Posts tagged Friends
A Central Park picnic, documented by Polaroid SpiceCam
Jun 8th
I couldn’t find (/hid) the battery to my regular, non-embarrassing camera yesterday. So I was forced to humiliate my friends in public by taking their photos with my SpiceCam:
It was great to have Dane here for a couple of days – pity it wasn’t a longer visit though, we had a lot of gossip to catch up on (/make up)
As you can sort-of see in these Spicey polaroids, New York really turned on some great weather for his visit.
How to: Geotagged photobloging with iPhone 3G & Wordpress
Mar 30th
Non-geeky friends: if you value our friendship, please stop reading now!
After learning that the iPhone 3G embeds GPS location data in the ‘meta-data’ of every photo, I thought it would be cool to use this information to show the location of photos I post on my Wordpress (self-hosted) blog. An example is shown on left.
Once you have things set up, you simply need to take a photo, email it to a certain ’secret’ email address, placing the post title in the subject and post content in the body of the email, and voila – everything else is automatic!
To do this you will need the following:
- iPhone 3G (or other device with GPS, camera and email)
- Wordpress blog & host that allows you to install plugins
- A host that allows you to set up something called a ‘cron job’ – basically a server setting that runs a predefined script every x minutes/hours/days. I use Godaddy and they allow it.
- The ExZO plugin (I’m using version 0.b7.5)
- The Postie plugin, development version
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Stalk me @ TimesPeople
Mar 16th
The Times is probably one of the few papers that is going to survive the current printed-medium armageddon, having the resources and reputation to outlast everyone else.
Furthering their chances, they truly seem to have embraced the digital age. I read the paper on my way to work every day via their very effective mobile interface, and find their multimedia content, live-blogging and discussion/commenting tools are absolutely best in show.
I’ve recently started using their social-networking feature, TimesPeople: http://timespeople.nytimes.com/, even though the phrase ’social networking’ makes my skin crawl. It seems like a good way to recommend articles to a group of friends/stalkers, with minimal intrusion on the rest of one’s life. So if you read the times online, please add me. So far I am only recommending articles to myself, which gets tired after a while.
All I need now is to have a rant-filled letter (or possibly a double-page photo spread) published in it, once and for all upstaging Dane’s effort in The Age.
I’m also Twittering, however I’m not sure how long-term that’s going to be, after one of Mariah Carey’s inanne tweets (eg. “OMG u guyz love me so much I love 2 xoxox MC”) was projected full screen and over the top of my Powerpoint slides during a meeting last week.
Hello… embarrasing.
My iPhoto ‘09 Faces Page
Feb 23rd
It seems like I spend half my life tagging photos, Facebook uploads and managing iTunes album art, but I have to admit the new Faces facial-recognition feature in iPhoto 09 is pretty fun.
Some of the “is this person _____?” mixups are rather hilarious; I never realised so many of my friends apparently look like Posh Spice! Don’t ask what I’m doing with photo’s of her in my iPhoto library.
Anyway, below is a screenshot of how the the Faces page looks. Quite a random collection of people so far – family, friends and frenemies. Fun times!
Lucio’s imaginary friends
Feb 8th
They watch us sleep. Am expecting to incorporate them into a nightmare any day now.
Sent from my iPhone 3G.
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