If you’ve ever seen a Photoshop tutorial video, you know the program can often look a lot like magic. Well, this video offers you a different kind of magic. The magic that allows you to photobomb your friends and family with ease. If you don’t know, photobombing is the practice of ruining a photo by appearing in the background, typically doing something distracting. As you can guess, that often means something crude, so this video isn’t quite safe for work, unless, like me, you work from home.
Author: Jeff Morgan (Page 17 of 168)
It’s been more than a year since Apple pulled the original Google Voice app from the App Store, claiming that the product “duplicated existing functionality.” Some third-party GV apps have since made their way to the App Store, thanks in part to Apple’s decision to release app guidelines to the public. If TechCrunch is right, it sounds like the official Google Voice app may already be approved, marking the triumphant return of one of the most anticipated applications to the iPhone.
Here’s what TC had to say:
The App Store review office at 1 Infinite Loop has officially frozen over: we’ve gotten word that the official Google Voice application is on its way to the iPhone in the next few weeks. In fact, we’ve heard from a source close to Google that it’s already been approved — Google just needs to revamp the application to work with the iPhone 4 and iOS’s multitasking capabilities. If you’re a Google Voice user and you’re on an iPhone, this is great news.
No word from Google, but I’m hoping it’s only a matter of time.
Marco Arment, the CTO at Tumblr, has been working a personal project for a while that you might know about. I’ve been using Instapaper on and off for a couple months, but I never seem to remember why I go on streaks of abstinence. The service is the best method I’ve found for storing links and reading them across multiple devices.
Arment is officially taking Instapaper from a personal hobby to a startup. Arment has 800,000 users registered to his service, with 200,000 regular users. Arment is self-financing the startup by himself.
“It’s all self-funded so far and has been for the first six months of the service. My only costs are my time, server fees and paying the contractor for some Web work.”
As for the future of the product, Arment is looking at developing an HTML5 version that could be supported across all mobile platforms into the future.
Netflix has been going through a bit of a rough patch with regards to PR. First there were the actors, paid to look excited about the service’s Canadian launch, and then Reed Hastings made an “awkward joke” when asked if he thought there would be an American backlash about the lower subscription prices.
How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world? It’s something we’ll monitor, but Americans are somewhat self-absorbed.
Hastings did do something a little out of character the other day when he hinted at a streaming-only option for US customers in a recent blog post.
Gene Weingarten at the Washington Post has made a name for himself as an outspoken Facebook critic, and he’s finally got some data to back up that hatred. Using youropenbook.org, Weingarten put together some of Facebook’s most banal status updates.
It’s a stark look at what people are willing to share, but let’s not forget just how many people are on Facebook. To say that the updates are different than a typical conversation you could potentially have over the course of a week seems like a stretch to me. Do I want to hear about my neighbor’s pimple? No. But that person likely wasn’t sharing the thought for me. Would a couple of my college buddies share that same information with me unsolicited if we were sitting in the same room? Absolutely.
It seems like Weingarten really takes issue with an observed lack of propriety/formality on Facebook, or really the internet in general. He talks about the ubiquitous “LOL” this way:
Facebook users may be bored, but, paradoxically, they also are easily amused. We know this, because they are always laughing out loud. LOLs occur with such frequency they are literally impossible to count: Dozens arrive every second. A subset of those laughers are simultaneously rolling on the floor — but still in numbers too large to tally. It is only with a third winnowing — those both rolling and laughing their behinds off — that the numbers become manageable: 390 per day.
It’s a funny interpretation, but LOL is the internet chuckle, something I think Weingarten could stand to do a little more often.
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