Well, got into the office this morning and two emails received related to last night's posting, that deserve a mention.
First of all was a quick note from a crazy Aussie called Mick ( allow me to explain the choice of adjective - I am a South African. By definition therefore ALL Australians are crazy. I am not sure why, it is simply a South African thing. Probably because they have been beating us at cricket and rugby more often than not over the last decade). Mick is on Tangler, and he has links to the broadest range of curiosities that I have seen in a while. Click here to see Mick's interesting list of links. From way up here in Ireland, from someone from the Southern Hemisphere, to that crazy Ozz down under - G'day Mate!!!
Next was a note from Greg Barton, CEO of Slick City Media in THE Big Apple, NYC. Greg pointed me to the original Menu Pages, of which the Irish Menu pages is a slick imitation he says - sincerest form of flattery as Greg was saying. Well, now why should the Dublin and New York City sites not have links to each other if their readers and followers hop across the pond for a holiday or business trip? Had a quick look through the New York Menu Pages and it is slick and great listings! Next time I am in the Big Apple, I sure know where I will be finding my restaurant guide! Had a quick look for African ethnic restaurants (I may be a white African, but it is and will always remain my birth place!). If there are any other really good restaurant listings out there - let me know. Perhaps we can create a mash-up with all the best listings for the frequent traveler or adventurous vacationers? Meanwhile I will put the links onto my Links on this page!
Isn't the Internet just great?!?!
Wednesday 30 May 2007
Tuesday 29 May 2007
Webware Software Nominations
Feels more like Ireland these days - had been raining a bit the last two weeks. Life has been hectic over the last two weeks since I last updated the blog. Have changed direction from wireless broadband to green energy, but more about that in the future.
I received email from two of my programs that I use - Me.dium and BlogRvr, to say they have been nominated for the WebWare 100 2007 awards! So, being the obliging user that I am I promptly toodled over and voted. I am way behind with everything at present. I have only just updated my podcasts this week and am catching up on all of May. Oh lord, my ears are ringing.
Anyhow, on to other things. A friend from South Africa sent me a link to an 8 minute video from South Africa on YouTube titled 'Battle at Kruger'. It is spectacular if you love wildlife, as any self respecting South African does. Some more great videos at the same area. One about poking a big cat (Leopard released back into the wild, and it got a bit upset...) and you should not do that to a leopard, unless you are willing to bear the consequences. And consequences there were alright.
On to WebWare nominations in the social networking section. Most of them are all old familiar friends, LinkedIn, Me.dium, FaceBook, Friendster, Bebo etc. One curiously named one that caught my attention was Squidoo. They allow users to create 'lenses' into their world and passions. You can build your own lense, or just browse others'. If you go over onto the site, look in the bottom right hand corner for 'things you did not know'. One of them is 'Where to find weird and whacky news'. Cute site. Worth browsing.
Next is Tangler. Now this is an interesting one. I haven't spent much time on it, but it seems to have a discussion forum on testing of Web 2.0 sites that I have never heard about anywhere. THAT is going to keep me busy for a while. LOTS of fascinating stuff! Anyhow. It is linked on my del.icio.us links page if you miss it. I will definitely be exploring some of these.
Now here is another one that most of us could use at some stage or another - Yelp! It is a review of restaurants or shops by the people for the people! Only one teensy weensy little problem. It is American only at this stage. There is one for Ireland though called MenuPages. It is super! It is not as extensive in terms of coverage as Yelp is trying to do, but for eating out, it is great! Would it not be great to get a site that links them all together?
It is great to see that Web 2.0 IPO's are successful again. Blinx has made its debut on the boards and seems to be going strong. That is fantastic because I think it is a great site with real products, not just proposals of what it is going to do. I still browse it regularly and I still think it is great. To me it is the Google of video.
OK, that is it for today! Happy browsing! And, if you get bored, head over to Virb and sample some music, or just go Stumble, else watch some videos on Blinx!
I received email from two of my programs that I use - Me.dium and BlogRvr, to say they have been nominated for the WebWare 100 2007 awards! So, being the obliging user that I am I promptly toodled over and voted. I am way behind with everything at present. I have only just updated my podcasts this week and am catching up on all of May. Oh lord, my ears are ringing.
Anyhow, on to other things. A friend from South Africa sent me a link to an 8 minute video from South Africa on YouTube titled 'Battle at Kruger'. It is spectacular if you love wildlife, as any self respecting South African does. Some more great videos at the same area. One about poking a big cat (Leopard released back into the wild, and it got a bit upset...) and you should not do that to a leopard, unless you are willing to bear the consequences. And consequences there were alright.
On to WebWare nominations in the social networking section. Most of them are all old familiar friends, LinkedIn, Me.dium, FaceBook, Friendster, Bebo etc. One curiously named one that caught my attention was Squidoo. They allow users to create 'lenses' into their world and passions. You can build your own lense, or just browse others'. If you go over onto the site, look in the bottom right hand corner for 'things you did not know'. One of them is 'Where to find weird and whacky news'. Cute site. Worth browsing.
Next is Tangler. Now this is an interesting one. I haven't spent much time on it, but it seems to have a discussion forum on testing of Web 2.0 sites that I have never heard about anywhere. THAT is going to keep me busy for a while. LOTS of fascinating stuff! Anyhow. It is linked on my del.icio.us links page if you miss it. I will definitely be exploring some of these.
Now here is another one that most of us could use at some stage or another - Yelp! It is a review of restaurants or shops by the people for the people! Only one teensy weensy little problem. It is American only at this stage. There is one for Ireland though called MenuPages. It is super! It is not as extensive in terms of coverage as Yelp is trying to do, but for eating out, it is great! Would it not be great to get a site that links them all together?
It is great to see that Web 2.0 IPO's are successful again. Blinx has made its debut on the boards and seems to be going strong. That is fantastic because I think it is a great site with real products, not just proposals of what it is going to do. I still browse it regularly and I still think it is great. To me it is the Google of video.
OK, that is it for today! Happy browsing! And, if you get bored, head over to Virb and sample some music, or just go Stumble, else watch some videos on Blinx!
Thursday 24 May 2007
So I didn't quite manage to be as productive as I intended
Just a quick note:
CNet's Webware 100 nominations for Web 2.0 applications is out.
Categories - Browsing, Communications, Community, Data, Entertainment, Media, Mobile, Productivity, Publishing and Reference. Here is your opportunity to let YOUR vote count!
