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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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Hipstamatic Update Brings New Goodness

I am a huge fan of the Hipstamatic iPhone app. I now use it 90% of the time over at http://intheviewfinder.com - with my only complaint being image resolution.

The good folks at Hipstamatic heard my cries and released an update today that increased final resolution to 1536 pixels and added new films, flash and the ability to shake the phone for a random combo of film, lens and flash. The three photos below are the results of a few shakes. :) I love this app.

     

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Posted 10 days ago

Hey, App Store, I Think It's Time For A Voyeur Category

This is getting seriously out of hand. The number of these apps in the photography and social networking categories at the App Store is ridiculous. Create some new categories for these apps and make it easier for us to get to the real apps. 

     

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Posted 22 days ago

New CameraBag Filter: Silver

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

     

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Posted 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.

Sent from my iPhone

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Posted 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago