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Sunrise in Thoiry
Using a new app for my iPhone: Camera Genius app. This substitutes Camera+. I believe is better. Sun rise in Thoiry
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Accidental shot
Regular iPhone 4 camera. Trying to take a screenshot of the sun rising, I ended up with an interesting shot of the driving wheel of my white fiat 500.
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Phone on my desk
Done entirely with an app for iPhone 4 called camera+
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Leaves in the way to Balexert
Just a photo with the iPhone after going back to the office at lunchtime.
Posted from Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Wallet
Photo taken on my office desk to my desigual wallet. iPhone 4 close up plus TiltShift app applied later to bring depth.
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Red Cross
Photo taken with my iPhone 4 early in the morning at the office. Photo taken using Pro HDR app, increasing saturation.
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Yobongo Launches Location-Based Chat App for iPhone [INVITES]
Yobongo, an iPhone application for serendipitously connecting nearby people in mobile, chatroom-like environments, is launching in private beta Monday.
The previously stealth startup hails from Caleb Elston and David Kasper, both formerly of Justin.tv. The two started working on the application in March of 2010 and left their Justin.tv jobs in October to pursue Yobongo full-time. Their mission is to help people better connect with others in the world around them.
Yobongo, as described by Elston, is a new way of communicating with real people. At launch, the application automatically drops the user in a chat room — based on location — where he or she can start chatting in a group environment with others in the room. Chat room members can also see each other’s avatars at the top of room, and start one-off private conversations with other room participants.
The key difference from applications such as MessageParty is that Yobongo controls who gets placed into what rooms and when. It’s a serendipitous experience engineered by a number of variables that the service uses to determine the makeup of each mobile chat room.
Location does factor into the experience, but the application is more people-centric, says Elston. So, rooms dynamically adjust based on where people are and the flux of a city, but the velocity of users coming in and out of the app and the nature of the individuals (i.e. if they’ve chatted before) also play a role in where users end up.
Prior to today’s private beta launch, Yobongo was being privately tested by a small group of individuals, which means many of Yobongo’s features are unproven.
In a short test, I experienced firsthand just how fast the messaging experience is — in terms of mobile messaging, it’s as real-time as it gets. But because of the restricted nature of the private alpha, I was messaging in the application’s only room. The experience was entertaining and fun, but none of the people or location factors mentioned above played any role in determining how I was placed in the chat room. The private beta will continue to be a controlled test, so the elasticity of the application will still be hard to see in action.
Yobongo is currently self-funded, but Elston and Kasper are said to be in talks with investors. The two believe that as the market for location-based advertising matures, Yobongo will find a way to monetize its service.
Yobongo has fielded interest from thousands of would-be users, but Mashable readers can cut the line. iPhone owners can sign up here to receive priority access to the private beta.
(from Mashable)
Microsoft OneNote for iPhone, for free, only in the US
Microsoft has released its first iPhone app with ties to its Office application suite, OneNote Mobile for iPhone. The app, which Microsoft says is free “for a limited time,” lets users access, edit and create notes from the iPhone. These notes can are then synced over the cloud with the OneNote web app or OneNote for Office 2010.
OneNote is similar to note-sharing services like Evernote; the difference is OneNote is tied tightly to the Office ecosystem and its focus has largely been on the desktop rather than the cloud or on mobile devices.
We took some time to play with OneNote Mobile for iPhone [iTunes link] in conjunction with the OneNote Web App. This web app was introduced in June and is one way that Mac users (OneNote is not available on Mac OS X) and others can access OneNote 2010 notebooks or create and store their own cloud-based notes.
The app is attractive and usable. The user interface has taken some cues from some of our favorite organizational apps like Things and OmniFocus, and that’s a good thing.
As expected, note options are more limited than either OneNote 2010 or the OneNote Web App. Notes are entered in as plain text and because of the rich text limitations of iOS (for non-Apple developers anyway), some rich text formatted notes from the web or OneNote won’t show up correctly. Hyperlinks, for instance, are selectable as a URL but not highlighted.