Go and browse and cast your vote for your favourite applications.
Ah go on, you know you want to....
CNet's Webware 100 nominations for Web 2.0 applications is out.
Categories - Browsing, Communications, Community, Data, Entertainment, Media, Mobile, Productivity, Publishing and Reference. Here is your opportunity to let YOUR vote count!
Go and browse and cast your vote for your favourite applications.
Ah go on, you know you want to....
Tuesday 15 May 2007
Another week gone by
Tempus fugit is the time honoured old Latin saying. Well, it sure did this last week. I have no idea where the time went. Between getting back from Prague to Ireland midnight on Thursday and a wedding anniversary on Monday (I remembered, I'm OK..), the time flew past. weather has been mixed with fair bit of rain. Not complaining though because it saves me from having to water the garden!
I have spent some time looking for a way to 'spruce up' my tired old Windows XP interface other than just changing the wallpaper all the time. After all, XP is 5 years+. However, I'm nervous about Vista as there are some issues with laptops and batteries that seem to be the current debate, plus I'm not sure my programs I use are all Vista capable and I only have 512Mb of RAM on my trusty old laptop. Thus, no upgrade just yet, although for the past 25 years that I have been using computers, I have tended to be at the forefront. The last time I lagged behind was switching from DOS 6 to Windows 3.1 (Didn't like the idea of using icons, pretty much like the Linux community today, but I've mellowed). Therefore the million dollar question was what to do?
So, I found this nifty section on CNet video that explained how to 'upgrade'without changing your Operating System using WindowsX (one of my early blogs). However, over time I got frustrated with my system seemingly slowing down and I eventually bowed out and reinstalled Windows a few weeks back.
So, what to do?
OK, so today I installed some Yahoo! Widgets. Then I set Windows Taskbar to 'autohide'. My desktop was cluttered with Icons, and it looked yucky. Tacky and worn. With my new widgets I now changed the settings on the Desktop to not show the Desktop Icons anymore (right click/Arrange Icons By/Show Desktop Icons). Result? A neat clean desktop with some neat widgets showing the weather in Dublin, some stock ticker results, a small window showing Flickr photos, and of course the obligatory analog clock. Then you go and browse the Widget Gallery and it is mind blowing stuff. There is just so much, your head spins. But, what the heck, you can easily delete them again, so this is like 'window shopping' in the 'Yahoo! widget mall'!
OK, I must admit that I then decided that I wanted to change the WindowsXP theme for a more Vista look, mostly for my taskbar, but I wasn't interested again in going through the whole system file change thing. One small problem. Windows will prevent you from loading 'unapproved' Theme files. So, you have to modify the uxtheme.dll file in /windows/system32. There is a file changer that will do that to enable it to accept other Theme files. It is a bit risky, so I am not going to detail that here at present, until I am satisfied that my system is stable. If you want to you can run a search on Lifehacker. Anyhow, then I found some Theme files, and found that I could not install them from Desktop/Properties but had to select the Theme then open it for the system to 'install' it into Desktop. First time round I had some problems, but after a second reboot, it worked! So, now I have a neat desktop again, widgets to do stuff and the Vista Aero look and feel for my desktop. Great! And, it still feels 'quick'! One of the things I recently did was to defragment my hard drive (I do that weekly) and then use a security utility to wipe the free space by overwriting 'deleted' files on the hard drive to clean it up (Windows only deletes the reference to the data, it doesn't actually delete it from the hard disk, which is why you can 'undelete' files). And, as my drive was getting a bit old, I also ran chkdsk /R from the command prompts to check the hard disk for errors and fix any problems it finds. It can only do it on a reboot and it takes up to an hour depending on your disk size, so be sure to have a cuppa and something to read if you do it. But, the results are magic. My disk performs as new again!
Anyhow, Stumbled again, and found a few interesting ones. Browsed Lifehacker's blog again and he covered an interesting utility called 'Pistaschio' that allows you to tweak Windows.
Also found a site with some beautiful and unusual images taken in China, an area that few of us will ever see, and scenes that even fewer of us will get to. These images capture some spectacular moments in time that are worth browsing. I 'Dugg' it with Digg and saved it in my Del.icio.us list. All these magnificent images are making my fingers itch to get my hands on a really good camera again. I currently have a Canon Powershot A90, which is great for the price, but looking at some of the pictures people have taken, and some of the scenes I sometimes see early morning in particular when I'm driving to work, I am getting the photography bug again.
So, now I am using Pixmania.com to hunt for cameras again. Love the idea of a good Canon or Nikon, but previously had a Pentax, but also used to dream of an Olympus. However, the Olympus does not seem to have the same features and ISO range as the others.
I am still indecisive and browsing/windows shopping! Any advice, feel free to drop me a line. I am going to head over to Flickr and have a look see at some of the comments there and perhaps Yahoo! Groups' photography section and DPReview.com too.
I have spent some time looking for a way to 'spruce up' my tired old Windows XP interface other than just changing the wallpaper all the time. After all, XP is 5 years+. However, I'm nervous about Vista as there are some issues with laptops and batteries that seem to be the current debate, plus I'm not sure my programs I use are all Vista capable and I only have 512Mb of RAM on my trusty old laptop. Thus, no upgrade just yet, although for the past 25 years that I have been using computers, I have tended to be at the forefront. The last time I lagged behind was switching from DOS 6 to Windows 3.1 (Didn't like the idea of using icons, pretty much like the Linux community today, but I've mellowed). Therefore the million dollar question was what to do?
So, I found this nifty section on CNet video that explained how to 'upgrade'without changing your Operating System using WindowsX (one of my early blogs). However, over time I got frustrated with my system seemingly slowing down and I eventually bowed out and reinstalled Windows a few weeks back.
So, what to do?
OK, so today I installed some Yahoo! Widgets. Then I set Windows Taskbar to 'autohide'. My desktop was cluttered with Icons, and it looked yucky. Tacky and worn. With my new widgets I now changed the settings on the Desktop to not show the Desktop Icons anymore (right click/Arrange Icons By/Show Desktop Icons). Result? A neat clean desktop with some neat widgets showing the weather in Dublin, some stock ticker results, a small window showing Flickr photos, and of course the obligatory analog clock. Then you go and browse the Widget Gallery and it is mind blowing stuff. There is just so much, your head spins. But, what the heck, you can easily delete them again, so this is like 'window shopping' in the 'Yahoo! widget mall'!
