"What happens when you take the same digital content or service and just replace the device used to access it? Quite consistently people's behavior changes significantly. To illustrate here's several examples of the same use case on different devices."
The iPhone has been my regular camera since the 3GS.
This past Christmas, Mr. Jon Sykes bestowed upon me a macro lens for my iPhone. Hesitant to defile my pristine monolith with the sticky metallic ring required for the use of the lens, I took the plunge. And I haven’t regretted the application of that little ring since.
The macro lens comes as part of a wide angle lens that separates into two for the macro lens. Both are great and when combined with the iPhones already superb camera, they take tremendous photos.
This lens is so nice I had to buy it twice! (…because I inadvertently lost the first one). But that just gave me reason to pickup the fisheye lens as well. If you’re on the fence about picking these up, you won’t regret making the leap.
They can be purchased from the awesome Photojojo and will work with various other phones.
Captured at the beginning of the December 2010 blizzard.
Over the past few months I’ve been obsessed with a little app called Instagram. It’s an app for the iPhone that lets you take square format photos, apply a filter, then post to multiple services such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and others. You may seen the links to Instagram photos in your Facebook or Twitter stream, but Instagram is more than a “make your photos pretty and post to various services” app. It’s a community.
Within the app you can follow other users, comment or “like” their photos and discover other photographers via the popular feed or hashtags. Companies such as NPR and Starbucks have begun to utilize Instagram to disseminate news or post casual photos of company life.
As of now there isn’t web presence for Instagram users aside from the photos they decide to post to various services. The main Instagram experience is contained within the iPhone app, which makes it’s current 2 million user population all the more impressive. I expect that number to grow now that developers have access to the Instagram API and they start integrating it into their own apps and services.
I’ve posted a sample of my favorite Instagram shots above. You can find me on Instagram under the username “jim”.
LiveView is an essential tool for designing interfaces for your iOS device. Comprised of software for both your desktop and iOS device, LiveVew allows you to work on your designs and view the results in realtime on you iPhone or iPad. Best of all, it’s free.
The theme for the 2010 Media-Hive holiday card was (very) loosely based on a Swedish dance band. Not sure of the direction we were going to take with this, we brought in a professional photographer to take various group and portrait shots. Me being my usual self decided to document the occasion with my iPhone. Some candid shots taken in front of the backdrop with my the CrossProcess app seemed to have the look we were going after.
I did a quick second shoot of portraits with my iPhone utilizing the backdrop and florescent overhead lighting. After some Photoshop touchup these portraits were sent to clients as a pack of postcards with a group shot selected from the first photo session.
View the final set of postcards and group shot.
Update: These photos have been featured on the Banana Camera Company website, the makers of the CrossProcess app. Thanks guys!
Tapulous has released the previously mentioned Tap Tap Revenge - Nine Inch Nails Edition for the iPhone and iPod touch. It includes 13 NIN songs from the Slip and Ghosts albums and it sports a NIN visual theme. From my brief time playing I can say it was definitely worth the wait. Must buy for any NIN fan.
Tapulous will be releasing a Nine Inch Nails licensed version of Tap Tap Revenge, one of the most popular iPhone games. It will consist of a NIN theme and over dozen songs from the past two albums. If anything can break me away from MotionX Poker, this would be it.
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A little over a year ago I did a refresh of the Media-Hive company site. Based on the original design direction by Greg O’Keeffe, I set out to tie together loose ends of the previous site and simplify some of the information architecture.
Over the past few months I’ve been obsessed with a little app called Instagram. It’s an app for the iPhone that lets you take square format photos, apply a filter, then post to multiple services such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and others.
This past Saturday I had pleasure of attending the NIN/JA (Nine Inch Nails/Jane’s Addiction) show at the PNC Bank Arts Center (Garden State Arts Center to those of use who know better) in Holmdel, NJ. It was a big day for me as I had been looking forward to this day ever since I purchased the tickets a couple of months ago.
It’s been two months since I released my first Wordpress theme, Manifest. And in those two months the response has far exceeded my expectations. Which honestly wasn’t that hard since I didn’t really have any. Since it’s release, Manifest has been listed on various Wordpress theme blogs and used on countless personal blogs. It’s also enjoyed over 1100 downloads. Which still boggles my mind.
One of the key features of my recently released Wordpress theme, Manifest, is that IE6 is unsupported. This hasn’t been an issue with the vast majority of people using the theme, but there have been a couple of comments and emails asking about IE6 support. I figured I’d clear the air on the subject.