I’m happy I shot some colorful, detailed footage of bumble bees last week because it made great demo material when people asked about the video recording capabilities of the iPhone 4. I am really impressed with it’s ability to focus on nearby subjects. But I didn’t feel like I really pushed iPhone to it’s limit, to get extreme macro shots. Today I shot these bees up close, like in their face close. The minimum focal distance of iPhone 4 seems to be about 4 or 5 inches, and that’s enough to see bee hair and flower bugs.
They started lining up last night at 8pm. I got to the Apple store at 3:30am and I’m #60 (update now I’m #100 people because were saving spots). Now there are hundreds behind me but employees informed us they have a large stock of iPhones.
Update: There are at least 300 in the reserve line with more pouring in, lucky bastards.
Update: Screw the Reston Apple Store. They are only letting in reserves and spending 10 minutes with each person trying to upsell MobileMe, one employee per person. That’s ridiculous, at Fair Oaks last year they processed reserves and normies at the same time, I got in line at 6am and had my phone at 8:15am. Today I just wasted six hours at the Apple store because they processed 50 reserves per one standby customer. Employees came by periodically with snacks and lied to us about getting in the store while no one was let in the store. We are customers to, only a few were able to pre-order or reserve iPhones because Apple’s website was crushed by unanticipated demand.
The Reston Apple store completely failed to provide iPhone 4’s to customers, I can’t imagine a worse failure. This article sums it up.
Just drove to Best Buy, all units reserved. Called Radio Shack, they have a few extra units, check out the line:
I’m #3 in line, not bad for arriving 20 minutes before opening which was 10am. The Radio Shack manager who looked like he was 17 said that per Apple’s instructions they can’t hold phones, they must sell them. He announced at noon he would give away people’s reserves if they didn’t show and I scored a fancy new iPhone. Glory.
I participated in Bike DC yesterday. It is an annual event where roads are closed to allow cyclists to ride past the White House, across the Key Bridge, and into Arlington. And of course I tracked my path with my iPhone. There were thick clouds overhead so the path didn’t come out very well, but when I hit the highway suddenly I was polling data points every few seconds. I would guess this is because there were no buildings around.
This game reminds me a lot of the Hot Shots Golf franchise on the PlayStation. It is a very polished golf game with great graphics, controls, and gameplay. The quickplay mode lets you knock out a 3-hole game in less than 10 minutes. $2 in the App Store or try the free demo.
A timing game is used to determine the power and accuracy of your shot.
You can also put spin on the ball.
Read the flowing lines of the green to line up the putt.
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