ClearCam – 4 megapixel photos with your iPhone

Posted by asdf on February 5, 2009 under Technology | Be the First to Comment

Written by Occipital:

At Occipital, we’ve been working really hard on a better camera application for the iPhone, called ClearCam, and we finally launched it on BigBoss/Cydia!

ClearCam takes 6 photos in 2.5 seconds, fuses them together using an algorithm called super resolution, and creates a sharper, 4 megapixel photo with less noise. There is also a QuickShot mode that takes 4 photos in under 2 seconds and saves the sharpest to the camera roll.

Here is a comparison photo of using ClearCam and NOT using ClearCam:

We spent a lot of time optimizing our code to make it run fast enough on the iPhone. A lot of our effort went into being able to align photos precisely with sub-pixel accuracy (required for super resolution), and to also do it fast.

You can check out more information at our site. There’s also a pretty good post about it here.

If you’ve been hoping for better photos from your iPhone, give ClearCam a try. If you really like it, feel free to buy it and support some hungry programmers =).

Bluetooth File Transfer Coming to the iPhone!

Posted by asdf on January 29, 2009 under Technology | Be the First to Comment

From CNET:

One of the iPhone’s stupid limitations is its inability to sync with host computers and transfer files back and forth via bluetooth.  An enterprising developer; however, has written an application that allows not only computer-to-iPhone file transfers via Bluetooth, but also iPhone-to-other mobile device file transfers.  Its about time!

The Bluetooth file transfer application will only be available through the Cydia distribution framework for Jailbroken iPhones only.

A video of the transfer tool shows files being moved from a Mac to the iPhone, and subsequently from the iPhone to a Sony Ericsson phone (see video below):

The tool appears to be based on the work of the BlueSn0w project, which theoretically allows developers to write/implement fully functional Bluetooth stacks that run on your iPhone, thus opening the door for not only file transfers, but also use of Bluetooth keyboards/mice, syncing with host computers and other mobile devices, and more robust support for pairing with third-party Bluetooth devices. Pretty cool.