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Fixing Your Crappy Cell Phone Photos

February 10, 2011 – 10:11 pm | 13 Comments
Fixing Your Crappy Cell Phone Photos

Some of today’s cell phones feature camera resolution that rivals digital SLRs from two year ago. An 8-megapixel cell phone camera is no longer a novelty. Unfortunately, high resolution is the only good thing cell phone cameras have to offer and it does not translate into better pictures. If you compare photos taken with the most advanced cell phone camera to those taken with a $200 point-and-shoot digital camera, the cell phone invariably loses.

iPhone 3GS OS4 Upgrade

September 4, 2010 – 5:23 pm | 5 Comments
iPhone 3GS OS4 Upgrade

iTunes for Windows must be one of the buggiest, most poorly written applications out there. In terms of wasted months of your life it definitely ranks up there with Lotus Notes and Media Player 12. I don’t know how well iTunes works on a Mac (I like computer mice with twenty buttons, so I never was a big Mac fan), but I think I read somewhere that iTunes for Windows is the leading cause of suicides among iPhone owners.

Server and Network Monitoring with iPhone

February 25, 2010 – 6:53 pm | 8 Comments
Server and Network Monitoring with iPhone

What is a Unix sysadmin doing with an iPhone, you ask? It was a birthday present, if that’s all right with you. I know, I should have gotten something odd with a beta version of …

iPhone Photography: Making Photos Better

September 17, 2009 – 9:05 pm | 4 Comments
iPhone Photography: Making Photos Better

The is the first installment of the three-part review of the better photo apps for iPhone. In the follow-up reviews we will look at artistic photo filters and panorama applications. If you don’t want to …

Great iPhone Apps

September 3, 2009 – 3:22 am | 4 Comments
Great iPhone Apps

After spending hundreds of dollars at the iPhone app store and writing many negative reviews, I believe I finally stumbled upon a few applications warranting a positive reaction. Back in June Apple was bragging …

More Bad iPhone Apps

August 13, 2009 – 1:19 am | 4 Comments
More Bad iPhone Apps

This is the second part of my review of iPhone apps unworthy of your ninety nine cents. You can read the first part here.
Certain applications are well-written and might have been quite useful, if …

Bad iPhone Apps

July 29, 2009 – 4:37 pm | 5 Comments
Bad iPhone Apps

Oh quit your whining, you will say, they are just a couple bucks each, so no big loss if some iPhone apps turn out to be trash. True, but they are so addictive. My first …

iPhone: No Clicking Sound

July 16, 2009 – 4:58 am | 17 Comments
iPhone: No Clicking Sound

Many long-time iPhone users are familiar with the mystery of disappearing keyboard clicking sounds (among other sound effects). Here are a few things you can try before you take your fruity phone back to the …