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Filed under: Fun, Games, Palm, Commercial

Zap aliens with your PalmOS Treo cameraphone

by Brad Linder Mar 9th 2007

Toyspring has issued a major update to PalmOS game Arcade Reality. In a nutshell, Arcade Reality lets you zap aliens. But unlike a billion other space invaders-themed games, this one is played in real space using the camera on Palm Treo phones.

The video is actually of version 1.0 or Arcade Reality. Version 1.1 includes the following updates:

Bitmap aliens explosions are much cooler.
When aliens take on damage they emit smoke.
There's support for autotargetting.

There's a limited free trial version of Arcade Reality. The full version will set you back $14.95, but future upgrades are free for registered users. The game should work with Treo 650/680/700p units.

[via Palm InfoCenter]

Tags: arcade reality, ArcadeReality, cameraphone, palm treo, PalmTreo, toyspring

Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware

filtr: Turn cheap digital pics into works of art

by Jordan Running Aug 1st 2006

Camera phones are undoubtedly alluring, but even the best of them produce mediocre images. Aaron Straup Cope, unsatisfied with his results, built filtr, a shell script for FreeBSD and OSX that will takes your blah camera phone photos and lets you apply one of seven filters to it: dazd, heathr, postcrd, postr, stndpipe, rockstr, and filtr. There's also movr, which will turn a video file into a series of images, apply one of the above filters to each. All of the results are interesting, universally moreso than your average camera phone pic. It's a shell script, like I said, so if you're not comfy with the command line (and willing to hunt down and install a few dependencies first), filtr may not be the tool for you. You can download filtr for free here.

Tags: Aaron Straup Cope, AaronStraupCope, cameraphone, filger, filtr, freebsd, freeware, mac, osx, photo, photography, script, shellscript

Filed under: Business, Photo, E-mail

ScanR: Scan documents with your camera phone

by Jordan Running Apr 20th 2006

ScanR is an interesting service that lets you turn your camera phone into a "scanner." Basically you snap a shot of a document or whiteboard with your 1MP-or-better camera phone and e-mail it to ScanR, whereupon they'll send you a cleaned up, tagged version of the image as a PDF or a fax. The examples on the ScanR web site are pretty impressive, and if the fax option works well it might save businesspeople a lot of trips to Kinko's. ScanR is (currently) free to use.

[Via TechCrunch]

Tags: camera, cameraphone, digital, email, fax, mobile, phone, scanr

Filed under: Photo, Hardware, Web services, Yahoo!, Freeware

ZoneTag: Upload location-tagged photos from your phone to Flickr

by Jordan Running Mar 1st 2006

ZoneTag is a new app from Yahoo! Research that enables certain Nokia Series 60 to upload cameraphone pics directly to Flickr with two keypresses. The cool part, though, is that the photos are automatically location-tagged via some magic with cell tower IDs. Now I wish I had a Series 60 phone. Conveniently, ZoneTag is free.

[Via the Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog]

Tags: cameraphone, cell, flickr, gps, phone, photography, photos, pics, yahoo, zonetag

Filed under: Web services

Semapedia: Look up the world on Wikipedia

by Jordan Running Jan 5th 2006

Wouldn't it be nice if you could snap a photo of some landmark--say, the Arc de Triomphe--with your camera phone and get back the Wikipedia article about it? That's the goal of Semapedia: to be the "Physical Wikipedia." It works like this: You enter the address of a Wikipedia article about a landmark and it will give you a semacode graphic that you can print out and stick it to the landmark. Then, anyone with a cameraphone can snap a photo of the semacode and immediately get information about the landmark from Wikipedia. A cool idea, to be sure, but how useful? When printing out a semacode Semapedia makes you swear you won't stick semacodes all over without the permission of the property owner, so it's pretty much guaranteed you won't be able to look up the Arc de Triomphe with it, but perhaps for more minor landmarks with friendly owners it will be more useful.

Tags: cameraphone, semacode, semapedia, wikipedia

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