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IncrediBooth is just like going to the boardwalk

By | July 30, 2010, 11:25am PDT

Summary: IncrediBooth is more fun than I’ve had with my iPhone camera in a long time. It’s an app for the iPhone 4 that turns it into an old school photo booth and well worth the 99 cents.

Whether your an arcade junkie from the 80s (ahem!), old school pinballer or just an afficiando of old pizza joints or the boardwalk, you’ve undoubtedly seen one of those old coin-operated photo booths at your favorite establishment. In fact, photo booths have become retro fashionable again and can now be found in modern bars and restaurants.

Enter IncrediBooth ($0.99, App Store) an insanely fun app that takes advantage of the front-facing camera found in the iPhone 4 to recreate the feeling of the classic arcade photo booth. It’s pretty simply really, just fire up the app and mug for the camera. There’s even an authentic looking reflection of your mug on the “glass” that covers the “camera” — just like the original photo booths.

Once you’ve posed for four photos, touch the screen and the photos come out outside the booth (pictured).

IncrediBooth is more fun than I’ve had with my iPhone camera in a long time and it provides semi-instant gratification, in a fun, vintage way. You can choose from between three retro effects,

Once your photo strip comes out you have the opportunity you can save it to your photo library or share it via email or on Facebook.

Good times, good times.

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady is the creator and editor of O'Grady's PowerPage, which has been publishing mobile technology news since 1995. He maintains an advertising relationship with the following legacy advertisers on the PowerPage:

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Biography

Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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