Cute Tech: Hipstamatic

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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. 

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

What’s your cur­rent favorite app?

February 4th, 2010 | Cute Tech | 1 Comment

A most excellent pair of spectacles

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I recently got a new pair of glasses from the excel­lent folks at Phoenix Opti­cal.
They’re the only place I’ve ever been to that has a full selec­tion of vin­tage dead­stock frames on hand, as well as a bunch of newer styles to choose from.

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There are tons of resources online with vin­tage frames, but noth­ing beats being able to see how some­thing looks on you.
Since your specs live on your face, it’s clear that buy­ing them is not a deci­sion to be taken lightly. 

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The staff was super help­ful and helped me find exactly what I was look­ing for.
They were a lit­tle pricey, but well worth it for the expe­ri­ence.
Do you guys have a fav place for frames? Online or in per­son?
Show me your specs!

February 2nd, 2010 | Consume | 11 Comments

Cute Tech: Speck Laptop Cases

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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.

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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.

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

January 14th, 2010 | Cute Tech | 5 Comments

TumbleDryLow: Collapse

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It’s been a minute since I’ve done a Tum­bleDry­Low post, so here’s the jury dury edi­tion com­ing at you straight from the court­room wifi!
For the record, I didn’t wear this shirt to jury duty. 

This most excel­lent “Sex, Drugs, Hel­vetica Bold” shirt is from Col­lapse.

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You guys know by now that I’m a cer­ti­fied Hel­vetica FREAK, so when I saw this I imme­di­ately had to own it.

Even the pack­ag­ing it came in was totally slick!

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There are a cou­ple things about the shirt that some folks might not like. First, the low­er­case l in “bold” is tilted (which is a trade­mark of most col­lapse shirts, as well as their logo). I think it’s sort of neat, but it might offend some type purists out there. Also, they don’t make a girly fit ver­sion of their tees. All that said, I’m extremely happy with my pur­chase from them. 

Next on my wish­list is their “Will Kern for Food” shirt!

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January 12th, 2010 | Tumbledrylow | 2 Comments

Betty Page Store, Las Vegas

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A cou­ple of you were ask­ing where I got this fab­u­lous dress, so here’s the lowdown!

It was a gift from the fab­u­lous Mr. Tim, pur­chased at the won­der­ful Betty Page Store, in Las Vegas!

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The staff there was incred­i­ble, fetch­ing me dif­fer­ent sizes, styles, and acces­sories.
I bought some other stuff there, but hon­estly I can­not stop wear­ing this par­tic­u­lar dress.
You’re all going to see so many pic­tures of me wear­ing this dress that you’ll be sick of it.
That’s how much I love it.

If you’re in Vegas, go to this store.
There’s some­thing for every body type, and the staff will make sure you leave with some­thing fabulous.

December 23rd, 2009 | Reviews, Tumbledrylow | 1 Comment
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