Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | iPhone Photo News, Showcases, App Reviews

In the spirit of #FF Follow Friday on Twitter, I’d like to invite you to also follow Life In LoFi on our other social media channels. Here’s where and why….

Facebook

Like Life In LoFi’s Facebook page. On Fcebook is where we post a lot more app sales, freebies and giveaways than you’ll find on the blog itself. These are often discounts that happen pretty fast. If you’re concerned about Wall clutter, we don’t post nearly as often as Mashable does….

Twitter

Follow @LifeInLoFiBlog on Twitter. Find out as soon as new blog posts hit. Have conversations with me and other iPhoneographers 140 characters at a time. I also share cool links there that I find around the web.

Google+

Follow us on Google+ for notifications when new blog posts go live. Interact with other iPhoneographers who respond and share on Google+. Like Facebook, we also post news of app sales and discounts that don’t always appear on the blog.

Life In LoFi on Flipboard

Flipboard

Life In LoFi is featured content on Flipboard. If you aren’t familiar with the app, Flipboard collects all the things you like to read on the web and and creates a personalized magazine experience for iPhone, iPad and other devices. It’s a free download.

To add Life In LoFi to your Flipboard, from the homescreen click the search button at the top. Scroll down to Photos & Design and select the “+” to add the “iPhoneography (The art of the iPhone)” section. Life In LoFi also shares this tab with Instagram and tap tap tap’s blogs.

Flickr

Life In LoFi is on Flickr as well. Each week, over a thousand images are submitted to the group. Share yours and they may be selected for our weekly Faved On Flickr showcase.

However you get your LoFi fix, I thank you for reading Life In LoFi.

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The Shorty Awards are given to social media users for excellence over the past year. Each award recognizes a content creator’s entire body of work, not just an individual tweet or post. Life In LoFi has been nominated for a Shorty Award in the Best Blogger in Social Media category. These are the last two days for the public to vote for their nominations.

The nomination period goes through Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11:59 PM EST. Nominations are made by tweeting or through ShortyAwards.com. If you’d like to vote for Life In LoFi, visit this page to tweet your vote.

I truly appreciate the votes that have already been cast and the flattering comments you all have made. I don’t have the words to express how honored and thankful I am. Except to say thank you very much.

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In the spirit of #FF Follow Friday on Twitter, I’d like to invite you to also follow Life In LoFi on our other social media channels. Here’s where and why….

Facebook

Like Life In LoFi’s Facebook page. We post a lot more app sales, freebies and giveaways on Facebook than we do on the blog. These are often sales and freebies that happen pretty fast. If you’re concerned about Wall clutter, we don’t post nearly as often as Mashable does….

Twitter

Follow @LifeInLoFiBlog on Twitter. Find out as soon as new blog posts hit. Have conversations with me and other iPhoneographers 140 characters at a time. I also share cool links there  that I find around the web.

Google+

Follow us on Google+ for notifications when new blog posts go live. Interact with other iPhoneographers who respond and share on Google+. Like Facebook, we also post news of app sales and discounts that don’t always appear on the blog.

Life In LoFi on Flipboard

Flipboard

Life In LoFi is featured content on Flipboard. If you aren’t familiar with the app, Flipboard collects all the things you like to read on the web and and creates a personalized magazine experience for iPhone, iPad and other devices. It’s a free download.

To add Life In LoFi to your Flipboard, from the homescreen click the search button at the top. Scroll down to Photos & Design and select the “+” to add the “iPhoneography (The art of the iPhone)” section. Life In LoFi also shares this tab with Instagram and tap tap tap’s blogs.

Flickr

Life In LoFi is on Flickr as well. Each week, over a thousand images are submitted to the group. Share yours and they may be selected for our weekly Faved On Flickr showcase.

However you get your LoFi fix, I thank you for reading Life In LoFi.

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Apple recently announced an improved iBooks targeted at broadening the reach of eBooks. As an incentive to fill out the iBookstore, Apple also released the great eBook publishing app iBooks Author for Mac OS free of charge. It’s a pretty cool app that you can use to easily create multimedia eBooks.

Thinking of using the iBookstore to self-publish? Many iPhoneographers already self-publish printed photobooks of their works through Blurb and MagCloud. Some are also publishing eBook versions for electronic distribution.

iBooks Author is either the savior of publishing or the the Devil himself. It depends on whose blog post you read. In my opinion, it’s pretty awesome, but there are a few things iPhoneographers need to know before you use it to self-publish through Apple and any other channels. >>>

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Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make CES, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. Reading the recaps, though, there are two new gizmos this year that I find really intriguing. One of them is Polaroid’s new venture into instant digital photography, the SC1630. It’s basically a Polaroid-branded digital camera with an Android-based smartphone. Engadget.com had one of the best recaps of the new device that I’d read. The link and my thoughts on the SC1630 after the jump. >>>

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Here’s wishing you and yours a very happy and prosperous 2012!

Thank you for letting me share with you my thoughts, opinions and musings throughout the year. As the art form grows in reach and acceptance, 2012 promises to be an even more interesting year.

For the coming year and beyond, I wish you success in your endeavors and the light you want for your photography.

Kinky Freidman gave me this toast. “May the best of the past be the worst of the future.”

Happy New Year!

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Here’s wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, or whatever holiday you are celebrating at this time of year. I hope these are good times for you spent with family and friends. I hope the joy and spirit of the holidays stays with you all year long.

Happy Holidays!

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We’ve been doing some under the hood changes recently to the blog. Some of them you can see as tweaks to the social sharing buttons and minor improvements to the mobile version of the blog. Others are under the hood.

Any under-the-hood changes should not be noticeable to you (except for maybe a very, very small boost in page load speeds). If you are having any problems reading pages, commenting, or entering info in forms, please email me at lifeinlofiblog [at] gmail [dot] com.

We’ll be making a few more tweaks in the coming weeks — minor ones, but it should be blogging as usual and you shouldn’t really notice any difference. If there are any known issues during this time, I’ll post them in the comments to this post. Please let me know if you’re experiencing any problems with the blog.

As always, thank you for stopping in.

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My graphic design studio is usually steady with work, which enables me to strike a balance of sorts between work, blog, and life outside both. Recently, I’ve had over twice as many large projects as I normally would. For publications alone, I’ve designed over 300 pages and dozens of ads in the last five weeks — a pretty big feat especially considering that we’re essentially a one-man shop right now and that these were for a half-dozen extremely varied projects.

In the past few days, I’ve put the last two, including the largest, to bed. You’ll now hear and see a lot more from me on the blog and online. In the coming days, I’ll be playing catch up on some of the recent apps and updates that I’ve missed, as well as other iPhoneography-related news.

Thanks for sticking around. It’s good to be back.

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Hi, there, Life In LoFi readers! Just a quick update to let you know where your daily dose of lo-fi has gone.

Business at my graphic design studio is through the roof right now. We do a lot of magazine and publication work — each of which takes a long time especially for a small studio. Normally, we’ll do 1-2 per month. Right now, we’re working on four.

We’ve put two of these to bed and should have the rest sent to press within 1-3 weeks. Regular blog posts here on Life In LoFi should return to normal by then. New posts are always fed to our Twitter feed and often to our Facebook page. We’ll keep you updated.

As always, I thank you for reading and we’ll talk with you soon!

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