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iPhone and iPad favourite apps

John Mason — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:19:22 +0000

iPhone apps:

360 Panorama – Occipital A great app to quickly capture a 360 image of your surroundings. Simply spin round and share with your friends via twitter or through the app (they’ll have to download it to their phone too!) You can check out the results on my immersive 360 degree images page.

Panoramatic 360 – floatyAnother 360/ panorama tool but this one is a little slower but produces greater quality images. As with the 360 Panorama – Occipital, you can see examples on the immersive 360 degree images page.

Gorillacam – Joby Inc.

TiltShift – Michael Krause

Plastic Bullet Camera – Red Giant Software A camera app with infinite possibilities. Now faster, higher-resolution, and with Facebook and Flickr sharing!
Develop images at maximum resolution on any device, including iPhone 4 with 5-megapixel output.

8mm Vintage Camera – Nexvio Inc.

Air Video – Watch your videos anywhere! – InMethod s.r.o.

iMovie – Apple Inc.

VNC Viewer – RealVNC

BTFON Wi-Fi – British Telecommunications plc – Great tool if you’re travelling and need to find a free hotspot (Of course you need to be enrolled into the btfon plan either through BT or by purchasing a FON router.)

V-Planner – HHS Software Corp. If you’re a technical diver (or inquisitive recreational diver) V-Planner for the iPhone is a great tool when you don’t want to carry your laptop with you (i.e on the boat). Although it does not have all the features of the desktop version the planning an mixing tools are sufficient for most dive plans in the event that something changed since your were at your laptop (i.e. gas mix, volumes, weather, etc.)

Dive Log – More Mobile Software Do you dive frequently? Do you have a dive computer? Do you take photos underwater? Dive log is a great app for logging and recording all your dives; including your gear, gas usage, location and buddies. When you get back home you can also synchronise you dive profile, water temp etc.

Google Earth – Google

Sky Mobile TV – BSkyB

Crazy Egg?

John Mason — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:13:33 +0000

Looks like someones managed to take most of the usability lab out there to the real web. Normally, to monitor how people interact with your web site you’d stick them in a room with either cameras or observers watching what the do and ask them questions. With CrazyEgg, it’s a non intrusive experience that goes along with the page to the client. I’ve added it to this page to see what happens…

I recognise that face!

John Mason — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:24:49 +0000

or do I? Riya is one of the latest entrants into the visual search space with some pretty nifty facial recognition software. Google, not wanting to fall behind has purchased Neven Vision..

getting to the top of google

John Mason — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:21:36 +0000

is harder than you think – especially when there’s a bloody company called john mason!…. So far, johnmason is returning a position number 4 and “john mason” is number two on the sponsored links (freebie service from naymz.com) but nowhere on the main list. I’ve just created a couple of subdomains john-mason.badfracture.com and co.uk – lets see what that does…..

One thing you probably didn’t know about Eddie Izzard

John Mason — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:44:22 +0000

Went to the same university (Sheffield). Although, he dropped out in the first year and has only recently received a honorary degree!

Learn more about Eddie Izzard

Like sharing things?

John Mason — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:35:39 +0000

Well, try 43things or 43places or allconsuming. As you can see, a hell of a lot of time can be wasted on these…….or a useful way of tracing out your life.