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I spent some time this weekend at community events and thought I’d try out a couple iPhone apps I have been meaning to explore for the past few weeks. \u00a0First event – a Lego competition hosted by the Northern BC Lego Club<\/a> – you read that correctly. \u00a0While waiting for the competition to open I connected my phone to the library wireless and fired up Qik<\/a> – an application that allows you to broadcast live video and audio to an embedded player in your blog. \u00a0Below is a clip of a massive Lego installation illustrating a methanol production facility.<\/p>\n

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Next event – the Prince George Symphony Orchestra<\/a> performing Peter and Wolf during the Exploration Place<\/a> Family Day. \u00a0For this event I thought I would try the app – Record. \u00a0Record is a fairly straightforward recording application but also gathers locative date using the iPhone integrated GPS. \u00a0The result is an MP3 recording with time\/date\/location stamp. \u00a0Recordings can be sorted within the app by a ‘Smart Location’ folder feature. \u00a0This feature allows you to sort recordings based on your location to the original recording source location. \u00a0For example, I can set a folder to only show recordings that were made within 20 miles of me. \u00a0Not sure how this would be useful – but it sure is cool. \u00a0The downside: you need to use a application called Sink<\/a> to export the audio from the device – a process that appears to strip the locative metadata. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Here is a short clip I recorded during the performance of Peter and the Wolf.<\/p>\n