Saturday, January 31, 2015

Tech I love: Dynamo usb light

This handy device is great for those times power is out. 120 cranks in 2 minutes make 10 minutes of bright LED light. The usb A charge port works while cranking. So if your phone is dead, you can still make an emergency call. Well you do need your charger cord

Monday, January 26, 2015

Ice Driving

Screen print map of my Ice drive
Last weekend, I drove out on the ice, and took some videos.  One was a time lapse style, during which I also had get sat tracking.  When I got home, I wanted to find some version of What Power Art (aka Cold Song) and discovered a set of musicians called Paris'Click their video of the song blew me away, and I was instant distracted from my modest video project, I bought their EP, and put all their videos on a Playlist.

On Facebook and Twitter I announced it as genius.  Today, they tweeted about a new video and asked my opinion.  I could not believe how close a concept that video was to my humble time lapse.  140 characters meh! So here I blog.


My Humble iPhone time lapse driving on Ice.  It ends abruptly as I drive up the boat landing into the town of Excelsior.



This is the google map of the ice drive. or should be. this screen print does it better.  It was just over a mile, but I easily drove several miles earlier that day.  The video from the tweet



is above. It is wild and makes my Ice drive look Tame
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and so it goes
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Photo Effects Creator Free - iPhone

This app for iPhone has some bugs, but there are some tricks I have figured out, that gets around them.  The comment section is filled with reviews of users that love the apps, but find they have to restart their iPhone if (1)a chosen photo fails, or (2) they want to make another one right away.

(1) choose high resolution photos, revert them to their original state if they have been edited in iPhone.  If by chance I want to keep the edited version, I will save it somewhere else, then reintroduce that saved photo as a "new" photo on my iphone, then revert the edited version.  Now the "new" is original too, but looks like the way you want.

(2) close the app between projects.  Not just going to home screen and clicking on the icon again. I am just a 9 day old user of my first iPhone, so if you know how to shut down apps, bear with me here.
     Quickly double press the home button. This calls up a carousel of apps in the order of last use.  This list is perpetual.  To "hard close" an app, long press and simultaneously swipe your finger up.  The app should disapear from the carousel, and next time you start it, it will be "fresh". If by chance the long press swipe causes the app to start, you did not press long enough before you swiped.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

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