A lab, a workbench and look-out post. A documentation of Matt’s observational and experimental forays into the avoidance of doing himself any lasting damage with technology.
Did you know, that every second, 500 hours of YouTube video are watched? I didn’t this morning, but I do now, thanks to the time I’ve spent today with a some Google employees. I don’t think they were aware that I’m such a Google fan boy. Maybe by the time they said “OK, Who’s heard of Project Loon” and I… Read more →
Earlier this week, Apple hosted their big flagship show – WWDC – where they typically reveal the latest earth shattering, world changing products they’ve had up their secret sleeves – like the iPhone, the iPad, the Mac Book Air, etc. etc. etc. This year, they revealed the latest Mac Pro (pictured above) – the Mac computer designed for the desk… Read more →
CLICK HERE for the annotated version. [only works on desktop 'puters] A few years ago, I spotted a group on flickr called “What’s in your bag?”. The idea is, you take the contents of your bag, spread it out and take a photo of it all, preferably followed by the meticulous annotation using the flickr note tool. I first did… Read more →
So Google have released a new version of their native, out the box keyboard for their nexus devices. The sentence above was written on my nexus phone using it, this sentence is written using my nexus tablet using it. And this sentence (and from this point forward) is being typed using a good ol’ mechanical keyboard. (ahh, that’s better). The… Read more →
This evening, I’ve been mostly experimenting with a photographic technique I’d read about called The Brenizer Method, named after the awesome portrait photographer, Ryan Brenizer. Unlike the LOMO analogue alchemy I’ve been dabbling with of late, these images require heavy duty digital processing. For the above image, I took a bunch of high res digital photos (about 20+) and overlapped each… Read more →
From conversations I’ve had, I know that some people are going to love this idea of this, some, hate it. The photographer in me loves it because I’ve learned that to get a good photo, you often have to take tens, scores, hundreds of mediocre photos. The 365 blogger in me loves it, because of the idea of documenting at regular… Read more →
Even if I didn’t have kids, I’d probably want one of these pushchairs. They’ve got more features than my first car had. As well as the touch button robotic folding and unfolding mechanism (see video below), it’s got daytime running lights, path-finder lights, a mobile phone charger, cup holders and an LCD display that displays pedometric information – such as… Read more →
Someone gave me the heads up on this today : Google Business Photos. In a nutshell, it allows a business to bring Google mapping inside their business premise, as Zweifel & Co. of Germany have done with the wine business here; View Larger Map The now 5 year old yet still very impressive Google Street View technology has a new string… Read more →
Woken up this morning (slight discomfort, co codomol worn off, re dosed, see last post) to find my twitter account and/or pinterest account has been hacked. The hacker had pinned a story on my pinterest account (a service I rarely use – like tumblr, pinterest is more about curation of content, where as I’m more about the creation) about rapid… Read more →
I’ve got a MacBook Air parked on my desk at work today. I wanted to type some stuff to try out the keyboard, so I thought what better place than dragondrop.org to absorb my words. I must say, it’s incredibly thin. The screen is sharp and the whole thing feels very solid. The keyboard though – so far, so good…. Read more →
It’s been a remarkable few days for technology. Google’s annual developer conference last week revealed yet another Star Trek tech ; “Hot Wording” – a device that constantly listening to you, waiting for you to say trigger words before it goes and does stuff for you. ‘Google Today’ has been enhanced also – a technology that preempts what you need… Read more →
A couple of years ago, Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia made a tough decision. He partnered with Microsoft – his former employer – to deliver the operating system for Nokia’s next generation of handsets. For the last two weeks, I’ve been trying out a Nokia that’s running Microsoft Windows 8 Mobile. Whilst there’s a lot about the phone I like,… Read more →
For ages now, my follower count on twitter has floated at just under 500 followers. At the time of writing this, it’s on 500 (hoopla!). That’s around 100 followers per year, just over 1 new follower for every 12 tweets and a ratio of 2/1 follower/following ratio. I like twitter. It’s so simple yet you can drill down into the… Read more →
I’ve been playing with a new (to me) photo technology called Cinemagraph. There’s an native app on the phone I’m running at the moment – a Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows8 – called Cinemagraph. It’s great fun. Here’s a selection of cinemagraphs from the last week.. Sleepy Elsie Bed time Elsie. Bed time. Dogs and Henge Dwellers More henge dwellers… Read more →
Although not due for public release until 2014, the first few ‘Explorer’ and ‘Reviewer Units’ are now out in the wild. The latest google buzz has begun – and somehow, I think this one will fare better than Google Buzz. I’ll go further than that, and say it’s potentially one of the most important consumer products of all time. Read on… Read more →
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