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By Gareth Coxon, 11 Feb 09

Identify that font: ‘What the font’ for the IPhone

I Needed to share this little story I spotted over at swiss-miss.com

MyFonts have introduced WhatTheFont for iPhone

WhatTheFont can identify a fonts name from an upload image.

The iPhone version of WhatTheFont uses the IPhone’s built-in camera to photograph the text, then the application allows you to crop the image and focus on only the important parts before uploading.

You then confirm the characters that are used in the image and the app gives you a list of matching fonts, great for grabbing fonts on the move when you spot one of interest.

I’ve tried it out and it seems pretty good, but of course it all depends on the quality of the image you manage to take with you phone, but for FREE you can’t go wrong really!

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By Gareth Coxon, 16 Oct 08

Does this mean the Death of Business Card Design?

Nameo remember that name, because is going to KILL the beloved business card, that opportunity to create a visual and real (in your hand) impact to your business contact, will be gone forever!

Ok its not quite that dramatic!

There is a new Apple iPhone Application called Nameo, Nameo is a virtual business card exchanger for the iPhone. Basically you hold your iphones together press a button and you have exchanged your details.

Only iPhones that both have Nameo can exchange details.

Ok, so initially I thought what a great idea, then I realised that its going to take away the livelihood of the business card! The business card is going to be jobless!

I personally think we will always need the impact that a well designed and printed business card gives.

But what do you think, is this the death of the beloved business card?

Is it really a threat or will this be like the “paperless office” we are all supposed to have!

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