Jeff Wendorff » iPhone

iPhone App ~ myZenfolio

Jeff — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:48:58 +0000

I am a big fan of Zenfolio and they are the company that I use to host my online portfolio as well as fullfilling my print sales. They are great to work with and they are continually updating and improving their services. One of the reasons that I chose Zenfolio was the speed of their servers. I’ve never seen a photo host site that was faster at browsing your images than Zenfolio. All of that should be a good enough reason to sign-up, but now they’ve upped the ante with an iPhone app, myZenfolio.

Here are the juicy details:

myZenfolio is the perfect mobile companion for your Zenfolio account. It allows you to easily manage and show your photos hosted on Zenfolio, as well as upload new photos directly to your Zenfolio galleries.

Features

Browse, create, modifgy groups, galleries, and collections
View your photos online through a native iPhone experience
Upload photos taken with your iPhone
Upload original size or low resolution images
Set Access Control rules (public, private, password)
Edit titles, captions, categories, and keywords
Move and delete photos
Send e-mail invitations

The great news is that is works just as well as the main site! Very fast and very easy! The thing that I like the most, if I want to show someone my work, I don’t have to keep pictures stored on my iPhone, with a couple of taps on my iPhone I can show my images instantly…in a word awesome…and even better its free!

This is a must have win win situation. In other words if you have an iPhone and don’t have a Zenfolio account, go get one. If you have a Zenfolio account and don’t have an iPhone, go buy one!

Download the app for your iPhone…HERE.

iPhone App ~ Tripit

Jeff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:49:19 +0000

I LOVE Tripit! I get so frustrated having all of these email confirmations for my frequent travel. You have airlines, hotels and car companies emailing you your confirmation numbers and trip details. What a pain to manually re-write them to one document or to print all of the pages to carry along with you. Now you don’t have to do that, just forward these emails to Tripit and it does the rest automatically! It really is magic. I have sent it restaurant reservations, theater bookings everything and it just puts them in a nice orderly easy to read trip report. You can share your trip with friends and family, you can add the flight plans of others that you are meeting, really you can do a lot!

Now it just got better, with an app for your iPhone. I mean you do have an iPhone right?

Anyway, check out Tripit it s works, it is easy and it is FREE!

iPhone App – Kindle

Jeff — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:08:23 +0000

About the only time I have time to read a book is when I am on a plane and then it is a must have item. I cannot fly without a book. As something of a gadget guy, I’ve considered the Kindle, but decided it was too much for the amount of reading I am able to get to. Too much as in too much money and too big for me to lug around. Now Amazon has a free Kindle iPhone app. My first impulse was, I am absolutely not going to read a book on my iPhone, it is just too small. As per usual, I had an epiphany: user manuals, guide books and other reference items would be AWESOME! I love Scott Kelby’s Lightroom book and being able to have it in literally in the palm of my hands could be an incredible convenience. Or a guide book for an upcoming trip. The iPhone even has something that makes it better than the Kindle…color pictures!

There are 245,000 books in the Amazon store including 396 about photography! Here are some ideas.

iBird Explorer

Jeff — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:01:16 +0000

What a fantastic piece of software for the birder or perhaps even more so for the bird photographer. Just to be clear, I am not a birder, but I am a bird photographer. I also firmly believe that you cannot be a really good wildlife photographer without knowing your subject. So I am always reading and observing in order to improve my chances of making a really great photograph. Now along comes iBird!

iBird is the first software that I purchased for my iPhone and I have had my phone for almost a year! It has everything that I need to know to identify birds while in the field. Great descriptions, great illustrations, great photographs (yes, some are mine) and even calls are included in this application.

Why is a correct ID so important? First, if you ever hope to see your images published they must be correctly identified and iBird will ensure that you get even tricky IDs correct. They are part of the ID centric What Bird website and so are experts at providing the details that you need to sort out what bird (sorry) you just photographed.

One of the terrific features is the bird calls. I can’t tell you how many times I have been able to take a picture of a bird because I heard the call and could then locate the bird or even better anticipate a behavior based on the call that was being made. This bird knowledge has really helped me take better photographs and I expect iBird will advance those skills even further.

One note about birds calls. In some cases and with some bird species playing their call will cause a reaction. While this can be a boon for the photographer it can be seriously bad for the birds. Please use this feature under the American Birding Associations code of ethics.

You can buy the app at the iTunes store for a paltry $19.99. That is about $80 less than another application that I was looking a that had nowhere close to the features of iBird Explorer.

Visit the iBird Explorer website for all of the juicy details.