This Blog Is Retroactive

I was browsing through the pages of Nick Campbell’s blog, Greyscale Gorilla, the other day when I came across the iPhone app he created called ShakeItPhoto.  Basically, it takes your iPhone pictures and makes them look like a Polaroid photo.  As a fun little bonus, the app makes a Polaroid sound when you take or make the photo, and the more you shake your phone, the faster the image “develops”.  It was only 99¢ so I thought I’d give it a try.  I really like it.  I took some time to use it on a number of photos I already had on my phone, with some really satisfying results, shown above.  What is it about placing an image inside a white square border coupled with subtle vignetting that instantly makes a badly taken picture look better?  I don’t have the answer, but I like the result.  If you feel like sharing your iPhone Polaroids there’s also a Flickr group and a webpage called PhotoShakeDown.  Thanks Nick!

If you’re active on the internets and you don’t use a Gravatar I highly recommend it.  If you don’t care what your avatar image looks like when you post on forums or comment on blogs, then I wouldn’t fuss with it.  However, if you’re like me and you want your avatar to be the same everywhere, then a Globally Recognized avatar is the way to go.  It’s linked to your email address so anytime you comment on a blog and enter your email address it will automatically appear.  It’s also an easy way to have an avatar image in the proper format readily available to link to, in case the site you’re on doesn’t support Gravatars.  I was tired of the Gravatar image I had so last night I made a new one.  I think it’s fun.

So, I finally got my “feed” set up in Google Reader. My God, there is way too much awesome content out there. I can’t keep up. RSS readers help a great deal though. Now that I’ve got my feed set up, at least I can find all of it in one place.  It’s like I’ve got my own little corner of the internet, corralled inside my RSS reader.

Most of the blogs I read seem to have the obligatory, “These Websites Are Cool, Go To Them” post.  This is mine.  If you ask me, all of these sites are worth visiting daily, if you’ve got the time.  Their content is updated constantly.  I know this is one of the best things any blogger can do to keep people interested.  It certainly works on me and it’s something I strive for with this blog.

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