Jeff Turner: Out & About - Roaming Around The World With An iPhone In My Hand
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Need To Loose 18 pounds? There's An App For That.

When my scale continued to read 220 for a period of time I'm not ready to admit, I determined I needed to do something different. And since my iPhone has never failed me in the past, I decided to trust the advice of a friend, Ines Hegedus-Garcia, and start using "Lose It"  to make some changes in my food consumption.

As it turns out, I eat for sport way more often than I'd like to admit. I like food. Sue me. But eating for sport is not the same thing as actually participating in a sport, so the downside is you gain weight. Imagine that. What the "Lose It" app has done is help me realize that I can eat a LOT less and be happy about it. In fact, I'm so happy about it, I'm about to lower my goal from 195 to 185, a weight I haven't seen in 7 years. 

If you're looking for a tool to help you lose a few pounds. This one may be right up your alley. Of course, you have to actually input the food you eat. But if you're like me and your iPhone is practically surgically attached to your hand, it won't be that hard. After six weeks of use, I can safely say "Lose It" has certainly worked for me. 

     

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Posted 4 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago

AutoStitch: One Of My Favorite iPhone Apps Just Got Better

If an iPhone app is on my home screen, I like it. AutoStitch has been on my home screen from the first day it was launched and remains one of my favorite apps. Today it got better by become blazingly fast and stitching at a higher resolution. When I fired up the updated version, I was greated by a new start up screen that is an excellent visual representation of what this program is capable of executing. That was a nice surprise. But the bigger surprise was how fast it processed the photos into a beautiful panorama. 

If you haven't added AutoStitch to your iPhone app list, now is the time to give it a try. If you've already purchased it, you're really going to like this update. 

           

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Posted 7 months ago

After 2 Restores: "This Movie Format Is Not Supported."

When the iPhone won't recognize it's own movies, that qualifies as a problem. So, I am currently unable to record video on my iPhone. Some might say, "thank goodness." I hear ya, but I kind of like this feature. Has anyone else out there had this issue? I've been restoring from a backup. Is it possible that I'm simply restoring the same problem over and over? 

 

 

 

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Posted 7 months ago

A Test Of Dragon Dictation iPhone App

Hi Jeff Turner here I am testing dragon dictation a new iPhone application that came out today dragon dictation offers an easy way to translate speech to text instantly I'm going to record this and have dragon dictation. Do its work. I'm not going to edit it and you'll see for yourself how well it works

             

  

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Posted 7 months ago

Checking out Twitter's New Mobile Design

Nice improvements, but I'm left wondering why there is no retweet button on search results. Check it out for yourself at http://mobile.Twitter.com

     

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Posted 7 months ago

Photos From The SCV Christmas Tree Festival

 

 

Thanks to Jay and Ashley Thomas for the invite!!

                                                                       

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Posted 8 months 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 8 months ago