Filed under: Hacks, How-tos, iPhone
TUAW + iPhone turns your loved ones into pirates
Gallery: Yarrrrrrghhh. TUAW 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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike Schramm said 2:28AM on 9-19-2007
I love it. A+++ would keelhaul again.
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Julius from stereopoly.de said 8:18AM on 9-19-2007
Tell me, what day is it? Flickr has this pirate-thing too :)
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Justin said 8:36AM on 9-19-2007
Rrrrrrrrica, does this only work on loved ones? ;)
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CMara said 8:52AM on 9-19-2007
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
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Steven said 9:00AM on 9-19-2007
Can you straighten the mustache? It's awfully crooked.
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Achal Aggarwal said 9:10AM on 9-19-2007
can we get a video recording app up and running???
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jopari said 9:27AM on 9-19-2007
@6: The iPhone can't really handle video recording; Erica did write an app that tried, but it didn't get close to a watchable video.
@5: Yeah, I agree that the 'stache is a little crooked; perhaps Pirate.app 0.2 shall add the ability to rotate the elements. Fun app though.
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Gregg Fuller said 9:58AM on 9-19-2007
[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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Alex said 9:58AM on 9-19-2007
@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 ;)
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Invader J said 10:29AM on 9-19-2007
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. =)
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jopari said 12:31PM on 9-19-2007
@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! ;)
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CapnRoofuss said 12:34PM on 9-19-2007
arrrr!! 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 ^_^
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Marco said 1:13PM on 9-19-2007
How does this install on the iphone, I have AppTap but how do I get the Pirate.app on the phone to install?
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Gregg Fuller said 1:22PM on 9-19-2007
yarr, 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
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Liana said 1:34PM on 9-19-2007
Ahoy 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!
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nick said 4:42PM on 9-20-2007
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???
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Idiel said 1:31PM on 9-26-2007
Looks very interesting!
I'd love to see the source code how to make a pirate :)
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