Strolling Artists, Bearing iPhones -“…everyone carried an iPhone and snapped photos with giddy enthusiasm. Most were San Francisco residents who had gathered in Chinatown on a warm Saturday morning to take part in an “Instawalk,” an ad hoc gathering of iPhone photography enthusiasts who share their pictures via Instagram, the popular iPhone photo service/social network that has more than seven million users. The tours are led by Brian Roberts, better known to his Instagram fans as Doctor Popular. With help from the Instagram app, Doctor Popular’s remarkable photographs have quickly established him as an innovator who uses the iPhone as a powerful tool for creative expression, rather than as a pocket-size plaything”
“It’s nice. It’s much better than the Web-based fakeout app I wrote about in that January blog post. It’s basically a replacement for your iPhone’s phone app, complete with address book and a Favorites list…And if you send texts from this app, your incoming and outgoing text messages are free.”
“For a little $1 iPhone app… Line2 turns the iPhone into a dual-mode phone. That is, it can make and receive calls either using the AT&T airwaves as usual, or — now this is the best part — over the Internet. Any time you’re in a wireless hot spot…also runs on the iPod Touch.”
“HDR, an automated processing feature aiming to deliver a “dummy-proof” photography method, will be included with the camera app on all iPhones running iOS 4.1 when it ships next week. When you take a picture, HDR processes three versions of the image: an underexposed version, a normally exposed version, and an overexposed version. Then it combines these three images into one to increase the dynamic range (the intensity of the light) to give you a more accurate representation of the scene you’re shooting.”
Not that you can find a virtual version of a bear trap, rifle or chewing tobacco.
London StreetMuseum iPhone App -The Museum of London has launched an iPhone app which cleverly brings its extensive art and photographic collections to the streets of the capital…The free app, called StreetMuseum, has been developed with creative agency Brothers and Sisters and makes use of geo tagging and Google Maps to guide users to various sites in London where, via the iPhone screen, various historical images of the city appear - just like in the image above.
Turns your iPhone into a wireless game controller for various game emulators. Having trouble with Nestopia but yea, I like the idea; my glitches should be smoothed out in a moment or two…
Paying for stories smells slightly rank, but it doesn’t mean it’s illegal. Can Gizmodo Win The Iphone Legal Battle? The story is of particular interest to anyone; blogger, writer, photographer, illustrator who uses their home as an office and might be subjected to a search warrant and/or the idea prohibiting government search and seizure of both “documentary material” (explicitly including photos and video) and “work product material,” material which is or has been used “in anticipation of communicating such materials to the public.” Back peddle and pick up at; Computers Seized From Home of Blogger in iPhone Inquiry.
IZABO, Iphone and Mixed Media Music Video - Israeli band’s clever use of the iPhone and other mixed media, directed by Shushu Spanier. Storyboards here and a cool behind the scenes video right here.
“Line2 gives your iPhone a second phone number — a second phone line, complete with its own contacts list, voice mail, and so on. The company behind it, Toktumi (get it?), imagines that you’ll distribute the Line2 number to business contacts, and your regular iPhone number to friends and family. Your second line can be an 800 number, if you wish, or you can transfer an existing number”
Faux as Fuck - Woodgrain iPhone 3G Slider Case by HunterGatherer. According to Todd St. John, from HunterGatherer, an award-winning design, illustration, animation and production studio.” (we) often creates things that have a ‘naturalness’ to them, but in many ways design is anything but. The woodgrain pattern is an expression of that thought: a purposefully fake version of something natural. I also enjoy seeing it as a wrapper for a concentrated brick of technology.”