Just updated to the latest version of Android on my HTC Desire – version 2.2 – codenamed Froyo (short for ‘Frozen Yoghurt’ in case you didn’t know – Google has a habit of naming Android updates on desserts…!). Just so happens I’ve ‘rooted’ my Desire already, and the good old bods over at xda-developers.com have [...]
iPad Camera Connection Kit
I’ve just received my iPad Camera Connection Kit through the post today. This unassuming set of dongles attaches to the dock connector of the iPad and allows you to import photos and videos directly into the iPad’s Photo gallery app.
The premise is simple – just plug either the USB or SD card [...]
Falling short…
Since I got my iPad, the only thing I’ve really lamented is it’s lack of GPS and 3G. Being the Wifi (read: cheaper) model, I had to make do with WiFi only. As usual, my tendency to over-analyse and get the most out of anything I have got the better of me, and I [...]
Yesterday, I was browsing, as I often do, in the Cardiff branch of Mr Jobs’ finest tech-emporium, when I finally decided (after yet another round of touchy-feely, have-a-go marketing), to take the plunge and sort myself out with an iPad. After a lot of reading, trying, and agonising about whether it would be worth [...]
Following on from yesterday’s post – it’s been kind of interesting getting a feel for what all this Lomo stuff is about. I don’t know what it is that draws me to the Lomography style exactly… I think it must be the lack of any fixed rules, and the way it captures bits of life [...]
Today, I had a happy accident. Today, I accidentally (re)stumbled across the art of Lomography. Today, I finally found a genuine use for my iPhone camera. Today, I had a ‘Eureka’ moment.
Let me explain…
Photography is an art. In the end, it’s all about the aesthetics. Beautiful photos opportunities rear their heads in the most unlikely [...]
For those who’ve had a look at my previous posts, you may now be interested in giving this a go yourself. If you’re nervous, then don’t worry – it’s not THAT daunting to do. There are some fantastic guides out there.
The main problem with doing this is that there are a lot of different [...]
I’m always the same. I get a device or gadget, and, when I’m getting used to it in the first few weeks, I always go into ‘What can I do with this?’ mode. I’ll see what it can do, even if its things that I’d never use again. I was happily playing around with Ubuntu [...]
Well, well, well… Recently, I decided that I’ve been spending too much time in my office. I really like my iMac, but unfortunately, its basically a one-location machine, and I want to spend more time in other places, like chilling on the sofa with my Wife. I also wanted a portable internet device that [...]
Just a quick note. I’m sat in Cafe Nero chilling out and trying out a new netbook. I’ve got to photograph my Nephew’s wedding today, so getting a few minutes of calm in before the chaos begins! I’m shortly (next day or so) going to put a bit of a report up about the new [...]
Finally, the official Geocaching.com iPhone app is available on the iPhone App Store. It costs a grand total of £5.99 in the UK ($9.99 in the US). The app promises to be the first to link directly into the Geocaching.com website and bring you real-time cache details based on your current GPS coordinates (unlike the [...]
Just a quick post about a nice piece of software I got for the iPhone today. It’s called RunKeeper, and is an application that uses the iPhones built-in GPS to track you on a run or cycle ride or similar). It works out your distance, average speed, and graphs your elevation, as well as plotting [...]
After the last post I made, Geocaching.com have announced that they have submitted a Geocaching app to the Apple Appstore. It’s currently awaiting approval, but should be available soon. It will cost $9.99 (probably £5.99 in the UK). It basically does something very similar to iGeocaching, but allows you to do it online, so is [...]
With my relatively recent aquisition of an iPhone (well, last few months anyway), I’ve found that I’ve been accessing www.geocaching.com a fair bit on it whilst out and about.
Those who’ve tried geocaching will probably know that one of the major limiting factors to ‘on-the-go’ caching is accessing the information about each cache. The original idea was [...]
Here we go… This is my first post from my iPhone. Now I’m up to WordPress v6.1, I can use the iPhone WordPress app to post quickly while I’m out and about. Can even take pics and attach them directly! The wonders of modern technology etc etc.
