Archive for September, 2010
Oracle
Oh dear oh dear oh dear, what have you done Oracle – and what are you going to do next?
Since aquiring Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn in April 2009, they’ve quickly become the scourge of the open source community. First of all, they fired up their team of lawyers to go after Google over an alleged copyright and patent infringement of its Java technology.
Location based Social Networking
Posted by gavomatic57 in Internet, iOS, Thoughts, Utilities on September 28, 2010
Facebook, the ever-present rider of bandwagons has recently waded into the murky world of location-based social networking services, lining itself up against the likes of Foursquare and Gowala.
Flash Redirection – an Apple patent application
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS, News, Thoughts on September 28, 2010
It is no secret that smartphone-based photography is gaining traction and as of today, the iPhone (3G, 3GS and 4) has 33,353,609 photo’s on Flickr. The ability to take a shot and upload it straight to the internet to share with everyone is compelling. Add the availability of apps like Hipstamatic to give your iPhone shots a completely different look and feel and you’ve got an incredible combination.
Harley & photographing kittens
Posted by gavomatic57 in Photography, Thoughts, Wales on September 26, 2010
It’s been a quiet week at Techbeast towers, mainly because I’ve been having some time off work with my wife and we’ve just welcomed our newest member of the family – Harley.
This weeks bloggery September 25, 2010
Posted by gavomatic57 in News on September 25, 2010
Clipbored Here’s a quick shout out to some friends of mine. They’re in the business of writing and producing comedy sketches and so far they’ve got some good stuff out on the internet for you to watch. This weeks bloggery September 18, 2010 Gran Turismo 5 Gran Turismo 5 is nearly here, so I thought [...]
Clipbored
Posted by gavomatic57 in Internet, Odds & Ends on September 20, 2010
Here’s a quick shout out to some friends of mine. They’re in the business of writing and producing comedy sketches and so far they’ve got some good stuff out on the internet for you to watch.
This weeks bloggery September 18, 2010
Posted by gavomatic57 in News on September 18, 2010
Gran Turismo 5 Gran Turismo 5 is nearly here, so I thought I’d start collecting together the trailers that catch my eye. The one above shows the weather effects…very impressed. Here’s the E3 trailer More later… More »Powered by Bookmarkify™ Switch to Webkit in Konqueror If you feel as though you are missing out on some [...]
Gran Turismo 5
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, Playstation 3 on September 18, 2010
Gran Turismo 5 is nearly here, so I thought I’d start collecting together the trailers that catch my eye. The one above shows the weather effects…very impressed. Here’s the E3 trailer More later…
Switch to Webkit in Konqueror
Posted by gavomatic57 in Kubuntu on September 17, 2010
If you feel as though you are missing out on some of the Webkit love in KDE4, you may be interested to know that you can switch Konqueror’s rendering engine to Webkit with a few easy steps.
Internet Explorer 6 – The Case Against
Posted by gavomatic57 in Internet on September 15, 2010
The UK public sector are still using Internet Explorer 6 and the rest of the internet isn’t happy.
Released in 2001, shortly after the launch of Windows XP, IE6 played no small part in building XP’s reputation for being a complete and utter sieve and a security liability.
Nikon D7000
Posted by gavomatic57 in Gear, Photography on September 15, 2010
Nikon announced a new D-SLR today and it’s looking like a suitable replacement for my D80.
The Edwardian Family Album
Posted by gavomatic57 in Gear, Photography, Thoughts on September 11, 2010
Here’s a great programme by the BBC for anyone who likes their photography “old”. The programme looks at the era where the Box Brownie brought photography to pretty much everyone.
iWork 09 Activation issues
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX on September 11, 2010
Apple have removed the need for a software key for their boxed versions of iWork 09. Unfortunately if you’ve gone out and bought a boxed version after enjoying the one month trial you may run into an issue.
The Road
Posted by gavomatic57 in Movies, Odds & Ends on September 10, 2010
Directed by John Hillcoat, The Road is an incredibly bleak tale of a man and his son fighting to survive a world where civilisation as we know it has ended. It doesn’t go into detail about how it ends – in fact the trailer gives more information on that than the movie does – it just offers a very frank, gritty and depressingly realistic view of what may happen when it does.
iOS 4.1
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS, iPhone & iPod on September 9, 2010
The newest iteration of the iPhone OS arrived with a bit of a whimper around here. I don’t know whether it was a timezone thing or an error in judgement but the big new features in iOS 4.1 were either absent or unusable.
Pro HDR – iPhone
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS, Photography, Utilities on September 6, 2010
I previously mentioned that iOS4.1 was going to bring HDR to the iPhone. Well, thanks to the app store it is already here…for a price.
Selling Prints
Posted by gavomatic57 in Photography on September 4, 2010
My dear wife can be very useful sometimes. She’s been talking to local businesses whilst brandishing a collection of my photos. Turns out they like them very much and one of them is interested in selling my prints. I won’t say too much about it now for fear of hexing the whole thing, but needless to say I’m quite excited by this.
HDR photos in iOS4.1
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS, Photography on September 2, 2010
Oooooo! Things just got interesting. Coming next week iOS4.1 will bring bug fixes and performance improvements for the iPhone 3G, Game centre finally makes an appearance…plus…in camera HDR…on your iPhone! (or the new ipod touch) According to Jobs it takes three exposures in quick succession – one over exposed, one under and one in the middle – as you would on a normal camera. It then puts them all together for you, whilst retaining the three originals in case you want to keep them.
iTunes 10
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX, Windows on September 2, 2010
Apple recently held a media event to launch some new ipods, a new Apple TV and iTunes 10. Whilst the first two seem to have been largely welcomed, the new iTunes has created some debate. For starters, they’ve changed the UI so that now the minimise, maximise and close buttons are aligned vertically and the icons for music, movies, apps etc are devoid of colour. Whilst I like black & white photography, I quite like colour in my icons…
Fotopedia Heritage – iPhone
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS, Photography, Utilities on September 2, 2010
If you struggle for inspiration from time to time, it can help to take a look at what other people have done. The Heritage app brings community-provided photos of UNESCO World Heritage sites straight to your phone. It allows you to browse by continent and country, favourite the ones you like and you can sign [...]
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