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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A 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 readingNavigon for iPhone vs. Navigon for Windows Phone
If you saw our video test drive of Navigon for Windows Phone you may have wondered how that compares to the iPhone version of Navigon. In the video below we decided to take them both for a test drive this time and see how they do. You’ll notice the iPhone version of Navigon has a much different design for the initial home screen, but it has a few more extremely useful features. For example, Navigon …
Continue readingOneNote for iPhone Now Available in More Countries
Microsoft OneNote has become quite a popular note taking and research tool lately. It’s already very nicely integrated with Windows Phone 7 and there is a free app available for the iPhone. Today, the OneNote Mobile app for iPhone is now available in a few more markets where as previously it was only avaialable in the U.S.A. Now you can find it in the Apple App Store in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and …
Continue readingOneNote Mobile 1.1 for iPhone Now Available
Microsoft’s OneNote has become quite popular as part of Office 2010, Windows Phone 7, and even the iPhone. Today, an update to the iPhone OneNote 2010 Mobile app has been released. It features: •The ability to email your notes right from your iPhone •An easier way to delete notes that you no longer want •More intuitive icons and a Home button that makes it simpler to select or move between multiple notebooks •A simplified sign-in …
Continue readingBing for iOS Adds Microsoft Tag and QR Code Scanning
While the Bing integration on Windows Phone 7 is still stuck with just a basic search field and a simple mapping application, Microsoft’s Bing team is still hard at work on adding some fantastic features to the Bing applications on other mobile platforms. The Bing App for Apple’s iOS was recently updated with a very cool new feature enhancement to the “Bing Vision” function. Normally the Bing Vision feature is able to run searches based …
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