You can embed photos from the camera roll or take a new photo from the camera itself, just like with Evernote. Unlike Evernote, OneNote Mobile doesn’t support audio notes at this time. We also couldn’t figure out how to rename tabs within the app.
For the most part, the app seems speedy with synching over the cloud. Our Internet connection was a tad slow so it was hard to judge, but it seemed to be in-line with the synching performance of Evernote or MobileMe.
The app by itself isn’t really enough to convert anyone over to using OneNote on the web or in Office 2010, so individuals already satisfied with services like Evernote aren’t going to be swayed away. However, this app has potential with existing OneNote users who were perhaps thinking about forgoing the desktop app in favor of something with a more robust mobile presence.
We also hope that OneNote Mobile is a sign that Microsoft will be bringing more readers and basic editors of its Office apps to the iPhone. The best way to keep individuals and businesses from jumping ship to a different product is to make accessing and editing documents as seamless as possible. It’s good to see Microsoft leveraging Sky Drive on the iPhone.
(from mashable)
Skype 3.0 for iPhone – with video calling
Happy Holidays season – hohoho.
This season is very special as we are releasing a new version of Skype for iPhone and iPod Touch with video calling. Now you will be able to share all the special moments in video, as they happen, wherever you are.
Download the app straight from iTunes and let us know what you think about it on our forums.
Skype video calling is supported over WiFi and 3G* data connections. You can enjoy video calls with users on all Skype desktop versions and with other Skype for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users.
You can make video calls in both portrait and landscape mode and use both front and back cameras.
Users on iPhone 4, 3GS and iPod Touch (4th Generation) can enjoy full 2-way video calling. Users with iPod Touch (3rd Generation) and iPads can receive video.
Video calling with Skype requires iOS 4.0 or above to be installed on your device. Skype 3.0 for iPhone will also work on iOs 3.x, but without video support.
Full release notes for Skype 3.0.0 for iPhone:
New Features:
* Video calling
Known issues:
| Category | Description | Workaround |
| Video calling | When receiving a video call on iPhone from Skype 2.8 for Mac user, the only options presented to the iPhone user are Accept and Decline. The incoming call will appear as an audio-only call. \\ | Once the call is established, the iPhone user can click “Video call” to start video. |
| Calling | iPhone 3G running iOS 3.1.2 will briefly go offline after the other person ends a Skype call. | Online status is automatically restored after a brief period. |
| Calling | When an iPhone (iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4th Gen) calls a device without a camera, the audio is routed through the loudspeaker. However, the speaker button is not highlighted. | Toggle the Speaker button. |
| Video calling | If you place a Skype call on hold while using the back camera, resuming the call will switch to the front camera. | Press the camera button to select back camera. |
| Video calling | Starting video while on hold during a Skype call causes the call to fail (cannot resume from hold). | Take the Skype call off hold before starting video. |
| Calling | Ringing sound plays through the earpiece instead of the loudspeaker after call has been answered the first time. | Restart Skype application. |
| Calling | Skype running on iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.2 does not automatically place a Skype call on hold when an incoming GSM call is received. | None available. |
| Calling | When declining an incoming GSM call, the Skype call audio is lost. | Place the Skype call on hold and un-hold, to return the Skype call audio. |
* – Additional Data charges may apply.
Foursquare adds photos and comments, finally
Foursquare has added two heavily requested features to its popular iPhone app that should make the service significantly more social: photos and comments.
The new features let you attach photos to checkins, tips and venues, and add comments to the checkins of your friends. These social updates, released just in time for the holidays, will also get enmeshed within the rest of your Foursquare
activity and included on your history page.
With photos, you’ll be prompted to add one as you check in, in much the same manner that you’re already prompted to add a “shout” with each checkin. You can then continue to add photos after you check in that will be added to the checkin detail page — this page is also where comment activity happens.
Photos and comments will stay mostly contained to your immediate circle of friends. Photos associated with checkins will only be visible to your Foursquare friends and the other social networks you share them with. Comments, however, are only viewable by your Foursquare friends. So, should you share a photo checkin with Facebook and Twitter, the photo and the checkin will be visible but the comments can only be seen by a logged in user who you’re friends with.
