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  • Emilily 2:42 pm on September 13, 2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: apple, iPhone, wordpress   

    Blogging from the phone 

    This is an experiment to see if posting from my phone will work. I am at the doctor’s office with my dad, hanging out in the waiting room.

    Okay, well, problem #1, there is no page scrolling on the screen. So you type a few lines, then everything you are typing goes down below the screen and you can’t see it. You can still type, but it is invisible, forcing you to blindly trust the apple spell checker, which often likes to replace what I have typed with phrases like “what the duck.”

    I think my dad is coming out now. I’ll upload a quick pic!

    p.s. I saw you started a post on shoes. You should definitely finish it, since I am like a 7-month fashion time warp and have no idea what shoes I need to buy with this wad of cash burning a hole in my pocket!

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  • Emilily 12:15 am on December 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    WordPress app test! 

    p_2048_1536_FC782EAB-553C-4D13-86F9-11681AB28F33.jpegOk, so here it is, I am posting from my phone! So far all I have figured out is how to type, not yet sure how to add (or view) pictures.

    Have you tried this yet?

    Well, I selected a photo from my camera, and there was no “add photo” sort of command but when I viewed the preview, it said there would be a picture attached, so I guess the final version is really best viewed online still.

     
    • Emilily 12:33 am on December 3, 2009 Permalink

      Well, there’s the picture alright, so it did work. Although now I’ve just established that I can’t leave replies via safari on my phone because it is asking me to sign in.

      Oh well, I go to bed now.

    • Carmen 10:42 am on December 3, 2009 Permalink

      Awesome! geez my nose kind of looks big in that picture but I think its just the angle. I think I have a normally proportioned nose. This is great though, I’ll do a post later from my phone to try it out.

    • Emilily 12:47 pm on December 3, 2009 Permalink

      You have a totally normally proportioned nose. All the plastic surgeons reading our blog should take note, that’s what a nose ought to look like. Evil villains take note, too – that eyebrow arch says “Take over the world? who, me?”

  • Emilily 12:22 pm on December 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    WordPress iPhone app 

    wordpress I’ve just downloaded the WordPress iPhone app! (In order to get it to work, I had to go into our writing settings an enable XML-RPC publishing protocols, so I hope this doesn’t screw anything up.)

    So far, it works okay – I can see posts and comments and view pages, but I can’t see any pictures, all I get is a jumble of code as a placeholder. Maybe I have to play around with it a bit. Overall, I think it will be really useful for reading posts and adding comments when we’re away from the computer!

     
    • Carmen 2:12 pm on December 2, 2009 Permalink

      Oh yeah, I downloaded that too but I hadn’t gotten around to adjusting our publishing protocols – so thanks for doing that! I’ll try to post this weekend via iPhone from the Christmas tree ranch where we are going to cut down our own 10 foot tree!

    • Emilily 6:04 pm on December 2, 2009 Permalink

      Nice! I am jealous you get a 10-foot tree, it is going to be lovely in your main room. I suggested to Dylan we get some decorations and he brought home like 10 boxes of super-power high-tech LED lights, so we’re going to hang them this weekend….it’ll be so bright you’ll probably be able to see the house from space.

    • Carmen 10:53 am on December 3, 2009 Permalink

      I’ve seen those LED lights, they kind of hurt my eyes. It looks like they are vibrating really fast and my eyes cant actually focus on them. Does that happen to you? We’re going to put lights on the firehouse too, it looks like it will be a dangerous task.

    • Emilily 12:44 pm on December 3, 2009 Permalink

      On the outside of the firehouse?! Sounds like an opportunity to wear your ninja gloves to me!

    • Carmen 3:26 pm on December 3, 2009 Permalink

      Oh yeah ninja gloves! There is always an opportunity for ninja gloves – I’m wearing them right now!

  • Carmen 7:07 pm on November 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    More tiltshift goodness… 

    From a roof on a beautiful day…

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    • Emilily 3:53 pm on November 9, 2009 Permalink

      I agree, Tiltshift is awesome. I took this picture of my grandma over the weekend, and first it was a bit creepy with the candlelight and all, but then I applied a little tiltshift, and voila!

      mimi

      However, I think it works best on landscapes, or images that are brighter to start with.

  • Emilily 2:26 pm on November 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    everything is better with an app 

    photophoto(2) Here are two pictures of Dylan’s house – on the left, a picture of the real thing, and on the right, a miniature model of Dylan’s house.

    No, I’m just kidding, that’s the exact same photo edited by the TiltShiftGen app!

    I bet you knew that, didn’t you?

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    And here’s an adorable picture of my cat, edited with the ColorSplash app. ColorSplash allows you to de-saturate an image to black and white and then color back in just the areas you want.

