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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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ABBYY TextGrabber Sure Does Grab Text

I'm not sure exactly what situation would cause me to pull this app out, but I love the technology at my fingertips. Just snap a photo of a page with text on it and ABBYY Text Grabber will convert it to editable text. My tests so far show it to be a great little OCR app. See an example above.

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Camera+ Adds Captions To Borders

A new feature was added to the Camera+ iPhone app today - captions. To access captions, add a border to any photo and tap on "caption." Camera plus styles each caption based on the border and you have no control over the font or placement. Each border also has different character counts allowed. Here are a few samples.

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My Favorite New iPad App - Fontbook

If you love fonts - and I love fonts- then you'll love this app.

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Google+ vs. Foursquare

I'm sure this will improve quickly, but my anecdotal comparison of Google+ checkin accuracy to Foursquare checkin accuracy has G+ coming up way short most of the time. The images here were grabbed while I was sitting inside of the Starbucks on Edinger in Huntington Beach. This has been my typical experience.

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Shiny Object Alert - WITH

New from the creators of Path. Introducing With, a Path Short: http://blog.path.com/post/6288422944/introducing-with-a-path-short. You can find a download link here: http://with.me

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Thankful For: "Not On This iPhone" iCloud Updates

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I've missed updates to apps I've deleted that made them apps I would not have deleted. The iCloud update to the iPhone app store will help me easily install and retest. I like that.

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BeFunky Brings Its Photo Funk To The iPhone

The one touch effects and ease of use available at http://www.befunky.com/ are now available in a great new app for the iPhone... BeFunky Pro. Here are some screen caps to give you a feel for how the app works and one sample effect and frame output at high resolution.

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Hipstamatic Update Brings New Lens/Film Pak

The Bondi pak is only available until September. Here are some sample shots.

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New iPhone Photo Painting App - AutoPainter

I'm continually surprised by the quality of image manipulation being generated on the iPhone. AutoPainter now joins a growing list of tools I will use when I'm interested in a creating a different emotional response from a photo.

You have four pre-set styles to choose from, Aquarell, Benson, Cezanne and Van Gogh. The Cezanne and Van Gogh styles will not be great for a lot of scenes, but there will be shots that will look amazing. I love the Aquarell style. It works well on both landscapes and people. Worth a play and fun to watch the scenes develop. Also of note, running the process a second time on the same photo produces a slightly different result. 

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I Don't Trust The Posterous Numbers

I've been meaning to check this for a long time, and finally got around to it. The numbers that Posterous displays for views of their posts have always seemed too high to me. I had installed Google Analytics on the site a long time ago, but I've never really checked them. I was looking at another of my sites today and decided to take a look. I used a post that was a over a year old for the comparison. Google shows the number of views as 654. Posterous shows the same post has been viewed 4013 times. 

Either one of them is wrong, or their not measuring the same thing. That said, there is nothing being measured by Google for that post that even comes close to 4013. What's up, Posterous?

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