iPhone Art Project - Hitting the Road
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A descendant of the renowned Swiss Family: the Fabulous Fearless Bauers, Daredevil Joseph D Bauer made his CNE debut this year with his spellbinding Wheel of Thrills. We watched as he walked and ran inside and outside of a large wheel that rotates on a beam at 360 degrees! Not only that, he also juggled torches, skips ropes and walked blindfolded while running on the wheel! Crazy moments were included as well, since it looked like he would fall down to the ground too on couple of occasions...
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In 2004, the CIA hired Blackwater USA contractors as part of a covert program to find and kill top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to statements from current and former US officials.Snip from New York Times story:
C.I.A. Sought Blackwater's Help to Kill Jihadists (NYT via Mitch Kapor)The fact that the C.I.A. used an outside company for the program was a major reason that Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A.'s director, became alarmed and called an emergency meeting in June to tell Congress that the agency had withheld details of the program for seven years, the officials said.
It is unclear whether the C.I.A. had planned to use the contractors to actually capture or kill Qaeda operatives, or just to help with training and surveillance in the program. American spy agencies have in recent years outsourced some highly controversial work, including the interrogation of prisoners. But government officials said that bringing outsiders into a program with lethal authority raised deep concerns about accountability in covert operations.
A related news article, just out today: The Rise and Fall of the Mercenary Formerly Known as Blackwater (Newsweek)
Oh, and by the way, Blackwater has changed its name to "Xe," which I'm none too happy about for personal reasons (cough).
It’s not that the app, dubbed PicPosterous
, doesn’t do what is advertised on the product website, it’s just that I wish it did a little more. Billed as ‘Your iPhone Instant Camera’, you can basically use the iPhone 3GS’ camera to shoot both pictures
and videos
, which you can subsequently add to virtual albums and upload directly to your Posterous blog.
When you log on to the app using your registered Posterous account (which you don’t necessarily need to have to use it), you can manage multiple sites, create private albums and auto-post whatever you upload to your Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and FriendFeed stream.
The app is capable of geo-tagging photos and videos, so you can switch on a location map online next to each album. The nice thing about it is that you can add a first picture to an album and then simply keep uploading photos to that album for as long as you like, so the pictures are not each posted as a separate blog post when you send them in.
A couple of gripes though. First, when you send pictures or videos to your Posterous blog, it’s impossible to add any kind of text or link from within the app (something I was able to do when I simply e-mailed in photos I took with my iPhone camera using the mail application). Second, when you add multiple pictures to one album you can’t delete individual pics afterwards, leaving you only the option to clear all your albums and start over. Third, you need to use your iPhone camera in landscape mode when you want your pictures to come out right on your blog, something that’s not indicated anywhere and you need to find out yourself. And finally, while you can turn off the auto-post feature, it would be nice if you could get the option to send it to e.g. only your Twitter or Flickr account rather than all or nothing.
Great to finally see Posterous come out with an iPhone, but I sincerely hope they keep improving it based on my and other users’ feedback to make it as satisfying an experience as the actual web service.
Despite many awesome Twitter Apps for an iPhone available, I have remained with Twitterrific Premium for a year now. Yesterday's latest release of this App added many new features to its functionality. One which stands out for me personally is the ability to translate tweets, let's face it English is not the only language out there. One of the people I follow is often tweeting in German. Now I am able to easily translate each tweets into English by pressing Translate button. The translation may not be perfect but they are good enough to get the idea what the tweet is about. See an example below:
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Facebook for iPhone version 3.0 will hopefully soon be made available through the iTunes App Store, but lead engineer Joe Hewitt
has apparently already graced the team over at Appadvice
with an early look.
Check out their review for more details, but here’s the gist:
- A new home screen (see first screenshot above) which will offer the ability to customize i.e. add boxes to the default start screen
- A better ‘News feed’: much more complete overview of status updates from your friends, but still lacking the ability to hide/unhide them from inside the app
- Videos (as expected): uploading video supposedly works like a charm, but you still can’t watch Facebook videos unless they’re actually hosted on YouTube (and likely other video hosting platforms as well) and simply played from inside the app
- Events (as expected): includes the ability to RSVP, but you can’t visit the complete event wall, which is unfortunate
- Pages: you can search for, view and interact with pages using Facebook for iPhone 3.0
- Photos: you can create new photo albums, upload photos to any album, zoom into photos and change your profile picture
- Communication: you can quickly or call people straight from the Friends page
- Improved ‘liking’ feature
- Notes, including the ability to edit them
- Notifications: much better, link directly to comments which you can respond to
- Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit the app or are interrupted by a phone call
Here’s to hoping for a quick green light from Apple.