OK, I must admit that I then decided that I wanted to change the WindowsXP theme for a more Vista look, mostly for my taskbar, but I wasn't interested again in going through the whole system file change thing. One small problem. Windows will prevent you from loading 'unapproved' Theme files. So, you have to modify the uxtheme.dll file in /windows/system32. There is a file changer that will do that to enable it to accept other Theme files. It is a bit risky, so I am not going to detail that here at present, until I am satisfied that my system is stable. If you want to you can run a search on Lifehacker. Anyhow, then I found some Theme files, and found that I could not install them from Desktop/Properties but had to select the Theme then open it for the system to 'install' it into Desktop. First time round I had some problems, but after a second reboot, it worked! So, now I have a neat desktop again, widgets to do stuff and the Vista Aero look and feel for my desktop. Great! And, it still feels 'quick'! One of the things I recently did was to defragment my hard drive (I do that weekly) and then use a security utility to wipe the free space by overwriting 'deleted' files on the hard drive to clean it up (Windows only deletes the reference to the data, it doesn't actually delete it from the hard disk, which is why you can 'undelete' files). And, as my drive was getting a bit old, I also ran chkdsk /R from the command prompts to check the hard disk for errors and fix any problems it finds. It can only do it on a reboot and it takes up to an hour depending on your disk size, so be sure to have a cuppa and something to read if you do it. But, the results are magic. My disk performs as new again!
Anyhow, Stumbled again, and found a few interesting ones. Browsed Lifehacker's blog again and he covered an interesting utility called 'Pistaschio' that allows you to tweak Windows.
Also found a site with some beautiful and unusual images taken in China, an area that few of us will ever see, and scenes that even fewer of us will get to. These images capture some spectacular moments in time that are worth browsing. I 'Dugg' it with Digg and saved it in my Del.icio.us list. All these magnificent images are making my fingers itch to get my hands on a really good camera again. I currently have a Canon Powershot A90, which is great for the price, but looking at some of the pictures people have taken, and some of the scenes I sometimes see early morning in particular when I'm driving to work, I am getting the photography bug again.
So, now I am using Pixmania.com to hunt for cameras again. Love the idea of a good Canon or Nikon, but previously had a Pentax, but also used to dream of an Olympus. However, the Olympus does not seem to have the same features and ISO range as the others.
I am still indecisive and browsing/windows shopping! Any advice, feel free to drop me a line. I am going to head over to Flickr and have a look see at some of the comments there and perhaps Yahoo! Groups' photography section and DPReview.com too.
Wednesday 9 May 2007
Greetings from Prague
Mixed weather in Prague this week. Threatening rain all the time and chilly, similar to Ireland. According to the cab driver that brought me in from the Airport, the weather pattern had been very similar to Ireland. Must be a European thing. When I was here a few weeks back, the local pizzeria that I seem to be frequenting when I go foraging for food, had the outdoor section open and jammed with clients. Last night and tonight the outdoors section is closed and the doors are shut to keep out the draft! A bit of a change...
Anyhow, I am staying in the Andels Hotel in Prague, if you are interested. Very modern hotel, but well located and extremely functional in terms of design. I don't mind 'modern', but all too often it is an excuse for minimalist design cramped into a broom cupboard. I weigh 202kg or 16.5 stone and am 6'1.5". I don't do cramped too well.
Anyhow, been spending my time catching up on my podcasts. Had enjoyed Leo and Amber on Net@Nite so much that I subscribed to the Podcast on FeedDemon, so I had some back editions to catch up on. In the latest edition, they finally copped onto Stumblr!
Another interesting blog that BlogRvr 'fetched' for me, was LifeHacker. If you are technically minded and looking for ways and means to enhance your technical life, this is just the site for you!
You know what? I have few friends, and it has never bothered me, because I am not the gregarious type. I prefer a few good quality friends of like minded people, rather than be surrounded by people who are just acquaintances. Now don't get me wrong, I am not anti-social or a snob (I think?.... or am I perhaps?...hmm.. leave that question unresolved at present), it is just the way it is. And it has never bothered me. My wife has lots of friends from childhood and school still. Prime difference is she lives about 3 miles from where she grew up. I am about 6,000 miles away. Well, it has never bothered me until I started testing all these sites. And Virb, like other social nerdwork sites... oops sorry, NETwork sites, have all these 'Friends' bits and links. And mine stubbornly remains empty. *Sigh* I am the nerdy little kid in the corner of the playground eating his little sandwich. NOW it is starting to bother me. John has 4,301 friends, click here to view all his friends, it says. Why? Why do I want to look at his friends, unless I am one?!?! OK, now I am doing my sulky kid in the playground corner act, I know, I know. Maybe this has not been such a good idea. Next thing you know, I am going to start feeling LONELY because of all the friends I DON'T have! I feel better now, I see some people ahve viewed my profile. That would have scared them! Now I feel lots better. If I can't have friends, I'll just scare them!
Anyhow, enough ranting, lets ramble! Has your memory been failing recently, or are you just into self-improvement and you want to help exercise the grey cells? Head on over to MindTools. They will have just the right medicine!
OK, I've linked my Del.icio.us account to my blog, so if you're really really bored, feel free to check out the things that fascinate me (either they fascinate me or they're work related. You go figure which is which...). I'm really getting into this Web 2.0 thing, despite the friends thing that bugs me just a tiny little bit, not much really.
Some humour - someone that was interviewed by Amber and Leo - Doug from DoogToones. These are Flash based cartoons that Doug creates. Some are quite funny plus his selection of other sites with humour. That should lighten up your day!
OK, last one for tonight - lets end on some beauty again. Recommendation from StumbleUpon tonight is TimeCatcher. Magnificent photos from various places in the world. Stunning is all I can say. It reminds us that despite the poverty, war and misery that man has created on this earth, there is still so much beauty in the midst of it all. Enjoy.
Anyhow, I am staying in the Andels Hotel in Prague, if you are interested. Very modern hotel, but well located and extremely functional in terms of design. I don't mind 'modern', but all too often it is an excuse for minimalist design cramped into a broom cupboard. I weigh 202kg or 16.5 stone and am 6'1.5". I don't do cramped too well.
Anyhow, been spending my time catching up on my podcasts. Had enjoyed Leo and Amber on Net@Nite so much that I subscribed to the Podcast on FeedDemon, so I had some back editions to catch up on. In the latest edition, they finally copped onto Stumblr!
