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Saving your lens, film and flash combinations in Hipstamatic to return quickly later

With Hipstamatic on your iPhone, there are many film, lens and flash options to shuffle, making up fun combinations. Playing a bit, you will find some groups work better for outside bright shots versus another grouping that is best for food on the table. If you forget what combination you used, you can go into the album and look at a image, Hipstamatic shows what it took to make the image.

This feature is a nice reference but takes time to get cycle through the options. An update to Hipstamatic today has added a favorites ‘star’ under the view finder. Making a grouping a favorite will let you jump back later.

Another nice add is tap and hold on the view finder to jump it up to full screen size.

Tap the larger view finder and Hipstamatic takes the photo for you.

Posted in Fun, News, Using every day.

Tagged with camera enhancement, favorites list, iPhone photos, iPhone retro camera, lens and film combinations, save bundle.

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By admin – January 25, 2012

Phone4/4s wireless security tether, battery and case in one – 20% off!

Kensington just sent an email explaining their 2012 CES Design and Engineer Showcase Honor product BungeeAir. It’s a battery case for the iPhone 4/4s, adding 4 hours of talk time to your iPhone… and it comes with a keychain fob.

A fob? The picture in the email got me to click, why do I need a fob on my keychain? It’s a tethered security system linked to the iPhone case! Per Kensington:

Just attach the BungeeAir fob to your keys or purse and never lose or forget your iPhone again. When you and your phone are separated, the iPhone screen locks automatically and sends an alert to the BungeeAir fob. A convenient app lets you customize security settings and also find your misplaced keys and fob.

The battery/security case also has a flap on the back to open and use as a stand for watching movies on your iPhone in landscape view. Not sure I would have asked for all those things on my own, but now it sure seems cool. As an incentive, Save 20% on the Kensington BungeeAir! Discount offer expires 1/24/12

Here is a link to view the full spec sheet for the BungeeAir™ Power Wireless Security Tether™.
Don’t forget the 20% discount on the Kensington BungeeAir expires 1/24/12

Posted in Add on hardware, Advanced, News.

Tagged with auto lock, customize security settings, distance alarm, iPhone 4s add on, iPhone battery case, iPhone movie stand, Kensington case, key fob alert, security system.

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By admin – January 19, 2012

Framing your iPhone to become a quality desk or nightstand clock – C/Dock

I jumped onboard with the C/Dock when it was a Kickstarter project. A desktop iPhone4/4s ‘clock’ that came in Walnut wood, brushed aluminum or resin faces. I went with the Walnut. When it showed up, the folks in Oregon delivered as promised, a very nice looking and study iPhone holder that would look great at work or at home.

In the box is the c/dock ‘frame’ which has an integrated USB to iPhone cable and a charging power cube.

The iPhone slips in the end, there is no other holes which means when the iPhone is in the dock you have access to the front ‘Home’ button only. Thinner fingered people might be able to just reach the top ‘sleep’ button. The speaker slots on the front of the dock are not real, just for visual ‘old radio’ effect.

Getting the iPhone back out of the c/dock means pushing on the screen and to the right. Perhaps the c/dock should have come with a screen cleaning cloth.

I am able to run any clock app I want, so that means my Nixie clock at work or maybe the weather… at home a nice digital alarm clock app.

The lack of a hole big enough to get to the ‘sleep’ button on the top of the iPhone and the need to push the iPhone out via pressure on the screen would normally be a minor inconvenience (easy to fix on version two of the c/dock). My actual major issue is that I can’t get my iPhone to plug into the connector inside of the c/dock. I tried applying pressure on the iPhone to force it up/down/front/back with no luck. It can be an issue with anything truly handmade… although I would have expected the ‘factory’ to have tested prior to shipping. Be prepared if you buy one and give it as a gift that they may not have instant gratification if they have to return for another unit.

Posted in Add on hardware, Advanced, News.

Tagged with any clock app, button inaccessible, c/dock project, desk clock, iPhone dock, Kickstarter funded, Made in Oregon, misalignment issues, nightstand alarm.

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By admin – January 16, 2012

iPhone 25db louder in the car, no power needed!

I covered a fun bit of technology from Griffin Technology over the last couple years called the AirCurve. There is a model for the iPhone 3 and one for the iPhone 4. The technology is simple in that it channels the iPhone’s speaker audio output though piping that enhances the db level so you get much more volume. In the case of the iPhone 4, about 10db, which is enough to make the iPhone usable in the office as a speakerphone.

Now, Griffin Technology has introduced a version for the car. Similar to the desktop version, except with a window mount and a boost of 25db! That is enough to hear the iPhone speaker output while driving, without the need of additional wires for power or external speakers. It has an opening in case you still need to run a wire to charge your iPhone on the go, but it isn’t needed to get the louder speaker output that normally would require wires at least to a speaker. This should be a hit in the areas of the US that require handsfree phone usage.

Posted in Add on hardware, Fun, News.

Tagged with 25db, air curve, amplify sound, audio channels, enhanced audio, handsfree phone use, hardware accessories, iPhone 4 hardware, iPhone car mount, no power needed, without cables.

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By admin – January 13, 2012

Quick and easy summaries of Web Sites articles on the iPhone

There are a lot of news readers for the iPhone to keep up on the latest news from your choice of info providing sites. The reader provides a headline and a short that the article provided for them. The short text is usually the first line or two of the article or a teaser to get your to tap the ‘read more’.

An app that is providing a different view of Web site articles is Summly. The app shortens a Web site’s post to the core of the article. This is not text provided by the site, the app does some crazy science to deliver the post in a quick view. Just put in a site URL and you quickly get what your interested in without all of the extra words.

If the URL is going to a page with many posts, Summly only handles the top most article. This is great if your using Summly to get the newest news/posts. Entering a more specific URL will result in a summary of that single article.

Any Web page article reduced to the core information can easily be shared. The Summly share button in the upper right corner allows for emailing the Summly summary or link directly to the article. Being able to copy the summary to paste in a text I’m working on is proving to be handy.

At the bottom of each Summly conversion page is the keywords associated with the article. Tap one to be taken to a search page giving you a list of Web site articles also using that keyword.

Tap one of the article short-cuts or putting in a specific article url and you get just that post’s real meaning points. In just one iPhone screen, you get the core information that would normally require you scroll through many screens of content.

If you want to see the ‘long’ version of the article, tap the headline to go to a view of the actual Web page. Do this from time-to-time just to see how good Summly really is at showing you ‘just the facts’.

Summly keep the history of the sites (via ‘Recent’ in the lower left corner) you visit down to the level of the individual articles for later reference. Tap any to go to the summary. Removal from the list is through the ‘Edit’ button in the upper right corner.