Month: January 2010

They chaps at Facebook have updated the Facebook iPhone app, which now includes 2 really cool features.

The first, and probably their most requested feature, is Push notifications,  which will alert you when someone writes on your wall or posts a comment on a photo. There are a couple of notifications which you can choose to have Push notifications delivered for. These can be turned on or off under the Facebook app in your Settings

As you  can see the options are pretty flexible in allowing you to choose which notifications you want to receive.

The 2nd new feature allows you to sync your contact images from Facebook to your contacts on your phone. This is a really cool feature that updates the images used for photos in your contacts with their Facebook profile pic. It also adds a link to the contact of their Facebook profile, which opens directly on the app.

The only “downfall” of this is that the apps uploads your contact names to FB to sync. This isn’t too much a biggie for me, but if you heavily security conscious it may be an issue for you :)

All in all the app seems to have improved quite a bit speed wise, and I’m looking forward to the see what else Facebook has up their sleeve in the next update

I have always been a huge fan of the Pano (iTunes Link)app on the iPhone. I have taken some awesome shots, and have been amazed at its capabilities

Last week I saw a tweet where someone mentioned a new app called AutoStitch (iTunes Link), which does a similar job to Pano, by stitching photos taken on your iPhone together.

The difference comes in, that in Pano, you have to take your pictures within the app, and it only allows you to take a “single row” of images. AutoStitch allows you to take your pictures before hand, and then select which images you want to stitch together. The great thing about Autostitch is that it allows you to take “multiple rows of images”. Autostitch also seems to blend the images together a lot better than what Pano does, especially when shooting a horizon Pano photo

To get an idea of what I mean, I took 2 Panoramic photos I took from a mates house, using AutoStitch and Pano.

You can see by the above 2 images that the AutoStitch images has a much bigger “height” to the pano. This is because I took 2 rows of 7 pictures, while with Pano I only could take 7 pictures across. To get a better idea of how the images look, I suggest clicking on them to enlarge them. The other great feature of Autostich is that it allows you to creat an image of up to 20MP on the iPhone 3GS

So it looks like I may have found a replacement Panoramic photo app, but rumour doing the rounds is that Debacle software is busy updating the Pano app with some cool new features. Can’t wait to see what they have up their sleeves.