Ovi focuses on three outstanding apps for photo and video sharing

Happy Monday everyone. I hope you will enjoy the week ahead – one thing you will find here in the Ovi blog this week is apps every day. Our friend Pino asked us to help showcase apps, and we’re happy to oblige. Today, we’ll focus our attention on photo and ...

Happy Monday everyone. I hope you will enjoy the week ahead – one thing you will find here in the Ovi blog this week is apps every day. Our friend Pino asked us to help showcase apps, and we’re happy to oblige. Today, we’ll focus our attention on photo and video apps, and specifically apps you can use for easy sharing of the content you capture on your Nokia smartphone.

We’re going to start with the must-have app Pixelpipe, which is free in Store, and is configured so that you can upload and share your images and video content to more than 100 different online destinations, including the usual suspects like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Once you set up your account with Pixelpipe, you can add destinations for where your uploads should go – these are the various “pipes” that you choose. And, once you set up the pipes for the first time, you can pretty much let ‘em run.

As our guest reviewer in the Ovi Daily App, Jay Montano from MyNokiaBlog.com noted, “its deep integration with the phone’s gallery and camera leaves a very easy and simple uploading experience.”

This short video from Brett Butterfield, the CEO of Pixelpipe, shows how easy it is to use this app:

Click here to view the embedded video.

For more about this app, read the complete review, or take a look at the online tutorial that was recently created. Pixelpipe is free to download in Store and it is compatible with a broad range of Nokia touch-enabled devices.

Once you try Pixelpipe – if you haven’t already done so – you may find it hard to use anything else.

But what if online sharing isn’t enough? What if you want to take the photos you have on your Nokia smartphone, and you want to print them out and share them with friends? My first choice is the Touchnote Postcards apps for use on Nokia Symbian OS, S60 5.0 devices like the N97 mini (not, it is not available right now for devices like the N8).

With Touchnote installed, you can take the photos on your device, and turn them into printed photo cards that can be sent via good-old postal mail to family and friends around the world. And the entire process can be completed in just three quick steps – in many ways, it is as easy as sending an MMS.

The app guides you along each step, and you will be able to truly share your images with family and friends – maybe mom isn’t using Facebook yet – in a special way. The first printed card you create with Touchnote is free. After that, you will need to buy additional credits to send more cards, and you can do that directly from the app. You can download Touchnote Postcards for free in Store.

Our last app for today is one that requires a bit of time – and patience – but you will be rewarded for it with the really cool content you can produce. I’m talking about the FastMotion Time Lapse app by developer Harald Meyer. With this app installed on your Nokia touch-enabled device you can produce some really amazing stop-motion video.

This short video by Justin Chan is one of the best examples we have been able to find showing what you can do with this app – the results are very fun to watch:

Click here to view the embedded video.

As our reviewer said: This app is “a cool tool for capturing the slow-motion world and bringing it home in standard video format. Not many handheld camcorders can do what this app does, and certainly not many mobile phones, either.”

The FastMotion app is available for $0.99 (USD) in Store; and there are detailed instructions on the developer’s website to help you create your own mini-masterpiece.

How do you share the photos and videos you capture with your Nokia device? You can “share” your ideas in the Comments section below.

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