Photojojo has real camera lenses available for your iPhone. Getting the Most Out of Your iPhone: 20 Easy Tricks and Tips - Steve Kovach & Jay Yarow - Technology. The horror-movie trope owes its heritage to Haitian slaves, who imagined being imprisoned in their bodies forever. In the original script for 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, the director George A. Romero refers to his flesh-eating antagonists as “ghouls.” Although the film is widely credited with launching zombies into the cultural zeitgeist, it wasn’t until its follow-up 10 years later, the consumerist nightmare Dawn of the Dead, that Romero would actually use the term.
While making the first film, Romero understood zombies instead to be the undead Haitian slaves depicted in the 1932 Bela Lugosi horror film White Zombie. By the time Dawn of the Dead was released in 1978 the cultural tide had shifted completely, and Romero had essentially reinvented the zombie for American audiences. The last 15 years have seen films and TV shows including Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, World War Z, Zombieland, Life After Beth, iZombie, and even the upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Photosmith: Useful iPad companion for Lightroom | Deep Tech. Some of us with a bunch of photos on an iPad would rather add keywords and captions than slap on yet another sepia-tone art filter. Enter C Squared Enterprises' Photosmith. This $17.99 app, released today, is a companion to Adobe Systems' Lightroom software for editing and cataloging photos. I've been trying beta versions, and I think the app could be a useful addition for some photographers--especially if the software and the iPad's abilities continue to grow beyond today's limitations.
Photosmith can't match what Lightroom proper can do, of course--the iPad's memory, keyboard, and processor power can't keep up with a personal computer's hardware. Think of Photosmith's purpose as a variation on the adage that the best camera is the one you have with you, except with the computers you use to handle photos. The app lets you add keywords (aka tags), captions, titles, color coding, and star ratings to photos. Some other examples of serious, if not essential, tablet apps: Microsoft iPhone app creates panoramic photos | iPhone Atlas. A new iPhone app from Microsoft can create full panoramas from a series of individual photos that you snap with your device's camera. Compatible with the iPhone 3Gs and 4, the iPad 2, and the iPod Touch 4G, Photosynth is simple to use since Microsoft does most of the hard work. You simply point your device at the subject and tap the screen to snap the first photo.
The app then prompts you to position your device to take the next shot. You can then either tap the screen to shoot again or wait for the app to automatically snap the next photo. You keep doing this until you've captured the full panorama of shots to include. A green framing box helps you position your device so that each shot lines up with each other. You can move up, down, left, right, or diagonally and capture just a limited angle or up to a full 360 degrees. If you make a mistake or want to redo a shot, you can tap an Undo button to remove each previous image one at a time.
Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves. Update, 4/27/11 — Apple has posted a response to questions raised in this report and others. By Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and I will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has been storing a long list of locations and time stamps. We’re not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it’s clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations.
A visualization of iPhone location data. Click to enlarge. The presence of this data on your iPhone, your iPad, and your backups has security and privacy implications. What makes this issue worse is that the file is unencrypted and unprotected, and it’s on any machine you’ve synched with your iOS device. In the following video, we discuss how the file was discovered and take a look at the data contained in the file. Who has access to this data? 3D scanner app captures models using iPhone camera. Turn Your iPod Touch Into an iPhone with its Plastic Packaging. Average iPhone owner spends 84 minutes a day using the 108 apps on their handset. A survey of the 1,000 iOS devices that synchronize with Appsfire's mobile app discovery and sharing platform reveal some interesting statistics about app usage by its iOS owners.
Summarized in an infographic, the compiled statistics show that most of its iOS users prefer native apps to web apps. The average user spends 84 minutes a day using on-device applications and a mere ten minutes on the web using web-based applications. Each iOS owner has, on average, 108 applications installed on their device. Of these applications, 20 are shipped with the operating system and 88 are installed from the App Store. Breaking it down even further, Appsfire suggests that 58% of installed applications are free, 23% are paid and 19% are the default apps on the handset. Of these apps, the average Appsfire user spends 10% of their time on telephony and 47% of their time using other apps like Angry Birds, Instagram and more. How to Turn Your iPod touch into an iPhone: 4G Edition. Like others have mentioned, go for Virgin Mobile's MiFi. I've been using that with my iPod Touch since I'd first realized its potential last month, so here's my extra two cents: Pros: - This is THE best unlimited data and "voice" plan that you can get for $40 (I've coupled my iPod with the previously-mentioned-on-Lifehacker, "SipGate".) - Even though you aren't offered true GPS, using a MiFi still gets you real time coordinates *most* of the time (we'll address the caveats below).
The benefit of this is that you can still use the Maps application as a reference tool when driving (you won't get reliable turn-by-turn though) and you can still use location-aware apps like GPark and Gas Buddy. - Not only will your iPod become an iPhone, but you'll always be able to connect another 4 devices at a time. Think the Droid X's ability to become a mobile hotspot minus the extra $30 a month Verizon charges for this same feature (plus, you won't get charged for the data like Verizon either.) Cons: