The De-Evolution of Dred242
The infrequent ramblings of a tech-centric wanna-be blogger. Watch as I post myself into a hole....then try and blog my way out of it with fancy words and and well structured sentences.
So bassically there’s no way for an iPhone photo editing app to access iPhone photos located outside of the Camera Roll. This makes all of the available photo album app useless to me.
During my editing process I normally use no less that 3 different photo editing apps. Each app creates a NEW version of the photo and saves it to my iPhones Camera Roll. This can sometimes produce 5-7 versions/revisions of the same photo…..ouch! There are times when my Camera Roll is filled with 50+ half-edited images. I’ve been putting up with this for some time and it’s really starting to bug me!
I post my iPhone photos to several online site like flickr, ShutterFly, my photoblogs, and a few other social networking sites. I really need to sort photos into seperate folders (named for each site) before editing. It gets confusing when it comes time to upload and post my photos - “Which image was the final product?” or “Which photo did I want to send to flickr?”
After an hour plus of App Store surfing I’ve found that photo album apps are unable to export images into another apps. In turn, other apps can’t see (or import) images stored in a photo album app.
It would be AWESOME if the iPhone could make custom folders in the Camera Roll by default as part of the next version of iOS4. But for right now……..I’m stuck!
My tumblr photoblog is moving over to Posterous! My domain BokehImage.com is now being forwarded to my NEW Posterous photoblog of the same name. If you’re a Tumblr user and have enjoyed my photos please pay a visit to my new home. I will continue posting photos to my Tumblr photoblog (via auto posting from Posterous) until at least October 2010 but after that, that blog will no longer update. It will remain as an archive of the old blog only.
Thanks for all your support Dred242 & BokehImage.com
At work I keep hearing people refer to others who use tech gadgets in every day life as nerds when maybe they should be refered to as geeks. The term nerds is being used and applied to others unfairly. Here’s my loose definition of all of these lables.
Dork: The kind of person who does something stupid just to get a laugh or maybe because they are just really well……stupid. Never invited to social gatherings.
Nerd: Someone who might have the following clipped to an “extra” belt around their waist - a circuit tester, continuity tester, Palm Treo holster filled with 1GB thumb drives, portable air traffic control radio scanner, an inhaler, other. Only invited to parties as a prop - perhaps invited just to have someone to laugh at.
Tool: Someone who brings their 17” laptop to Starbucks, plug’s gadgets into every USB port, log’s into SecondLife with Windows Media Player blasting John Mayer on repeat while talking out-loud on his white iPhone. Scams their way into most events and will most likely end up annoying everyone.
Geek: Accepted by all. Can carry on a conversation without ever turning it into tech-talk. A person who has 1or2 of the latest gadgets tucked away in his backpack…..but you would never know it. Up to date on all the latest tech news. Can help you trouble-shoot or fix your computer problems over the phone (from a bar - 4 drinks in) with step-by-step procedures pulled from memory. Has a standing invitation to EVERY and ALL parties!
After 2+ weeks of application updates everytime I sync my iPhone 3Gs I finally ended up with a warning telling me that one of my apps could not be installed because my iPhone needs the latest version of the iPhone OS…..iOS4! And what makes this even worst, it’s “1X1 Camera” one of my most favorite apps. I use it to take 90% of my iPhone photos which I always capture in 1x1 square format. I have other ways to capture the square format, I just wasn’t expecting this to happen so soon. I’m holding off on both the iTunes 9.2 upgrade as well as the iOS4 upgrade because I have an upcoming 3rg Gen iPod Touch jailbreaking event.
The long awaited iOS4 has been released. I’ve been waiting for this update for months - in hopes of better Bluetooth printing support for both the iPhone and iPod Touch. Needless to say Apple has let me down. Printing (or sending) photos via normal bluetooth protocals is just as locked as ever. Looks like I’m gonna end up either jailbreaking my iPhone 3Gs once a reliable tool has been written or I’ll grab a use & abused 3rd Gen iPod Touch and jailbreak it with the current tools. So much for attempting to do things the Apple way. Jailbreak community……here I come!
"In the throws of hand-held gadgetry the art of proper penmanship is most certainly the lost art of our time. I must admit that recently, I find myself at a pause just before I start writing anything more than a few words after years of mobile phone / PDA / Smartphone usage. Lucky for me these 2 Moleskine Reporter style notebooks are going to be used for a photography project I’m working on. But if I find that I need to write anything in them (along with the photos) I promise that I shall endeavor to do my best!"
