iPhone 4 capture processed with Snapseed
NIK Snapseed is one of the best photography apps for your iDevices. The famous U-Point technology is easy to use and highly efficient in creating desirable custom looks. It was voted the ‘Best Mobile App 2012′. I’ve been using Snapseed since it came on the market back in June 2011 and it has become my default mobile photo app.
Until June 7th, this app is FREE on iTunes Store. Highly recommended.
Received a pleasant surprise today as Piccsy notified me that I was one of the photographers that were featured in their latest blog post titled ‘40 More Photographers from Toronto You should know About‘. Better still, I know a few photographer friends were also on their master list. Excellent!
Just one year after the release of OSX Lion, Apple has announced a new OSX scheduled for 2012 summer release. Mountain Lion will be a paid upgrade but details have not been disclosed at this point.
Mountain Lion will have a tighter integration with iCloud and syncs your existing accounts, settings and personal data seamlessly. The new OSX will also come with a few new apps from the iOS which includes iMessage, Reminders, Notes, Notification Centre, Twitter integration, Game Centre and Airplay Mirroring.
For this upcoming release, Apple is introducing Gatekeeper which allows users to determine what kinds of apps can be installed on their machines. This follows Apple’s strategy of preventing malware getting into your system through the approval process. Like the App Store, Mac developers can now sign up with Apple and get the status of ‘identified developers’ with a personalized certificates. These developers can then cryptographically sign their apps with the certificates. If any apps from this group of developers turned out to be malware, Apple can then revoke that particular developer’s license thus preventing their products being installed on any Macs in the future.
Sharing has also become a whole lot easier in Mountain Lion with Share Sheets. These are pop-up menus that appear when you click on the Share icon within the apps. This can be a Safari webpage you are visiting or a picture or document in Preview. You can send the content via iMessage, tweet it or email the items.
Some of the new features in Mountain Lion are directly targeting users in China. In the new OSX, there is a dynamically updated dictionary for better suggestions or corrections. Also, Pinyin and English can be mixed during text-input without having to switch between keyboard layouts.
Search engine Baidu is now available as an option in Mountain Lion’s Safari. Sina weibo, a microblogging site, is supported in Share Sheets. As for video-sharing sites like Vimeo and Flickr, Youku and Tudou will be added to the list of supported sites.
This is definitely good news for those Mac users who worry that Apple is lagging behind OSX development in comparison to the iOS. This annual OSX and iOS release cycle will be hugely beneficial to both Mac and iDevice users alike.
Queen Street Bridge, Toronto
This 100 year old steel bridge on Queen Street East stands over top the Don River and lower Don Valley Parkway. It was built in 1911 and originally owned by the Scadding Family. East side Riverdale used to be a shady part of town where bandits could be found hiding in the valley.
In 2002, this bridge went through a complete renovation. On top of the bridge, you can find the art ‘Time: And A Clock’ created by Toronto artist Eldon Garnet. The 2 metre clock is accompanied by poetic text on either side from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. It reads ’This river I step in is not the river I stand in.’
This is one of my favourite spot in the city.
This is what you get if you log onto Wiki’s homepage today. You can share your opinion via the social media tools.
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hairy roots
stump
Interesting nature display on the busy Hollywood Road in Central District, Hong Kong.
Street performer, Sao Paulo, Brasil
artichoke fan
cabbage brain
ginger man
onion face
enoki family
Cranberries in a pot
Vaccinium erythrocarpum or Cranberry
In North America, Native Americans were the first to use cranberries as food. Native Americans used cranberries in a variety of foods, especially for pemmican, wound medicine and dye. Calling the red berries Sassamanash, natives may have introduced cranberries to starving English settlers in Massachusetts who incorporated the berries into traditional Thanksgiving feasts. American Revolutionary War veteran Henry Hall is credited as first to farm cranberries in the Cape Cod town of Dennis around 1816. In the 1820s cranberries were shipped to Europe. Cranberries became popular for wild harvesting in the Nordic countries and Russia. In Scotland, the berries were originally wild-harvested but with the loss of suitable habitat, the plants have become so scarce that this is no longer done.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Photo taken at Wong’s private kitchen.
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig, its ancestor the wild boar, and several other wild relatives. Pigs are omnivores and are highly social and intelligent animals.
Domesticated pigs are commonly raised as livestock by farmers for meat (generally called pork, hams, gammon or bacon), as well as for leather. Their bristly hairs are also used for brushes. Some breeds of pig, such as the Asian pot-bellied pig, are kept as pets.
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I took this a few months ago when I was visiting the market in Pátzcuaro. I was standing there staring at it for a few minutes honestly expecting it to say something to me. The eyeball was so alive. Just weird…
