TUAW + iPhone turns your loved ones into pirates
Arrrr, me hearties. A TUAW exclusive for your iPhone today (since it be Talk Like a Pirate Day). Download a copy of Pirate.app onto your iPhone and you're ready to turn any landlubber into a true Pirate. (A package should be available through Installer.app by the time this post goes live.)
Launch the app, aim the camera at a loved one, and tap Stop. This stops the preview and freezes the picture. If you don't like it, tap Start to go back to a live preview.
After freezing, arrange the props -- pirate hat, mustache, beard and parrot -- as you wish. Then tap Snap. The iPhone captures your work and creates a new email photo enclosure for you to share with loved ones.
Shiver me timbers! Now that's a good reason to keep the iPhone a semi-open platform!
Update: Dread Pirate Gregg writes in to let us know that he is responsible for the Apple and Crossbones I found in the TUAW archive.
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Looks very interesting!
I'd love to see the source code how to make a pirate :)
I followed the steps to make a ringtone, i changed it to m4r and it did put it into the ringtone section but it wouldnt let me sync the homemade ringtone to my iphone... What do i do???
September 20 2007 at 4:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyyarr, the pilfered graphic be in the application itself, savvy? I've been told that it shall be rectified with a credit shortly.
May yer sails and belly be full,
tDP Gregg
How does this install on the iphone, I have AppTap but how do I get the Pirate.app on the phone to install?
September 19 2007 at 1:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyarrrr!! if the graphics be stolen, they be stolen in true pirate fashion!
good work, lass, good work. the cap'n smells some gold comin' yer way ^_^
@8: I may be half blind (hence the eye patch), but I couldn't find those images on your site. Seems to me that you're trying to hijack these comments to get more page views, you landlubbery scum! ;)
September 19 2007 at 12:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAhoy All!
I'd love to install this on my iPhone, but I'm having package install issues with installer.app. Does anyone know where I can get a working installer? The one from Null River isn't working.
Sorry for the post here, but the irc at #installer.app is proving futile.
Thanks. Happy Pirate Day!
Aw hey, if graphics for this were really lifted from the Dread Pirate Gregg, massive fail!
I'm a happy owner of a few Jobby Roger stickers. =)
@7: you say that now, and then 2 months later somebody does it. :)
@5&7: I like the stache being crooked.
The day a true pirate cares about whether his mustache is crooked or not is the day another pirate makes him walk the bloody plank.
and as far as rotation goes.. erica, did you ever watch the multitouch experiments video? this is the same tech.. they used like 3 fingers to rotate stuff.
ALTHOUGH it would be hard to rotate the mustache with such a method ;)
[NOTE: The link for Gregg's artwork is now in the post. Our apologies for the inadvertent lack of credit to Gregg and Jobbyroger.com.]
That's it.... I'm pissed.
If you're going to use my graphics from http://www.jobbyroger.com a credit would be appropriate. I understand the piracy theme for the day, but that shouldn't count for other people's work.
Thanks....
The Dread Pirate Gregg
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