Best iPhone4 Apps

iPhone4 Favourite AppsThere are so many Apps for iPhone4 it’s a challenge to know which are worth installing. I’ve purchased a bunch so thought people might benefit from knowing the ones that have been great value and those that have been installed and not really used.

iPhone Apps I use daily:

  • Pocket Informant – Calendar/Organiser
  • Groups – Contacts Manager
  • mSecure – Password Manager
  • OzTv – TV Guide
  • Inbuilt Apps – Notepad, Messages, Mail

iPhone Apps used regularly:

  • iThoughts – Mind Mapping
  • Instapaper – Offline web page reader
  • Flashlight – Amazingly handy light
  • Tom Tom – GPS / Maps
  • Pocket Weather AU – Weather reports
  • Photosynth – Impressive photo stitching
  • Angry Birds – Game

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Favourite Web-Based Tutorials

If you want to learn a new skill, these days the internet is the first place you should start. There are tutorials, videos and quick start guides for just about everything. However the internet is a big place so finding the good stuff isn’t always easy.

YouTube is wonderful to see exactly how something is done, but I also like to print tutorials in case the host site disappears. So here is a collection of the stuff I’ve found really useful.

This post will be updated from time to time depending on what I find…

  • Photoshop – Converting to Black & White
  • Photoshop – Patch Tool, Healing & History Brush
  • Photoshop – Curves Tutorial
  • Photography – General Workflow

    • IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games

    The IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games took place in Perth in 2008. I was privileged to be asked to be one of the judges for the Computer Artificial Intelligence (AI) competition, the 2K Bot Prize. Excellent! Paid to play games and I won the very nice trophy pictured left for being the most accurate judge.

    A cash prize of $7,000 plus a trip to a major games studio in Canberra was on offer for anyone who could create a game-playing bot (the game was Unreal Tournament 2004) that passes the “Turing Test for Bots”, that is say the bot AI had to convince a panel of five judges that it is actually a human player.

    So how did I pick the bots from the humans…..read on as I describe the strategies I used and explain what gave the bots away or convinced me a player was human.

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    Agent Based Modelling (ABM)

    Agent Based ModellingHave turned the focus of my current research to ABM. Using a collection of autonomous decision-making entities called agents it is possible to explore the dynamics of real-world systems, including the relationships between entities, their environment and resulting emergent behaviour. Cool stuff and far more exciting than excel spreadsheets.

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