Open Snap Philippines - A Must for Foodies

OpenSnap Philippines is here!

Hey Coffeeholics! How is your summer so far? Who did some food tripping during the break? (raises hand.. haha) Everyone loves to eat and I bet (just like me) you take photos of your food as well.

One of my cousins and I would joke, "Pinakain mo na ba phone mo? (Have you fed your phone already?)" referring to me snapping a photo of the dishes at a restaurant where we were eating. Well my dear co-foodie, I found a better way of "feeding" my social media feed with pictures of food through this amazing brand new mobile App here in the Philippines called OpenSnap!

Yes, eating has somehow evolved to a social/technological experience as well with the advent of smartphones and the internet! haha. Yes, I'm sooo guilty in that aspect of taking photos of food and sharing it on my social media accounts. I can't help it! I love to share to my friends and to the world (chos! haha) about a particular food that I've tasted, fell in love with, and want other people to experience it as well. Now thanks to Open Snap, it will make "sharing the food love" so much better.

At the launching of OpenSnap where they explained what OpenSnap is all about and how we can easily use it on our smartphones!

OpenSnap is a revolutionary mobile application for iOS and Android smartphone and tablet users where they can find popular restaurant spots through food photos uploaded by friends and families. It is the first & unique food photo app in the Philippines and Asia that allows users to create personalized food albums & share their dining experience with friends and families wherever and whenever!

Connected to the OpenRice database, OpenSnap allows users to locate over 1 million restaurants in the Philippines and in Asia, share dining experience, and identify OpenRice members, as well as Facebook friends and Celebrities. It allows Filipinos to enjoy local and  worldwide cuisine on their fingertips with the support of advanced i-cloud technology.

Food that we ate at HEAT Edsa Shangri-La Plaza Hotel
The soup was the best! Loved it!

OpenSnap offers a user friendly and convenient approach to creating one’s own food photo albums, photo sharing, hash tag locations, photo filtering and use of stickers in photos.  OpenSnap users can also tag their friends in their photo uploads, as well as share the information to their personal social networking platforms, such as, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Weibo.

Here's some tips in taking photos for OpenSnap:

The  major  features of OpenSnap include:

1. Use food photos to search nearby restaurants - Users can search nearby restaurants by browsing photos uploaded by friends. It helps you to save the time to locate alternate dinning locations while lining up long queue at the designated restaurants.

2. Create and share your personalized restaurant albums - OpenSnap provides users with personalized restaurant albums and easily share their dining experience wherever and whenever! Users could check the restaurant details by clicking the food photos, with more supplementary information for a perfect dining experience.

Just started my own album. You can also add friends and like their photos.
Add me - kaisensei. :) I will follow back!

3. Browse  over 1 Million restaurants in Asia - OpenSnap has an advanced search function to reach out dining photos and restaurant information of  other Asian regions such as China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and HongKong.

4. Photos come with a wealth of information – Each food photo provides the user with restaurant address, map, contact details, reviews and comments.

And that's one of my photos on open snap! I ate at Cafe Adriatico at Gateway Mall Suites with my family. That's where we celebrated Mother's day. :) The food was awesome! And yeah, looking for what to eat in the mall or the nearby areas was so much easier when we used this app. Its very very useful! So not only OpenSnap becomes your personal food photo album and social media sharing tool, but its also an app that will help you when you make some of the most difficult decisions ever that you have with your barkada:  "Saan kakain?" or "Kahit saan na lang?"

Hehe. Your problem will be solved with this cool app. Wala ng away away. hahahaha. The app is available for android or iPhone users. The only thing I noticed though that it's mostly available for the latest android versions. They are still in the works in making it available for lower android versions (like for my phone. haha! I used my sister's ipad for my opensnap account). Thank you very much OpenSnap for inviting me to this event! Hope you all have a "full" summer! :)

OOTD - Secret Garden and Holiday Family Reunions

Dress - Thrifted
Top - borrowed from my sister 

Capiz Earrings - random souvenir shop at Roxas City
Belt - Landmark

Watch - TIMEX c/o SM Accessories
Bangles and Black Ring- SM Accessories
Flower Ring - Girl Shoppe
Sandals - SM Parisian

I wore this dress the day before Christmas at one of our family reunions. I know, this doesn't look "Christmassy" at all. But the main reason why I wore this was first of all, its one of my favorite "dresses". I have a secret though. Its not actually a dress but a "peasant skirt"! I know I know, I think I broke an unspoken rule here somewhere by telling you this secret of mine but I just wanted to share to you one of my favorite thrifted finds and what I did with it.

