iPhone 3G Love <3

I have fallen in love with my new 3G pretty white iPhone! The 3G speed is awesome, Apps are great and plentiful, and with the WordPress app – post right from your phone – nice!

My favorite new app, however, is SmugShot.  Along with your SmugMug account, snap away on your iPhone and upload right to your SmugMug galleries in glorious 1600×1200 resolution.  SmugShot will even Geotag your photos so you can view them on your SmugMap (Google Maps).

Download SmugShot from the iPhone App Store.  If you do not have a SmugMug account, you get to try it out for 14 days for free.  So, go play!

Merry Christmas SmugMug!

In November, an LA Times reporter interviewed SmugMug folks for an article in the newspaper … fast forward to December 24th, Christmas Eve day, front page, column one

Click here for full article.

Stretchy Goodness

You have got to see this to believe it!  SmugMug just got a whole lot more beautiful on everything from an iPhone up to dual 30″ monitors.  

   

Abstract iPhone Wallpaper-Backgrounds

Several years ago, I made quite a few abstract computer desktop wallpapers. I thought, hey, why not resize them for the iPhone! So, I have, and here they are, free to download if you would like. The aspect ratio will be off a tad on some of them due to resizing; but, hey, they are abstracts, so does it really matter?!

SmugMug-On-Your-iPhone

This is so slick! I absolutely am in love with my iPhone, and now I can view my SmugMug photos on it, too, thanks to our SmugSorcerers.

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/07/13/smugmug-on-our-iphones/

Portrait:

And Landscape – w00t!

Boise State – 2007 Fiesta Bowl Champions!

The new year could not have been brought in with a bigger bang! Boise State University played Oklahoma State in the 2007 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, on January 1, 2007. If you missed this game, shame on you! What you missed was one of the greatest college football games in the history of the sport. We have finally earned some respect. I’m still reeling from the excitement as is the entire community of Boise and the state of Idaho. What a game, what a game! As a BSU football season ticket holder, all I can say is, I can hardly wait for next football season!!

Congratulations Broncos!!!

Broncos on the Blue!

SmugMug Updates

New features – August 31, 2006

Ok, ok, so we’ve had two releases since I last posted. I’m a slacker – I admit it. Please forgive me.

Of course, that makes it look like we have a huge release today, when really, it’s like 3 releases rolled into one. Here we go:

• 14-day free trials instead of 7!
• No credit card required to try SmugMug – friction free signup!
• Can freely upgrade and downgrade between account levels during trial so you can experience them all.
• Streamline signup process – takes you right to creating your first gallery instead of making you read a welcome page full of stuff no-one wanted to read.
• Streamline creating gallery process – take you right to adding photos after creating a gallery, rather than dumping you on a new empty gallery.
• Theme preview on gallery creation!
• Upgraded the Universal Drag & Drop uploader to show both a per-photo and a per-batch status bar.
• New Pro Pricing tool. Much faster, AJAX’d, new gradient design. Quickly price groups of products, including highlighting the ones you’ll be changing.
• Bulk Pro Pricing – price all your galleries at once.
• Tweaked the PhotoRank algorithm to be more fair.
• Added ‘quick pricing’ when creating a gallery for Pros.
• Added ‘create category’ when creating a gallery.
• Added ‘create subcategory’ when creating a gallery.
• Added YUI includes on all pages, rather than just some, for all of our hackers to really play with.
• Show filenames in cart and pro order summaries.
• Added the ability for customers to reset their Print Order password.
• Made the upload log show only last 24 hours by default, with options to expand to recent week or month.
• Fixed watermark fade previewer.
• Updated the cart and catalogs to be more clear about which print sizes belong to with categories. Got rid of ‘xD’ on print size names – no-one knew what they were anyway.
• Cancelling out of customize gallery and bulk settings now puts you back in the right place every time.
• Setting your preferences to ‘Original’ no longer destroys Filmstrip style.
• Made PhotoRank votes on tiny images get discarded so Popular Photos doesn’t fill up with junk.
• Fixed sending Pro Sales emails to non-Pro users. Ooops.
• Pro sales emails didn’t have proper totals. Oops.
• Use the customer’s first & last names, instead of ‘A customer ordered’ in Pro sales emails.
• Allowed setting a $0 download price (to disable it).
• Couldn’t add to the shopping cart when only digital downloads were available (no prints).
• Render tiny PNG transparent watermarks on-the-fly so they look better when doing custom watermarks.
• Copying Pro pricing from one gallery to another didn’t work for digital download prices.
• Fixed a browsing bug in SmugMug style on popular, dates, and keywords.
• Replaced missing “map this” button on some pages.
• Fixed bogus error message when attempting to upgrade from Pro.
• Deleting a single photo somehow got broken. Fixed.
• Fixed small bugs in Old Family Album, Longest Yard, Christmas, Sand, and Bon Voyage themes.
• Fixed returning from customizing your geography.
• Fixed a bug where orders with prints from multiple Pros and Proof-Delay could result in one Pro shipping the order before the other Pro was done.