Along those lines, here’s an article on Techcrunch, which I found through ZDNet, reported a few days ago ‘Want To Avoid Swine Flu? There’s An App For That Too.’

“[S]ome companies are clearly trying to capitalize on the Swine Flu craze that is sweeping the nation. Naturally, someone just had to make an iPhone app. And the winner is IntuApps, which has Swine Flu Tracker, waiting for approval from Apple before it’s released into the App Store.”

Image borrowed from Techcrunch.com

Proving that some people have nothing constructive to do with their large brains and too much down time. At least the app is for free. I suppose its better than the flatulence iApps that people actually pay a couple of bucks for.

regards -debbie

iStockphoto was all the rage a few years ago when the company first started. They advertised ‘one dollar’ stock images, a pricing structure that was way cheaper than legacy stock houses like Corbis.com and Getty.com. You don’t buy their images by the dollar; it’s a pay-for-credit structure, and a credit translates into a little less than a dollar, depending upon how many credits you buy in a batch.

The brand’s cost-cutting — or cost-undercutting, depending upon whose side you look at things from — continues to be a hot topic among artists who try to sell their own work, and folks who are able to get their art into stock sites. I listened to a related debate for two years straight at a Microsoft industry event called the Pro Photo Summit.

The iStock pricing has definitely risen over the years since the service launched. They still have dollar purchases in their Dollar Bin, though these images cost more than a dollar if you want the resolution larger than, well, unusable. But iStock, and Artbeats, are still a good destination for getting photographs that are less expensive than, let’s say, taking the time to shoot them yourself. Time vs money, as always.

Must say that I love the vector illustrations used as branding on the iStockphoto.com site. Wonder if they are for sale…

Enjoy your weekend! -debbie

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