Getting a bigger bang out of the iPhone camera

For the latest two iPhones, you can choose where the camera focuses on by tapping the screen prior to snapping the picture. If your dealing with dark/light areas, taping will change how the camera sees the whole area. Tapping dark will cause the brighter areas to wash out, tap the lighter area and the dark …

iPhone Genius Scan shares printed text for free

Every day I come across text pages that I want to share out with folks. Even more often is our hard work on Whiteboards. There are several options to use your iPhone camera to take a picture, clean up and share out. I have bought them and wrote my thoughts here. Some have powerful alignment …

GTD on the iPhone with Desktop Sync

Firetask has been a favorite amongst my friends for doing GTD task management on the iPhone for year. I did a lengthy How To for a company that was rolling it out to a group as their way of moving from paper to electronic GTD work flow. Waiting to get permission to ‘reprint’ here… Yesterday, …

Augmented Reality Space Invaders Gets You Hopping

I covered an augmented reality app yesterday that found us coffee and interesting points about town. In that post, I mentioned that you can get a few folks looking at you if you walk down the street looking at your iPhone screen. Add to that, twisting around to see what is around you for optional …

A different take on seeing what is around you

I have covered a few Augmented Reality apps here over the last year. Most have a large selection of add in items that you can choose from to appear on the screen as you look through your iPhone’s camera. Fun stuff, particularly in a new city, as long as you don’t mind folks staring at …