Another interesting blog that BlogRvr 'fetched' for me, was LifeHacker. If you are technically minded and looking for ways and means to enhance your technical life, this is just the site for you!
You know what? I have few friends, and it has never bothered me, because I am not the gregarious type. I prefer a few good quality friends of like minded people, rather than be surrounded by people who are just acquaintances. Now don't get me wrong, I am not anti-social or a snob (I think?.... or am I perhaps?...hmm.. leave that question unresolved at present), it is just the way it is. And it has never bothered me. My wife has lots of friends from childhood and school still. Prime difference is she lives about 3 miles from where she grew up. I am about 6,000 miles away. Well, it has never bothered me until I started testing all these sites. And Virb, like other social nerdwork sites... oops sorry, NETwork sites, have all these 'Friends' bits and links. And mine stubbornly remains empty. *Sigh* I am the nerdy little kid in the corner of the playground eating his little sandwich. NOW it is starting to bother me. John has 4,301 friends, click here to view all his friends, it says. Why? Why do I want to look at his friends, unless I am one?!?! OK, now I am doing my sulky kid in the playground corner act, I know, I know. Maybe this has not been such a good idea. Next thing you know, I am going to start feeling LONELY because of all the friends I DON'T have! I feel better now, I see some people ahve viewed my profile. That would have scared them! Now I feel lots better. If I can't have friends, I'll just scare them!
Anyhow, enough ranting, lets ramble! Has your memory been failing recently, or are you just into self-improvement and you want to help exercise the grey cells? Head on over to MindTools. They will have just the right medicine!
OK, I've linked my Del.icio.us account to my blog, so if you're really really bored, feel free to check out the things that fascinate me (either they fascinate me or they're work related. You go figure which is which...). I'm really getting into this Web 2.0 thing, despite the friends thing that bugs me just a tiny little bit, not much really.
Some humour - someone that was interviewed by Amber and Leo - Doug from DoogToones. These are Flash based cartoons that Doug creates. Some are quite funny plus his selection of other sites with humour. That should lighten up your day!
OK, last one for tonight - lets end on some beauty again. Recommendation from StumbleUpon tonight is TimeCatcher. Magnificent photos from various places in the world. Stunning is all I can say. It reminds us that despite the poverty, war and misery that man has created on this earth, there is still so much beauty in the midst of it all. Enjoy.
Monday 7 May 2007
Posting photos is exhausting
Well, I've spent a lot of time now linking all my bits and pieces on Virb, updating my photos on Flickr, and I am exhausted. It is the end of a long week-end in Ireland. The weather had been generally pretty good this week-end, so it meant lots of activity.
OK, I have not Stumbled much this week-end, however, I found some curious blogs, using my new FireFox addon, BlogRovr.
One thing though, I am really enjoying the Net@Nite podcast with Leo Laporte and Amber McArthur. It is rapidly becoming my favourite show to listen to. They give some really nice coverage of various websites and technologies.
Not quite my scene, but if you read the various girly magazines with the latest Hollywood gossip, here is one for you, Socialite. I browsed through it, and if you are interested in what celebrities are up to (I'm boring I'm afraid, it has no interest for me, but my wife is bound to love this one...), then this should definitely go onto your Favourites list.
One I Stumbled:- Now, if you've moved out of the house and do not live with a partner and are not married, but would like someone to nag you, here is just the page for you! HassleMe! Ah go on! Read it! You KNOW you want to.... Go on... be a little devil... just a quick peek...
And the very next one on my Stumble was clever advertising photos. There really are GOOD! They are all outdoor advertising and they look really good! I smiled, and again and again.
Back with my new bestest friend - BlogRovr:- Very much in the vein of Socialite, is PopSugar. I am not good at this Hollywood celebrity stuff. If you are, drop us a comment on which one you prefer?
I will be a bit scarce this week, as I am off to Prague again for another conference. This time on my standard topic of Wireless Broadband. I might do a quick update during the week from Prague, just for fun, but broadband in hotels is pretty pricey.
OK, I have not Stumbled much this week-end, however, I found some curious blogs, using my new FireFox addon, BlogRovr.
One thing though, I am really enjoying the Net@Nite podcast with Leo Laporte and Amber McArthur. It is rapidly becoming my favourite show to listen to. They give some really nice coverage of various websites and technologies.
Not quite my scene, but if you read the various girly magazines with the latest Hollywood gossip, here is one for you, Socialite. I browsed through it, and if you are interested in what celebrities are up to (I'm boring I'm afraid, it has no interest for me, but my wife is bound to love this one...), then this should definitely go onto your Favourites list.
One I Stumbled:- Now, if you've moved out of the house and do not live with a partner and are not married, but would like someone to nag you, here is just the page for you! HassleMe! Ah go on! Read it! You KNOW you want to.... Go on... be a little devil... just a quick peek...
And the very next one on my Stumble was clever advertising photos. There really are GOOD! They are all outdoor advertising and they look really good! I smiled, and again and again.
Back with my new bestest friend - BlogRovr:- Very much in the vein of Socialite, is PopSugar. I am not good at this Hollywood celebrity stuff. If you are, drop us a comment on which one you prefer?
I will be a bit scarce this week, as I am off to Prague again for another conference. This time on my standard topic of Wireless Broadband. I might do a quick update during the week from Prague, just for fun, but broadband in hotels is pretty pricey.
Friday 4 May 2007
I am Flickr'ed, too!
OK, end of another beautiful week in Ireland. Spent some time Stumbling. Again. And, as seems to happen so often I landed on a photography site (I set Photography as one of my preferences in Stumbler), so I decided that if they are going to flaunt it, I might as well join them. So I did. Some of my many images of travels across Ireland are now available on Flickr for your enjoyment. I will upload some more over the week-end.
Having had to spend two days last week reinstalling Windows XP and reloading many of my programmes, one of the problems that I suddenly faced was synchronising my Sansa MP3 player with Windows Media Player this week. So, I decided that I definitely did not like the new interface that Microsoft had put into it as what used to be a simple process had now become painful when I wanted to update my Sansa with my latest podcasts. Must be a byproduct of some in-house genius trying to make it more Zune-able. So off I went in search of a simple tool that would allow me to sync again. I could set up Briefcase on my desktop, but I was now highly annoyed with Big Brother. And I found something very simple to set up and use - GoodSync. Moreover, best of all, it is free, gratis and for nothing! My kind of tool. Why could the rest of life not be so simple. First I told it which folder I wanted to sync (My Downloaded Podcasts) and what the folder was I wanted to sync to. Selected my Sansa MP3 player with ease and the Music folder on it. I then selected that I wanted it to sync whenever I connected my Sansa (the only reason I connect it to the computer is when I want to sync). And off it went! Brilliant! I can highly recommend it.
