ios 6 rumors

Apple fans have been all over the rumors surrounding the iphone 5, it’s release date and features, that some people are missing out on the upgraded operation system also due out this year. iOS 6, Apple’s newest operating system is set to show its face to the public this summer and it will certainly impress us all.
The biggest rumors surrounding the Apple’s newest OS, iOS 6, and the newest iPhone, iPhone 5, are the release dates. And with Apple’s World Wide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) just seven weeks away many think both will be released then.

iOS 6 Release Date


Unless there is a major setback, you can expect to see iOS 6 released on June 11th at Apple’s WWDC. The WWDC is usually where Apple releases updates to its iOS and this year shouldn’t be any different. However, some folks are calling for a Mac OS X upgrade and that could certainly take precedent over the iOS 6 release.

So What’s Going to Make iOS 6 Stand Out?


Again, nothing is certain, but CNET has some ideas unsecured loans about what we should look for. Among them are multitasking – great for those on the go, bad for battery life; a map app that offers directions by voice; Facebook integration and deeper integration with the Cloud, as well. According to IB Times, you can also expect to see an App Store shopping cart, quick toggles in notification center, and improved SIRI.
As with any rumor round up though, we will not be positive until the actual release.

iPhone 5 to be the iOS 6 Flagship


According to a report in IB Times, there’s no reason to believe bad credit loans that we’ll see iOS 6 in operation on an Apple device until the iPhone 5 rolls out. This may mean that we see the new operating system in June or it may mean that we have to wait until late summer or even fall to see it, as the release date for the iPhone is still way up in the air and nobody’s been able to hammer out anything definitive on it. However, Apple usually releases a developer version of the iOS prior to its main release, so expect to see a few sneak peaks in the coming months.

How a bounce umbrella works

A bounce umbrella works very simply by taking the light from a light source and expanding it’s spread.
A bounce umbrella is typically lined on the interior with a silver, gold or white reflective surface and on the outside with black to reduce light from escaping.

To show you exactly I’ve put together some diagrams that show where the light goes. For this example we’ll assume that an umbrella is a cut of a perfect sphere. The focal point, through which all the reflected light passes, is 1/2 * radius of the circle, or half way between the sphere’s center point and the edge of the umbrella.




When the light hits the reflective surface it bounces back in unsecured loans a straight line through the focal point.



You can see where the reflected light hits the subject. bad credit loans



At first you’d expect to want to place your subject at the tip of the umbrella (like shown in the diagram) but that’s rarely the best idea – we’ll cover that in another article.

holga lens

It’s not everyday that you ruin £260 worth of digital camera. But that’s exactly what I did to my Nikon P7000 in a winter blizzard on Rhinog Fach, in North Wales, a couple of weeks ago. It was a long time since a camera had died on me, the whole £25 of it: my Holga camera. One day something mysteriously started rattling inside it and the camera stopped working.  It was a plastic toy camera after all.
The sheer frustration of losing expensive Nikon gear that I only bought five months ago is making me think that, perhaps, my next mountaineering camera will be another Holga. At least they make them with a glass lens now – which is a shame, really. Yes, the classic medium format Holga film camera has a plastic lens that renders the world is such an imperfect and distorted way that, actually, it shows it very much as it often is.

Lomography cult followers swear by the dreamy, surreal image quality delivered by Holga lenses. The camera also has poorly engineered light seals that let light leak into the film plane, adding some ‘visual interest’ to the image. Every camera leaks in a different and unique way.
It may well be plasticky but you can also do pretty serious work with the Holga. I have had Holga work that tackles issues of identity and place published and even exhibited. Thomas Michael Alleman took some Holgas to Inner Mongolia and produced a remarkable set of images. And a few years back  David Burnett took a whole series of images of Al Gore with a Holga camera. I’m not sure I would have had the courage to turn up on a magazine commission branding a plastic toy camera though.
Toy camera or not the Holga does something remarkably well. It liberates the photographer from the responsibility of having to transcribe the world in a visually accurate way. In other words, it does away with the tension between aesthetics and subject matter. By not being able to fully control the look of the resulting image, the Holga photographer has no option but to concentrate on content. Surprisingly, the Holga can make you a better photographer.

Having said that, the Holga image  can also be all about aesthetics, regardless of content. The plastic camera has the potential to foster pure instinctive photography based exclusively on aesthetic appeal and visual perception. Inforescence-art sells large format canvas prints of Holga photographs based on this principle.
Or it can be primarily a visual experience but still have a certain documentary unsecured loans flavour, as the work of Susan Bowen demonstrates. Working with a Holga camera, Bowen purposefully overlaps exposures to create quasi-cinematic photographic images.
I know what you will be thinking, that there is no point having a medium format plastic toy camera with a plastic lens when you can simulate the effect in Photoshop. Admittedly, you can achieve very convincing Holga-like results with digital manipulations. But that would be missing the point, because the Holga experience is not just about achieving the soft, vignetted, scratched and light-leaked trademark Holga look. The point of the Holga experience is precisely using the Holga camera itself, in all its plastic wonderfulness.
Mind you, if you want the best bad credit loans of both worlds, as in the digital world and the classic poor quality of the plastic fantastic Holga lens, now you can buy the actual Holga lens with an adapter to fit most DSLR mounts.
In fact, I’m tempted to buy the Holga lens for Nikon mount myself.

