iPhone

The folks at Joby -- the folks behind the wonderfully bendy Gorillapod -- have just released a free iPhone app called Frame X Frame, which will take a lot of the tedium out of stop motion photography. Once you have your phone set up in place, you can set it either to take photographs at regular intervals, or whenever you feel like it, and then it will stitch the images together for you into a movie that can be shared across the usual array of social networking channels.

Flickr keeps track of which camera models are the most popular amongst its users, and for the first time a cellphone is set to take the top spot. If you count all of Apple's iPhone models, they've been in the #1 spot since 2009, but this is the first time an individual handset has neared the top.

Using the Instagram API, Postagram is a nifty app that allows you to select any or all of your favorite images to be physically mailed to anyone, anywhere in the world for a buck--you can even add an optional tweet-length message (max 140 characters). We haven't seen any physical prints out of the process yet, so we can't comment on image and card quality but they're claiming 300dpi resolution and thick, quality stock.

There has never been a shortage of mobile apps that let users shoot, edit and share photos.