I picked up a really cool iPhone app called PhotoMarkr which adds a copyright logo / info to your iPhone photos. Works really well - my goal is to start using it on every iPhone photo I upload to the web. But I forgot to use it today just before uploading a few photos. I’m so full of FAIL right now.
Co-worker (Scott) cleaned out his attic and found a bunch of stuff he figured I might want. He bagged it up and left it in my mailbox at work. The stach includes B&W 35mm film, several rolls of color film both 24 & 36exp, as well as 36exp Kodachrome slide…..old school ‘eh? He also tossed in a Minolta light meter and a roll of 120mm which I’ve been using lately….awesome!
Step 1. Decide to post a video to facebook using the facebook iPhone app.
Step 2. Shoot, save, and upload video to facebook via the facebook iPhone app.
Step 3. Surf your facebook wall or stream via the facebook iPhone app only to find that the video did not post for all to see.
Step 4. Dig around your facebook site until you find your video within the “Video Tab” still hidden from others.
Step 5. Try to share your video via the facebook iPhone app and discover that the option is not there.
Step 6. Open Safari on the iPhone, go to the facebook mobile site and get denied yet again…can’t share.
Step 7 Use Safari to surf to the full facebook site (not mobile). Find the video you uploaded - then tag it with your own name and share it with yourself in order for others to see it on your wall or stream.
Step 8. Finally see it appear on the facebook iPhone app only to get an error message telling you that the video that you filmed, saved, and uploaded to facebook with the facebook iPhone app is not compatible with the iPhone or iPod Touch…..”Sorry”!
Just finished watching this Persona series sideshow by Jason Travis. The show contains diptych style portraits of people in Atlanta and the items they carry everyday in their bag, back pack messenger bags and the like. I always get a kick out of seeing just what kind of things people find important enough to want to carry every day. I also like seeing items that I own and sometimes carry myself. I actually submitted a photo (twice) to a flickr group called “Whats In Your Bag” a few years ago. I hauled around way too much stuff back then. I don’t carry nearly as much today.
Ok so my facebook mobile app for iPhone won’t let me upload a photo to a friends wall or anywhere on facebook for that matter. It worked a few weeks ago with no problem but today (all day) it failed. Everyday I’m finding the facebook mobile app to be less and less useful. I have 2 facebook accounts but I have to logout then login to see whats going on with my other account. There should be a simple account button built into the app that lets you switch between accounts, so many other social networking apps have that….WFT it 2010 for god sake!
So then we have the facebook website! It’s extremely slow when it comes to updating / importing feeds from other sites. In fact sometimes it fails all together. I hate when I have to go into my facebook setting and update a feed manually. As far as I can see the importing feature is complete broken. I’ve found that I get better results by using a 3rd party firefox browser Plug-In to post something to facebook. At least this way, I know it’s gonna get posted to facebook in seconds….not days!
EXAMPLE:I’ve got facebook setup to pull my latest flickr photos. I can understand a delay of a few hours or so but sometimes it takes days to update. Then when I update it manually from the facebook settings it posts photos that are weeks old….that’s bogus!
Also, facebook is so cluttered with settings that it’s almost impossible to get the dam thing set up correctly, perhaps that’s my problem ‘eh? I was looking at my privacy setting today and I’m now at the point where I need to make everyone and everything “Friends Only” with absolutely no permissions granted to any application. Maybe that will fix all of my issues….fuck! So it’s back to the drawing board by removing all of my current setting and starting from scratch. If I can’t get it all to work in the next few day or so it’s goodbye facebook.
I too would like to print photos from my iPhone 3Gs directly to the Polaroid Pogo mobile printer. Currently the only way to do this is to jailbreak your iPhone and run an app called ibluenova (formally called iBluetooth) which gets around the iphone’s crippled bluetooth functionality. I have “No Plans” to jailbreak my iPhone nor have I bought the Polaroid Pogo mobile printer. I’m waiting to see if any of the new features in the yet to be released iPhone O/S 4.0 will enable Bluetooth transfer profiles for photos/video. If after the release of O/S 4.0 Apple still refuses to open up bluetooth functionality then I might consider using one of the many photo transferring apps (send pic’s between 2 iPhone’s or iPod touch) available in the App Store and send my photos to an iPod Touch which I’ll buy used, jailbreak it then print to the Polaroid Pogo mobile printer from it.
