The App Genome Project
August 16, 2010
At the Black Hat Security Conference, Lookout unveiled the App Genome Project, which is the largest mobile application dataset ever created. In an ongoing effort to map and study mobile applications, the App Genome Project was created to identify security threats in the wild and provide insight into how applications are accessing personal data, as well as other phone resources. Lookout founders John Hering and Kevin Mahaffey initiated the App Genome project to understand what mobile applications are doing and use that information to more quickly identify potential security threats.
With the prevalence of mobile devices, they have become inherent in our lives, the more we depend upon the information stored within them, the greater the risks posed when this information falls into the wrong hands. Is this something you should be concerned about? Your Identity Matters, but how much it matters is up to you.
similar post here
The 2010 Social Media Map
August 12, 2010
Pulse of the Nation
July 27, 2010
I love data visualisation, in fact I was given a wonderful book entitled “Information is Beautiful” as a present a few days ago… anyway I just stumbled across this on Mashable
The video shows the mood in the U.S., as inferred using over 300 million tweets, over the course of the day. The maps are represented using density-preserving cartograms more info here
iPhone 4 35mm Lens Adapter
July 26, 2010
In an update to the post I made a couple of weeks ago about attaching 35mm lenses to the iPhone 4, the guys at Vid Atlantic have adapted their EnCinema 35mm Adapter to fit to Owle Bubo
Video shot with a Canon EF 50mm f1.8 DSLR lens on the EnCinema 35mm Adapter attached to the OWLE Bubo
MagicPrefs, makes your wireless Magic Mouse… errr, Magic
July 23, 2010
How did I miss this little gem, if you bought Apple’s bluetooth Magic Mouse, then realised it didn’t have as much functionality of the wired USB Mighty Mouse, fear not, as MagicPrefs is here to save the day!
(and yes I agree, they are ridiculously named products!)
There’s Music in the Air
July 21, 2010
I’ve been using Airfoil by Rogue Amoeba for years to pump audio from my Mac to my Airport Express… but I hadn’t realised they’d created a FREE app named Airfoil Speakers, that turns your iPhone/iPod/iPad or any Mac or PC on your WIFI network into a wireless audio receiver.
That’s saved me buying another airport express for my BBQ’s during the sumer, just plug my old iPod touch into the amp in my garden, switch on Wifi and I have streaming audio in sync throughout the house and garden!
So I won’t retire my old iPod Touch to a video wall just yet
iPod Video Wall
July 20, 2010
I have to admit that I do have several iPods and iPhones laying around here that I’m not really using, but not this many!
iPhone Lens Kits & Camera Mounts
July 7, 2010
Keeping with the iPhone theme, I noticed on a friend’s Facebook page this morning a ridiculous looking iPhone lens modification (which unfortunately wouldn’t really work that well with a 35mm lens, due to the tiny size of the sensor in the iPhone, unless you wanted a super zoom lens that is)… although this looks weird too
Anyway it jogged my memory of the Owle Bubo I’d seen a few months ago, which in essence is a camera mount for the iPhone 3G / 3Gs (iPhone 4 adapter in the works). below are a couple of good reviews by Taz Goldstein from Handheld Hollywood, and another by Blunty 3000 (scroll to 4:30 of Blunty’s review to see how customisable/crazy the Owle can be!)
NB: as it has 4 standard tripod connections, you could even use it with a Hoodman WristShot or a FigRig by Mike Figgis, or the Steady Wonder (all of which can be used with DSLR’s or camcorders)… if the Owle interests you, then it might also be worth checking out the Tiffen Steadicam
First iPhone 4 Music Video
July 6, 2010
This is pretty amazing when you think it was shot entirely on an iPhone!?!?!
An extract from Marty Martin’s Vimeo page
“In an effort to release the first iPhone 4 music video, my good friend and musician Steve Failows [AKA flakjakt] and I collaborated over a period of less than a week to create the first iPhone 4 music video.
In 2 days (and up until an hour before the shoot), Steve wrote a new track specifically for this video and we loosely conceptualized for those 2 days in an effort to be first out of the gates with an iPhone 4 music vid. Our main goal, however, was simply to make a good music video, no matter what the camera.”
iPhone OS 4, does this mean I’m lazy?
June 14, 2010
Over the weekend I installed the Developers version of iPhone OS 4 (one advantage of being an iPhone Developer), and I must say the multi-tasking is great, although unfortunately several of the apps I’d like to use and test it with haven’t released compatible updates yet… but regardless of that the I’ve found OS 4 to be very stable and responsive.
I’m positive multi-tasking will be a blessing in the not to distant future when updates are released, but in the meantime undoubtedly the biggest time saving and most useful feature thus far is the ability to organise and group your apps into folders! This has reduced my iPhone from around 15 screens down to one home screen with 17 folders!
But as I’ve said before… “Those who don’t keep their stuff in order, are lazy… while those who do, are too lazy to look for their stuff”