Then, next I had been browsing around some other blogsters. Following my earlier overview of Christoffer Allan of Alactrity's page, was similar site that did a summary overview of video websites - the DVGuru! A great overview to get a quick summary overview of the most popular sites and their good and bad points. I've commented on a number of them already, but this is just a neat summary.
Next, given all my comments anout photography and my trip to Flickr - here is the page and photographs that did it. Absolutely gorgeous images with clean crisp colourful images. I have linked it to the slideshow so you can see them all.
One of the problems that you have if you're in Ireland, is that although Amazon will happily sell me books, CD's etc. However, when it gets to electronics - nada. Nothing. Will not ship to Ireland. However, there is a site that has great cheap prices for electronics and ships to Ireland - Pixmania! They are present in a number of countries. I checked prices for camera's and laptops, and they compared extremely well to the local discount stores and they ship for delivery within days. That was great! More online window shopping for me to do - drool over some great cameras whilst I battle to make up my mind.
Then I found a curious little add on for Firefox which I will explore a bit more - called BlogRovr. Your faithfull cyberdog that fetches blogs that match what you're browsing. Haven't done mcuh with it just yet.
And the reason I haven't been able to get round it? I am back on Virb. I decided to give it a bash, and guess what? I got it to work tonight after right clicked and messed around with the settings. I right clicked on the video, clicked Settings, clicked the Folder Icon, changed the space it can use to 10Mb, clicked OK, hit refresh, then right clicked on the video and clicked Play. After that it was plain sailing - they all work! Watched a trailer, and really enjoyed it. The quality was excellent (I have a 3Mbps wireless broadband connection at home), and the size was more comfortable than most other sites I have visited recently. More important, Matt from Virb came back today, not having given up on me, and said they were working on it. I was most delighted to tell him I got it to work! It streamed great and the buffering worked very well. So I decided I might as well join it and test it more. I did. JeremyNel is now officially on Virb. I have linked in this Blog, as well as my Flickr account. I must admit, I kind of like it. I can understand why Leo Laporte and Amber McArthur on Twit.tv liked it. I think, like StumbleUpon.com, this can become one of my favourites.
OK, Friday night, I am tired, so that is it for tonight. There is still so much I want to share with you, but it will just have to wait. I will make some more time over the week-end!
Having had to spend two days last week reinstalling Windows XP and reloading many of my programmes, one of the problems that I suddenly faced was synchronising my Sansa MP3 player with Windows Media Player this week. So, I decided that I definitely did not like the new interface that Microsoft had put into it as what used to be a simple process had now become painful when I wanted to update my Sansa with my latest podcasts. Must be a byproduct of some in-house genius trying to make it more Zune-able. So off I went in search of a simple tool that would allow me to sync again. I could set up Briefcase on my desktop, but I was now highly annoyed with Big Brother. And I found something very simple to set up and use - GoodSync. Moreover, best of all, it is free, gratis and for nothing! My kind of tool. Why could the rest of life not be so simple. First I told it which folder I wanted to sync (My Downloaded Podcasts) and what the folder was I wanted to sync to. Selected my Sansa MP3 player with ease and the Music folder on it. I then selected that I wanted it to sync whenever I connected my Sansa (the only reason I connect it to the computer is when I want to sync). And off it went! Brilliant! I can highly recommend it.
Then, next I had been browsing around some other blogsters. Following my earlier overview of Christoffer Allan of Alactrity's page, was similar site that did a summary overview of video websites - the DVGuru! A great overview to get a quick summary overview of the most popular sites and their good and bad points. I've commented on a number of them already, but this is just a neat summary.
Next, given all my comments anout photography and my trip to Flickr - here is the page and photographs that did it. Absolutely gorgeous images with clean crisp colourful images. I have linked it to the slideshow so you can see them all.
One of the problems that you have if you're in Ireland, is that although Amazon will happily sell me books, CD's etc. However, when it gets to electronics - nada. Nothing. Will not ship to Ireland. However, there is a site that has great cheap prices for electronics and ships to Ireland - Pixmania! They are present in a number of countries. I checked prices for camera's and laptops, and they compared extremely well to the local discount stores and they ship for delivery within days. That was great! More online window shopping for me to do - drool over some great cameras whilst I battle to make up my mind.
Then I found a curious little add on for Firefox which I will explore a bit more - called BlogRovr. Your faithfull cyberdog that fetches blogs that match what you're browsing. Haven't done mcuh with it just yet.
And the reason I haven't been able to get round it? I am back on Virb. I decided to give it a bash, and guess what? I got it to work tonight after right clicked and messed around with the settings. I right clicked on the video, clicked Settings, clicked the Folder Icon, changed the space it can use to 10Mb, clicked OK, hit refresh, then right clicked on the video and clicked Play. After that it was plain sailing - they all work! Watched a trailer, and really enjoyed it. The quality was excellent (I have a 3Mbps wireless broadband connection at home), and the size was more comfortable than most other sites I have visited recently. More important, Matt from Virb came back today, not having given up on me, and said they were working on it. I was most delighted to tell him I got it to work! It streamed great and the buffering worked very well. So I decided I might as well join it and test it more. I did. JeremyNel is now officially on Virb. I have linked in this Blog, as well as my Flickr account. I must admit, I kind of like it. I can understand why Leo Laporte and Amber McArthur on Twit.tv liked it. I think, like StumbleUpon.com, this can become one of my favourites.
OK, Friday night, I am tired, so that is it for tonight. There is still so much I want to share with you, but it will just have to wait. I will make some more time over the week-end!
Thursday 3 May 2007
Virb is virby awake!
I guess I may have to eat some of my words tonight. Last night I commented on the problems I had with getting the video on Virb to stream. Well, guess what? I just received an email from Matt at Virb a while back asking if he can help. Now, THAT is impressive! :-)
Well I tried it again tonight and am getting the same effect in both IE 7 and FireFox, then realised I can get some seconds of it. I have sent Matt some screenshots and info, because I suspect it may have something to do with Flash 8.0 because I have tried it even with my firewall disabled. So, it is still not working for me, but I am very sure that I will be able to report soon enough that it is working, if the service so far is anything to go by! Will keep you posted.
