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Using an iPhone 4 to kill a monitor

I discovered that in certain conditions (iPhone in Edge Mode) that placing my iPhone 4 under my monitor turns the screen completely black. You can see the blue power light is still on but the monitor goes out. This is pretty repeatable and makes me wonder what this thing is pushing out in Edge mode that’s powerful enough to turn a monitor off. Sorry for the poor quality of the video and no sound but I shot this at work and I’m in a big shared space with other companies and I wasn’t up for doing a V.O. on this one. I might revisit it at some point.

Can anyone else get this to replicate? The real trick was to make sure it was in Edge Mode with signal. WiFi seemed to have no effect either way. Pretty weird eh?

Jul 21, 2010 | Categories: Tech | Tags: | 2 Comments »

Girl in San Francisco

Girl in San Francisco

Shot on my iPhone 4 and post processed in Photoshop. I tried using the effects apps on the phone but nothing has really struck me yet. Hipstamatic is neat but takes too long and everyone uses it so its not really that useful. Photoshop is still the way I like to work. I just wish the phone had a save as RAW option. This was tweaked with the Channel Mixer set to B&W w/ Orange filter and a little vignette was added in the Lens Correction filter and was also cropped down by about 30%.

Jul 18, 2010 | Categories: Photography | Tags: , , | 3 Comments »

Worlds largest lolcat!

Invisible Bike Mural

My traveling partners were talking about the Asians.com tag but I was transfixed by the largest lolcat in the world.

Jul 18, 2010 | Categories: Photography | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

MotionX-GPS Field Test

July 17th 2010 San Francisco Walk

I took a walk today and turned on MotionX GPS to track my progress on my iPhone. The above pic is a screencap of the KMZ file that MotionX GPS exports via email and below are some screencaps of the info about the walk and the map inside of the app. It was a gorgeous day! Click the link below to check out the app. I will write a more in-depth review shortly but the Readers Digest version is I love it and will keep using it. The trails feature was worth the $2.99 price alone. It’s got a lot more under the hood to play with so like I said, look for a full review soon.

MotionX

MotionX 1

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MotionX 2

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Jul 17, 2010 | Categories: App Reviews | Tags: , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Boing Boing Picnic

Today was the big Boing Boing Picnic in San Francisco. I walked/MUNI’d over to it but embarrassingly kept getting lost in the park so by the time I got there I was exhausted. While I was lost I ran across the worlds ugliest duck. Was nice to catch up with some old friends but now I need a nap.

Jul 10, 2010 | Categories: San Francisco | 2 Comments »