I got an email today advertising a $250 two-day workshop about iPhone Photography that I immediately scoffed at and wondered who would need two days of instruction to learn how to open the camera app, point the iPhone at something, and press the shutter button. Okay okay, you also have to learn how to hold the phone steady in low-light and turn the flash on or off, but still it’s no where near the amount …
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.Fediverse Profile
Facebook 2.3 for Windows Phone in Action (Video)
Yesterday the Facebook app for Windows Phone was updated to version 2.3. While most people will be fine with the integrated Facebook support built into Windows Phone, same may want more. That’s where the official Facebook app comes in. It features a totally new user interface design which makes it the best looking Facebook app on any mobile device. The personalized banner background photos really look fantastic. You can still pin secondary live tiles for …
Continue readingA New Rule About Using Instagram Filters
Making your camera phone photos look “vintage” does not make them look better. There’s a reason cameras don’t take pictures like that anymore. They look horrible. Sure, at the time that was the best you could do, but technology has moved on. We have cameras on our phones that are actually starting to approach decent quality imaging. We can almost produce consistent color, correct exposures, and sharp focus these days and that’s what you should …
Continue readingSymbian Belle on the Nokia N8 (Video)
The Nokia N8 has come a long way since its original release with Symbian^3. It has since seen an upgrade to Symbian Anna and now we have Symbian Belle which is a lot different than previous versions of Symbian. Actually it’s a lot like Android. Symbian Belle adds support for up to 6 home screens that you can pan through horizontally and the widgets that you can place on these home screens are no longer …
Continue readingIce Cream Sandwich vs. Mango – Web Browser
Mangoes and Ice Cream Sandwiches are both delicious foods, but how do their web browsers compare? In this video we put Windows Phone Mango’s Internet Explorer up against Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich web browser. We use one of the first Ice Cream Sandwich Android phones available – the powerful Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and one of the newest Windows Phones – the Nokia Lumia 710. Both devices are connected to a WiFi network to give them …
Continue readingWill Windows Phone 8 use Windows 8’s Kernel?
Stephen Chapman of ZDnet has found a few clues that point towards the next next version of Windows Phone codenamed Apollo as possibly using the same core technologies as the full Windows 8 operating system. There are a couple of references in a few different ex-employee online resumes and HTC employee references that seem to indicate that it might be true. Today Microsoft revealed some details about how Windows 8 will work at their Build …
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