I found this girl’s picture the other day and I was wondering how was it possible that this photo was featured in iPhone Photography Tumblr when clearly there was no app that could do this and it would go against the blog’s policy of posting iPhone-only photos.

Then I found the app.

Lo-Mob. And it became my 11th photography app on the iPhone.

To be honest, I bought it because of its tagline: Bring Retro to Your Mobile Pictures. It’s not like I don’t already have other Lomo-fying, Polaroid-izing, apps but this one just tops it all with over 25 formats.

Lomo, Holga, Polaroid, Slide, 35mm, etc. And they look authentic.

From a boring Look Shin shot like this:

I now have these options to choose from:

There goes another $2.

But this surely won’t stop me from coming home from Wang Lang or Ratchada Night with a 30-year-old camera. But $2 does beat B5,000 for a retro shot.

*Yes I tried the app with a Look Shin photo I took at On Nut Square. I was hungry. And now I’m hungrier.

Blackberry users watch out: You’re not the only ones in town annoying the hell out of people in public with your BBM ringtone.

Us iPhone users now have the same ability thanks to Ping!

Admit it Crackberries, the only reason you have one is for its uber-exclusive messenger. Well now the iPhone has that, and console-quality games, and iPod, and kick-ass browser, and accelerometer, and.. well you get the idea.

Now Ping! does what it’s supposed to do most of the time. It uses the 3.0 Push ability to send message blurbs in real time to other Ping! users. And the interface looks similar to that of SMS so you won’t have to relearn anything.

You will be excited for about 5 minutes until all of its cons creep up on you.

First, this thing is not stalker-proof. You cannot ignore a user, there’s no “Accept/Deny” prompt so basically anyone who knows your ID can Ping! you without your permission, unlike BlackBerry Messenger where you both have to mutually agree to add each other on the contact list before it works.

Yes, that means Ping! has no contact list. Though it can guess the IDs of the people you have chatted with but if they pick a name that’s not even remotely similar to their real-world identifier, then you’re doomed.

What else is there? Oh, when you turn it sideways and landscape is activated, the message reply field magically disappears. Also, some people’s messages get delayed, some don’t get delivered at all and some get it twice. There’s no group chat or file sharing. There’s also no option to change the ringtone, or even tone down the volume of the ringer, so either you accept its high-pitched pinging or you just have to deal with the vibration mode, and we all know iPhones are no Nokias, meaning the vibrate mode indicates a light buzz and not an earth-moving quake.

Oh and best (worst) thing of all, the app doesn’t work with jailbroken/unlocked iPhones.

More cons than pros at the moment I admit but really it’s the best and the only feature the iPhone should have added if they want to completely steal the fans from the BlackBerry. I mean seriously, it’s already 2009, you shouldn’t be worrying about adding MMS, Push and *gasp* Copy and Paste to your “game-changing” mobile phone. These should have come out since iPhone 2G.

I read on Ping! Facebook Page that they’ve just submitted an update fixing all the buggy bits. This app has also seen a huge surge in downloads worldwide (since it’s currently free), so it can get quite overwhelming. There’s even a whole forum dedicated to exchanging one’s Ping! ID.

Well I’m still loving it anyway even though I currently only have four friends on it and one of them is my own mother. So I’m patiently waiting for the 1.1 update before finally letting myself become completely dependent on it.

And no, my ID is not gnarlykitty.

I have mixed feelings about this True App Center.

First it’s a training center for people who want to develop mobile applications and that is awesome. This is new for Thailand. In other countries you can get a real college training but this is more than enough.

But then, it’s run by True Move. And judging from their wonderful applications such as Academy Fantasia stalking app, fortune telling app and lottery report app, it makes you think what kind of apps will be produced out of this training.

Anyone can make an app but not everyone can make a good app. Hello, iFart?

And it’s not just for iPhones though, there are courses for Android, Symbian, BlackBerry and yes Windows Mobile. There’s a picture of the Palm Pre on the site but there’s no mentioning of the WebOS training anywhere.

The courses will be manned by lecturers from Mahidol University, a Bangkok college famous for its IT programs. I don’t know if the course is also available at the university like Stanford but it’s still cool nonetheless.

They have a 1-day basic iPhone training course but it doesn’t say what the prerequisites are? Do I have to know Cocoa programming to join? Can I just sit in and not actually make one? It’s only B200 for True Move customers.

I know most people think it’s stupid to switch to 3GS. But when you Twitter as much and take photo as religiously as I do, it does make your life a lot better.

S is really for speed. With the 3G, it took about 2 seconds for an App to show something besides the blank black screen. With Tweetie, if I had a lot of unread Tweets, it could take 5-6 seconds for them to load.

And yes it affects the speed of the download also. Since I am on AIS, I don’t have 3G. But Safari loads much faster now.

And the photos? OMG.

It’s not just the crispness, but the color also. More realistic and less murky. I haven’t actually been out and about to try the video. Would be a little awkward to just film my dog lying around in my bedroom. The Tumblr might be featuring videos soon if I find something worth filming.

The world is ending!

But before it does, I need to shout something.

I’ve been duped by my own father. Guess who’s holding a 3GS?

Yeah. That’s it. Since I have no Twitter..