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Flickr makeover

12 Wednesday Dec 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Flickr, Internet, iPhone, photography, technology

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flickr, iOS, iPhone, photography

Metro: Aardvark style

This image of the Montreal metro comes to you in part thanks to the newest Flickr app for iPhone.
The latest renewal to Flickr’s iPhone app is truly stunning. Not only is there a new interface for your enjoyment but the app gives you more access to your Flickr account than the old (now comparatively anemic) version. There are also new integrated tools to make minor edits to your images. Here are a few screenshots for your enjoyment:

See your contacts:

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Browse your groups:

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Check out photo details:

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Edit details for your own photos:

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Edit your photos:

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Detailed settings for sets and groups before upload:

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Change your profile details:

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One thing I haven’t tried yet, is batch uploading. I’ll let you know in a future post how well that works compared to the old app.
Now, as for using this app on iPad … it should look just fine on an iPad 2 or an iPad Mini; it’s obviously a bit pixelated but acceptable (to me, anyway) on any iPad with a Retina display. That said, if Yahoo! can successfully transfer this piece of art into an iPad specific app with high-def graphics, that would be grand.
Also … what’s up with this portrait-only business? A landscape-compatible mode would be nice at times.

P.S.: Sorry for polluting your feeds this morning, as I inadvertently uploaded the images in this post as individual posts instead of just adding them my library. Oops!

P.P.S: I seem to be having trouble with the screenshots I tried posting earlier. I’ll restore them later once I’ve figured out what went wrong. It appears we’re back in business. Thanks for your patience!

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Rush hour

28 Wednesday Nov 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, Toronto, trains, transit, Travel, urban

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canada, iPhoneography, Ontario, photography, photowalk, random, Toronto, trains, transit, Travel, urban

Rush hour

On the Toronto subway, looking at the far platform from my train car, through another subway train as it starts to leave the station.

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Make your move

26 Friday Oct 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Amsterdam, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Amsterdam, iPhoneography, Netherlands, night, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban

Make your move

No better way to end the day than with a giant game of chess. Max Euweplein, Amsterdam.

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Amster-tram

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Amsterdam, iPhone, trains, transit, Travel, urban, video

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Amsterdam, light rail, LRT, Netherlands, trains, trams, transit

Low-riding light-rail vehicles are omnipresent in Amsterdam:

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Goeiemiddag

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Amsterdam, iPhone, photography, photowalking, Travel

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Goeiemiddag

Good afternoon from Vondelpark in Amsterdam.

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Fleeting light

23 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, iPhone, New York, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Brooklyn, HDR, iPhoneography, New York, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban

Fleeting light

If in New York, go to Brooklyn at least once, if for no other reason than to look back at Manhattan. But do go for another reason. It’s worth it! Great places to eat, some accessible urban decay, the New York Transit Museum … and there’s a great little ice cream shop not far from where I was standing, near the ferry landing, to take this photo.
This view was snapped a year ago, at dusk.

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Hints of rust

16 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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Hints of rust

A wonderfully imperfect picket fence.

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Woven words

12 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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Woven words

Now that’s an interesting to do with discarded newspapers …

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Street art, literally

25 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, urban

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Chalk zone

One of the artistic remnants of the Sun and Salsa Festival in Kensington over the weekend.

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Mobile life on the EDGE

22 Sunday Jul 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Apple, iPhone, technology

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2G, 3G, apple, cell phone, EDGE, iOS, iPhone, mobile, smartphone, tech

So here’s an update on my post last week about trying to extend my iPhone 4S battery life by switching mostly to 2G (EDGE) instead of using 3G.
On heavy usage, the difference is somewhat noticeable — nothing that blows my mind.
On light usage though, it’s a lot more interesting. As of 2 p.m. today, I’ve had my phone off the mains for a little over two full days and the battery shows 54% capacity remaining.

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That’s with very light photography,a few phone calls, a little bit of texting, some Internet radio streaming on my drive to work*, light web browsing using Opera Mobile as my browser.
My screen brightness is set to auto with the slider sitting above the letters gh of the word Brightness in the menu.
No video, a bit of Wi-Fi.
Not too shabby.
(*) On mobile Internet radio streaming, that’s where it shows the most noticeable change in battery usage. On my 15-minute commute to work, it typically drains 5% or 6% using 3G. On 2G, it only drains about 3%. That’s something resembling half the previous usage. Nice.

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