Review: Camera+

August 16, 2010 How To
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I recently started a new photography project to challenge myself and improve my photography.  I”ll be taking photos all year round using nothing but my iPhone 4 and a few iOS photography apps (Camera+, AutoStitch, PixelPipe).  I’ll be uploading the best photograph of the day to a new blog. The Camera+ app from model and [...]

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The Worst Teacher I Ever Had

August 3, 2010 Life
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Yes, this was the worst teacher a 10 year old boy could ever have. math I don’t remember what grade it was but the experience was emotionally scarring. I did very badly in Maths during one marking period. By very badly I mean I failed. The teacher held up my test score for the entire [...]

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PixelPipe: Upload 720p HD video from iPhone 4 to YouTube

July 6, 2010 How To
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I saw a recent Apple Byte episode in which host Brian Tong mentioned that there is no way to upload a full 720p HD copy of a video captured on an iPhone 4 without first syncing to a computer. I can imagine why he would think that. Just a few days after getting my shiny [...]

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iPhone 4 + iMovie

June 29, 2010 Life
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The entire movie was produced on the iPhone 4 using the Camera app and iMovie. iMovie exports video in medium (360p), large (540p), or HD (720p) format but movies uploaded to YouTube, MMS or MobileMe Gallery will be downsized to a maximum resolution of 568×320. To overcome this limitation I used another app, PixelPipe, to [...]

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Review: Reeder for iPad

June 22, 2010 Review
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I’m a tech news junkie.  I want to know what’s going all the time.  One of the first apps I installed on my iPad was NetNewsWire.  That is my favorite RSS reader for my Mac and it made sense to use it on the iPad.  NetNewsWire syncs my feeds across multiple computers via Google Reader. [...]

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iPhone Trepidation

June 15, 2010 Life
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I’ve been married for 15 years. My wife and I met in college and it was love at first sight for me. It took me seven years to convince her that I was even worth a second look. We had been dating for about a year when I proposed marriage – down on one knee [...]

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