I assume a post like the one you’re about to read has been written before, but I just wanted to document my experience with using an Australian iPhone in the USA.
The Quick and Dirty Answer
Call your Australian carrier and get them to unlock your Australian iPhone from its network. You’ll then be able to [...]

I’ve been pondering this thought for a long time, but the iPhone 4 announcement finally confirmed it for me:
The only reason you wouldn’t record video in HD 720p from 2011 onwards is if you’re doing it for artistic purposes.
The iPhone 4 is the first iPhone to record HD video. It’s definitely NOT the first mobile [...]

While cleaning out my ginormous pile of tabs in Firefox today I stumbled on this Gizmodo article about the new Leica V-LUX 20. It has a GPS chip inside and geotags where photos are taken.
My dream!

I’ve been manually geotagging my photos on Flickr for quite a long time. (Not to mention titling, describing, and tagging [...]

When Lisa Bettany started tweeting (and blogging) about an iPhone camera application she had created I had very little interest.
I have several paid and free camera applications on my iPhone, but the app I use most (at this point in time) for taking photos is — funnily enough — Gowalla.
(Side note: If you want to [...]

Over the past day I have had the opportunity to unbox an iPad and load it with applications.
As you’ve seen me mention many times, Australia gets technology later than many other countries. And the iPad is no different; Americans got it first at the beginning of April and Australians don’t get to see it in [...]

This afternoon I saw this tweet from @MaggieConv:

I see statements similar to this all the time from my peers. Personally, I tried out Google Reader a few years ago, but I was never able to routinely check it, and just left the feed count to surpass “(1000+)”. Over the past few years I’ve tried out [...]

With all the commotion around the next-generation iPhone (4th Gen — if you’re keeping track) today, I started to think about the flash mechanisms used in mobile phones and small point-and-shoot cameras.
As you may have seen, the next-gen iPhone has a small flash next to the camera’s lens (photo below).

This is the way most camera [...]