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Daily iPad App: Imagewind shows you the images of the world
Imagewind gives you a glimpse of our fast-changing world by letting you admire photos from all around the globe. The app is an aggregator that pulls down photos in near real-time from services like Instagram, Twitter, and Flickr. You can select which photo services you want to use and how long you want each image to display on your screen. When an image captures your attention, you can share it on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more. You can also export it to your photo roll and save it foroffline viewing. I was skeptical at first about the information overload offered by Imagewind, but once I slowed the pace of the images, I was captivated by all the different photos passing through my stream. Imagewind is available for free from the iOS App Store. It's a universal app, so you can get the iPad and the iPhone version with a single purchase.
Microsoft removes Imagewind from Marketplace, WP7 gets first bitter taste of rejection
Oh, sure, it was easy to pick on Apple for all those frustrating App Store rejections over the years, but Google's had its own run-ins with apps being pulled under unfortunate circumstances, and now it's time for WP7 users to get a taste. Microsoft has pulled is thinking about pulling Imagewind from the Windows Phone Marketplace, an app that basically pulls random images en masse from the Twitter-stream, splaying them all over your touchscreen. MS indicated that, without some sort of filter to weed out seedy images, the app has to go. Somewhat curiously it's actually been chilling in the Marketplace since March 3rd, and it was only upon reviewing a recent update that someone in Redmond said "Hey, waitaminute!" Imagewind is now gone and honestly we can't say that its rejection is completely arbitrary -- displaying all images the all the time is not necessarily a good thing for sensitive eyes -- but it still stings, doesn't it? Update: We got a note from Roger at Smarty Pants Coding to let us know that he's received a "grace period" for the app. It's still available for download, but it could be a limited time thing... Update 2: Another note from Roger. The stay of execution has been... unstayed. The app is no more. Break out the trumpets.
