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Phones
How To Send Full Resolution Photos From Your iPhone
9:20AM Matt Buchanan | If you email photos from your iPhone using the standard “share” button, it shrinkifies them to a squee 800×600. But if you copy and paste them into the email app, you’ll get the full delicious resolution. [Geek Stuff via Lifehacker]
Cameras
Fantastic Patchwork Panoramas Using Just the iPhone Camera
5:40AM Matt Buchanan | Who says you can’t do amazing things with the iPhone’s camera? Using only its subpar shooter and some skillful manual stitching, you can actually create some incredible patchwork panoramas. The crappiness of the cam actually gives the shots a lomographic sheen that meshes really with the whole hand-stitched patchwork aesthetic. If you want to make your own panoramas right from your iPhone, you can also use PanoLabs’ free app. You can check out a few more awesome compositions below, or see the whole set here. More »
Press
Laptops Banned as Politicians Play Games, View ‘Pictures’
10:29PM Gizmodo US Edition | Laptops have been banned at the Bhutan parliament because, according to the speaker of their national assembly, “the members can be distracted playing games and viewing pictures.” More »
Phones
Sprint Phones Now Come With Nude Photos of Employees (Free!)
9:30AM Matt Buchanan | Daryl J. Roy isn’t your average Sprint sales drone. Service doesn’t stop just because you’ve got the receipt and walked out the door. Have you ever checked out Sprint’s picture mail? He wanted to make sure Nicole McElveen did after she purchased some new phones from him. So he sent her a few picture messages, even though she didn’t pay for the service, before really showing off the resolution and clarity of their cameras with full-frontal nude pics of himself. Just to make sure she saw how good the pictures were, he re-sent them three different times. More »
Gadgets
Photograph-to-Digital-Picture Converter Sounds A Lot Like “Scanner”
5:30AM Benny Goldman | Goofy gadget masters Hammacher Schlemmer are back at it again with a Photograph-to-Digital-Picture Converter that takes your old paper snapshots, and well, digitises them. Now we know what you’re thinking—isn’t this just a scanner with a more complicated name?—and at first, I was inclined to agree. But digging deeper I found that this may not be a bad specialty box for US$150. More »
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