While I was not one of the nut jobs Apple Enthusiasts that stayed up all night to pre-order the new iPhone 4, I did eagerly await the release of the new OS4 software update and install it the very second I was able to. Thankfully my install was quick and painless, though not without a few surprises.
One of the semi-new features is the ability to geotag your photos. I say it’s “semi-new” because as it turns out, it’s actually been available since the OS2 update, but not everybody knew about it (more on that later). With the release of OS4, it’s more obvious – and actually usable on the iPhone.
Geotagging your photos on the new OS4 allows the iPhone (and various other tools and websites) to sort your photos by location. When you open the photos app, you’ll notice two icons at the bottom – “Albums” and “Places”. Selecting “places” will provide you a map, similar to this one that I grabbed from my phone.
The level of detail at which the photos are geotagged is pretty amazing, though with the iPhones GPS capabilities, should not be all that surprising. The map I uploaded is zoomed out pretty far, but if you were to continue zooming in you would see the little dots continue to split and multiply as photos are sorted into smaller and smaller groupings based on their respective locations. That’s cool, right? This will be great for vacations, or events – it’ll be so much easier to upload your memories to Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket or any number of places and have them automatically tagged by location. Welcome to the future my friends, or if you are an Orwell fan, I guess it might be the past. more…
I joined the U.S. Navy in the fall of 1984, arriving at boot camp in April of the next year. Shortly after getting settled into the barracks, there was a pretty common joke that I heard from a lot of my fellow recruits; “How do you know when your recruiter is lying to you? His lips are moving!”
I’m growing concerned that pretty soon people will be thinking the same thing about SEOs.
What if you were number 1 and nobody searched for you? Are you still number 1?
A while ago, I wrote about how to hire an SEO, and more recently about what questions you should be asking about your web measurements. Both of those should help you become a more intelligent SEO shopper. I’ve stumbled upon the site of Austin SEO company that made me realize there is still more you need to know in order to protect yourself from the snake oil salesmen. more…
To borrow a phrase from Lisa Barone; I’d rather stick a pen in my eye than read another story about some company doing a good job of customer service on Twitter. Ever since Comcast went viral with “Frank’s” ability to solve problems the people on the phones couldn’t, it seems every company under the sun has been getting their support teams on Twitter and attempting to solve problems that way. A Google search for “customer service twitter” returns only about 150 million results.
I’d say that horse is dead, can we stop beating it now? Customer support reps are SUPPOSED to provide great service…it’s like, their job, right?
Who should we be talking about? The people who earn their living doing something else, but still step up and try to help when they sense frustration directed at or about the company they work for. I recently had such an experience (Guess you figured that was coming) more…
If you’ve been surfing the web for more than a few years, you may remember the days when seemingly every Web site was constructed using frames. I built more than a few of those myself. On the surface they seemed to be an ideal solution to many of the problems both coders and marketers had with non-framed sites. For coders it meant you didn’t need to copy your navigation, headers and footers into every single page – saving you lots of time. For marketers, it meant that your menus. logos and other branding information was always viewable by your site’s visitors, no matter how much scrolling they did. In the days of Yahoo and other directory pages, it was a perfect way to build pages.
Then came the next generation of search. Instead of relying on human provided data to build a huge list of web pages, these new search indexes used “robots”, “spiders” and “crawlers” to automagically navigate the internet. Following links, they located pages and read their content dynamically. This is when using Frames become a bad way to build pages.
One of the semi-new features is the ability to geotag your photos. I say it’s “semi-new” because as it turns out, it’s actually been available since the OS2 update, but not everybody knew about it (more on that later). With the release of OS4, it’s more obvious – and actually usable on the iPhone.
