As you guys know, I’m a big fan of iPhone cam­era app, Cam­er­aBag — So it may come as a sur­prise to you that I should be review­ing another Cam­era App.

Let me tell you, Hip­sta­matic is rapidly becom­ing my new favorite.

This app uses a cute, lomo-like inter­face, which is demon­strated in this youtube video.

The user chooses a lens, film, and “flash” before tak­ing the pic­ture.
Each com­bi­na­tion pro­duces a dif­fer­ent effect.

The app comes with a small selec­tion of lenses, film, and flashes, and there are oth­ers avail­able as in-app purchases. 

Check out the Hip­sta­matic photo pool on flickr for more examples.

What’s your cur­rent favorite app?

As you guys know, I am obsessed with any­thing and every­thing red.
As such, I needed a lap­top case to be able to achieve opti­mal redness.

I bought a SeeThu case from Speck for my Mac­book, and I liked it so much that I got one for my Mac­bookPro, as well.

My only com­plaint about this case is that, with it on, I can’t fit my Mac into my dock­ing sta­tion at work.
This is a prob­lem that I’d have with any case, really, so it’s not really a fair crit­i­cism.
Just know that if you use a dock­ing sta­tion, you will have this problem–I just use the top half of the case on my work laptop.

Being basi­cally thrilled with spek’s lap­top cases, I went ahead and got one for my iphone, too.

How­ever, I had a much dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence.
The rub­ber bumpers on the sides started com­ing looks within a month of pur­chase.
They sort of held on for a few weeks, only com­ing off halfway, result­ing in the adhe­sive get­ting all over the sides of my phone & mak­ing every­thing sticky.
My hair would get caught in it, and I even­tu­ally just removed them entirely.
After that, the phone didn’t feel right in my hand any­more and I aban­doned the case.

so, in con­clu­sion–
for lap­tops: speck is awe­some!
for your iphone: NO BUENO!