18 Oct 10
This is my final post on Tumblr. I’ve been waiting for the right time to leave and with the introduction of the new Posterous iPhone app….the time is now. This blog is permanently moving over to Posterous as well as both of my photo blogs. For those of you that I followed, I’m planning on keeping my Tumblr account so that I may read and comment on your post. If you were following me……thank you.
- You can also find me around the web / social network sites under the user name: Dred242
Thanks See-Ya!
Dred242
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Just picked up a great Tamrac camera pouch from Keeble & Shuchat Photography here in Palo Alto CA. It’s the perfect fit for my Rollei 35. Its also got a side pocket for a few screw-on filters.
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17 Oct 10
I finally got the vintage 35mm film camera I’ve been looking to buy for the past year or so. It’s the Rollei 35 in perfect condition. Built in 1966 this miniature 35mm camera remains one of the worlds smallest cameras. It has a super sharp Tessar 40mm f3.5 collapsable lens. Maximum shutter speed of 1/500. Bottom mounted flash hot-shoe. And a questionably placed left side film advance lever. Like all of the other vintage cameras I purchased this year the Rollei 35 will see most of it’s action during next years photo projects over at flickr.
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2 Sep 10
I just updated to iTunes v10. The Ping social network feature is a bit of a let down. I was expecting to see a lot of artist waiting to be friended. But there’s only 14 or so. Gonna take a closer look at Ping and the rest of the new features in the next few days.
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12 Aug 10
A co-worker asked “do you know of an iPhone app that gives you more that one voice mail announcements?”. I took a quick spin around the Apple “iTunes” Apps Store and found nothing. But I got to thinking about how to use established web tools to accomplish the multi voice mail announcement request and I came up with Google Voice. First I set up a new Google Voice account with a newly created phone number that closely matches my existing mobile phone number. Then I created a Google Voice voice mail announcement that basically say’s “I’m in transit - leave a message - I’ll call you back”. I also enabled a Google Voice feature that sends a text message (with full transcription of the message) to my mobile phone (iPhone 3Gs) whenever someone leaves me “Google Voice” voice mail. So not only will I know who called (including a phone number) I can read what they said as part of the text message and call them back from within the text message itself…..Awesome! The last step takes place on my iPhone……here’s what I did. I enabled Call Forwarding and entered my new Google Voice number and saved the settings. My goal is to only use Call Forwarding when I’m driving. So from now on, if I receive a call while driving it gets forwarded to my Google Voice account. The caller receives the “I’m In Transit” announcement, leaves voice mail, and I get the text alert which I can review once I reach my destination….brilliant!
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1 Aug 10
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After several rounds with re-jailbreaking my NEW “used” 3rd Gen 8GB iPod Touch in order to get the app iBluenova to work correctly - the day finally belongs to me! Both the jailbroken iPod Touch and iBluenova are now printing to both of my Polaroid PoGo Printers. These are portable pocket printers that print out little 3X2in prints. I’m starting a photo project using my iPhone and these printers. More info to follow.
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26 Jul 10
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!
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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
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23 Jul 10
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!
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21 Jul 10
Been looking for this little Gowalla item for some time. I finally have it!
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2 Jul 10
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.
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29 Jun 10
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!
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17 May 10
"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!"
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2 May 10
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.
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