it makes the photo look blurry or a bit rubbish (sorry Instagram), then it won't get approved and even make its way onto Foap's market.

The approval process also aims to stamp out any inappropriate content too, so don't worry, you won't stumble across anything gross or X-rated accidentally. After all, there are plenty of other sites for that kind of thing.

There's a real community feel to Foap as you're encouraged to go and rate photos taken by other users. The better rated a photo becomes, the more chance people will find it in search results, which is a great idea and ensures that Foap is about quality over anything else. It's interesting to browse through other photos too and see which are the Top Rated or Latest Sold in order to give you a better idea of what works well and what others are searching for.

Foap sounds good in theory, but as we've only just signed up we can't comment on whether it's a cool way to make a few extra pennies or just a pretty app with little purpose in the long run. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

Foap is available from iTunes for free. Oh and can we also talk about how good the website looks too? Check it out at: www.foap.com

Our favourite little photo app hasn't had a big update since it was gobbled up by Facebook, but this week Instagram has added a few cool new features, including an Explore tab, improved commenting, speedier loading and further Facebook integration.

The Explore tab, which replaces the Popular tab and looks like a star/compass thing, allows you to see which photos are trending and search for specific users, events, hash tags or topics.

You can now also share the "likes" (or little hearts, whatever) you get on Instagram through to Facebook, just make sure you go to your Profile > Sharing Settings > Facebook and ensure it's checked.

There's been a subtle change to the commenting system too, meaning it's easier to write out a full comment and see everything in the text box.

If you don't have Instagram already (how do you make your face look nice?!) then you can download it for free from iTunes or Google Play.

Instagram may be a great place for mobile photography geeks, celebrities and brands, but a number of popular news organisations and magazines have taken to the photo app in recent months in order to share photos, updates and news with the community.

We've collected together a range of big news organisations, magazines and online publications that use the app for everything from breaking global stories to giving the Instagram audience a sneak peek behind-the-scenes at celebrity photo shoots.

There are oh so many photo apps out there for editing your mobile snaps, but there's definitely a trend amongst avid Instagrammers at the moment to not just be content with the one, but to combine lots and lots of photos in a quirky way.

The most popular photo-combining-cute-border app is Diptic, but there are a few more available that allow you to stitch everything together, change the shape of the snippets, add different kinds of borders and even create cool reflective effects.

Related: 10 Ways to make your Instagram photos more awesome

If you enjoy taking photos of your face and then editing them beyond recognition, then moreBeaute could be your new favourite app.

Quick and easy-to-use photo application moreBeaute makes your skin look smooth and glowing, a bit like a Barbie or a cherub.

To make your face Mattel-like, simply take a photo using the app, or upload one from your Camera Roll and moreBeaute then makes it look all dreamy. If you want you can then tweak certain elements, like Brightness, Smoothness, Detail and Tone all with handy sliders, so you can view how each affects the photo instantly. You can also toggle between Before and After photos while you edit too, so you can "oo" and "ah" at the differences.

Once you're happy with your new shiny face you can then share your photo to Facebook, Twitter or just your Camera Roll.

Now we're really not saying there's anything wrong with your skin at all how it is. In fact the glowing complexion you get from moreBeaute is a little bit creepy, but if you enjoy playing around with Photoshop, applying blurring techniques and smoothing out imperfections, then this is a really fun and simple way to do it.

But please please PLEASE don't go overboard. You don't want to look like a blow up doll in all of your photos. Or maybe you do. In which case GO WILD.

Available from the app store for free. There's also a premium version too, but the only different is it doesn't have ads, so save your pennies and just ignore the ads. Simple.

Related: PicMonkey: Simple online photo editing with Instagram-style filters

There are a range of different services that promise to turn your Instagram snaps into stickers, calendars and t-shirts, so we're not surprised to see a new company has popped up that lets you turn them into big, beautiful works of art too.

Every week there seems to be a new company piggy-backing on the success of Instagram, offering users the chance to see their photos on all kinds of useless products that they really don't need. However, there's something about Instacanvas that we think could be a bit more successful and appealing, despite the fact its name is sickeningly predictable of course.

If you're particularly proud of your photos, Instacanvas allows you to have them printed on high quality canvas and sent to your home all ready to hang. However, it's also a platform for professional artists and photographers who already have a big Instagram following to connect with others who'd like to buy their artwork. In this way Instacanvas becomes an interesting and potentially very lucrative business model for those looking to make a few extra pennies from their awesome photography skills.

You simply sign up and the site builds you your own gallery, along with a vanity URL and you can then pick which of your snaps you want to feature.

Matt Munson, the cofounder and CEO at Instacanvas, told Fast Company:

"It started with the idea that there are these billions and billions of photos being created every day on Instagram and other social media platforms, and some of us on the team had an interest in selling artwork, and some of us had talked about buying it. And as we looked around all we were seeing on the walls of our apartment was mass-produced artwork that we'd bought at Ikea or Target--things we really had no personal connection to."

As you'd expect there are a few issues that arise as soon as you start delving deeper into the workings of Instacanvas, for instance, artists make only 20% of the cost of each print. As the starting price is $40 that means only $8 for those behind the image, which is a little bit low, no?

Many are also questioning who really owns all of our Instagram content now that it's been gobbled up by big bad Facebook, but Munson said:

"We haven't seen any inkling that that would ever change, and obviously there would be an enormous backlash in the community--so in that sense they'd be destroying the value of the entity they'd just acquired...It's a very different thing the way people use Instagram to take a beautiful picture they want to share with the world verus a picture of your friends having a beer at a party on Facebook."

Related: 10 Services that turn your Instagram photos into cool products

[Via Fast Company]

If you feel that your snaps of cakes and cats just don't look as good as they used to, try following some of our simple tips to make your Instagram photos a little bit more awesome.

When we all first started using Instagram last year, like crazed, filter-obsessed zombies, uploading photos of trees and tea and cats before choosing a simple effect with a cheesy border was totally acceptable. However, over the past few months we've all started taking our Instagram activity a little more seriously, whether it's making basic edits before uploading, adding filters from another app or combining lots of photos into one messy collage. We're onto you all.

So to help you out, here are our top ten tips to make your Instagram photos look even better, whether it's a basic photography lesson or apps to enhance the way your photos look before you go on to share them with your followers.

A new Instagram-based concept called Instaprint has popped up on Kickstarter this week, which scouts out specific locations and hash tags, brings lots of photos together and allows you to print them out in true photo booth fashion.

Instaprint merges the location-based technology of Instagram with our nostalgic love of old photos to bring you lots of snaps to any party and event that's filled with plenty of mobile photography geeks. Simply take lots of Instagram photos as normal, tag the location and then they'll all get sent to the nearby Instaprint box, which will print them out like Polaroids, or store them all in one place online so you can access them later.

We all know how popular crazy photo booths are at parties and events (particularly those that require you to dress up), so we imagine that experience combined with our love of Instagram can only lead to lots of fun times and silly photos.

Find out more about Instaprint over on the Kickstarter page.