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Embed Instagram is a tool brought to you from the Digital Inspiration blog. It is free, easy to use, and can add a 612x612 photo or video alongside your writing. You can also edit the dimensions if you need a smaller version to fit Web site formatting.

Step 1: Open Instagram in your Web browser and navigate to the photo or video you want to share. Copy the URL in the top address bar.

Step 2: Next, open a new tab and head to the Embed Instagram Web tool. Paste the URL in the box and click Generate Embed Code. … Read more

QR Photo to iPhone MP4 Converter will take your digital photos and create a video that can be played back on your iPhone or other MP4-capable portable device. The resulting videos are of a decent quality and size, though the process of creating them can be cumbersome due to a roughly-designed interface and not-always clearly-labeled options in the software.

When you first open QR converter, you can choose a selection of images for use in your video. These images can then be edited in a number of ways. From adding transitions between frames, to adding soundtracks, panning and zooming on … Read more

QR Photo to iPod MP4 Converter is an effective tool but has some issues in terms of interface and conversion speed. While it allows you to effectively convert any of your images to MP4 videos, complete with soundtracks, transition effects, and pan/zoom options, the interface and tools used to do so are cumbersome and time consuming to sort through.

After installing QR Photo to iPod MP4 Converter, which was relatively quick and required no additional installations, we were able to start moving photos into the tracks for conversion. The process of finding the images and adding them to a … Read more

QR Photo to Video Converter is an effective tool for transferring images into videos with slideshow settings--including various transition effects, soundtracks, and pan/zoom options. The result is a useful tool that takes some time to set up and start using due to a poorly-labeled interface, but ultimately creates decent videos for use online or on your mobile device.

The installation process is a little longer than we normally like, and the interface is not particularly intuitive, with numerous menus and tabs that make it unnecessarily complicated to perform some of the easier functions that the software supports; but once … Read more

For those with thousands of photos on their iOS devices, Apple's iOS 7 photo organization efforts are probably welcomed. In the end, though, it likely won't be that much help for finding a specific picture or simply enjoying your collection. That's where a service like Everpix comes in handy.

The cloud-based service basically collects and combines all of your photos into a single place from any source you allow it access to: Mac and Windows computers, iOS devices (Android is in development), and social networks. Once pictures are uploaded, Everpix analyzes your shots by date and content (… Read more

Google has released its promised photos app for Chromebooks, software that imports photos from an SD card, backs them up to the cloud, and spotlights the ones it judges to be the best.

The software, a Chrome extension, is available only for the Chromebook Pixel at present, but Google is "working to bring the app to other Chromebooks as well," said AJ Asver in a Google+ post Tuesday.

Sundar Pichai, head of Chrome, Google Apps, and now Android, gushed about the app in a February interview during the debut of the Chromebook Pixel, Google's high-end, $1,300 laptop. … Read more

Photo-sharing site Imgur has officially taken its Android application out of beta.

The company updated the app on Sunday, saying that it's now "officially" available to the Android community. The application has been available in the Google Play store for quite some time, but was offered in beta status. The full-featured version 1.0 is the final build.

The app is Imgur's first major step into mobile. The company has previously succeeded by appealing to a relatively large number of users sharing photos online. Like its Web-based counterpart, the free Android app allows users to browse … Read more

Hey, guys, remember Vine? That's what we might be asking each other if this whole video-on-Instagram thing pans out.

If you haven't heard, Instagram today announced the addition of video capturing and sharing capabilities to its widely used photo app. The new features are now available on both Android and iOS, and so far, users seem to be really excited about the moving pictures.

But how exactly do Instagram's new features stack up against Twitter's video-sharing baby? While Instagram's update may have borrowed copiously from the Vine (also available for iOS and Android) experience, the … Read more