Jeff Turner: Out & About - Roaming Around The World With An iPhone In My Hand
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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

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

The #BHGREiPhone "Home Selection Assistant" App Is A Refreshing Departure From The Norm

                     

When I visited the Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Headquarters a few weeks ago, Camilla Sullivan, SVP of Marketing, told me that I was going to be very impressed with the BHGRE iPhone app when I saw it. My quick review tells me she was right. 

This is not your typical real estate iPhone app. It's objective is not to lead you to a home via search or to a BHGRE agent. It's name, "Home Selection Assistant," really says it all. It is your "assistant" in the home selection process. You'll use it for taking notes as you're out shopping for a home, look up neighborhood data, find information on home remodeling, landscaping, or how to "make a winning offer." All of the informative content is driven by the extremely consumer friendly Clean Slate Blog.

The BHGRE iPhone app also allows you to snap your own photos of homes your viewing, place those photos into albums, rate the features and the home, and add comments in the moment. And I can quickly share any of it via email or on Facebook. As you can see from the screen captures above, it's SOLELY focused on consumer benefit. I find that refreshing.

In fact, I searched, but could not find a single attempt to direct me toward an individual real estate agent or away from the homes I might be looking at. If it's there, it's hidden very well. Thankfully.  

If I were out looking at houses, this is an app I would appreciate. This is an app I would use. 

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Posted 4 months ago

ReelDirector - Video Editing for iPhone

Here's a quick test of ReelDirector, a new iPhone app that does simple video editing. The user interface is clear and simple. It didn't crash once. Pretty impressive. I look for Apple to come out with their own.

                 

Thanks to Joel Burslem for alerting me.

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Posted 4 months ago

Photoshop.com Mobile Comes To The iPhone

While I love the camera on my iPhone 3Gs, sometimes the light is not quite right for the perfect shot. Lots of apps exist on the iPhone to help you remedy this problem. I've tested dozens. I can confidently say that none of them are as easy to use as Adobe's Photoshop.com Mobile.

It's not overstuffed with features, and it doesn't need to be. The Adobe programmers nailed the use of the iPhones touch screen and simplified the tools by making the entire screen act as your effect slider. If you've ever tried to grab the small slider bar on some apps, you'll know why that's a benefit. Here's a sample result.

   

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Posted 5 months ago

Photoshop.com Mobile For iPhone - Free

The editing features didn't wow me, but the user experience is amazing. Adobe took full advantage of the touch screen and made the entire image the effect slider. Very easy to use. And fast on my 3Gs.

                     

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Posted 5 months ago

And My Favorite New Tweetie 2 Feature...

Recent #hashtag support. This will come in very handy during conferences.

   

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Posted 5 months ago

New Tweetie 2 Features

Tweetie 2 for the iPhone is out and it's filled with some very nice features, not the least of which is threaded direct messages (not pictured). Below are some screen captures.

                   

I like the new "quote tweet" feature and the options to add user data to your address book. The follower features will be of more value to me in their desktop app, since I rarely use my iPhone to vet followers.

All in all, it feels familiar and improved. I just wish it would have sucked in the 8 accounts I had set up in Tweetie 1. So, I'm off to add some accounts. :)

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Posted 5 months ago

Photo Sketch iPhone App

         

This is for Mark Murashige (right). We just met today, and he has a passion for creative iPhone apps. So I just happened to stumble on this one in the cab after our brunch meeting and thought I'd use a photo of him and my friend Frank Godchaux as a sample.

Photo Sketch is a fun little photo editing app that turns your photos into a digital representation of a pencil or charcoal sketch. I've been playing with it for about 30 minutes and I really like it. Worth a try!

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Posted 5 months ago

Fun Wth Kodak's SmileMaker iPhone App

                   

What better way to give Kodak's new SmileMaker iPhone app a try than with a red carpet photo of Summer Jones from the Emmys. Fun is the only purpose for this app. (It's still OK to have fun, right?)
 
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Posted 5 months ago