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Episode 81: We Are Back!!!

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News – Were Back!  We did a sight migration and all the fun things with it.  The Post Pic is of a Lost Episode that never made it before the migration.

Featured – Joseph Ferreira changed the battery on his iPhone 4S.  

Store – Check out our Amazon Store for great Gear for your iPhone

Tiny Shutter Challenge –

Facebook – Tiny Shutter Group

Google+ – Tiny Shutter Group

Instagram – Tiny Shutter Account

Use hashtag #TinyShutter to get your photo featured as a TinyShutter ‘Post Picture of the Week’.

Focus Points – Joseph likes iFixit.com

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The New Flickr – The Standard Is Raised

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How many of you have a Flickr account?  For the longest time Flickr has been stuck in the stone ages while other services have surpassed it.  That was until today.  Flickr has unveiled their latest improvements.  The visual improvement is very appealing, but the changes to the user options is huge.

newflickrFlickr has always had paid and free options since the beginning of time. The free version limited the user to 200 images in sequence, while hiding the older images without deleting them, and the paid version gave you access to all the images.  This has changed.  Flickr is giving 1TB storage to everyone! (I’m using 0.019% of the storage)  There are paid levels that give you more storage space and take away the ads (I can live with that).

The other improvement I’m impressed with is the new visual layout. 2004 is calling.  It cannot find it’s user interface. The layout is clean and refreshing, and my images actually look good on the screen.  Click on the image to see my account and the new layout.

I’ve had an account with Flickr since 2007, but I have not really paid a lot of attention to it.  Most of my reasoning is because there was no value to the product.  That has changed for me.  The standard has been raised in Flickr for good, and it will also change the standards for other services as well.

If you have not looked a Flickr for a while, now is a great time to look at them again.  Let’s hope they do not take another decade to innovate.

What’s Wrong With Instagram Today? Breaking News!

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NOTE: This post was related to a previous Instagram Outage. If you’re coming here to complain about Instagram, feel free to let us know that something is wrong. However, we are NOT tech support, and we have no affiliation with Instagram.

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Update 6/30/12 17:30 : Instagram is back up! Yay!

Update 6/30/12 13:00 : My Instagram feed has updated but will not allow uploads. #GettingThere

UPDATE 6/30/12 12:00 :Amazon has continued to update their AWS with information about continuing outages related to the N. Virginia Cloud server. These outages have been caused by violent storms that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands and killing 5 people. Amazon’s most recent update:We are continuing our recovery efforts for the remaining EC2 instances and EBS volumes. We are beginning to successfully provision additional Elastic Load Balancers.

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UPDATE 6/30/12 08:00 : Instagram has been down since @ 23:00 eastern time 6/29/12. The cause of the outage is an Amazon Elastic Cloud server in N. Virginia that has apparently been affected by severe thunder storms in the area. Instagram has tweeted a generic statement acknowledging the outage
– @InstagramHelp
We’re currently experiencing technical difficulties and we’re working to correct the issues. Thanks for your patience

As usual IG has avoided offering any information regarding the outage to the > 1M fans on their Facebook page, IG has updated their wall with a brief description of the cause of the issue. Netflix, Pinterest, and a host of other services are feeling the outage. The latest update from Amazon is: Jun 30, 4:42 AM PDT We are continuing to work to recover the remaining EC2 instances, EBS volumes and ELBs.

EDIT: If you found your way to this page because Instagram is giving you grief by not updating, add your 2 cents to the comment section. We want to know… because odds are we’re feeling the same pain.

Breaking News! What’s wrong with Instagram today? Complaints and questions from frustrated users are piling up on IG’s Facebook page. Messages to the IG help desk have been un-answered to this point and if you’re dwelling on it, the problems may appear to be becoming more severe.
Current issues involved include:

  • Feed not refreshing
  • Profiles not loading
  • unable to upload photos
  • unable to follow users
  • data not refreshing

What kind of issues are you having? add them in the comments below.
Have you received any response from Instagram or found other info related to the issues?

Do you think this has something to do with Android?
Do you think this has something to do with Facebook?