As for photos associated with tips and venues, those will be public to all users with the intention of adding richer context to your picks and pans.
“The community of users that we have are already super comfortable with checkins, so adding something like this to that mix should be pretty powerful,” says Foursquare’s head of product Alex Rainert. Rainert believes photos and comments will stimulate activity in and outside the application and better support the fluid exchange of information.
Foursquare also hopes these new features will help transform the way you think about the service and your location-based activity. Eventually, the startup would like to present your personal archive — photos, checkins and comments — in a more visually arresting manner, according to Rainert. “There are interesting things you can do when people create media at places,” he says. “We hope to build creative ways to let people browse and share that history in the future.”
Rainert stressed the fact that photos and comments have been in the works for months, but were pushed out in an accelerated fashion to get them to users before the holidays. Several enhancements are already in the works, he says. Users should soon have the ability to export photos to Facebook and Flickr, better track comments and more easily access old photos, for example.
Today, however, mobile photo sharing fans already using Foodspotting, Instagram and Picplz, will be gifted with the ability to share their photos — not just their checkins — with Foursquare.
Android users can expect photos and comments sometime this week; BlackBerry owners should expect a photo and comment compatible version of their own in January.
(via mashable)
Viber for iPhone: Call anyone, anywhere for free
Viber is an iPhone application (Android and Blackberry versions coming soon!) that lets you make free phone calls to other iPhone users that have Viber installed.
When you use Viber, your phone calls to any other Viber user are free, and the sound quality is much better than a regular call. You can call any Viber user, anywhere in the world, for free. All Viber features are 100% FREE and do not require any additional “in application” purchase.
How does it work and why is better than skype (in the case that you are doing iPhone to iPhone calls)?
You don’t need to have a login name. Just your telephone numbers. It scans your address book and find those with viber installed, then you can call them free, well, using part of your data.
Works via wifi or 3g or even gprs. Give it a try!
New iPhone, iPad App Lets You Search Inside Local Restaurants
EveryScape, a startup working to create visual guides for local search, is today rolling out its Eats application for iPhone and iPad to users in the Seattle, San Francisco and SoHo areas. The application takes mobile users inside nearby restaurants for a more up-close and personal search experience.
UsingEats, application users can essentially explore the interior of local restaurants in a virtual walk-a-round fashion, similar in style to Google Streetview for mobile, but infinitely more practical for would-be restaurant diners.
Eats also includes visual search options, social sharing features and filters for users to find restaurants by location, price or rating.
The EveryScape custom-built technology powering Eats is capable of transforming photo stills into three dimensional, user-controlled internal store tours. The application is designed to further the connection between patron and business owner, and business owners can use the service to customize their venue information.
EveryScape is also announcing today the private beta release of its mobile SDK, making available its collection of visual restaurant guides to select iPhone and iPad developers.
The Eats mobile application will be rolled out to New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. in the months ahead. In many ways, Eats is like a next generation version ofYelp for mobile. Interestingly enough, Google may also beexperimenting with a similar idea to enhance its Streetview product.
You can watch a demo of the Boston edition of the iPhone application below.
(via Mashable)
Track your iPhone with an app instead of MobileMe
The drawback of owning a smartphone that holds all of your apps, photos, music and more is the possibility that you may lose the device. With all of the information and content iPhones hold, it can be frustrating to lose the device in one fell swoop. There are a number of apps and services, such as Find My Phone and ApplesMobileMe
, that will help track your iPhones location if the device is lost. Today,TekTrak is entering the mix with its app that allows you to track the GPS of an iPhone remotely from any web browser.
TekTrak offers its location-tracking app for $4.99, in the Apple App Store. The Apps functionality is fairly simple: it allows an iPhones owner to access their devices location information in realtime from a browser. You can access all the location history of your phone (i.e. where it was and when); and the app runs in the background. You can also remotely ring or send push notifications to your phone.
TekTrak tries to tackle the pain of battery drain by running in the background and allowing users to check location at predetermined time intervals. TekTraks main competitor is Apple, which can be a challenge, but its app is fairly affordable compared to a MobileMe subscription which hovers around $99 per year.
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