Flixel – Animated Pictures on Your iPhone

So I have been playing this week with a new iPhone app that I came across called Flixel.  Essentially when you take a picture using Flixel it actually is taking a few seconds of video.  You then swipe your finger across the image to show what part of the image you want to animate.  The above image is Fountain Square in Cincinnati.

The largest issue I found is that I have fat fingers so parts of the image I didn’t intend to highlight get animated.  Plus because I can’t keep my hand perfectly still unless my phone was on a tripod, there is some jerkiness to the final image.  But hey it is FREE so what do I have to complain about.  Plus if you always wanted to make animated gifs of photos, this is an easy way to do it.

Below is another example that I did with a glass of wine. I find that if you reduce the size, the jumpiness is a little less noticeable. What do you think? Winner or loser?

Skin It

No this has nothing to do with cats.  I got an email from photobucket that was promoting a website called “Skin It” 

It seems that with everyone but me owning an iphone there can be some confusion as to which one an individual owns during any iphone melee.  Skin it provides many different adhesive designs that you can use to customize your iphone, bender guitar, computer etc etc.   The problem I guess is when every sixteen year old girl has the Twilight skin on their phone so we are back to the original problem of identification.

However they let you customize your skins as well.  I played around with the customization for a while and found it to be a little lacking in its ease of use when trying to adjust an image or add multiple images to a design.  But I am sure George Ford will have fun putting Hanks face  on a ultrasound device (yes they have those too.)