So for tonight I went Stumbling again. Found this site with a really a great name - Grumblebum! One of the utilities allows you to convert video, sound or other media files to any other format! There was another one that I reviewed earlier on 11 April - Zamzar, that does the similar thing. Must say that on a quick overview, there does not appear to be any significant variance. So remember it if you find yourself stuck and you want to convert some files.
So, after stumbling for a little while I decided that I still have an unfinished review of the 25 Start-ups to watch from CNN Money. So back I went and the next on the list was BlipTV. Nice design. Their mission? According to them: "Our mission is to make this even easier by taking care of all the problems a budding videoblogger, podcaster or Internet TV producer would run into. We'll take care of the servers, the software, the workflow, the advertising and the distribution. Your focus should be on creativity." The content is split between Episodes and Shows. I decided to have a look at some episodes of the Ministry of Unknown Science video podcasts. Very amusing. Not an unusual site I guess as various others are doing similar things, but I guess that if they support the various different formats they state they do, they will enable more people to use their service for hosting their shows, for people like you and me to watch. CNN commented: "A deal is already signed with Web TV service Akimbo, which lets producers send their videos to TV sets." So, this may be an interesting one to watch.
I am being distracted a bit by my wife looking at Grand Designs on Channel 4. She is fascinated by the houses people build or refurbish.
Anyhow. I decided to Google "Social Networks" and came across a few interesting blogs that discuss Social Networks. One that I enjoyed most, was from Christopher Allan of Life with Alactrity. He has signed up with various networks and gives a great detailed overview of the UI (User Interface) and ease of use of each of them on the link I gave. One of the first he details is Ryze, which I had not yet come across. I clicked through to it, but it seems very similar to LinkedIn that I use, except that LinkedIn is more business networking oriented, and does not use the term 'Friends' which is very popular with social networking sites and tools, such as Twitter and Jaiku.
What is interesting when you read other people's blogs, is that we all have a few favourites, happily browse around with others, but seldom delve deeply into too many. And I suppose that is the reason for so many different sites surviving - each appeals to something within us and when we find the one or two that generally hits the sweet spot of accord within us, we settle down with them and only depart when pushed or prodded by peer pressure or other influences.
I guess if you're reading this, you may still be browsing, or you just enjoy finding something different every now and then! Happy hunting, and, if you do find something interesting, please feel free to share it via a comment.
Well I tried it again tonight and am getting the same effect in both IE 7 and FireFox, then realised I can get some seconds of it. I have sent Matt some screenshots and info, because I suspect it may have something to do with Flash 8.0 because I have tried it even with my firewall disabled. So, it is still not working for me, but I am very sure that I will be able to report soon enough that it is working, if the service so far is anything to go by! Will keep you posted.
So for tonight I went Stumbling again. Found this site with a really a great name - Grumblebum! One of the utilities allows you to convert video, sound or other media files to any other format! There was another one that I reviewed earlier on 11 April - Zamzar, that does the similar thing. Must say that on a quick overview, there does not appear to be any significant variance. So remember it if you find yourself stuck and you want to convert some files.
So, after stumbling for a little while I decided that I still have an unfinished review of the 25 Start-ups to watch from CNN Money. So back I went and the next on the list was BlipTV. Nice design. Their mission? According to them: "Our mission is to make this even easier by taking care of all the problems a budding videoblogger, podcaster or Internet TV producer would run into. We'll take care of the servers, the software, the workflow, the advertising and the distribution. Your focus should be on creativity." The content is split between Episodes and Shows. I decided to have a look at some episodes of the Ministry of Unknown Science video podcasts. Very amusing. Not an unusual site I guess as various others are doing similar things, but I guess that if they support the various different formats they state they do, they will enable more people to use their service for hosting their shows, for people like you and me to watch. CNN commented: "A deal is already signed with Web TV service Akimbo, which lets producers send their videos to TV sets." So, this may be an interesting one to watch.
I am being distracted a bit by my wife looking at Grand Designs on Channel 4. She is fascinated by the houses people build or refurbish.
Anyhow. I decided to Google "Social Networks" and came across a few interesting blogs that discuss Social Networks. One that I enjoyed most, was from Christopher Allan of Life with Alactrity. He has signed up with various networks and gives a great detailed overview of the UI (User Interface) and ease of use of each of them on the link I gave. One of the first he details is Ryze, which I had not yet come across. I clicked through to it, but it seems very similar to LinkedIn that I use, except that LinkedIn is more business networking oriented, and does not use the term 'Friends' which is very popular with social networking sites and tools, such as Twitter and Jaiku.
What is interesting when you read other people's blogs, is that we all have a few favourites, happily browse around with others, but seldom delve deeply into too many. And I suppose that is the reason for so many different sites surviving - each appeals to something within us and when we find the one or two that generally hits the sweet spot of accord within us, we settle down with them and only depart when pushed or prodded by peer pressure or other influences.
I guess if you're reading this, you may still be browsing, or you just enjoy finding something different every now and then! Happy hunting, and, if you do find something interesting, please feel free to share it via a comment.
Wednesday 2 May 2007
Da Vinci Code cracked - musically speaking
Stuck away in a corner of CNet's news today was a small piece on Rosslyn Chapel. Yes, THE Rosslyn Chapel of Da Vinci Code fame. It related to the code that has been cracked. Not the Da Vinci code mind, but a music code that is embedded in the roof carvings. Read the story and download the music from the Telegraph here.
Now, as promised, I am trying to be a little more diligent. OK, so I've spent some time on Virb, having a quick gander at it. Interesting. It is still in the starter phase, and as with most sites, it has major ambitions, but is only halfway there. As per my previous blog, Leo and Amber were discussing Virb extensively. Leo commented that MySpace had failed to develop since it became such a phenomenon. Sites like Virb are looking to fill the space by adding features that take up where MySpace leaves off. I must admit to not being overly familiar with MySpace, so I cannot comment. So, I shall rely on the expertise of Leo and Amber, and they were both seriously impressed with Virb. What I liked about it was that it had a nice look and feel to it, and it had some music from various bands that I was clueless about (I guess they were mostly American), but I enjoyed browsing through some of them. If you enjoy music, even if you're not quite a fan of Indie/Rock, then head over and have a look. I tried to look at some of the videos, but something didn't work for me. I got loading..loading...loading and nothing. Zip. Might be my wireless system in the house, although it doesn't have a problem with CNN and other video. Maybe it will work for you, or perhaps it just happened to be a glitch when I tried it.
