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canada, Hipstamatic, iPhoneography, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban
03 Sunday Feb 2013
Posted in art, Canada, iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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canada, Hipstamatic, iPhoneography, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban
02 Saturday Feb 2013
Posted in architecture, art, design, iPhone, London, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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England, HDR, iPhoneography, London, photography, photowalk, random, Shard, Travel, urban
London’s new tallest building, The Shard, was opened to the public this week. This is a view of the landmark as it was back in September October, from the observation platform at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The Shard itself has an observation deck … I’ll be sure to stop by when I get back to London for my next visit.
01 Friday Feb 2013
I’m a little late to the party with this review of the latest version of TuneIn Radio, which was rolled out shortly before Christmas.
You see: I mainly use TuneIn on my smartphone while commuting or travelling and so didn’t notice the massive redo of the interface on the tablet version until the last few hours.
The general look of the app is more polished than in the last iPad version and it doesn’t result in any apparent loss of features.
Although some of the logos and fonts got a refresh, features (especially quick access to recent, related, favourites) introduced in 2012 remain.
There’s handy access to the timer/recording function right in the player and a new button from the station info screen (at least I haven’t noticed it before) to navigate streams forward. Oddly, there is no ‘last stream’ button, just a ‘back’ button that takes you back to the main interface.
The only thing I wish the iPad version of the app could do, is to allow users to swipe across any station to immediately choose which sub-stream to invoke. (Many channels offer streams of varying bandwidths to suit your requirements.)
The app remains a very enjoyable way to enjoy streaming talk radio and music, despite its handful of flaws.
All in all, a great effort to refine an already great app.
29 Tuesday Jan 2013
Posted in Alberta, art, Calgary, design, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban
20 Sunday Jan 2013
Posted in Canada, iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, transit, Travel, urban
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canada, iPhoneography, métro, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban
05 Saturday Jan 2013
Posted in Canada, iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
04 Friday Jan 2013
Posted in art, Canada, iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, video
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art, canada, iPhoneography, montreal, music, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, urban
01 Tuesday Jan 2013
Posted in Flickr, iPad, iPhone, photography, technology
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flickr, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPhoneography, photography, technology
You may recall my review of Flickr’s latest app for iPhone.
After using the app for a couple of weeks, I’m still relatively satisfied with it save for one major, annoying flaw.
It appears the app doesn’t handle IPTC keywords very well. The old Flickr app used to read the field and convert its values to tags. But now, those values fill a field called “machine tags” and don’t generate any normal tags at all.
For example, this result …

… came from uploading this photo.

I’ve left a message in the Flickr for iPhone group but have yet to hear back from anyone about a fix. Here’s to hoping this gets solved soon!
31 Monday Dec 2012
Posted in Calgary, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, canada, iPhoneography, photography, photowalk, random, urban
13 Thursday Dec 2012
Posted in Apple, iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, technology, Travel, urban
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canada, flickr, Hipstamatic, iPhone, iPhoneography, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, technology, Travel, urban