Jeff Turner: Out & About - Roaming Around The World With An iPhone In My Hand
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President at Zeek Interactive http://zeek.com and founder of RealEstateShows.com. I'm the proud father of six, and happy husband of one. (@headmutha)

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New CameraBag Filter: Silver

The latest addition to the CameraBag iPhone app filter library - Silver.

     

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Posted 5 days ago

This Photo Finally Sold Me On The Pro HDR iPhone App

I've been using the Pro HDR iphone app ( http://www.eyeappsllc.com ) for a few weeks now, giving it a fair shake before really commenting too much about it. The app certainly makes HDR simple. You take two photos in succession, one focused on a bright area, one on a dark area. It does its magic and gives you some fine tuning control over brightness, contrast, saturation and warmth. When you're happy, you hit save. Simple. Fast. In the moment.

In general, the app works great, if you align your images well. This can be difficult without a tripod attached to your iPhone. But this photo is what has finally sold me on the app. It was taken without a tripod. There is also NO WAY I could have captured this photo of my kids watching the sunset any other way. If you look at the two base photos you'll see why. 

     

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Posted 6 days ago

I Kinda Dig ToonPAINT

I've been playing with the ToonPAINT iPhone application for the last few days, mainly on airplanes. I love some of the "toons" I've created with my kids' photos. But I needed a subject who probably wouldn't mind being toonified, so I chose Derek Overbey www.Twitter.com/doverbey as my subject. ToonPaint is not your typical image filter. It gives you some great control over the base cartoon image, but you have to do the work of selecting colors and painting them on. It's like paint by numbers without the numbers.

As with many of these apps, my main gripe is export size. These save at 320x480 pixels, which is really only large enough to use as avatars. Which is sad, since a few of the ones I've made with my kids would look great larger and hanging on a wall. Not sure about this one. ;)

It's fun and worth a try.

           

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Posted 16 days ago

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others - Gender Bias In Children's Books

I listened as Rocky read a Dr. Suess book to our girls tonight. She stopped at one point and said, "Oh great - not even a wife - just a bride. Something you are for one day." She looked at the publish date, hoping it was from the 50's at least. Nope. 1980.

I hope we've come further in the last 30 years.

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Posted 19 days ago

Yelp Adds Checkins, But No Mayoral Opportunities

So Yelp added checkin features today. But if you can't exchange virtual scavenger items, or become the Mayor of a Chevron, will anyone care?

I think I'd rather be a "regular" anyway. :)

       

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Posted 23 days ago

A Thank You Message From Kenya (Audio)

Before my kids set off for school this morning, we called Rocky in Kenya on Skype. When she answered, she just happened to be with some of the girls at St. Monica.  So, she snapped this photo of the moment and I recorded a message from the girls to all of you have been so generous with your support via Mothers Fighting For Others. 

 

  

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Posted 24 days ago

Realtor.com Launches An iPhone App

Realtor.com launched their consumer-focused residential search app for the iPhone today. It is available for free in the iTunes store. 

They key features of the Realtor.com iPhone app are, GPS location of nearby homes for sale and open houses, the ability to sync your mobile searches with your online Realtor.com account, save searches to the iPhone itself, the ability to share properties via email, Facebook & Twitter, and a notes section for rating the properties you visit. I've had the chance to play with the app for several days now and it's very responsive and accurate in my area. Each house I drove to had a for sale sign out front. That was nice. :)

From a consumer perspective, it does most of the things I'd hope a search app would do, including giving me the ability to take notes on each house I visit. I like it. Here's a few screen grabs, but hey, it's free. Download it for yourself and give it a shot.

                     

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Posted 26 days ago

Adjust Hipstamatic Settings To Get 1050 Pixel Images

I put up some shots from the Hipstamatic iPhone app 5 days ago and said, "I just with is saved at a size larger than 525 x 525 pixels." http://jeffturner.mobi/a-demo-of-the-hipstamatic-iphone-app-featurin  Well, it does. But you can't do it in the app. Head over to your iPhone's general settings and scroll down to Hipstamatic. Then turn on "High Quality Prints." Voila, 1050 x 1050 pixel images. So much better. Of course, I'm never satisfied. Seems to me if the camera can take a photo 2048 pixels wide, there should be an option that comes closer than 1050. :)

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Posted 1 month ago

A Demo of the Hipstamatic iPhone App - Featuring @arsaunders

The lovely Ashley Saunders was my somewhat willing guinea pig to test the Hipstamatic iPhone app. It's an old camera simulator, one of many, but it has a very interactive, iPhone-esque user interface. You choose your lens, flash and film type by swiping across the iPhone screen. The first photo in this set is my favorite of their six lenses, the John S Lens, and for those of you who want to give this application a try, it is one of the lenses included in the initial download for $1.99. None of the photos here used the flash effect and all of them used "Ina's 1969 film." It's a fun digital photo app, I just wish it saved at a size larger than 525 pixels x 525 pixels.

Each of the lenses gives a unique effect and because of how the "viewfinder" works, there is randomness to how it centers the photos. And I love their tag line, "Digital Photography Never Looked So Analog."You can find a demo of the interface here: http://hipstamaticapp.com/

           

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Posted 1 month ago

Engadget Twitter Fail

Engadget has a nice little iPhone app that allows you to share to Twitter. So far so good, except they do a poor job of creating the message, focusing on themselves and not on the post... And the message is not editable.

If they want people to use this, they need to use a short URL and input the article tile as the base for an editable tweet. As it is, it has limited utility.

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Posted 1 month ago