Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Vacation and Apps

Man.. I'm finally going to take a vacation longer than a few days starting this Friday. Its been actually about a year since I've taken an extended vacation. Pretty crazy actually. I will be heading to northern Japan. I've always traveled East to West in Japan so I'm looking forward to seeing what the Touhoku region is all about.

I will also be making sure to take lots of pictures with my new phone. Speaking of that, I have been "app store crazy" buying all different kinds of apps including this one photo app. It was much cooler than the default photo application on the phone, but a bit slower. Unfortunately, I found a bug where when taking photos using the flash the entire application would freeze and you would have to exit and re-launch the app to continue to take pictures. I e-mailed the developers and surprisingly they e-mailed me back promptly. It was nice to see this kind of response especially for a 1 dollar app. I actually became one of their beta testers. I was helping them test out their new fixes throughout the weekend, however their latest fix seem to have solved the flash problem but it was buggy everywhere else. I pointed this out to them but they haven't responded since. I hope they do soon because I would love to take some photos using their app during my upcoming trip but at this point its almost unusable due to the bugs. I will probably contact them if I don't hear back in the next 24 hours asking if they completed their fixes into their final release. Hopefully all will be good and I'll be able to post some nice pictures when I get back.

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