Qualcomm seeking 'iPhone development guru'
File that firmly under WTF.
Posts tagged iphone
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OSX: Scan receipts with your iPhone, and automatically save them to your Mac.
Paper receipts are a pain in the neck: they clutter your wallet and inevitably end up getting lost when you most need them.
If you have an iPhone however, here is a simple workflow to digitise all your new receipts while on the move and have them automatically stored on your Mac.
Posted 2 weeks ago
One-click #Android on your #iPhone (and you get to keep iOS).
Abomination? Perhaps, But you can’t fault it on its clever factor.
Posted 3 weeks ago
How to enable ‘VolumeSnap’ in Camera+ for iPhone
Camera+ for iPhone is by far my favourite photo app, but its latest update featuring the ‘VolumeSnap’ feature was rejected by Apple on severely misguided UI consistency grounds.
VolumeSnap allows the iPhone’s volume buttons to be used as a shutter release, greatly improving the ergonomics of snapping photos. This feature is so forehead-slappingly brilliant that, Apple’s rejection aside, the crafty authors of Camera+ have provided us with a simple workaround.
To enable VolumeSnap, enter the following into mobile Safari: camplus://enablevolumesnap
To disable it, enter this instead: camplus://disablevolumesnap
Here’s hoping that Apple sees the light and lets the next update through without the need for a hack, but in the meantime have fun, and happy snapping!
Posted 1 month ago
OpenAppMkt: an alternative App Store, without the Jailbreak
There’s a lot you can do with mobile optimised web apps, and this place is making them easier to find.
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By analyzing billions of phone calls, researchers at Scandinavian telecom company Telenor, mapped how social connections between people – measured partly by how often they called each other – correlated with the spread of Apple’s iPhone after its 2007 debut.
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iPhone 4 camera’s yellow tint: cause and workaround
Anyone who has tried to take a photo in very low light conditions using the iPhone 4’s LED flash is familiar with this issue: the photos come out with a yellow tint.
The Apple discussion forums are abuzz with posts on the issue, with most users suspecting a white balance problem.
Yesterday, the excellent Camera+ app received an update allowing, amongst other things, for the LED to be left on continuously when taking photos. The results? Perfectly white balanced images, without a trace of yellow.
So what gives? Well, I have a theory: the issue with the LED is not one of white balance, but of timing. In very low light situations, the iPhone 4’s camera shutter needs to remain open for longer in order to capture the shot. For some reason however, the LED flash appears to turn off just before the shutter closes, possibly casting a yellow tint over the image as it cools down - or in any case throwing the camera’s white balance out of whack.
As Camera+ demonstrates, if the LED flash is kept on before, during and after the photo is taken, the camera captures a perfect image.
What this suggests is that Apple should be able to fix the problem in software, simply by keeping the flash on just a fraction of a second longer. Until then, Camera+’s solution, while a potential battery killer, provides a neat little workaround for shooting in low light situations.
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