We are thrilled to announce a new version of the Phanfare iPhone app that improves upon the viewing experience by wirelessly synchronizing and caching your recent albums right on the phone. The viewing experience is buttery smooth, includes videos, and works (for photos) even when the iPhone is in airplane mode.
New photos you take on […]

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After months of carrying around an iPhone 3G with the 3G turned off because the battery only lasted until 2pm, I eagerly installed the 2.1 iPhone firmware on friday hoping that the tantalizing tidbit in the release notes that battery life might be increased for “some users” would apply to me.
Since then, I have had […]

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We are pleased to announce the introduction of Geotagging support within Phanfare so that you know where photos were taken.
Phanfare records the GPS coordinates of any photo with GPS information in the EXIF header. The process is fully automatic and compatible with cameras that support geotagging of images (such as the iPhone) and with […]

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We released version 1.3 of the Phanfare iPhone App that focuses on rounding out the sharing features available from the application.

You can now add friends and family from the app
You can accept connection requests from the app
Your Phanfare newsfeed, telling you about photos and videos in your circle, is now available from the […]

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We released a new version of the Phanfare iPhone app to the iPhone App Store. This new release offers several new features and other improvements.

See your published albums from within the app. This embeds a web view that will show you your own published content and published content from friends, family and groups. The web […]

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We use Amazon S3 to store our 80 terabytes of photos and videos. We like the service and it works well. Yesterday, it went down for nearly 8 hours. And during that time, we were mostly up. Cloud computing is all the rage, but sometimes, the weather is really bad and you can’t see the […]

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We braved the masses of Apple fanboys today to get new 3G iPhones for all Phanfare employees. We don’t normally participate in mass hysteria events but we were so excited about the release of the Phanfare app for the iPhone that we could not help ourselves.
We arrived at 7am at the Menlo Park Mall in […]

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I am happy to announce that the Phanfare iPhone app is now available. The Phanfare iPhone app turns your iPhone into a wireless camera. The convenience of being able to shoot photos with a device that is nearly always in your pocket and have them incorporated seamlessly into your permanent online photos albums is hard […]

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It should come as no surprise to anyone that I rely on Phanfare to safeguard my photos and videos. They live happily in the cloud, in their original sizes and quality and I access them from wherever I need. I strongly believe in cloud computing. I think personal computers (Windows and Mac OS) are […]

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We just released a new version of Phanfare that enables more inputs and outputs so you can access your media any way you want on any device you want.

Import from Shutterfly, Snapfish, Kodak, and Picasa web albums directly into your Phanfare account.
Export from iPhoto to the Phanfare service using our new iPhoto plugin.
Improved iPhone viewing […]

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