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I can hear people say it already: “Silent for weeks… and then… this movie on his blog:”.

Sorry for the lack of recent updates here. It’s not my year, this year, but as you might have noticed… it’s almost over ;) I’ve got lots of things planned. More on that later!

I might do this every month starting from now. A picture I found that I like. This month: the cat and the kid.

Last week I went to Berlin. I wasn’t been there before so I did all the typical tourist attractions. It’s an amazing city, with loads of hints to it’s history and weird looking traffic lights.

In the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, I saw this (short) movie: Spielzeugland (Toyland). It’s about a friendship between two boys in 1942 where one boy believes his Jewish friend is going to “Toyland”. I loved it and even took a picture of the ending titles because I loved the music as well. In the mean time, back home, I searched for the musician’s name and found out that the movie actually won an Oscar!

The full movie (14 minutes) is available online and can be watched here. It’s not subtitled, but if you understand German a bit and have a moment, you should definitely watch it.

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

This app is going to change the mood of the iPhone photos I’m sharing on twitpic, yfrog, facebook and flickr. (via)

She has found a new home. I know she will be happy and make other people really happy. She’s great. Best cat ever! I’ll miss my furry girl.