flauntR Gets Featured as One of ‘The Best Things in Life’ by PC Mag!

The New Year has begun on a happy note for flauntR. PC Mag, one of the most respected and independent technology guides on the Internet, has acknowledged flauntR by featuring your favourite online photo suite as one of the best free software of 2009 in the Graphics category.

Listing out the 173 “best things in life” in PC Mag, renowned technology editor and writer Eric Griffith noted, “The best things in life often actually are free. Here, a list of 173 of the best things in life—free software, for launching apps, networking, backup, synchronization, entertainment, and more.” That’s true – flauntR is one of the best things in life!

Yeah, we know that it may not be a surprise for the millions of flauntR users. But, we take this opportunity to thank you all for making flauntR a big success, and we would like to let you know that the best of flauntR is yet to come. In the coming days, you will see the addition of a lot more advanced features and options to flauntR, which will surely make your flauntR experience better and better. Wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year!

flauntR debuts as MySpace application

flauntR is now officially , deeply, and truly integrated with MySpace. And we’re really pleased, thats why we are rhyming

So all the MySpace users (which include half the earths human inhabitants, (and some presidential candidates), and many of our own users (add dollops of warm fuzz liberally here)) can now enjoy flauntR from within their crazy cool myspace pages. And this means all the zappy little flauntR features can be used to pimp up your myspace pages in warp speed quickness.

Find flauntR at apps.myspace.com or just click this link to get started with flauntR’s MySpace integrated version before you can say ‘wowee!’

Infact we had integrated with the MySpace application platform the day it launched , but took some time to let our Testing team create hell on our flauntR MySpace integration set up, to make sure everything would be humming along perfectly when our users get their hands on it. And they’ve done pretty much everything short of nuking it, and its holding up fine.

If you do find any glitches though,(gulp!) just send in a mail to info (at) flauntR (dot) com and we will have it ironed out in no time!

Hog the limelight by having your face on a magazine cover

Long red carpets……expensive wardrobes and jewelery…….continuous camera flashes…..all these mark the arrival of a celebrity and it is this glitz and glamor that gets their faces on the front covers of leading magazines. Looking at those glossy covers on the newsstands, we are sure you might have wished if you could swap places with the star. However, it is said that reality crushes the dream. We help you realize your dream to a certain degree, by giving you the chance to put your image on the covers of mock magazine covers.

The stylR application with flauntR, has been enriched with a collection of mock magazine covers. The magazine covers are mock representations, while still adhering to the feel of the original ones. Get ready to make yourself newsworthy and have headlines like “Man of the year” and “ Most Gorgeous woman”, go with your image. It is down to two choices and a single click. Choose your best possible photo and choose the magazine cover that you want, and in one click, hey presto, you have shot yourself to the heights of fame. The world has heard about the hall of fame and walk of fame. We introduce you to the click of fame. Fame comes at a price in the real world. But, we bring it to you for free, and in just a single click.

Time to celebrate love…

Love is in the air…..we certainly can feel it. It is Valentine’s day in a few days and an occasion to celebrate the magical feeling of being in love. We have always tried to cater to the needs of our users and provide them with a host of options to try out on their images. With the occasion of Valentine’s day on our minds, we have added a touch of love to the effects already available on the site. The stylR application has been enriched with a separate section for Valentine’s day frames and the textR application has the seasonal shapes proclaiming love.

Our extensive set of frames is still growing and the new section is for all those lovers who want to choose the perfect frame to convey the feeling quickly. It is all about a quick scroll through the section, finding the perfect frame to adorn the lover’s image and a simple click brings in a huge change. Try adding a few seasonal shapes prepared exclusively for Valentine’s day and in a few minutes, you are ready to propose or proclaim your love.

You can’t compromise in love. Neither can we, in providing you the best, to celebrate your love.

Frank Gruber takes flauntR out for a spin

Frank Gruber , one of the leading bloggers on the web today, was kind enough to spend some quality time with  flauntR , and had some good things to say -in particular on how flauntR compares with some of the paid services out on the market and offers the same features for free.

“I was impressed with flauntR’s free offering”  ” flauntR’s photo slide shows look very nice” were some of Frank’s comments. The entire article can be read here 

Frank blogs regularly at www.somewhatfrank.com apart from a multitude of roles including Senior Product Manager at AOL.com.  His profile can be viewed here. The site is a must read for anyone tracking technology and the Web 2.0 world.

A big thanks to Frank for his detailed review, and for his words of encouragement. Its a great feeling to get some support from the top folks on the block.

the flauntR Team.

picasR – merge million dollar artwork with your photos.

Ever seen a work of art and felt something so beautiful, something that couldn’t be laid out in neat groups of words or broken into graphical sequences – great paintings by master craftsmen, so special and one of a kind , that its inconceivable that its essence could be captured or recreated anywhere, let alone to your own images?

With picasR that becomes as easy as a single click.

Choose from hundreds of paintings by the most famous artists in history, and blend the essence of their artwork right into your photos, within seconds.

Feel the pleasure of having the photos of your best memories and your dearest ones made even more special with the touch of master artists.

With picasR, your photo is worth a million dollars.