Oh, headed over to Uvu again (Video site that promises to revolutionize web video with great quality). Site has been updated, and now looks like a video site, but great promises, but when you try to download the player (you have to have THEIR player), then it tells you it is not yet available. Will keep checking.
Tried to play with Joost again (managed to get an invitation to the Beta). It obviously doesn't really like my laptop, or my wireless connection. It did seem to say it needed around 512Mb of of RAM, but my guess is that 1Gb is better. The quality is pretty good, but I am still not able to really tell. The problem too is that the licenses that they have for the various programmes are split between USA only, USA and UK and Worldwide. Being out in Ireland, my choices are pretty limited. The one that I REALLY wanted to try, was National Geographic. Guess what, not available to me. *Sigh*
I must admit that I am more and more reminded of the good old days in the early nineties when Microsoft used to sell Vapourware. Concept software that wasn't developed just yet, just to see if the market was interested in it before they spent the money developing it. Sound familiar?
Anyhow, that is it for tonight. Oh, one last thing. I referred to Google's search history bit in my previous blog, based on Leo's comments on TWiT. So I went into Google and did some checking and don't worry, they are not accumulating billions of searches just yet. Have a read over on their site if you're interested. However, you need a Google Account to access it (I have an account as they host my blog...). Essentially you need the Google Toolbar installed and Page Ranking turned on. Then you can activate Web History, which will give you the stats that Leo was talking about. I can stop feeling uncomfortable now everytime I type in a search. Apologies to the folks in Google for jumping to conclusions in my earlier blog!
Now, as promised, I am trying to be a little more diligent. OK, so I've spent some time on Virb, having a quick gander at it. Interesting. It is still in the starter phase, and as with most sites, it has major ambitions, but is only halfway there. As per my previous blog, Leo and Amber were discussing Virb extensively. Leo commented that MySpace had failed to develop since it became such a phenomenon. Sites like Virb are looking to fill the space by adding features that take up where MySpace leaves off. I must admit to not being overly familiar with MySpace, so I cannot comment. So, I shall rely on the expertise of Leo and Amber, and they were both seriously impressed with Virb. What I liked about it was that it had a nice look and feel to it, and it had some music from various bands that I was clueless about (I guess they were mostly American), but I enjoyed browsing through some of them. If you enjoy music, even if you're not quite a fan of Indie/Rock, then head over and have a look. I tried to look at some of the videos, but something didn't work for me. I got loading..loading...loading and nothing. Zip. Might be my wireless system in the house, although it doesn't have a problem with CNN and other video. Maybe it will work for you, or perhaps it just happened to be a glitch when I tried it.
Oh, headed over to Uvu again (Video site that promises to revolutionize web video with great quality). Site has been updated, and now looks like a video site, but great promises, but when you try to download the player (you have to have THEIR player), then it tells you it is not yet available. Will keep checking.
Tried to play with Joost again (managed to get an invitation to the Beta). It obviously doesn't really like my laptop, or my wireless connection. It did seem to say it needed around 512Mb of of RAM, but my guess is that 1Gb is better. The quality is pretty good, but I am still not able to really tell. The problem too is that the licenses that they have for the various programmes are split between USA only, USA and UK and Worldwide. Being out in Ireland, my choices are pretty limited. The one that I REALLY wanted to try, was National Geographic. Guess what, not available to me. *Sigh*
I must admit that I am more and more reminded of the good old days in the early nineties when Microsoft used to sell Vapourware. Concept software that wasn't developed just yet, just to see if the market was interested in it before they spent the money developing it. Sound familiar?
Anyhow, that is it for tonight. Oh, one last thing. I referred to Google's search history bit in my previous blog, based on Leo's comments on TWiT. So I went into Google and did some checking and don't worry, they are not accumulating billions of searches just yet. Have a read over on their site if you're interested. However, you need a Google Account to access it (I have an account as they host my blog...). Essentially you need the Google Toolbar installed and Page Ranking turned on. Then you can activate Web History, which will give you the stats that Leo was talking about. I can stop feeling uncomfortable now everytime I type in a search. Apologies to the folks in Google for jumping to conclusions in my earlier blog!
Tuesday 1 May 2007
So much and so few hours in a day....
Well, I seem to be slowing down, or things are getting ahead of me. Not sure which. However, the beautiful weather of the last 2 weeks here in Dublin may have just something to do with it. Had to do some gardening to keep up appearances in the neighbourhood, haven't touched the camera for ages, and have only just today finished my presentation for the next Wireless technology conference in Prague on the 9th and 10th of May. In fact, in the last 2 weeks I hardly had time to listen to my podcasts, so for the last few days I have been in catch up mode.
So, now I have some time to get back to looking for some interesting new sites to comment on.
A reader had posted a comment recently and invited me to look at a new site that I have not yet looked at, namely Viewmy.tv. So I did. For someone such as myself, living in my new 'homeland', and knowing so many expatriates living in other countries, this is an excellent find, so thank you for bringing it to my attention. What the site does is to deliver what appears to be 'free-to-air' TV feeds of various countries categorized into genres such as news, sport, music, drama etc. and into various continental locations such as Africa, Asia and Americas, and then specific countries. Pure IPTV. The quality is acceptable for what appears to be terrestrial TV rebroadcast for mobile TV. It can play reasonably well in full screen, but is designed for small screens, my guess is mobile TV. The sound quality was fine. To test my theory, I logged onto the site with my PDA, but although the video may be designed for the small screen, the website is not and it proved impossible to negotiate it on my PDA (an O2 XDA IIi). Well, I guess it is in beta and undergoing improvements, so I presume at some stage they will produce a PDA/Mobile version.
I watched BBC News and some French TV (I cannot speak French, but that doesn't stop me...). Then switched to some Aussie sport channel. The Chelsea vs Liverpool football game is on and is now entering penalty shootout, so if things seem a bit disjointed, it may be that I was distracted. OK, it is all over. Liverpool has done it. Let me get back to business here. Quite funny that the Aussie channel happened to cover a football game when I watched, not rugby. Well worth exploring if you're living away from home, or even if you just have an interest in the rest of the world and other cultures. I watched this from my wireless connection on my laptop, and the quality was fine. Not to the level that Joost promises to deliver, when it eventually gets going, nor to the level of pure WebTV, but a welcome addition. I have seen something similar recently, but cannot find it in my del.icios.us bookmarks. So, for now, this is it. All the other sites that I have looked at is more about videos and WebTV, therefore the quality was generally slightly higher. Different media for different audiences I guess.