Meanwhile, I’ve still got to get the [...]
Seems like the IS someone developing a Geocaching app for the iPhone.
http://geopherlite.blogspot.com/
At the moment it’s quite basic, with no GPX or LOC support, which means you have to enter coordinates manually. Once it has support for those files, and support for saving cache details etc, then it could turn ito a nice little app.  I’ll [...]
Well… it hasn’t taken long to post the first recommendation for an iPhone App (approximately 2 minutes actually!). This is definitely something I’d say is a ‘killer’ app for the iPhone 3G.
SimplifyMedia is a way of sharing your entire iTunes (or Winamp or Rhythmbox) library over your internet connection to your mobile devices such [...]
Right… I’ve kept quiet about this for quite a while now, as I wanted to have a few months of use under my belt for this piece of kit before i posted about it.
There’s been more stuff on the web recently about the iPhone (2G and 3G) than I care to think about. The [...]
Well… I’ve managed it!
A week or so ago, I made it through the four CCNP exams (BSCI, BCMSN, ONT and ISCW – too many bleedin’ acronyms!), and I’m now fully qualified in the ways of Cisco Certified Network Professional.
Thankfully that’s it for another three years (at which time, I have to redo one [...]
Blimey!
I’m knackered.  I’ve just completed Cisco exam 640-802 to recertify my CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) status. Passed it with a score of 920 (out of 1000). It’s hard… very hard, and the buggers make you take it every three years. Next time, I’m not going to leave it so long, and I’m going [...]
On Leopard, one of the most annoying things about the new ‘stacks’ feature (where folders dragged onto the dock get ‘fanned out’ when you click them), is that the icon that represents the stack is always the one that is first depending on how you sort the stack. For example, if you have [...]
Yesterday, I checked the Alesis site, as I have religeously about once a fortnight, for a final version of the new drivers for my Alesis Multimix Firewire audio interface. You see… I’ve had OS X 10.5 Leopard waiting in the wings for a few months, ready to be unleashed on my iMac. However, [...]
I use my Nokia 770 a lot. when I’m out and about and I don’t want to cart a laptop around, it’s a great form of internet access, if limited in a few ways. The ting that’s always got to me about it though, is t the text-entry interface. In the end, [...]
You may have noticed something new on the site if you happen to call back here fairly regularly. On the sidebar of the site, there’s now a natty little flash slideshow running, showing a random selection of my photos. Underneath, there’s a link, which takes to you an altogether more fancy setup which [...]
And so for Christmas, a new catagory for the site – Xbox Modding. In the last week, Game Stores in the UK have been selling pre-owned Xboxes (black brick Xbox 1s, not Xbox 360s!) for £19.95. A bargain if you ask me! A few years ago, when I got my Xbox 360, [...]
Well! I had a request a while back from somebody on a previous thread to ask me if the mobile broadband option provided by Three was ‘Full Internet Access’ and not just WWW access via a mobile connection. I can confirm that, after having testing my home SSH connection via the Three Mobile Broadband, it [...]
Blimey – just upgraded my iMac to 4Gb. That’s the most RAM I’ve ever had in any machine!
Not amazingly interesting, but a bit of a landmark nonetheless!
I’ve been playing (and in fact am currently) with using my N73 as a modem with my PC laptop. As I’ve said before, I’m on the Three UK mobile broadband add-on, which I wanted to use with the Nokia 770. Thing is, this weekend, I’m away from home, so got the impetus to [...]
Got my hands on somebody’s Ipod touch for the first time today. Very nice! You’ve probably already read about the iPhone and the touch everywhere, so I wont go through the features again here. Suffice to say, it’s very nice in use, and I’ll be investing in one at some point [...]
Here I go again. Praising the abilities of this technological wonder I now own…
See that image above? Click on it for bigness. It’s an image of Windows XP running inside OS X, and acting as a TVersity transcoding media server to my Xbox 360 sitting downstairs. I set this up [...]
