Ready for iOS 7 – Camera+

This post is about Camera+, but I need to start by talking about the WordPress app.

It seems that every time I turn my iPhone on apps want to update to “ready for iOS 7”. This has to be a good thing – unless they make a mistake see here. The look and feel of the new WordPress app is good, but some mistakes have crept in, I have found a missing button and as I am writing this post, add a link does not display well in horizontal mode. As I write most of my blog, on my iPhone with this app I hope they fix it soon.

Camera+

The developers of Camera+ have also released an update – ready for the updated iOS – plus adding some great new features.

I used to use Camera+ as my main iPhone camera but a couple of updates back (when I had my iPhone 4) it really slowed down, so I stopped using it and switched to the iPhone camera app, which improved greatly when I later switched to an iPhone 5.

I still used the image editor, Light Box, included with Camera+. I particularly like the Clarify function and the Golden Section crop option.

The new Camera+ offers a couple of new options I want in a camera app.

Quick access to a square format image. I often crop my photos to a square, I like the influence a square frame has on my images. Now I can see the effect, in the camera, as I take the photograph.

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a screen capture of Camera+ app showing the square format

The second feature I like is the exposure compensation control. I can now add and take away the exposure in 1/3 stops, just like I could on my real cameras. The results of this manipulation can be seen on the screen before the photo is taken.

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a screen capture showing the ev control, right under my thumb

I am looking forward to using this updated Camera+ app and it looks like it will go back to being my “go to” camera app.

For more details about Canera+, visit the website here.

If you are going to update to iOS 7, make sure you read this article on Mashable – click here.

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A few rain drops

As I was leaving a client today, the rain was just starting and I caught just a few on this before it became a deluge.

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Note

I updated the WordPress app on my iPhone (in readiness for iOS7) – however someone forgot to include a “Done” button when adding categories to a post. So to get back to editing my post I had to close the app and then reopen it. So WordPress either needs to let me know the secret way to get back to the editor or put the button back.

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New Twitter feed for Octagon Technology

In between fixing computers and recovering some data for a client from a “broken” hard drive Martin and I have been working on Octagon’s social media links. We had been using Diana’s Twitter account for the business, but we made a decision a couple of weeks ago that the company should have its own presence on Twitter – @OctagonT.

This means after a weekend if exciting walking and camping photos today it is a photo of work.

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SofaCON 2013: An Online International Science Fiction Convention

StarshipSofa – SofaCON 2013

I am a regular listener and subscriber to the StarshipSofa podcast, hosted by Tony Smith from his headquarters in North East England. This summer Tony organised a Sci-Fi convention, with a difference, it was online. I was unable to commit the time to buy a ticket, but Amy Sturgis, (a key contributor to both the Sofa and SofaCON) has posted a video on YouTube of some of the online events.

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StarshipSofa is one of my favourite podcasts, as well as getting a professional standard narrated, world class story each week there are a variety of regular fact articles making it a true magazine podcast. Among my favourite contributions are Looking Back at SciFi History by Amy H Sturgis, who knows what she will tell us about next and Science News by Jim Campanella, where you can nearly guarantee he will tell us something obscure about the sex life of an insect!

I have promoted the video here – if you like what you see then go over and subscribe to the Sofa.

SofaCON 2013: An Online International Science Fiction Convention – hi-tech, online and green.

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More Peak District

We got the tents down this morning and managed to eat our breakfast outside before the rain came along.

Today’s plan was to get some photos and a coffee before heading home. We got the tea, coffee and Derbyshire Oatcakes with bacon at Stocks Cafe, Chapel-en-le-Frith. I’d recommend a visit there to anyone.

Why Stocks Cafe? Here is the answer.

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We moved on from there to Blue John Cavern and Edale.

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There was a living roof on the Visitor Centre in Edale.

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The Kinder Trespass started from Edale in 1932.

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click on the above image for a larger version

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