{"id":970,"date":"2008-10-21T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T04:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-10-21\/970"},"modified":"2008-10-21T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T04:43:23","slug":"ifail-iphone-photo-viewer-is-mostly-worthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-10-21\/970","title":{"rendered":"iFail: iPhone Photo Viewer is Mostly Worthless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>Sigh, <span class='nobr'>I just realized<\/span> that the <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2008-09-13\/933\">iPhone<\/a> photo viewer does\nnot even allow you to save\/display high-resolution versions of photos you\nwant to bring with you. That's fine for &#8220;pretty pictures&#8221; that you don't\nneed to see detail on to appreciate (e.g. like those from my <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/photostream\/fall.html#random\">fall-foliage\nphoto stream<\/a>), but that makes the iPhone <i>worthless<\/i> for showing most\ndaily snapshots, such as those from <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2008-10-20\/969\">Anthony's kindergarten sports\nfestival<\/a>. <span class='nobr'>The first<\/span> thing <span class='nobr'>a parent<\/span> wants to do is zoom up to see the\nkid's smile, and on the iPhone all you see is the 640 &times; 480 image\nblown up with heavy pixilization.<\/p>\n\n<p>Worthless.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh, I just realized that the iPhone photo viewer does not even allow you to save\/display high-resolution versions of photos you want to bring with you. That's fine for \"pretty pictures\" that you don't need to see detail on to appreciate (e.g. like those from my fall-foliage photo stream), but that makes the iPhone worthless for showing most daily snapshots, such as those from Anthony's kindergarten sports festival. The first thing a parent wants to do is zoom up to see the kid's smile, and on the iPhone all you see is the 640 &times; 480 image blown up with [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}