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The Coolest Thing You’ll See Today: iPhone Seen Through Oil & Water

We have seen many videos about the iPhone screen in the past: some of them focused on the magic of the Retina Display, some of them aimed at capturing pixels on our old 3GS. The same pixels we didn’t think were so important before we got our hands on the iPhone 4.

Today’s video is about the iPhone’s screen, as seen through a Canon EOS 5D looking down a piece of glass with oil & water on it. Jesse Zanzinger, the photographer who realized the video, set the maximum level of iPhone brightness, placed a piece a glass with oil and water above the iPhone and looked down with his camera to capture both science’s best enemies and the screen in a single shoot.

The result is kind of surprising. Check it out below, but don’t this at home kids. I don’t want oil to end up all over your iPhones. [Vimeo] Read more

iPad Drawings on Display in Paris

The iPad drawings of David Hockney are being displayed at the Pierre Bergé in Paris. The Yves Saint Laurent Foundation dedicated its 14th exhibition to over 200 of Hockney’s iPhone and iPad drawings. It’s showing now thru January 30th, 2011. If I lived there, this would be so cool to go see. If you’re close, check it out!

Hockney used the Brushes.app to create these digital paintings and the way he carried his iPad around was very original - custom pockets in his suits, which you can read more about here. His jacket pocket has a deep inside pocket that the iPad, or as he calls it ‘sketchbook’, fits snugly into.

Another cool thing about the exhibition is that it is being presented on iPhones and iPads; the brightness and vibrant color originally intended by the artist are respected. To see a video from the exhibition, click here. This is just another example of what a great product Apple’s iDevices are, they can be used in so many ways and people keep coming up with great ideas to use it for.

[via kottke.org via Fondation Pierre Bergé]

New York Times Uses Hipstamatic Photos For Front Page Story→

New York Times Uses Hipstamatic Photos For Front Page Story

When NYT photog Damon Winter went to northern Afghanistan to catalog the efforts of the First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division, he took all the fancy camera equipment you would expect. He’d shoot video of firefights with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, sure. But he also grabbed still photos using Hipstamatic, an app that lets you choose among a huge selection of filters.

Front page photo here. Impressive.

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SBSettings Now iOS 4.2.1-Ready | Cydia

Good news keep coming for early iOS 4.2.1 jailbreakers: if you installed Cydia on your newly updated device this morning using redsn0w, you might want to fire up Cydia again and check for updates. SBSettings, the popular utility to access iPhone and iPad functionalities such as respring, reboot and a variety of shortcuts, is now fully compatible with iOS 4.2.1.

The new 3.2.1 update fixes a statusbar free memory issue, the date display on iOS 4.2.1 and permissions on SBSettings data storage folder. It’s available now in Cydia.

TaskForce: The Uber Minimal To-Do App for iPhone

I love OmniFocus, but many of you guys probably don’t need its complex feature set and just would like to have a simple todo list app for iPhone. You know, something like a digital piece of paper where you can jot down tasks, mark them as complete and delete them.

That’s it, no contexts, projects, teammates or tags to choose from. Personally I wouldn’t go anywhere with such a system and I know there are thousands of apps similar to the one I’m going to write about available in the App Store – yet TaskForce is minimal and polished enough to deserve a mention.

TaskForce for iPhone is a simple and beautiful app that does just that: it allows you to create a list with tasks and delete them once you’ve completed them. Read more

GridTab for Safari Enables iPad-like Tabs On The iPhone | Cydia Store

Is there’s one thing I can’t stand on Safari for iPhone is the way it displays “tabs”: by default, when you hit the tabs button in the toolbar you’re brought to a page with a “gallery” of all your open pages, and you have to swipe between them to navigate to the site you want to switch to. On the iPad, Safari is much better: it doesn’t display real desktop tabs (although there’s an iCab for that), but at least it presents them as beautiful thumbnails on a dark grid. It’s easier to switch between websites on the iPad because you just have to tap.

GridTab, a new tweak available on the Cydia Store at $0.99, enables iPad-like tab navigation on the iPhone. Once installed, you’ll be able to switch between open pages just like on the iPad by tapping on thumbnails. Very cool.

GridTab is available at $0.99, and I highly recommend it.

Barrel Brings 3D To Your iPhone’s Springboard | Cydia Store

Barrel is a new tweak available in the Cydia Store at $2.99 which doesn’t do anything particularly useful, but adds an incredibly cool 3D effect to the iPhone’s Springboard.

If you’re familiar with Linux and the Compiz desktop effect, you know what I’m talking about: instead of swiping between pages, you’ll swipe between different sides of a cube. In the tweak’s settings, you can customize the effect so that homescreen icons will appear to be either inside our outside the cube. Words pay not justice to the cool factor of Barrel, you’ve got to see it by yourself. Read more

You Can Use Find My iPhone For Free On Older Devices→

You Can Use Find My iPhone For Free On Older Devices

Apple claims only iPhone 4, iPad, or 4th generation iPod touch owners can use Find My iPhone for free by logging in with their Apple IDs. It turns out, though, that enabling support on older devices is fairly simple. Lifehacker reports:

Once you’ve activated Find My iPhone on a newer iOS device, just repeat the steps above on a pre-2010 iOS device and it should work like a charm. I tested the process by turning on Find My iPhone on an iPad, then enabling it on an iPhone 3G.

Piece of cake. Just borrow an “officially supported” device from a friend, log in with your credentials to activate the feature, then delete the account from your friend’s device.

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