Hi, this is a blog about PHP, Javascript, Cocoa, photography, design.
About the iPhone. About Apple. About Microsoft. About beauty.
About me and my life.
My name is Stijn Van Minnebruggen, I'm a developer at These Days Antwerp.
Take a look at the projects I'm involved with or check out some of my photos.
I’ve been waiting for a good iPhone camera app. Some of the better ones are CameraBag, QuadCamera and Polarize but none of them are as good as “The Best Camera” app. On first sight, you might notice that the name is quite ridiculous, but there’s a perfect explanation for that. The app has been made by professional photographer Chase Jarvis and the iPhone developers at Übermind. The app got it’s name from Chases’ book: “The Best Camera is The One That’s With You“.
In all good iPhone camera apps, you can add an effect to a photo and publish it to some social network sites. The Best Camera is not different, except for it’s features, you can:
add effects and easily enable/disable them again (some of the effects: light, dark, fade, contrast, desaturate, vignette, …)
reorganize them (for example: to change it to black/white first and then add contrast instead of the other way around)
easily share them to facebook, twitter or thebestcamera.com by enabling check boxes
set the color mood (warm/cool)
add some premade preset effects (jewel, paris, candy, slate)
frame the picture with a white border or make it square
It’s back in town! Erm… London that is. The annual Future Of Web Apps (FOWA) conference by Carsonified. Book your tickets now, because last year was really good. I booked my tickets from the moment there where any available. Yes, I’ve got me one of those early-bird tickets… yay!
The conference is held on 1 and 2 oktober and the speakers include Aza Raskin (Mozilla), Dustin Diaz (Twtter), Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV), Kevin Rose (digg), Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), etc. If you are going too and you want to meet-up, let me know!
The future of web applications is bright. 280North is changing the way we produce web apps. A while ago they introduced Cappuccino, a framework to build web applications with Objective J and Javascript. This week on FOWA Miami they introduced Atlas, a type of Xcode / Interface Builder to create apps with Cappuccino. Watch the video below. (via)
I don’t like clutter. Not on my desktop, not in my mail app, nowhere. I used to organize my Mac OS X dock with these dock separators. They are apps with a separator icon that closes immediately after you open them. Kinda stupid, but they did the job. A while ago, I discovered that Leopard supports native dock spacers. Hooray! It’s quite simple, but requires some Terminal work. If you don’t like that or you just don’t want to remember the lines, download this little app: dockSpacer!
The guys from taptaptap.com have made a crazy mosaic iPhone image to congratulate Apple for the 10.000+ iPhone apps. Check it out in large or original format.