I'm not ashamed to say that one of my favorite shopping hobbies is to check out the "ukay-ukay shops" (aka thrift shops!) and buy some stuff there. Not only do you get to SAVE money (as in trench coats at Php50!) but you get to own (sometimes) a "one-of-a-kind" outfit or clothing article. Wala kang kaparehas! You don't have to worry that you might bump into someone with the exact same shirt or skirt! Anyway, so yeah. I tried to wear this skirt as a "tube" dress with the help of a really nice cover-up and a belt. Plus its super comfy, hides any bulges (hahaha a must during the Holiday season), and I really really like the flowery print and fit of it on me. Feeling girly and pretty ako! hihi. Chos may ganun! Its one of the rare items of clothing that I own that is NOT BLACK and which I really really like.

Pinoy Henyo Android App

Anyway, so that's what I wore that day. Actually, the original title of this post should have been my Christmas day outfit but then I remembered that the family reunion was on the 24th of December and not on the 25th. Usually we have it on Christmas day itself but for this year we moved it to the 24th. Anyway, it was fun to meet up with our relatives and second cousins and catch up with whats happening among ourselves. Besides, eating -- one of the fun things that we did was that we played PINOY HENYO using the android app! If you have an android phone, you seriously need to download this game. Its super duper FUN and HANDY.

with SOFI

with my sis LAURA

with my cousin - JEN

After the games, singing of Christmas carols, and retelling of the Christmas story, one other thing that we do during this time is PRAY. Yes, we take the time to thank God for the year, for His special gift to us which is why we celebrate Christmas, and we also pray for His blessing for the following year. Of course before we all parted, we had our "photo sessions" at our Aunt's garden. Yes, JEN was there since we are cousins after all. And of course, had to have some photo sessions with SOFI as well. hehe. Anyway, so that's some of the things we do during family reunions. What about you dear coffeeholics? Did you enjoy your Christmas vacation? What do you do during family reunions? Do you have any special activities or traditions that you do as well? Please do share!

Hope you all have a wonderful 2012!

Mwah mwah,

To Android Users: Android App Alert - Little Photo | OTD

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Let me just say that I'm soooo glad that I chose to get an android phone when I bought one last November. One little blessing with my android phone is that I get updated FAST with all my friends' blogs and I get to read em all even when I'm not online.That makes me one happy blogger! Now let me introduce to you one amazing Android App that can do wonders to your photos - LITTLE PHOTO.

Anyway, with all the hype about Instagram, I've been curious about it lately. I love how the photos come out with the Instagram (an iPhone app unfortunately.. ) and I also found out that it has also a "social network" feature to it. Lucky apple users! Still I wanted the photo effects badly so I searched in the android market and found Little Photo - a photo app that adds "film and retouch effects" on your everyday ordinary pictures! I couldn't believe that it was free (THANK GOODNESS!) and I love the amazing photo effects! It even makes ugly photos look good with the effects! And the choices are endless! Here are some samples:

Original Photo

with "Instant Film" feature

with "White Story"

A combo of several effects! (Model: Stephen)

Model: Sofi (shopgirlJen's baby!) - I used "Angel Kiss + black paper frame" 

The Little Photo app makes me feel like a pro! I love it! Its sooo good that I just had to blog about it. Here are some additional features that makes me love it a whole lot more:

• Auto saves original photo
• Can use high resolution 800px (may not work on some older phones)
• Has sharing capacity (twitter yeah!)
• Has additional tools such as text, draw, frames, 4eyes (4 photo collage), etc.

It now has around 10,000 plus people installing it on the market but more than a million at Appbrain. And I just wanted to share it to you guys to satisfy your craving for instagram! LOL. Here are the links to Little Photo Facebook and Little Photo Android Market App. Or simply go to the android market and search "Little Photo" to download and install it on your android phone. They also have an additional plug-in if the effects are not enough to satisfy your photo editing tendencies, they are offering a plug-in of MORE film and retouch effects for $0.99 or  Php 42.55. Not bad eh? So go get your Little Photo now and enjoy!

AND to end, here's my Outfit of The Day!!!

Top - Thrift Shop, Jeans - Forever 21, Black boots - Solo, Necklace - bought in Palawan, Ring - Girl Shoppe,  Bracelet -  my sister's!

Yes I was using my cellphone camera so pls excuse the crappy photo details. :)

And no, I decided to NOT Little Photo edit this one. 

And this is not a sponsored post. :)

Thanks for visiting! (A Little Photo Edit! Yes with text!!!)

Soooo coffeeholics, what's your favorite iphone/android app?