A few hours ago popular photo-sharing program and social network Instagram announced that they’ll be rolling out Instagram profiles on the web in a few days. This web profile will feature a selection of recently shared photographs. It will also show your profile photo and your bio and will give others a quick view of the photos you share on the network. Users will also have the ability to follow users, comment and like photos and edit their profiles easily and directly from the web.

Having said this, you must be pumped up after hearing that Instagram will now have a web version right? Well, to help you guys out to improve your photos on your profile, I’ve collected several apps that will definitely spruce up the photos that you will be taking with your smartphones.

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InstaCollage – Available for iOS devices, IntaCollage helps you combine multiple shots into one framed picture with caption. The app was developed by Mobile Click and features 17 irregular layouts, 46 adjustable regular layouts, 38 style of borders, 18 photo effects that can be applied to individual photos, 90 stickers and 40 fonts.

It can be downloaded for free on iTunes with a pro version priced at $0.99

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InstaPicFrame – Another iOS app, InstaPicFrame features 42 adjustable layouts, 46 border styles, 12 photo effects, 4 unique text effects and 100+ system fonts that are fully adjustable in terms of size, color, and border width. The app has a free version and a pro version that costs $0.99.

It also features easy sharing on various social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

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InstaEditor – For a limited time, this app is available for free on Apple’s iTunes. The app features a nifty one-tap magical enhance filter that corrects and adjust brightness, saturation and contrast levels. There are also settings for adjusting orientation and sharpness. A crop feature as well as red-eye removal, whiten and blemish features.

InsaEditor also sports support for stickers, drawing on top of the image and the addition of text. Ten photoeffects are also available at the user’s disposal to help improve and personalize photos.

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InstaEffect FX – Another free app for iOS users is InstaEffect FX. With over 70 cool photo effects to choose from and the ability to layer these photo effects, this app provides a very convenient way of providing a semi-professional look to user’s photos. InstaEffect FX also allows for adjustments in an image’s opacity and brightness.

Users can also rotate, move, scale and flip images as well as add erase and draw effects. An undo and redo function is also available which gives users flexibility when editing their photographs. Sharing images to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr is also made very convenient with dedicated sharing functionality.

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InstaFonts – For those looking for a more professional looking font to caption your photos, you can purchase InstaFonts on iTunes for $0.99 (for a limited time only). The app sports a collection of 38 fonts with 35 colors and 51 textures that you can mix and match for a unique look.

Users can scale, rotate and control the text’s opacity as well as its orientation.

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InstaCap – Droid users aren’t left out. Instacap is an app developed for Android that lets users add captions to their photos. It’s currently free on the Google Play store and features 300 random hilarious captions as well as custom captions you can readily put into your photos.

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Photo Collage – Photo Collage is another free app for Android to help improve your photos before you upload them to Instagram. As the name implies, this app makes a collage of your photos which you can customize with a number of styles, backgrounds, borders and templates.

Aside from the easy sharing of photos on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr, a nifty feature of this app is the shake functionality that allows users to easily change the photo template by merely shaking the device.

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So there you have it. Which app do you have in your device? Or which app are you planning to download? Tell us by leaving a comment below. Also, don’t forget to add TFL on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google Plus or subscribe to our blog for more Filipino Lifestyle stories. Till next time everyone!

Hello everyone, it’s time again for another episode of Tech Tuesdays on TFL. If you’ve been living under a rock, there are a few things that happened last week. For starters, the 2012 Olympics in London kicked off last week. But there were also some news makers from the tech industry last week.

So in this week’s edition, we’ll be talking about Apple’s new operating system, Google’s upcoming high speed internet network and Twitter’s decision to sever ties with another partner company.

TWITTER AND INSTRAGRAM

Social networking service Twitter has once again surprised everyone when they pulled their “Find Twitter Friends” off of Instagram last Thursday. Users began noticing a pop-up message saying that Twitter is no longer allows its users to access information in Instagram via the Twitter API.

This is the second time that the social network has decided to end a partnership with another company. It was late June of this year that Twitter stopped syncing updates to professional social network Linkedin.

According to company CEO Dick Costolo, Twitter’s decision to sever ties with Instagram and Linkedin was in line with the company’s goal of having companies to build into Twitter rather than building off of it. For now, it’s unclear whether the social network will continue to disconnect itself from other partners, but a lot of people are unsure if this is a smart move for the company.

GOOGLE FIBER GETS ANNOUNCED

Google is planning to expand its empire into the internet service provision industry. Last Thursday, the search behemoth announced its high-speed internet network that is to be called as Google Fiber. According to reports, the network is aiming to provide a connection speed of at least 1Gbps, which is 100 times faster than today’s average connection.

The service will be first made available to consumers from Kansas City into small communities called fiberhoods. In order for a fiberhood to get the service, a great majority of the residents in that community would have to pre-register. Only those fiberhoods with a high pre-registration rate will be the first to get the service.

Based on reports, the service will be available for about $70 a month or $120 for internet with TV. There will also be an initial $300 installation fee. Furthermore, it is reported that each subscription package will come with a Nexus 7 tablet that will act as a remote control.

MAC OS X MOUNTAIN LION

Apple releases the newest version of its operating system – Mac OS X dubbed as Mountain Lion. The new OS brings about more than 200 features to Mac users and fans. These features include improvements in accessibility, improvements in Facebook and Twitter integration and enhancements in the calendar, messages and safari app.

Mountain Lion also integrates Apple’s very own cloud service – iCloud. This enables the operating system to seamlessly share files and information to other devices such as iPads and iPhones, which in turn makes the OS easier to setup. Another feature that is improved in Mountain Lion is Airplay Mirroring, which allows users to share their screen to other devices with the same Airplay feature like an Apple TV.

The operating system is now available in Apple’s App store for under $20.

And that concludes this edition of Tech Tuesdays on TFL, your weekly roundup of news and updates from the tech world. And please, if you have the time, follow us on Twitter and be a fan on Facebook. Thanks and see you next week!