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…
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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.
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- I've spent the day with Google people
- Scraping the bottom of the Apple barrel?
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…
What's in my bag? (version 2)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…
- Google (Nexus) keyboard. Its a lot like swype.
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.…
The Brenizer MethodThis 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…
- Lifelogging by Memoto
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,…
- Techno pushchair
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…
- Interior orientation
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…
- Hackers - get a proper job
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…
- MacBook Air
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…
- New Flickr
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…
- Where will Nokia be 5 years from now?
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…
- 500 on the twitter, 160/4 on the cricket
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…
- Cimenagraphs
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…
Google Glass - the future?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 .…