Been listening to Leo Laporte and Amber McArthur on Net@nite talking about the web on my podcasts again. The show is a bit long for my liking ( around and hour plus, I prefer 15 to 20 minutes, 30 minutes tops, as it fits in with my driving schedule), but very interesting and both very likable presenters of the show. I think I will subscribe to this one as well for a while. The discussed a number of YouTube videos, a list of most hated sites/words on Google, then most loved etc. On another show Leo referred to his Google account, which gives him access to all his online searches with Google. That made me feel just a bit uncomfortable. When I buy from Amazon, they use cross references with others who have bought similar items to recommend other things I may be interested in (mostly books on religious history - my current pet fascination). However, the idea that every search I type into Google is stored on a server somewhere is a bit scary and enough reason for me to switch my searches onto other search engines such as Yahoo and Ask.com. Leo was fascinated by it because it showed him his most frequent searches, the days and times he uses Google most. But to me this all smacks just a little bit too much of Big Brother thank you very much. I like to search for things, but I like it to be anonymous. If it can't be, then I will rather spread it around a bit, so as to sow confusion.
One of the other things they discussed in the middle of the show, was Leo's move from Twitter to Jaiku. Leo explained his concerns about the confusion. You will recall in one of my previous postings I gave a quick review on this as Leo had made some comment on it in the weekly TwiT Podcast. He gives some interesting differences between Twitter and Jaiku, which you can examine a bit by going to his Jaiku page, Essentially Twitter is pure and simple locational communication - 'Where are you' or 'What are you doing?'. Jaiku seems to take this to a slightly different level, allowing comments to be posted , RSS feeds to be linked in and various other links to be connected to it. It becomes a bit of a mini dairy for daily activities I guess. he stated that it becomes addictive, so watch out if you decide to dabble! You have been warned by no less a lofty public figure as the ChiefTWiT himself, so pursue it at your peril. ;-)
If you are interested in music, Leo also discussed a new site on the show for bands and their music, called www.virb.com. I have not yet had a look at it, but will let you know more about it in my next blog. I will be a bit more industrious this week, I promise.
So, now I have some time to get back to looking for some interesting new sites to comment on.
A reader had posted a comment recently and invited me to look at a new site that I have not yet looked at, namely Viewmy.tv. So I did. For someone such as myself, living in my new 'homeland', and knowing so many expatriates living in other countries, this is an excellent find, so thank you for bringing it to my attention. What the site does is to deliver what appears to be 'free-to-air' TV feeds of various countries categorized into genres such as news, sport, music, drama etc. and into various continental locations such as Africa, Asia and Americas, and then specific countries. Pure IPTV. The quality is acceptable for what appears to be terrestrial TV rebroadcast for mobile TV. It can play reasonably well in full screen, but is designed for small screens, my guess is mobile TV. The sound quality was fine. To test my theory, I logged onto the site with my PDA, but although the video may be designed for the small screen, the website is not and it proved impossible to negotiate it on my PDA (an O2 XDA IIi). Well, I guess it is in beta and undergoing improvements, so I presume at some stage they will produce a PDA/Mobile version.
I watched BBC News and some French TV (I cannot speak French, but that doesn't stop me...). Then switched to some Aussie sport channel. The Chelsea vs Liverpool football game is on and is now entering penalty shootout, so if things seem a bit disjointed, it may be that I was distracted. OK, it is all over. Liverpool has done it. Let me get back to business here. Quite funny that the Aussie channel happened to cover a football game when I watched, not rugby. Well worth exploring if you're living away from home, or even if you just have an interest in the rest of the world and other cultures. I watched this from my wireless connection on my laptop, and the quality was fine. Not to the level that Joost promises to deliver, when it eventually gets going, nor to the level of pure WebTV, but a welcome addition. I have seen something similar recently, but cannot find it in my del.icios.us bookmarks. So, for now, this is it. All the other sites that I have looked at is more about videos and WebTV, therefore the quality was generally slightly higher. Different media for different audiences I guess.
Been listening to Leo Laporte and Amber McArthur on Net@nite talking about the web on my podcasts again. The show is a bit long for my liking ( around and hour plus, I prefer 15 to 20 minutes, 30 minutes tops, as it fits in with my driving schedule), but very interesting and both very likable presenters of the show. I think I will subscribe to this one as well for a while. The discussed a number of YouTube videos, a list of most hated sites/words on Google, then most loved etc. On another show Leo referred to his Google account, which gives him access to all his online searches with Google. That made me feel just a bit uncomfortable. When I buy from Amazon, they use cross references with others who have bought similar items to recommend other things I may be interested in (mostly books on religious history - my current pet fascination). However, the idea that every search I type into Google is stored on a server somewhere is a bit scary and enough reason for me to switch my searches onto other search engines such as Yahoo and Ask.com. Leo was fascinated by it because it showed him his most frequent searches, the days and times he uses Google most. But to me this all smacks just a little bit too much of Big Brother thank you very much. I like to search for things, but I like it to be anonymous. If it can't be, then I will rather spread it around a bit, so as to sow confusion.
One of the other things they discussed in the middle of the show, was Leo's move from Twitter to Jaiku. Leo explained his concerns about the confusion. You will recall in one of my previous postings I gave a quick review on this as Leo had made some comment on it in the weekly TwiT Podcast. He gives some interesting differences between Twitter and Jaiku, which you can examine a bit by going to his Jaiku page, Essentially Twitter is pure and simple locational communication - 'Where are you' or 'What are you doing?'. Jaiku seems to take this to a slightly different level, allowing comments to be posted , RSS feeds to be linked in and various other links to be connected to it. It becomes a bit of a mini dairy for daily activities I guess. he stated that it becomes addictive, so watch out if you decide to dabble! You have been warned by no less a lofty public figure as the ChiefTWiT himself, so pursue it at your peril. ;-)
If you are interested in music, Leo also discussed a new site on the show for bands and their music, called www.virb.com. I have not yet had a look at it, but will let you know more about it in my next blog. I will be a bit more industrious this week, I promise.
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