Official Instagram Application for Blackberry

The first free Instagram App for BlackBerry is here. The app developed by Adrian Sacchi is not just an Instagram viewer, it is a fully featured app that allows you enjoy the features that an Android phone enjoys.

NOTE: Compatible OS Versions: Blackberry 10.1

> Register an account
> Browse Feed, Photos & Videos
> Upload Photos
> Add Photos to Map
> Auto Share to Facebook and Twitter
> Share Photos & Videos
> Tag Photos
> Apply native filters and frame to photos
> Like and Unlike Photos & Videos
> Comment Photos & Videos & Receive Notifications
> Explore Popular Photos & Videos
> Browse Profiles
> Follow and Unfollow Users
> Search Users & Hashtags
> View News
> ReGrann Photos
> Edit your Profile
> Download Photos & Videos> And much much more.

Download it HERE

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Instagram Direct: Let’s you send Pictures using DM

Instagram has a new service of its own “Instagram Direct” that allows users send and receive pictures privately.

The service is which is added via a software update is accessed by a new icon in the top right corner of your home feed. Tap it and it would reveal your inbox where you’ll see photos and videos that people have sent to you. To send a photo or video to specific people, tap the camera button to enter the same simple photo or video capture and editing screens. At the top of the share screen, you’ll see the option to share with your followers (“Followers”) or to send to specific people (“Direct”). To send using Direct, tap the names of the people you want to send your photo or video to, write your caption, tap “send” and you’re done.

  After sending, you’ll be able to find out who’s seen your photo or video, see who’s liked it and watch your recipients commenting in real time as the conversation unfolds.

You will find the new instagram update with the new Instagram Direct on iTunes and Google Play.

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Instagram comes to BlackBerry via iGrann and BlackGram

After months of having to go through the “pain” (I exaggerate obviously) of side loading the android port of instagram, today you have not one but two options to get instagram running natively on your BlackBerry 10 device.

BlackGram is built from the ground up as a native BlackBerry 10 app and uses cloud servers much like instance on Windows Phone to bring you full access to instagram’s service.

BlackGam’s features include:
*.Account creation
*.Profile picture change
*.Full browsing: followers, following, liked.
*.Search users and tags
*.Like, unlike, comment, follow and unfollow
*.Select a picture from your albums or take a photo with the camera
*.Edit the image with the integrated editor and native filters
*.Original Instagram filters (server-side) iGrann is also a native BlackBerry 10 app but unlike BlackGram, it gain’s access to the instagram service by reverse engineering one of the services APIs.

iGrann also integrates deeply with BlackBerry 10 giving you access to some of the BlackBerry’s native features from within the app.

With iGrann you can:
*.Register an account
*.Browse your feed
*.Browse Photos & Videos
*.Upload Photos
*.Apply native filters to photos
*.Apply native frames to photos
*.Like and Unlike Photos & Videos
*.Comment Photos & Videos
*.Explore Popular Photos & Videos
*.Browse Profiles
*.Follow and Unfollow Users
*.Search Users
*.Search Hashtags
*.View News
*.ReGrann Photos
*.Share Photos
*.And much much more…What you can not currently do with iGrann, but will be implemented in a future release:
*.Upload Videos
*.Receive notifications Because its server-based, BlackGram is a paid app, to keep up with server costs, it also means there is a slight delay when you post pictures using instagram filters because they have to be processed server side.

iGrann on the other hand is free but as of right now, is only available as a limited public beta with a few features like profiles disabled while the kinks are being worked out.

If you want to try them out, you will find BlackGram on BlackBerry World for $3.99 and you can download the iGrann beta for side load here. (here is how to side load just in case you are lost). While you at it, you should follow Jeffbankstegrity on Instagram for some cool stuff.

Update: The BlackGram developers have apparently disabled downloads right now, and are upgrading their servers to cope with the huge number of requests they have gotten in the past few hours. It should be available for download again soon.

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Review on Instagram

Probably you heard the news some months back that Facebook bought Instagram.

Although this app/service was launched in October 2010, and has snowballed in popularity ever since, not everybody knows an Instagram from a telegram.

If you've been sitting on the Instagram sidelines, here's your chance to find out what all the fuss is about and get started using Facebook's new baby.

What is Instagram?
Instagram is an app first of all, but also a social network. The Instagram app, available for Android and iOS, can apply a variety of filters and effects to your photos. It also connects you to the Instagram network so you can share your modded snapshots and see those of other users. All this happens on your phone, though shared photos routinely land on Facebook, Twitter, and so on.

What do Filters Mean?
A filter makes changes to your photo -- sometimes subtle, sometimes significant. Instagram has 18 filters, most with nondescript names like Earlybird, Hudson, and Sutro. With one tap, a snapshot can be made to look like it was shot in the 60s or came out of a scrapbook or was taken with a Polaroid camera.

What More can Instagram do to a Photo?
The app offers two other noteworthy capabilities.
1. It can frame photos with rounded corners, a white or black border, ragged edges or some combination of the three (depending on the selected filter).
2. It can add a straight or circular motion-blur effect, leaving any given area in focus while blurring the background. That's Instagram's coolest feature.

Why is Instagram Popular?
Sometimes I wonder. It was far from the first app to offer photo filters, and its interface is anything but intuitive. But once you figure out how everything works, Instagram is pretty fun. And it shares effortlessly with the likes of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and Tumblr. Yet, it's free.

How do I Get Started?
First of all, download and install the Instagram app on your smartphone or tablet. The first time you run it, you will need to sign up for an account, which is quick and painless. From there you will want to familiarize yourself with the five buttons that span the bottom of the screen: Home, Popular, Camera, News, and Profile.

The "Home" shows you the latest photos from friends and other users you follow. The "Popular" serves up a batch of the latest and most-liked pictures -- a good way to get a feel for the app's capabilities. The "Camera" opens your device camera, allowing you to snap newly filtered/framed shots on the spot. But you can also tap the library button (represented in the iOS version by two overlapping squares) to choose existing photos you want to tweak.

The "News" reveals news about who you are following and who is following you. Finally, the "Profile" allows you find friends, review your filtered photos, edit your profile, and configure sharing with the six currently supported social networks: Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Posterous, Twitter, and Tumblr.

Download Instgram for iPhone: Here

Download Instagram for Android: Here

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