A few hours ago, the Interwebz exploded with news that Mark Zuckerberg and his social media giant noming machine Facebook, has bought Instagram for a billion smackers. This sent the social Web abuzz, speculating about the possible reasons why the Zuck made the purchase, which entailed the Instagram team moving on to Facebook HQ.

You can have your barrage of hipster jokes about Instagram (or have that drinking game where you down a shot whenever somebody posts a heavily filtered photo online), but you have to admit: the photography app is very popular. It’s not just in the iOS-powered ironically inclined community that it’s taken over, even brands are

Instagram, the free artsy photo app for the iPhone just got more than a little bit more awesome, thanks to an update that adds a number of requested features. Also, it’s still free on the App Store. Again, awesome.