Jimmy Buffet Party!

We had a lot of fun at Brandywine Country Club's Jimmy Buffet Party.  Thanks so much to Dawn Ulrey for promoting Phototwine!  We were able to get 13 users participating in this event which made it very successful.  What a beautiful night with the great band Suburban Legend!  Click on the links to like them on Facebook!

  

Pinterest

Pinterest is a great curating site to keep all of your ideas in one location.  One area that has thrived on Pinterest is the curating of Wedding ideas.  The site is overflowing with women planning their wedding.  We joined quite some time ago to gather all of our finding on iPhoneograhy.  Not even quite sure if that is a word or even subject one writes on.  But we have seen the word floating around and kinda like it.  Since we joined we have amassed quite an eclectic collection of information, cool gadgets, and fun photography stuff.  We have just started to incorporate our Phototwine info.  We just wanted to highlight our Phototwine board because we thought it was pretty cool and thought you would think so too.  So if you are ever strolling around pinterest and are planning a wedding drop by and repin our Phototwine app and let everyone know that you are going to have the coolest wedding ever!  

Instagram

It is no question that Instagram is cool and everyone that uses it loves it.  If there was any doubt it was answered when Facebook bought them for a cool Billion dollars after only being in existence for about two years.  Do any of you Instagrammers print out your Instagrams?  If you ever want to, Phototwine can do that.  We offer several ways to post your Instagrams to our service and then give you the opportunity to print them affordably.  The first way is to add them to The Twine and share them with the Phototwine community.  Another way to upload your Instagrams is by creating a free one hour event, invite your friends, and upload all of your Instagrams.  Finally, have a party, create an event, invite all of your friends to join, take your Instagrams and upload to your event.  Make sure to make your event public so you can search for your event with the event code.  Once you upload, just go to www.phototwine.com, find your photo, and use the buy button on the on the page as seen below.

You can either buy the photo you selected or choose more than one by choosing "Photos in this Gallery".  There are three options for the 5X5 in square format that Instagram has been so popular for.  The difference is the finish.  The first is Lustre, the second is Matte, and the third is Glossy.  Whichever is your favorite you will not pay anymore than $1.39 for your cool Instagram print.  We believe that this is a very competitive price.  Happy Instagramming!  And don't forget to show off your Instagram photos on Phototwine.  Everyone will think you are the coolest one at the party!

New York City and the Today Show.

We are on our way to New York City!  In honor of our tour we made T-shirts at Big Daddy Graphics.  Thanks to Rex we created an eye catching T-shirt to show off at The Today Show.  It will be an exciting week for the Today Show.  We are going to be in town for the Nicki Minaj, Carrie Underwood, and Lionel Ritchie shows.  Not to mention all of the Olympic Athletes coming back from London.  We have added the image of the shirts to the bottom of this Post.  Tell us What you think?  We think the shirts are going to be a real eye catcher at the shows! Phototwine is going to be perfect for the shows in Rockefeller Center.  We plan on getting there around 5 am to get into the shows.  During our wait leading up to the show we will give out the event code for the day to everyone with an iPhone.  After the event we will be sharing all of the photos on our blog and Facebook page.  We hope to get hundreds of people participating in our Today Show events.  Stay tuned!


Keep your eyes peeled to The Today Show next week and see if you can spot us!

Toubleshooting

We have noticed a few issues with Phototwine since launch.  Most of them we thought we fixed but are still showing up from time to time.  The first one we thought we fixed was photos being uploaded from your camera roll are not orientating in the right direction, leaving photos sideways.  We should have that fixed in the first update.  Another issue that we have had is the app freezing or "problem uploading".  We believe that is caused when you are on the fringe of wifi coverage, just a bad or slow cell signal, or your phone is trying to connect to an available network but is having trouble.  When that happens the server times out and your photo does not load.  We think Apple is going to have a fix for that with the release of iOS 6.  Above is a photo pulled from the Cult of Mac website.  This was a screenshot taken from a Beta release of iOS 6.  It will allow users to choose both wifi and cellular when using apps. We believe that this will help in the process when your phone is fighting itself on how to upload photos.  Phototwine uploads photos to a gallery for all to view when created as a public gallery.  Then the app pulls all of the photos from the gallery to everyone's phone that is joined to your event.    You may then view, share, or print the photos you want. The last issue we have seen is a camera error.  This is caused by tapping the screen after you take the photo and the app is transitioning to the apply filter screen.  The fix was to add a twirl wheel to prevent the screen from being active.  However, we have noticed that some users are not getting the wheel.  Finally, in the event that one of these problems arise or the app freezes for some reason please take the following steps to force quit the app.  First, hold down the home button and the sleep wake button simultaneously until the shut down screen appears.  Next, release the buttons and press and hold the home button for approximately 8 seconds until the app quits.  Relaunch the app and continue.  We are sorry for any inconvenience and will have a fix shortly.  

2012 Cruise by the River Classic Car Show

Featured Event

We are off and running! Just over a week and we have over 300 downloads. This is from just word of mouth advertising. We have yet to pay for any advertising. We plan to start our marketing push after our first update. Our first update is going to add twitter integration, the ability to identify who submitted a photo, and the ability to make comments on photos.

We are going to try something new on the blog starting this week.  As events start to make there way to our community we are going to highlight one new event per week.  This weeks event from a concert one of our users went to.  On the photo to the right they used the LAX filter to make this awesome photo ever awesomer!  In addition to highlighting one of our favorites from the event, you will also be able to enjoy all of the photos from the event in the slideshow on the right hand side of the blog.  We hope you enjoy them!  A concert is another great event to Intertwine your photos.  Remember, create the event, share the code, take as many photos as you want, and enjoy!