iPhone iLevel app saves photographer’s wonky bacon

Posted on 18 March 2008 by Chris Davies




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When is an iPhone not an iPhone?  When it’s a spirit-level, of course; at least, that’s the latest way to repurpose your $399+ wunderphone.  Photographer Ben Long was seemingly staging a ghetto photoshoot but lacked a level to make sure his camera was straight.  Thankfully he’d had the foresight to Jailbreak his iPhone, load iLevel - which taps into the iPhone’s accelerometer - and slapped that on the back of the Canon to get the shot balanced.

iPhone spirit level

iLevel

Now, admittedly, this wasn’t really an impromptu hack.  Ben had already Jailbroken his iPhone, but I’m not sure whether he’d installed iLevel previously or whether he had to go trawling through Installer.app on the off chance that someone had saved him a few bucks with a spirit-level program.  However, it’s nifty and useful and it might come in handy in the future for you, so I’m writing about it.

[via Wired Blog]



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1 Comments For This Post

  1. AM says:

    I did the same with my PB G4 (and the level widget) several times at the houses I built!

    Sometimes when the counters are being installed, I place the PB on it and make sure it has the right tilt. Leaves the installers wide eyed for sure! :-)

    AM

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