    On that note, should we be concerned about how much time we spend playing with our phones? It’s not even really a phone anymore, it’s a hand-held computer that occasionally takes calls. And to be perfectly honest, I like mine better when it’s not taking calls at all so I can sit quietly and make Bloom and Trope music.

     
  • Carmen 12:15 pm on October 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Speaking of apps… 

    I also downloaded the TiltShiftGen app which allows you to take a picture and then render it to look like you are looking at a miniature mock up of the real thing.  It works really well and the photos look super cute.  Go get it! You will like it!

    (i did not take this pic btw)

    tiltshift pic

     
    • Emilily 1:29 pm on October 22, 2009 Permalink

      These apps looks super cool. I am definitely going to buy this TiltShift Generator, and look into those Bloom and Trope (and Air?) apps.

      Hey – does this mean you have an iPhone now?!?!

    • Carmen 9:51 pm on October 22, 2009 Permalink

      I’m testing out Max’s old iphone but i’m still using my tmobile dash as my main phone. In December I’ll be making the switch!

    • Emilily 10:33 am on October 23, 2009 Permalink

      Awesome! There is an app that will let me track your phone with GPS, so we can always see where the other one is! That will be fun! Or is it creepy? Nah. Fun.

    • Carmen 11:20 am on October 23, 2009 Permalink

      it will only be creepy sometimes.

    • Olga 2:07 am on October 24, 2009 Permalink

      There is an app for that Emililyly! I just found it and downloaded it. It’s called “Loopt” I downloaded Trope and Bloom too. They give me something to do during meetings. ( on silence of course) Trope works for doodling.

  • Carmen 8:40 pm on October 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Bloom and Trope 

    Well, maybe you already know about these beautiful apps but on the offchance that you don’t I think you should zip on over to itunes and buy them immediately!  They are created by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers.  And its all flipping brilliant.  Thats all i’m going to say.

     
  • Emilily 1:26 pm on October 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    another awesome app 

    photoCheck this out. I did not mean to buy it, but now that I did, it is pretty cool. (I was looking for a font or typography related app, and this one  popped up, and I accidentally hit “buy” when I really meant to preview it.) Anyways, you select a font, write a word or little phrase, and then you draw a picture or write a note using the font and text you have created. The speed you “draw” at determines the size of the font. You can also adjust the opacity and change the background. This is a really sloppy one I made just to experiment!

    Unlike the myPantone post I did earlier, I have yet to find a clever use for this app, aside from trying to look busy and unapproachable while I wait in line at the grocery store.

     
  • Emilily 11:47 am on October 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: apple, pantone   

    somewhat obsessive behavior 

    I have just discovered (thank you Dylan!) a brilliant new app for iPhone, the myPantone color app. This app is sheer friggin’ blow your mind genius. (I love love love color schematics, so even if it weren’t genius, I would probably still buy it and blissfully extol its mediocrity, I am that hopelessly besotted.) In brief, it gives you 7 or 8 pantone color books to flip through, as well as the ability to take a snapshot and then pull the pantone hues out of the image and create numerous custom color palettes.

    Now, you may ask – aside from geeking out with my iPhone, what else would I use this somewhat pricey ($9.99) app for? Ah ha! Here’s what I am going to do! Photograph all my favorite clothes and create custom color palettes based on outfit combinations! Then, anytime I am out shopping, and I am wondering if I should buy something, and if so, what would I wear it with, I can photograph the item in question, pull out some swatches, and see if they match any of my in-heavy-rotation palettes. I will never again have one of those moments where I’m like, this sweater would look awesome with these pants, but I wish I had noticed at the store that they were two completely non-coordinateable* shades of ochre! Also, once you create a color palette, you can email it, and the email includes the ASE files to send your swatches to Photoshop!

    * Non-coordinateable may not be a real word. Spell check says it isn’t, but spell-check also says the word geeking should not be used as a verb, and that I am spelling ochre wrong, which I don’t think I am. Or perhaps I am, and I am just stubborn.

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    • Carmen 12:13 pm on October 6, 2009 Permalink

      Ok, i want that.

  • Emilily 7:26 pm on August 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    One more before I go 

    I am usually of the completely irrational and blindly loyal school of Apple Can Do No Wrong. Consistent with this belief, I am sure they had a perfectly good reason for making a GLASS phone.

    oh damn.

    oh damn.

     
    • Emilily 9:35 am on August 25, 2009 Permalink

      So I went to the Apple store yesterday to see about replacing my phone. It costs $199 to replace the screen OR buy a new phone. Seriously, do they really expect me to believe that screen is the most valuable thing on the phone? Or, could it be, it is the most expensive because it is the most breakable?! I really want to love Apple unconditionally, but they’re kind of being an asshole right now. It’s like we’re dating.

      I am considering spending another $100 and upgrading to the 32GB 3GS. Boy, that’ll really stick it to ‘em.

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