I know that Apple is not happy about users jailbreaking devices and I somewhat agree which is why I will never jailbreak my iphone and put it on the network. I’m NOT a fan of jailbreaking but sometimes we must break things in order to fix them….or at least make them useful. In this case jailbreaking an old iPod Touch is a necessary but lesser evil.
I’m sporting a Brand spanking NEW 16GB Black iPhone 3Gs by no-fault of my own….it’s true, I sware!
About 4-5 weeks ago my iPhone 3Gs came out of sleep mode with a completely red screen. The iphone seem to function correctly but everything on the LCD screen was red or a shade of red. I press the power button to put the iphone back to sleep then press the home button to wake it once again and the red screen was gone. I treated this as an odd / rare bug that may have been nothing more than O/S hiccup and went on with my daily usage. A week later it started happening more and more - at least once a day. By the 3rd week the phone was switching in & out of this red screen several time a day from sleep mode….this was no bug, something was seriously wrong with my iPhone.
Saturday evening April 3rd my iphone refused all attempts to bring it back from this red screen so I preformed a complete wipe & restore. It was the first time I’ve ever had to do this with my iPhone but I had no fear because I backup my iPhone every night without fail. After the restore my iPhone seem to work flawlessly - the red screen was gone…..so it appeared. The next morning when my iPhone came out of sleep mode the red screen was back and here to stay! Cycling in & out of sleep mode, soft-reset’s, and yet another restore all proved useless. My iPhone is less than a year old (9 months old) so it was still covered by Apple’s one year limited warranty - a trip to the Apple Store was in order.
So ther I was, standing in the Los Gatos, CA Apple Store on Easter Sunday waiting for my Genius Bar appointment at 4:10pm. The store was packed with people waiting for their chance to touch and play with the newely released iPad. I had already used the iPad (hey, that a secret) but the 40min wait gave me a chance to dig in deep once again with the mighty iPad….and I did. 35min’s later I was tapped on my shoulder by an Apple Genius who was already briefed on my iPhone problem. He told me that my phone was suffering from a worn data cable that connects the LCD to the logicboard. The cable (actually a ribbon) was worn due to excessive movement. He offered to either replace the screen at no cost which would only take about 10min’s or replace the entire phone for free. I went with the full iPhone replacement because I figured that if the data cable was worn out then perhaps the data cable connector on the logicboard might be worn out as well and I didn’t wanna go through this song & dance again.
Minutes later I was headed back to my car with a brand new 16GB Black iPhone 3Gs - activated and ready to be restored with all my apps and data. Hats off to the Apple Genius who by the way said he was on load from the Apple Store OakRidge Mall for the day and was the only Apple Genius on staff that day who actually knew what my problem was. Any one else would have most likely been stumped.
Ok, so whats with “excessive movement” ‘eh? The iPhone has a built-in accelerometer which is used be 1000’s of apps. I’ve never dropped my iPhone nore have I used many of the accelerometer dependant apps with the exception of Google Maps/Earth and the compass. With all the Shake-2-Shuffle, Shake-2-Undo, Nike+, and lets not even talk about games, how is the iPhone’s LCD data cable gonna survive?
Considering these recent event and it’s positive outcome I figure next time I might not be so lucky. Since the replaced iPhone only had 4 more months of coverage under the Apple one year limited warranty - maybe I should fork over the $60+ for Apple Care….and rest at ease.
I’ve been totally enjoying my iPhone 3Gs and it’s awesome ability to capture, edit, enhance, and publish photos to the web as well as my choice of social networks. At age 47 I can tell you that I’ve used 100’s of electronic gadgets over the years and my iPhone 3Gs is simply the BEST device I have ever owned…hands down! But currently I have an issue with my iPhone 3Gs and it lack of Bluetooth support for the Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer. If it’s a simple matter of enabling the Bluetooth transfer profile, please consider doing so in the next iPhone O/S update. Like many other iPhone photographers the iPhone 3Gs gets more use that any other mobile phone or point-n-shoot camera. By adding the ability of mobile printing via the Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer the iPhone 3Gs (and future iPhone models) could become an even more important device in the world of photography.
