have you tried free lensing?

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sentio

I was finishing breakfast on Saturday. The shape of an empty glass of water took my attention, and as I had my iPhone nearby, I thought I’d see what happened if I took a photography through the bottom of the glass.

through the water glass - iPhone 5

I thought it looked pretty interesting so posted it on Facebook. Photographer Laura Goyer thought it was fun too, and asked the question, “Have you tried free lensing?”

Not only hadn’t I tried it, I had no idea what it meant. Cue Mr Google where I found these instructions on A Beautiful Mess blog.

Free lensing involves removing the lens from your camera and holding it in a tilt fashion in front of the sensor.

It didn’t take me long to have a play. At first I thought, that because I have a mirrorless camera and not a DSLR, it might not quite come off. In addition, a few settings on…

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Catch The ‘Jurassic World’ First Look

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SuperTeamAU

The fourth installment of the classic ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise, Jurassic World, is set to hit theatres next year, and Universal Pictures has given us a sneak peek.

…And it definitely looks like Jurassic Park, is all I can say so far, I guess. Starring Chris Pratt (the Legendary Star Lord), Vincent D’onofrio and many more, it looks like we’re set to see some stellar acting.

Keep an eye out, as I’m sure we’re set to hear more about this mysterious sequel.

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The Moment Firestone Teamed Up with a Warlord

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Longreads

Below is an excerpt from ProPublica and Frontline’s investigation into how the U.S. tire and rubber company Firestone ended up partnering with warlord Charles Taylor, who was taking over Liberia during the civil war in the early 1990s. In 1992 the company agreed to pay taxes to Taylor’s rebel government, and “over the next year, the company doled out more than $2.3 million in cash, checks and food to Taylor”:

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ios

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iOS (previously iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. and distributed exclusively for Apple hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company’s iDevices.

Originally unveiled in 2007 for the iPhone, it has been extended to support other Apple devices such as the iPod Touch (September 2007), iPad (January 2010), iPad Mini (November 2012) and second-generation Apple TV onward (September 2010). As of June 2014, Apple’s App Store contained more than 1.2 million iOS applications, 500,000 of which were optimized for iPad.[7][8] These apps have collectively been downloaded more than 60 billion times.[9] It had a 21% share of thesmartphone mobile operating system units shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012, behind Google’s Android.[10] By the middle of 2012, there were 410 million devices activated.[11] According to the special media event held by Apple on September 12, 2012, 400 million devices had been sold by June 2012.[12]

The user interface of iOS is based on the concept of direct manipulation, using multi-touch gestures. Interface control elements consist of sliders, switches, and buttons. Interaction with the OS includes gestures such as swipe, tap, pinch, and reverse pinch, all of which have specific definitions within the context of the iOS operating system and its multi-touch interface. Internal accelerometers are used by some applications to respond to shaking the device (one common result is the undo command) or rotating it in three dimensions (one common result is switching from portrait to landscape mode).

iOS shares with OS X some frameworks such as Core Foundation and Foundation; however, its UI toolkit is Cocoa Touch rather than OS X’s Cocoa, so that it provides the UIKit framework rather than the AppKit framework. It is therefore not compatible with OS X for applications. Also while iOS also shares the Darwin foundation with OS X, Unix-like shell access is not available for users and restricted for apps, making iOS not fully Unix-compatible either.

Major versions of iOS are released annually. The current release, iOS 8.1, was released on October 20, 2014. In iOS, there are four abstraction layers: the Core OS layer, the Core Services layer, the Media layer, and the Cocoa Touch layer. The current version of the operating system (iOS 8.0), dedicates 1.3 – 1.5GB of the device’s flash memory for the system partition, using roughly 800 MB of that partition (varying by model) for iOS itself.[13][14] It runs on the iPhone 4S and later, iPad 2 and later, all models of the iPad Mini, and the 5th-generation iPod Touch.