A New and Improved Picapp

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If you’re a long time PicApp user or just following our work you know that we are always looking for new ways to stay ahead and make PicApp better.

For the last few months a bunch of geeks, aka our tech team, focused on making our service more stable, simpler to use and mainly faster. We’ve listened to your feedback and requests and today we’re adding a new face to all of the great adjustments we’ve made and are proud to release a new PicApp website.

The top items on your wish list were related to website performance, search quality and image display. The new website is about those exact items.

What can you expect?

Website performance – all actions, especially running searches and grabbing image embed codes, will be super fast – searches are 5 times faster!!!

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Search quality – our new search will be more accurate, stable, with a wider range of images (we added new image providers and have several others in the pipeline), a wider range of image collections (sports, science, medical etc.) and the ability to filter searches by categories for your specific blog needs.

Image display – it will be easier and faster to grab image codes and embed them in your blog, the code itself has been modified so images load faster and look better on your blog posts. We have also added “Image Thumbnail” feature, to let you use a thumbnail image as a teaser and drive traffic to the post where the full size image is displayed.

New PicApp tools – with the new website tech backbone in place, we can start releasing new and exciting tools and widgets to create new ways for you to use PicApp and for your readers to interact with your blog content. As part of our new Tools section on our home page, we are excited to release “The picapp search” which enables you to add a direct PicApp search to your personal browser – try it out! We are also extending an invitation to our loyal bloggers to join our Alpha revenue share program. In the coming weeks we’ll deploy more of these to the website so stay tuned….

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Last but not least, a brand new look – we’ve re-designed our website for a slick and elegant interface with the focus on bringing you more news, new tools and gadgets, and an easier navigation for searching and grabbing the right image for your blog post.

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Fewwwww…. You can see why it took a little extra time (-:

So, go ahead, check out our new website and keep the great feedback coming, that’s what made all these great improvements happen!

Best Dressed at 2009 Emmy Awards

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Rose Byrne in Valentino:

61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals

Heidi Klum in Marchesa:

61st Primetime Emmy Awards arrivals

Blake Lively in Versace:

The 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Arrivals in Los Angeles

The 66th Venice Film Festival

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The 66th Venice International Film Festival is organized by the Venice Biennale. The first “Esposizione d’Arte Cinematografica” came into being in 1932 as part of the 18th Venice Biennale.

The very first film to be shown in the history of the Festival was Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, screened on 6 August 1932.

The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote all the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance.

Closing Ceremony Inside - 66th Venice Film Festival

Actor Colin Firth holds his Best Actor award while attending the Closing Ceremony at the Sala Grande

Celebrities at the premiere of A Single Man at the Venice International Film Festival 2009, Italy

Premiere for the film A Single Man. Pictured: Director Tom Ford and actress Julianne Moore.

Usain Bolt Wins 100m in World Record

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Usain Bolt crossed the finish line breaking world record in 100 m run, he managed to shave 0.11 seconds off his achievement at the Beijing Olympics last year, setting 9.58 seconds as the new world record.

Track and Field: 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Tyson Gay, the American runner arived second with 9.71 seconds

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Two

2009 Teen Choice Awards

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The awards ceremony, which honours celebrities in TV, film, music, sports and fashion, was held at Universal Studios’ Gibson Amphitheatre in California.
Twilight won 11 awards with Kirsten Stewart and Robert Pattinson both won for best actors in a drama. Pattinson also won best male hottie award which is in the form of a surfboard. Co-stars Ashley Greene and Taylor Lautner won for fresh face female and male.

2009 Teen Choice Awards

Miley Cyrus, sang her newest single Party in the U.S.A. Cyrus took home six awards including best comedy TV actress and best comedy TV show for her series Hannah Montana.

Miley Cyrus  presented the ultimate choice award to pop star Britney Spears.
Britney Spears attends the Teen Choice 2009 Awards in Los Angeles

American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling released from N. Korea

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Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrive home to their families at Hangar 25 on August 5, 2009 in Burbank, California after being released by North Korean authorities yesterday.
American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling greeted by family in Burbank
Ling and Lee, of San Francisco based Current TV, were both arrested by North Korea in March for illegally entering the country on the Chinese border.
Yesterday they were pardoned by President Kim Jong-Il after a meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Ling and Lee had been sentenced to 12 years in prison in June.
Laura Ling And Euna Lee Arrive Home At Hangar 25