Vintage Video Maker for the iPhone 3GS Video Review

It's easy to forget sometimes that there's some decent horsepower under the hood of the iPhone 3GS. An app like Vintage Video Maker reminds you, and brings a fun new feature to the phone at the same time. 

Vintage Video Maker allows you to add old-timey film effects to video shot on the iPhone 3GS. You can either take the video while using the app, or use a stored clip. Before selecting the clip.  you add the look of a 1920's or 1960''s era film, choose output format, and select to keep the clip's audio, or add an included sound track. (I would suggest always outputting to the highest setting). 

Next, the iPhone turns into a rendering machine, creating the new clip. This process takes 2 to 3 times the length of a clip. It's probably comparable to rendering video clips back in the day of the G3 chip.

As the processors in the iPhone get faster and faster, apps like this will become even more fun and easy to use. For now though, Vintage Video Maker, is a great on-the-go way to enhance the look of your iPhone videos.

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This Book Is It Worth It For This Picture Alone

There he is. Steve Jobs in a quiet moment in his "home office" as some have called it, circa 1982. The image is from the book "The Bigger Picture" by Diana Walker. While the book is full of great portraits, there's just something about this one that perfectly captures a certain time period on the history of Steve Jobs and Apple. Note the lack of a computer, but the turntable in the back. I'm guessing that's a Dylan album back there. Well worth picking up. The Bigger Picture.