If you’ve ever wanted to travel back through time to see what was happening in a given location on a particular date, a new, simply designed mobile application called Pic A Moment can help. The app is an Instagram search engine of sorts, allowing you to enter in a place name – be it a city, a business, or any other venue – along with a date, in order to see all the photos snapped there for the timeframe specified.
This is less about getting a sense of what a spot may be like, the way you might by browsing through a collection of check-in photos on Foursquare, for example, and more about being able to research and draw from a collection of public photos related to some event, like a music concert, sporting event, or some sort of breaking news happening.
The app itself is easy to use: you drag the slider to the date you’re interested in (today, 1 day ago, 1 week ago, 1 month ago, or you can enter in a custom date via the “in the past” selection). Unfortunately, this function for now is limited to the past several months, not all of time. You then enter your place name, and choose from the list of results. These are ranked by proximity to your current location if you’re searching for something generic like “Starbucks,” for instance, as opposed to a specific venue, business or city name.
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