Cat Breading

Bread and cats don't usually go together, but now these two disparate things are joining forces to power the latest online meme: cat owners place their kitty's head through a piece of bread, take a photo and upload them to "cat breading" forums.

What looks like an adorable photo whim has now become one of the most unique viral pet trends. On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert introduced the phenomenon bad credit loans on his Comedy Central talk show. Colbert's endorsement of a person or idea is said to get the "Colbert bump," meaning it suddenly spreads across the world faster than a celeb sex tape.

Cat breading enjoys a Facebook Page with 15,300 members, and is quickly getting media attention, from New Zealand to the U.K. Gawker is believed to be one of the news sites giving rise to even more people acquainting themselves with cat breading.

How does it work? Cat owners cut a hole in the centre of a bread slice, then gently place the bread over the cat's face. Take a photo. Upload the pic to the Facebook unsecured loans Page or on Flickr.

Some observers believe placing bread around animals is cruel, such as commenters in this Daily Mail article. So far, no cat breaders are replying to allegations of animal cruelty.

Cat breading is reminiscent of a performing rabbit in Japan named Oolong, who balanced food on his head. Oolong's website became known to the general public after it was covered in 2001 by Syberpunk, a site which focuses on odd things in Japanese culture.

Drawing the french flag with code :)

 Finding the specifications for these flags, and attempting to reproduce the flag perfectly, according to the specifications, is a great way to teach yourself basic graphics programming. I’m going to start with the French flag, which isn’t the simplest flag, but pretty close to it. Eventually, I’ll work up to more complex flags, like South Korea and Australia.
Like many flags, you’ll find a reasonably detailed description of the layout of the French Flag in its Wikipedia article.

The three main issues you have to get right with this flag are:

• Its overall shape, or aspect ratio.
• The width of the stripes.
• The colors of the stripes.

This is a good time for you to go through the same exercise – try coming up with a Processing sketch that closely fits the description of the flag. Then read on!
According to Wikipedia, the flag is 50 percent wider than its height (i.e. in the proportion 2:3) and, except in the French navy, has stripes of equal width. Like many countries, the flag specification has undergone revisions over time, and different versions of the flag are used by different parts of the French government. In these articles, I will try to choose the specification that best represents the flag most commonly seen, and in this case that’s the 2:3 flag with three equal stripes.
In order to achieve an aspect ratio of 2:3, I’m using a fixed value for the height, and than computing a width which has the correct aspect ratio:

int kHeight = 300;
size(kHeight*3/2, kHeight);

I could have just as easily have done it by specifying the width, like so:

int kWidth = 450;
size(kWidth, kWidth*2/3);

Its worth noting here that width and sizes in Processing are integers. This means it’s possible to get slightly off if you choose a bad initial height or width. By using a height of 300, I get a width of 450. But if I had used 301, the width would be computed as 451.5 which would get rounded down to 451, and our aspect ratio would be slightly off. The way I’ve done it, only even numbers work for the height.
If you use an even number, you’ll get a flag width that’s unsecured loans an exact multiple of 3. That’s good, because we want the width of the stripes to be exactly 1/3 of the width.

float stripeWidth = width/3.0;

Width is an integer. I specified 3.0 (a floating point value), rather than 3 (an integer), so that I get a floating result, even if the width were not a multiple of 3. In Processing, When you divide two integers, you get an integer result which can loses precision. For example 299/3 would compute as 99, and not 99.66666…


When you use both an integer and a float in an bad credit loans arithmetic operation the result is a float. That’s why I used 3.0 instead of 3.
This loss of precision with integer divides is a feature of strongly typed languages, like Java, Processing and C. Weakly typed languages, like Perl and Javascript, don’t have this problem, and it is safe to just say width/3. It can be confusing when you program in Processing.JS, because you have to switch back and forth between weak and strong typing as you switch from Javascript to Java syntax.
Having computed the stripe width, I go on to draw the stripes.

fill(blueColor);
rect(0,0, stripeWidth, height);

fill(whiteColor);
rect(stripeWidth,0, stripeWidth, height);

fill(redColor);
rect(stripeWidth*2,0, stripeWidth, height);

Finally, there is color choice. Here you will sometimes have to make an aesthetic choice. Most governments specify Pantone colors or a similar color system for their flags. These colors are for pigments, not light, and they don’t have exact RGB equivalents. There are websites you can find that will list RGB equivalents for Pantone colors, and that’s what I’m typically using, but these websites can disagree with each other.
Some governments (such as the United States) recommend using very bright RGB colors for their flags, when displayed on monitors, for example #F00 for red, and #00F for blue. These colors are highly saturated, and don’t look as good as good to me as the Pantone colors they recommend for printed and cloth flags. In those cases, I prefer to find a Pantone equivalent and use it.

In the case of the French flag, however, the RGB colors listed in Wikipedia aren’t overly saturated, so I’ve used them.

color blueColor = color(0,85,164);
color whiteColor = color(255,255,255);
color redColor = color(250,60,50);