iPhone Panorama – Goblin Valley, Utah
October 21, 2010 by Mike Hoffman

On my recent family vacation in Colorado and Utah, I had an incredible array of photo opportunities, and over a week to take pictures, most of which were ideal for wide-angle shots. And then, on day 2, my wide angle lens gave up the ghost, leaving me with only a telephoto lens… and my iPhone 4.

I took several hundred pictures with the iPhone, most of which were very good! But the one I’ve had the most fun with – or rather, the eleven I’ve had most fun with – are the images I used to stitch together the panorama you see below. This is eleven images, at 5 megapixels each, straight from the phone, stitched together in Photoshop CS5 and then exported to Zoomify.The final image is 65 inches wide and 7.25 inches tall at 240ppi… pretty hefty for a phone cam image!

Click the image to see the Zoomify view in a new window. You can use the slider to zoom in and out, and use the arrow buttons or just drag the image to pan around.

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Sure, this image has flaws and warts, and is a bit uneven in tone due to the auto-exposure feature of the iPhone. But still, you have to admit this is a pretty impressive image to have captured with a device that slips into my pocket.

I did take quite a few panoramic shots with my “real” camera and telephoto lens, and I’ve been working on a few of those images as well. Watch this space in the future for some of those images.

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Seattle in my Pocket
April 20, 2010 by admin

Technology can be a great enabler, but it can also be a challenge. This week, I visited Seattle for the first time, and decided to embrace both sides of the coin. My mission; my challenge: a travel blog created entirely with my iPhone.

I like to bring my DSLR with me on trips (when possible) and I had it this time. But, I opted to favor my phone for photos. In addition, I made use of the Phone’s GPS and apps wherever practical. The results are here in this blog post.

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Security Wednesday – Keeping you up to date
October 21, 2009 by admin

I’ve missed a few weeks with my recent travel, and boy do we have a lot to talk about with security updates this week! In fact, there is so much, I’m going to have to give it to you in condensed form, and provide the links for further reading if you’re interested. We’ve had a big Windows patch Tuesday for October (the biggest ever!), some Apple updates and some Adobe updates. Remember, keeping up to date, currently patched software is a major step in keeping your system secure and protected against malware and worse.

Let’s start with the Microsoft Windows updates.

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Weekly security roundup – Apple of my eye
September 16, 2009 by admin

Snow Leopard, we hardly knew ye :)

It seems Apple moved quickly to release an update to Mac OS X 10.6.1 – primarily, it would seem, to upgrade the Flash Player plug-in to the current 10.0.32.18. You may recall from last week’s security topic, that Apple’s initial release of Snow Leopard included an older version of Flash Player that was vulnerable to malicious attacks. Apple moved quickly to fix this, but with that response time, you have to wonder if this wasn’t an oversight as they were rushing to get Snow Leopard shipped. If you’ve made the move to Snow Leopard, make sure you get the update!

Apple had a busy week last week, however; with a flurry of releases.

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