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Weekend Humor: EXCLUSIVE!!!! Instagram Comes to the iPad

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06/29/2013
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Weekend Humor isn’t meant to be taken seriously. So don’t. We’re srs.

Today, Instagram just became a whole lot better. Got an iPad? Great! Instagram has officially launched for the platform, letting you share all those moments instantly from your big ass tablet.

Following the announcement of their video rollout to compete with Twitter’s Vine, Facebook (who owns Instagram) decided that they needed to step it up a notch even more after they saw just how popular video on Instagram became. Every day, people take images with their iPads and upload them to the web. It happens at concerts, during meals, and at baseball games. It was really only a matter of time until this happened.

The new iPad app lets you do nearly anything you can with the iPhone and Android apps. You can view images from your friends, heart them, comment, explore, search tags, and see how people have interacted with your creative uploads.

Building on Instagram’s dining filter (which instantly deletes all the food images you take) the company is introducing a brand new feature tailored for new photographers. According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, “Instagram now has a Live Guide which gives you tips on pointers on how to take new photos–like stretching your arms out to help you zoom in on that far away landscape.”

But that’s not all–as it seems that the team behind Instagram has been the busy bunch. The iPad app has a new feature where during the editing interface, the app will remind you to punch yourself in the face. We pinged the Zuck for a quote about how long this feature was in development and how they think it will roll over with the community. Unfortunately, he declined to comment.

Instagram for the iPad is available for download now in the Apple App store and is free as it always has been.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.