Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Monday, November 24, 2014
Picture orientation issues with iPhone 6s and Androids.
A friend of mine jumped into the Twitter-sphere, ready to tweet away at warp speed. He ran into this problem; when he tweeted a picture it was oriented wrong on Twitter but looked great on his phone. He was using an iPhone 6 and an Android, what can I say he likes toys. He tweeted four pictures, three from the Android and one from the iPhone. The iPhone one tweeted fine, the Android...not so much. After some research I found that this happens to both phones.
It seems with the iPhone 6, it happens a lot. The camera hangs and orientation issues occur when the camera is launched from the lock screen.
Try this
1. Make sure the screen is off.
2. Hold the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape position, home button to the left.
3. Press the home button and slide to go into the camera.
Note if you do that, the flash, HDR and front/back icons are sideways. If you take a picture then it will turn out rotated incorrectly. The phone did not recognize it's orientation when it went into camera mode.
If you turn the camera into portrait orientation and then back to landscape orientation the symbols adjust and the orientation ends up correct.
With the Android it was even easier, it was human error. All we did to correct this was to hold the phone in landscape mode when taking pictures, make sure the home button is on the right hand side and not in portrait mode.
It seems with the iPhone 6, it happens a lot. The camera hangs and orientation issues occur when the camera is launched from the lock screen.
Try this
1. Make sure the screen is off.
2. Hold the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape position, home button to the left.
3. Press the home button and slide to go into the camera.
Note if you do that, the flash, HDR and front/back icons are sideways. If you take a picture then it will turn out rotated incorrectly. The phone did not recognize it's orientation when it went into camera mode.
If you turn the camera into portrait orientation and then back to landscape orientation the symbols adjust and the orientation ends up correct.
With the Android it was even easier, it was human error. All we did to correct this was to hold the phone in landscape mode when taking pictures, make sure the home button is on the right hand side and not in portrait mode.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Build Your Own Adobe Creative Suite with Free and Cheap Software
Let me come clean first...my work computer is a box (Pentium 4/2.60 Ghz 2/1GB ram) and a very wide CRT monitor circa 2000. It is running Windows XP Pro/Version 2002/Service Pack 3 and sometimes sounds like a Soviet-built Lada, but it does and has everything I need. I guess that makes me a tad OCD, part Spartan and slightly a Luddite. Yes, this is it below...please be kind.
I have been using Macromedia Fireworks and Flash 8 for ages. A couple of years ago I purchased Adobe CS6 for my 2011 Windows 7 home computer. Now it may be time for me to get a new work computer and I am fretting that I will be losing all the applications I know like the familiar chair in my den. I was thinking about subscribing to Adobe Creative Cloud but for the price and what I do with it, I do not think it is worth it. So I went looking for alternatives.
I have two sources I would like to share (and thank them for publishing); Thorin Klosowski's October 2014 posting on this subject and a list published by North Carolina State University's Technology Department. If I'm giving NC State props,it must be a big deal...
GO TAR HEELS! :-)
I have been using Macromedia Fireworks and Flash 8 for ages. A couple of years ago I purchased Adobe CS6 for my 2011 Windows 7 home computer. Now it may be time for me to get a new work computer and I am fretting that I will be losing all the applications I know like the familiar chair in my den. I was thinking about subscribing to Adobe Creative Cloud but for the price and what I do with it, I do not think it is worth it. So I went looking for alternatives.
I have two sources I would like to share (and thank them for publishing); Thorin Klosowski's October 2014 posting on this subject and a list published by North Carolina State University's Technology Department. If I'm giving NC State props,it must be a big deal...
GO TAR HEELS! :-)
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