Pony was guessed in 2 seconds. X-factor almost ran out of time. Detail isn't always the best tactic in pictionary!
Thursday, 29 December 2011
pictionary mastery
Pony was guessed in 2 seconds. X-factor almost ran out of time. Detail isn't always the best tactic in pictionary!
Friday, 23 September 2011
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Monday, 22 August 2011
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Android in disguise
The Asus Transformer
iPad, move aside. We've got a new cool kid in town. The Transformer, with it's tablet/netbook design is superb. I've been using this 16gb version for several days and I can't get enough of it. I typically have used it as a tablet but late in the day after I've largely exhausted the 10hrs of battery life and start updating my blog or writting some emails, I dock it into the keyboard (which provides another 6hrs of life) and start typing away.
As a tablet is great. Android Honeycomb is responsive smooth, fast and stable. The amount of high caliber of apps available are increasing and with popular games such as Cut the Rope and everyone's favorite, Angry Birds being written for the Android devices, Apple may have a real worry.
The keyboard is good. Not as good as my old Samsung netbook (which was excellent) but many, many times better than an on screen substitutes which does a as good a job at covering most of the screen as they do anything else. The on screen keyboard on the Transformer is very good for an on screen typer but I will never be convinced that any screen based typing app is better than physical keys.
The Transformer is not perfect. It does mount as a hard drive on your computer but only for media files. It uses a protocol called MTP which makes it recognizable as a media device and not as a regular hard disk. This makes it a little tricky to copy all of the files you want. I used a usb key to transfer files across. Which brings us to another good point. The keyboard has 2 usb ports and a SD card reader making it easy (and possible) to transfer camera pics and plugging in usb devices. The tablet itself has an HDMI port allowing you to view your screen on a tv in HD and a micro sd card slot. 16GB may not be much but with a 32GB in the micro sd card slot, I have 48GB of memory and a removable keyboard and multiple connectivity options for the same price as a 16GB iPad. I admire Apple's designs but I don't admire their (in my opinion, unjust) pricing.
As much as I would love to sit here and show my fondness for my new toy, I want to go play with it more.
iPad, move aside. We've got a new cool kid in town. The Transformer, with it's tablet/netbook design is superb. I've been using this 16gb version for several days and I can't get enough of it. I typically have used it as a tablet but late in the day after I've largely exhausted the 10hrs of battery life and start updating my blog or writting some emails, I dock it into the keyboard (which provides another 6hrs of life) and start typing away.
As a tablet is great. Android Honeycomb is responsive smooth, fast and stable. The amount of high caliber of apps available are increasing and with popular games such as Cut the Rope and everyone's favorite, Angry Birds being written for the Android devices, Apple may have a real worry.
The keyboard is good. Not as good as my old Samsung netbook (which was excellent) but many, many times better than an on screen substitutes which does a as good a job at covering most of the screen as they do anything else. The on screen keyboard on the Transformer is very good for an on screen typer but I will never be convinced that any screen based typing app is better than physical keys.
The Transformer is not perfect. It does mount as a hard drive on your computer but only for media files. It uses a protocol called MTP which makes it recognizable as a media device and not as a regular hard disk. This makes it a little tricky to copy all of the files you want. I used a usb key to transfer files across. Which brings us to another good point. The keyboard has 2 usb ports and a SD card reader making it easy (and possible) to transfer camera pics and plugging in usb devices. The tablet itself has an HDMI port allowing you to view your screen on a tv in HD and a micro sd card slot. 16GB may not be much but with a 32GB in the micro sd card slot, I have 48GB of memory and a removable keyboard and multiple connectivity options for the same price as a 16GB iPad. I admire Apple's designs but I don't admire their (in my opinion, unjust) pricing.
As much as I would love to sit here and show my fondness for my new toy, I want to go play with it more.
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Guess where I've been...
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Saturday, 2 July 2011
Friday, 1 July 2011
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Friday, 3 June 2011
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
In today's tech news
1mm thick (or thin, I should say) touchscreen display.
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/04/27/toshiba_1mm_touchscreen/
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/04/27/toshiba_1mm_touchscreen/
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Monday, 28 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Eye spy a fly
This is a fly on the end of my finger. I caught it skillfully with my eye. If that's not impressive enough, I did it while riding a bike and kept it trapped for 40 minutes!
Friday, 18 March 2011
Monday, 7 March 2011
Uninstalling
No settings to control how it determines your location. If you set the location tagging to off, it still uses the gps which is just a waste of battery. The pictures are resized and compressed before uploading which is terrible. Also, there are no options for the image (ie. Centered, linked etc.). Shame because the rest of the app is nice. Smooth and quick.
Going back to Blogaway until these things are rectified.
Blogger again
So, there don't seem to be any settings. The gps icon has stopped flashing which is good. Let's try uploading a random image.
Blogger app
Blogaway has proved a great mobile blogging app but it's time to test the official Blogger app from Google. Looks nice enough although my gps icon is flashing.
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Plodding along
It's late. I am tired. The bafta awards were on tv and have just finished. The King's Speech won several awards and Inception won best vfx and thanked dneg in the speech (damn dneg). The girl with the pearl earing has started which has made me do a spot of channel surfing while doing a bit of typing. I'm still hydrating after the bottle of vodka last night. I don't like the way my hair is looking today and it's time to get back in shape. I'm waiting to hear what project I'm going onto next and I must remember to book an eye test tomorrow.
The end
The end
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Friday, 28 January 2011
Saturday, 22 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Monday, 10 January 2011
Oh, and I got stuck in the lift
I spent 1 hour and 20 minutes in that metal box stuck between floors.
I contemplated life but ultimately was not amused.
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