- TinEye Android Beta!
I am sure that if you are like us, you have been dreaming of a TinEye android application for quite some time now. Our beta release today won’t really help you unless – like us – you are a Nexus One user! If you are, well, rejoice: the TinEye Android Beta is here. It is a rough beta as we are just getting it out to do some testing. It is not ready for prime time. It may or may not work. It may or may not crash your phone. But when it works, well… it is magic. We actually just built it for ourselves but we don’t mind sharing.
Have you ever run across a photograph in a magazine, on a poster or on those giant advertising billboards at the airport and wondered where it came from? or who shot it? Now you can simply whip out your Nexus One, snap a photo and get your TinEye results (if we have them!).
So what you need to know:
TinEye Android Beta searches the current TinEye index when you perform a search. There are a number of things you should be aware of:
- Do not install it if you are using a Samsung Galaxy S! It will hard crash your device and you will need to remove your battery to restart it.
- It does not work well with rotated images. You need to take your photograph in portrait mode and avoid rotations/skewed shots.
- It only works with Android v2.1 and later. And has only been tested on the HTC Nexus One running Android v2.3.3 and the HTC Evo running Android v2.1-update1 and v2.2.
How to install the TinEye Android Beta:
- On your phone go to Settings > Applications.
- Enable “Unknown Sources” This is required because during the beta, the app is not being installed from the Android Market Place.
- Install TinEye for Android
- Go to the browser downloads, either from the Android pull down menu or by going to the phone browser menu > more > downloads, and click on TinEye.apk to install the app
- After the app is installed, be sure to disable Unknown Sources.
We would appreciate your feedback so that we can work on the next release. So please let us know of any bugs or drop us a line to send us some hugs! We are already working on a number of improvements including:
- Options to use the camera zoom and flash
- The option to upload an image from your phone image gallery
- The option to log into your TinEye account from the app
- Using the camera in landscape mode.
To uninstall the app:
- Go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > TinEye
- Choose Force Stop if the button is enabled
- Choose Uninstall
Enjoy!
UPDATE: MAY 31/2011. Thanks TinEye fans for your testing and feedback. Much appreciated. We now have a new release Version 1.1 which includes a bug fix where the photo taken with a phone camera was uploaded to TinEye in landscape mode instead of portrait mode in some phones. This release also works on the following devices:
- HTC Desire HD 2.2.1
- HTC Desire 2.2
- HTC Nexus One 2.2-2.3.4
- HTC Evo v2.1-update and 2.2
- LG GT540 CyanogenMod7
- Milestone CyanogenMod7 2.3.3
- Motorola Droid 2.3.3
As always we would love to hear from you! Say hi!
- CP24 NEWS Y U NO CHECK PHOTO SOURCE!
Hat tip to our TinEye fan @adamgoucher for this little gem:
The little article he is referring to is the article that CP24 News in Toronto released this morning about thunderstorms and hail warning for our city: Toronto. Turns out the “lightning seen in this file photo” is well, lightning allright but not anywhere close to Toronto, not even Canada! ooops! That photo title should read “Night thunderstorm in Kiev” from stock.xchng. TinEye strikes again?
- TinEye Forums
We just migrated our TinEye forums to Vanilla. We are still working on improving the forum design but you can already check out the new TinEye forums. We have been terrible at answering TinEye questions in our forum and informing our TinEye fans. That’s all going to change with the new forum! So, drop by, give us some feedback, ask us questions and let’s get a conversation started!
- Giving credit: always credit your source
A few weeks ago I came across Pia, Erin and Yvette‘s Giving Credit poster. I can’t tell you how excited I was because that’s something that is on our minds constantly – except that we sometimes call it “attribution”. I believe attribution is the web currency. Content creators want attribution and in an ideal world it should be straight forward for content users to give credit where it is due – every time. But that’s hardly the reality we have today. So this Give Credit poster is an awesome resource. Study it and give credit! Love that TinEye is part of the solution!
- PsychicSearch
Soon you too will be able to search for images without a keyboard. From your brain to the screen and badaboom results! Why did we not think about Psychic Search – from the good folks at Alamy. And here we are slaving away at improving image recognition!
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