Loving Instagram
I didn’t think I needed another iPhone photo app, but turns out I did. Instagr.am mimics other mobile photo-sharing apps, but it’s captured the appeal that comes from extreme minimalism. While you can use it to cross-post to other sites (Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr, Foursquare), the web-side is pared down to just the photo page. ...
Urban Forest Map
I was still curious after taking this photo of the trees on 24th Street at Bryant earlier today. How could I identify these trees? I did several searches on variations of “trees on 24th street mission san francisco” which brought up some great local links, including SFTrees and a good list of trees in the Mission ...
Facebook Joins Geo-location Services
Facebook finally launches its geo-location social app, Facebook Places, bringing location features to its 500 million users. You can checkin to locations, see who’s nearby your vicinity as well as tag the names of other Facebook friends who are at the same location. As a test, I checked in from the iPhone app and added ...
Mockingbird: Wireframes on the Fly
As a UI/UX designer, I’m constantly looking for new tools and methods to allow me to more rapidly create initial user flows and to prototype an application. Mockingbird is a new online tool that let’s you create and share wireframes quickly and with interactivity. It uses a simple drag and drop UI library, gives you ...
Hitchcock: Mobile Storyboarding for iPhone
I posted Hitchcock to eHub last night and it’s been on my mind today. Hitchcock is the world’s first mobile story boarding application. With Hitchcock you can have your first story board up and running in a matter of minutes. Hitchcock streamlines the process of storyboarding by allowing you to compose storyboards using photos rather ...
TiltShift Generator for iPhone
Takayuki Fukatsu of Art&Mobile gave me a sneak peak of his new TiltShift Generator for iPhone, which stylizes the miniature effect on photos. Just like Art&Mobile’s other great products, including QuadCamera (see my post) and ToyCamera, TiltShift Generator is easy to use and has a slick and minimal UI. There are controls for blur levels, ...
Explore the Music of Cities with CitySounds.fm
With CitySounds.fm, you can browse and listen to the music scene from over 30 cities around the world. The top of the site lists the most active cities and changes as new music is created. To collect the latest music we use professional audio platform SoundCloud.com. City photos are fetched from Flickr.com. The site is ...
Eye vs. Eye and Kern: iPhone Games for Designers
As much as I love iPhone apps, I haven’t really gotten into games as much as other types of apps (social networking, productivity, photography, music, search, etc.), but these two games from FORMation Alliance might change my mind. Both are perfect for designers and visual people. EYE vs. EYE EYE vs. EYE Is an intense ...
WhatTheFont for iPhone
If you’re a designer, you’ve probably used WhatTheFont, the service that can identify a font from a photo, web graphic or scanned image. Now you can get those same features on your iPhone just by taking a photo with the WhatTheFont for iPhone app. You’ll need to have internet access on your phone so the ...
QuadCamera: Continuous Shooting With your iPhone Camera
QuadCamera is the the 4th release by Art&Mobile of their ToyCamera series and features continuous shooting. Just press the button, and it takes 4-8 serial shots to create one image in multiple dimensions and repetitions: a 4×2 portrait, 4×1, 2×2 landscape, and 8×1 landscape (as shown below). This is great for fast action and motion ...
Ocarina: the First iPhone Instrument
Ocarina is the “first true musical instrument created for the iPhone. Ocarina is sensitive to your breath, touch and movements, making it even more versatile than the original [instrument]. Unlike other musical applications, there are no pre-compiled riffs so musicians will find unlimited opportunities for self-expression. Advanced options allow you to choose between diatonic, minor ...
Creating Panoramic Photos With Your iPhone
One of the main reasons I use my iPhone is to take quick photos. Even though the 2 megapixel camera isn’t the highest quality, it’s the convenience and added iPhone functionality (eg. emailing) and the applications that I enjoy. One of my new favorite apps is Pano by Debacle Software (download from iTunes), which lets ...
I’m Goosh-ing
I came across Goosh.org yesterday through someone’s tweet and I’m in love. Goosh, a “UNIX-like command-line interface for Google,” combines the search functionality of Google with the simplicity of command line. It brings me back to the days of using Pine for email. Goosh is written by Stefan Grothkopp and dubs itself “the unofficial Google ...
Provide Feedback on Snap Preview Anywhere
I added Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA) to eHub back in December (eHub entry here). The free service provides a quick visual preview of a site whenever you roll over an external link. This lets you get a quick glimpse of the sites I’m linking to. In eHub, this also makes it easier to browse the ...
I Like Being in Other People’s Stats
This morning I checked my feeds and stats and various web searches and saw a referrer from WipBox, an application I had added to eHub. The long tail at work… From the WipBox blog. What a great way to start things off!!! Had awesome feedback from people right out of the gates, was written up ...
Explore CommunityWalk
CommunityWalk, the web 2.0 mapping community, has launched the new Explore feature. The Explore page lets you zoom into the map, select a category, or use a live search to find different public maps on CommunityWalk. You can even enter a search for a specific area of the map, or right click to zoom out. ...
Style Meets the Social Web with the Stylehive
Stylehive.com launched on Wednesday night, March 8, 2006. Read Michael Carrier’s thoughts in eHub Interviews Stylehive. It’s with a great deal of personal satisfaction that I write this post. About the time I started this blog, my company started designing the Stylehive, a collaborative shopping community. It’s a place where contributors share and discover the ...
BlogBurst: Getting Blogs into Mainstream Media
I’m always interested in new blog networks. I’ve been fortunate to enjoy a healthy increasing readership and acceptance in several online networks. Most of these, however, push content out to other niche sites in the blogosphere. BlogBurst is a new product by Pluck, a company based in Austin co-founded in 2003 by Dave Panos and ...