Photography on the iPhone

Good guide to iPhone Photography:


It never fails. That perfect shot appears before you and you don't have your digital camera on hand. Fear not however because with just your iPhone and a few reasonably priced or free applications from the App Store installed, you have all that you need to make capture, edit, and share great images right from the palm of your hand!

Over the last few months, the author of this exhibit has taken this concept to heart and worked hard to master snapping, cleaning up, and sharing all kinds of photos using only the iPhone. After achieving great results and coupled with desire to share these findings with others, this exhibit is the fruits of those labors.

It aims to help you to learn about some of the best tools (many of which are FREE) that can help you get much, much more out of your iPhone beyond its standard Camera and Photos applications. Please explore further and see what you can learn to take your iPhone photography to the next level!

For Families Today, Technology Is Morning’s First Priority

I wonder what is the real percentage of people checking their mail first thing in the morning before the usual morning routines like visit to the bathroom or making coffee and/or breakfast first? I know I am guilty of first sitting down in front of my iMac in the mornings before anything else happens... NYTimes.com thinks that many of us have changed their usual morning routines because of the technology. However I think that texting within the house to communicate with others is a little overboard - even for me. Link to the full story is below the quote:


“Things that I thought were unacceptable a few years ago are now commonplace in my house,” she said, “like all four of us starting the day on four computers in four separate rooms.”

Technology has shaken up plenty of life’s routines, but for many people it has completely altered the once predictable rituals at the start of the day.

This is morning in America in the Internet age. After six to eight hours of network deprivation — also known as sleep — people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging their legs to the floor and tending to more biologically urgent activities.

“It used to be you woke up, went to the bathroom, maybe brushed your teeth and picked up the newspaper,” said Naomi S. Baron, a professor of linguistics at American University, who has written about technology’s push into everyday life. “But what we do first now has changed dramatically. I’ll be the first to admit: the first thing I do is check my e-mail.”

The Gudes’ sons sleep with their phones next to their beds, so they start the day with text messages in place of alarm clocks. Mr. Gude, an instructor at Michigan State University, sends texts to his two sons to wake up.

“We use texting as an in-house intercom,” he said. “I could just walk upstairs, but they always answer their texts.” The Gudes recently began shutting their devices down on weekends to account for the decrease in family time.

iPhone Photography Gets a Gallery to Call Its Own

CALEB KIMBROUGH: “I’m a firm believer that a great photographer’s skill should be autonomous, that the quality of their work shouldn’t depend on how much their camera cost or how many external lights they are using. My opinion is well illustrated by the iPhone photography portfolios of Sion Fullana and Greg Schmigel (as well as countless others), the photographs they create have great depth and capture the emotion of their subjects effortlessly, and yet they were taken with a camera phone… not a two thousand dollar camera setup. I feel that by experimenting with the iPhone we are forced to use a minimalist camera setup and thus have to focus on things like composition, timing, and other photography basics which helps develop true skill.

The gallery is at http://iphonephoto.us/. The excerpt above eloquently captures my thoughts and saves me from blogging about it. Sometimes I want my good camera, but increasingly I like the challenge of the iPhone. You have to actually get interesting content and be creative because you don't have fancy technology to save you. I really believe it's a genre unto itself and am excited about the possibilities. Also, I am endlessly amused using the myriad photo-editing apps on my iPhone.

CIA World Factbook apps for the iPhone

I have been looking for this like this:

The CIA World Factbook is arguably the best value for a research almanac, bar none. The Factbook provides detailed information on the geographies, economies, populations, and militaries of more than 250 nations and territories spanning the globe. And all of the information is in the public domain, making it an attractive resource for developers to repackage and sell for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Fort Mississauga National Historic Site

Fort Mississauga National Historic Site is a fort along the shore of Lake Ontario, not far from theNiagara River in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The fort today consists of a box-shaped brick tower and historic star-shaped earthworks--the only one in the country. The all-brick fort was built from1814-1816 during the War of 1812, to replace nearby Fort George. It was built on a foundation of brick and stone salvaged from rubble left afterUnited States forces sacked the nearby town ofNewark in December, 1813. It would help in the defense of Upper Canada the following year, as part of a regional network that included Fort GeorgeNavy Hall, and Butler's Barracks. However, the fort wouldn't be completed until after the war.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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Backpack for iMac

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BackPack is a sturdy, sleek looking shelf designed exclusively to attach to the back of iMac and Apple Cinema Displays. This handy little piece of heavy gauge steel is perfectly sized to hold hard drives, USB peripherals or even a Mac mini. (If you use it to display your favorite Star Wars action figures, we’ll totally understand.) You can use the perforated base to tie up that web of cables lurking behind your Mac.