 

 

<Psst…. Meanwhile, excuse the ornate text above, we were feeling so excited about the new feature, we thought we’d beat our chests a bit. And get a bit arty >

The short way of looking at it is that you can actually add a Mona Lisa touch to that surfer chick girlfriends snap you took, or give the pre wedding bachelor send off party photos the solemnity of a ‘Last Supper’, with just a click. And if anyone isn’t fine with the results, just tell them Da Vinci thought it was OK . Meanwhile we’ve asked our developers to give us a bit of the mathsy stuff they’re doing that made this possible, but they are either already too busy on the next features, or arent telling none of their secret stuff to no one, so we won’t be putting out equations just yet.

So dust up your old artists beret hat or get one from the nearest Walmart and we are all ready to go. All you’l need to learn is to do that thing with the hands that the artist types do.

picasR lets you take the pain(t) out of paintings, literally !!

More features ’shaping’ up

We’ve added tons more shapes to our ‘textR’ line up, including text stickers. And more will be added everyday…so keep dropping in to be surprised with new stuff !

Just thought you would like to know. Since we keep adding so much stuff everyday, we sort of starting to get worried if you would notice all of them!  .  Watch this space to get the lowdown on the newest features, including any tweaks under the hood.

Bebo platform opens- flauntR is in

For all you flauntR people , we have more good news in store. The bebo application platform is open, and we are one of the first ones through the gate. Just click http://bebo.com/flauntrapp to check out the flauntR bebo page. You can see it even if your not registered with Bebo.  Theyve just opened up with the Bebo code, and we’ve been working furiously to get this out so all the Bebo people can enjoy flauntR. We’re listening in on any changes you want so just drop us a mail at info(at) flauntr (dot) com if you see anything, or just to say Hi

For all you Bebo fans, here is a lowdown on what flauntR can do for you

Get all the following flauntR apps right in your Bebo profile page:

stylR – all the photo frames, filters, textures, greeting cards, polaroids – all the hundreds of one click photo effects for your photos

editR – industrial grade pro photo editor features ranging from simple sepia effects to vignettes and nightvision filters

profilR – create profile photos on the fly for more than 30 social networks – yes Bebo too.:)

mobilR- create mobile wallpapers from your flauntR creations – for over 250 mobile phones and counting

printR – print out your flauntR creations to tshirts, mugs, and pretty much anything you want

textR – use hundreds of free fancy fonts and shapes to spruce up your photos , create ecards, or just to create something wacky to share with friends

Slideshow – create embeddable slideshows from your Flickr, picassa and Facebook photos, using over 20 high quality transition effects.

More flauntR stuff will be coming out on bebo as soon as tomorrow. Just watch this space for the release!

flauntR ‘Shows’ off Community Gallery

flauntR today released the Community gallery feature, which allows you to create and share photo slideshows, using over a dozen transition effects. And as you’ve come to expect, a single click is just about as complicated as it can get. And its obviously free. Completely. And yes, deeply integrated into any service on the web, including the ones only the geeks know about.

Currently your photos in Facebook, Picasa and Flickr can be directly pumped into flauntR slideshows. Even your album and photo details are retained. All you need to choose is which transition you would like (thats the tough part, there are quite a few ), then decide whether you would like to have it displayed on flauntR’s front page (what??). So our users get to decide what appears on our homepage, because their photos is what flauntR is all about.

We call it the ‘Community’ gallery because anyone with photos in any of the major services on the web will be able to enjoy this feature, without having to ‘re-save’ their photos to flauntR. We believe in allowing the web community to be able to use flauntR’s best features at their convenience, without having to move all their photos. Our community goes beyond our users alone(a full 100, 000 of them at the last count), but can be anyone on the web looking around for the easiest , coolest, shortest way to display their photos. We love all our users, but the lazy ones are real gems, because they want so much more

So from now on, forget having to click unnaturally large, fluffy colored upload buttons, and then sit reading nonsensical loading text. Let the photos be where they are. You focus on the fun part. We’ll go fetch.

Most Wanted Feature release(d)- ‘Best Fit’ photo adjust

We are happy to announce the ‘Best Fit’ photo adjust feature, which means its now possible to rotate , pan, or zoom your photo even after applying effects and frames. Just choose the ‘Adjust photo’ tab on the left of the Effects thumbnail menu.

Select an image of any size and then easily change it to ‘fit’ a frame – even your reunion photo with 40 beerbellied middle agers can be fit nicely into the smallest of frames Focus only on specific parts of a photo using ‘Resize’ and pan, so you can cut out the dour looking bystander from that otherwise perfect little photo you took on your holiday (Budget trip of course!). Use the rotate feature to give some crazy angles to your party photos, or just to get some perspective..

To make this even more powerful, we also have a choice of non proportional resizing – to stretch your image just a little bit horizontally or vertically to make it even snuggier within your favorite christmas frame. To top it off, incase your photo is too small for resizing, or you’d love to have the photo as it is, easily add a color of your choice to fill in the background color of the empty frame area.

One of the most wanted features has been this ability to play around with photo positioning within the stylR application(even though we had that from the beginning in EditR, but hey flauntR users rule!)) In fact we had so many requests in non english languages that we can now confidently pronounce ‘Pan’, ‘Rotate’ and ‘zoom’ in french, spanish and italian . So here it is , just in time for Christmas and New Years, so get cracking with all those effects!