Facebook Goes Straight For Instagram's Throat With Photo Filters

  x You have successfully emailed the post. Facebook is planning to add photo filters to its mobile photo application, the Times' Nick Bilton reports.

This is obviously a direct attack on Instagram, which has been crushing it in the mobile photo sharing space. Given that photo sharing is Facebook's direct use case, and that mobile is the future of computing, this is a pretty direct threat to Facebook.

Will this work?

Actually, probably not. 

Instagram is a beautifully-designed product. More importantly, we don't think people think "Facebook app" when they think "take a pretty photo with my phone and share it with friends."

Now, of course, Facebook has the most popular mobile app, and maybe it can teach people to think differently. But that's what it tried to do with check-ins and locations against Foursquare, and that didn't work at all.

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Epson Stylus Photo R3000 Wireless Printer Features & Review

Want to unleash the creative in you with an all new Epson Printer? So, let’s check an all new Printer from Epson which is dubbed as Stylus Photo R 3000.Seems like this 13 incher wide printer is all set to address all your printing needs. With high capacity cartridge, networking and wireless connectivity pumped with advance media handling capabilities, this printer distinguishes itself apart from the other printers available in the market. With Epson’s proprietary ultra-chrome K3 colour engine powered with Vivid Magenta pigment ink enables this 13 incher to print out differentially great prints including colour as well as b&w quality prints.

This photo printer is capable of delivering exhibition quality prints which can be then printed on a glossy, matte or on a fine art papers which are up to 13 inch long.

Features and Review:
This Epson printer R 3000 comes with a 9 cartridge tank which accepts vivid colours like Matte black, Photo Black, Light Black, Light Light Black, Cyan, Light Cyan, Vivid Magenta, Vivid Light Magenta and Photo Yellow tanks and it switches between the Matte and Photo Black inks as required. Also, it seems that Epson has learnt with R 2800 which comes with a 11.4ml which is quite small compared to R 3000 and also R 2800 tends to increase the frequency of refilling it up quite a few times if you are the one who often takes print outs. But with the launch of R 3000 and by fitting the cartridges which powers with a capacity of almost 2.27x more ink that comes close to 25.9ml. So, from now with this printer you can cut on the frequency of replacing the cartridge which makes in short cost efficient too.

If we talk of affordability of R 3000 then it’s not quite a big difference if compared to R 2800. This printer is basically a top loading printer with a high capacity tray which also features the latest front in and front out media path which is designed for printing the fine media art. Not to forget, this Epson printer also comes with an AccuPhoto HD2 image technology which is basically a complex mathematical architecture and advanced screening technology which ensures that the ink is precisely placed on the paper for smooth and grin free images. Also, this one comes with a Ethernet 802.11n WiFi WLAN support and also has USB 2.0 for faster data transfer in a network.

Cost and availability:
This printer is currently not launched in India but will be launching in India with a price tag of nearly Rs. 37, 000.

Chetan Bhawani is a tech blogger and a gadget geeks. An Android fan, but doesn't let Apple go away as he loves Macs! A photography learner, he has at least a few gadgets in his vicinity! Blogs at todayontech.com, he is also a dentist sharing dental tips at drchetan.com

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