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Recently I discovered a new application called Camera Genius for the iPhone.  The application provides several small features to the iPhone that are missing from the stock iPhone camera application.  A Zoom feature, Anti Shake, Camera Guides, a Timer and Big Button.  Big Button turns the entire iPhone screen into a shutter button versus the normal tiny camera button.

The app itself isn’t perfect.  The Digital Zoom is just that… a digital zoom.  It makes most zoomed in photos pretty noisy but this isn’t much different than what happens on a digital zoom on a digital camera.  I ifnd the Big Button and Timer functions helpful for when I want to be included in the photo.

All in all it’s well worth the 99 cents!

This is the first of what I hope to be several posts about how to make your iPhone function in Corporate america when your corporation doesn’t directly support an iPhone.

I work for a pretty large fortune 1000 company.   We have a farm of Blackberry’s you could shake a stick at… I even have one of the corporate provided Blackberry’s… We have an internal Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) that provides real-time access to my Lotus Notes email and calendar.

The problem here is that I also have a personal cell phone that is truly what I carry ALL the time.  It’s an iPhone 3Gs and my company doesn’t recognize or support iPhone’s in our environment.   So a server side real-time solution is not possible, I have found a round-a-bout way to sync my Notes calendar from my corporate laptop pulling the data from my local Lotus Notes client.

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For the third time our xbox360 has failed.  The first time was a E74 video related failure 2+ years ago, then the DVD drive failed and now for strike 3 the infamous 3 red lights (aka RROD).

Fortunately each time the failures have been covered under warranty and no out of pocket expenses have been incurred.   According to Nielson statistics were are anything but normal in terms of the number of 3rd party games for the 360 we own and we love xbox live but if this thing fails again and it costs me money, they’ll be a new Sony PS3 slim at my home and no xbox 360, because the fact of the matter is Sony may have botched the introduction of the PS3 but the thing is well built…

Recently I became a PC to MAC “switcher” for the second time.  Most of the conversion is pretty straight forward especially since I purchased Office 2008 for the MAC and have installed Windows XP via Apple’s Bootcamp.

The one hiccup and major annoyance I had was when I copied over my iTunes library, everything worked fine except that my ringtones didn’t show inside iTunes.  They were physically there but the iTunes Library didn’t see them.  I instantly fell back into my former PC way of thinking.  I found where the underlying folder inside the operating system was where the ringtones were stored and the ringtones were already there.

The solution was so simple techy guy would have never discovered it without Google.   Take the ringtones and drag them to the Ringtones view in iTunes and whammo.. they’re back and working!

The family Xbox arrived back today and repaired.   A surprisingly quick 11 day turn around since it was mailed out for repair.  The unit has the same serial number but it needed to apply a couple of security patches to the unit when I first attempted to sign it into Xbox live, so I don’t know if the internal boards in addition to the DVD were replaced as well.  It is a lot quieter than it was before!

Hopefully it will now actually stay working.