Socialmatic Camera — Indiegogo http://t.co/vOioxqVm

No, this was supposed to be a joke.

RT @lenscratch: L E N S C R A T C H: Rachel Hulin: Flying baby for Collect Give http://t.co/R4JAe5zc

These freaked me out!

RT @photoblggr: 15 Great Coffee Bean Pictures http://t.co/JHiLwVYb

Just the humble coffee bean.

RT @picturecorrect: Leaked News About Instagram: Photography May Never Be The Same http://t.co/OJKkDQJf 

A Better Way To Edit Text On The iPad? http://t.co/P7F8n9Nc – I like this, a lot, going to have to tell Apple too.

I saw this mentioned on another blog, where It was suggested this was a useless hack, simply adding arrow keys would produce a better alternative. 

I have to disagree, this is much better than arrow keys, but yes, arrow keys are better than nothing.

The original idea has already been implemented for jailbroken iOS device, not that I’m ready to take that step again, though I could list it as a reason to go back to a jailbroken device. I’ve also read that Apple may not incorporate this because multi-touch gestures on iOS work system wide, and how would this work with text on apps without a keyboard input? 

I agree, but still think it would be worth adding, though maybe just for keyboard enabled apps.

DayOne update soon. Almost everything I’m waiting for in one go! – http://t.co/byP36JDt

Remember the days of practically wading through giveaway CD’s from ISP’s? They were attached to everything, given away in supermarkets and petrol stations, and pored through your letterbox. Thankfully those days have passed, but today I was surprised to find a mint CD, with booklet, from the online bank, and at the time, getting on the bandwagon ISP, Egg.

The specs printed on the envelope are quaint, minimum requirements, a 486, 16mb of RAM, 33mb of HD space (48mb for the install), of which Internet explorer needs 25mb. Win98 is the newest OS, and if you want to use this ISP on a Mac, please phone for details! The booklet is beautifully presented, with internet terms, history, and suggested sites to visit when you get online. Missing is any idea of what this would cost you to do so.

The real irony here, and I’m sure it could not have been missed at the time is that Egg were one of the first Internet only banks, you had to be online to get an Egg account, so surely you already knew the basics of the net so beautifully explained in the booklet?

My first net provider was Time Internet (later became SuperNet), I was an early user, they phoned before the machine was dispatched to see if I was willing to give it a go, and I did for a while. I then switched to ClaraNet, still going as a hosting services provider, as they offered bundle deals, moved to the slightly unreliable SilverNet as an unlimited product, before moving to PlusNet where I’ve been for about 8 years. I dallied with a few other providers along the way, and dealt with the horrors of unpicking a Tesco take-over of my system when I tried their service out.

Those were the days, hitting connect, hearing an engaged tone, then a re-try, and the eventual modem handshake resulting in the satisfied silence as it all finally connected. That sound will forever live in my memory.

We generally have it so easy today, with a seamless, always on service, the horror now is when it isn’t there, though it is still a real pain to go through all the required motions when there is a problem with the connection, or God forbid actually have to phone our providers.

http://t.co/dZihz0wc BT missing from Pirate Bay High Court slap-down • Oh, They still don’t get it do they?

A useful quick entry shortcut for Omnifocus on iOS devices.

Copy the code below and put it in the safari address bar on your iDevice. After the page loads then click share button and Add to Homescreen. If all goes well you will have an icon that works even without wifi.

The original thread can be found on the Omnifocus forums, here.

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Every once in a while something happens that changes your life, and this week that has happened.

After spending some time with an Android powered tablet, and being totally underwhelmed with it, and the application set, I’ve invested in an iPad. If nothing else the AndyPad showed me the possibilities a tablet offered, even if I was totally frustrated with the experience that I had with the device, and the applications I had running on it.

I’m not anti Android, but can only liken the experience to that I had with Linux, that is everything just seems to take that little extra work to actually gain anything really useful from it, and ten years ago I would have been happy to have taken that option and made it work, but now there is really only one sensible choice to fit into my busy life, and that is to use the iPad and the iOS ecosystem. (Windows Phone/Tablet and Windows 8/Metro may offer another option, but it has a long way to go, if it can avoid the impending car crash it appears to be heading for. I really have no experience with these devices, and they appear to be as rare as hens teeth in the real world.)

I know it is a cliche, but “Game changer” does sum it up, though I’d prefer to view it as my “iPad revolution”, the closest comparison being buying a Treo 600 many years ago, and the resulting changes that brought to my personal life. The iPhone only updated that experience, and I still miss some of the built in connectivity the Palm brought, but iCloud and clever applications are narrowing that gap all the time.

This is the key to the usefulness of the iPad, the device itself is only a big iPhone, but the extra screen real estate, and the connectivity the software running on it are vitally important to its usefulness. Much like the ill fated Palm Folio idea my iPhone now appears to be as much of an extension to the iPad as it was to the desktop, and the iPad itself is an extension to the desktop, but they both work equally well without the other.

It is early days yet, both for me, and iCloud, the glue that is primarily behind much of what the iOS experience will offer, but there is so much to be impressed with right now, and happily nothing that makes me regret the the expenditure.

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Edit: 22/04/12 17:21 Tidied image.

http://t.co/mC29kDGM It’s all in the wrist: E-ink smartwatch Pebble bags $2m. I’ve got to get one, and I’ve not worn a watch in years!

I have kickstarted on this, it is the perfect watch for me. I was only looking for a decent vintage watch the other day, but this ticked all the boxes on looks and functionality.

I’m looking forwards to taking delivery in September, and the SDK should hit before then, but I’m really hoping that some of the iOS app developers also get behind it.

Edit: @ 15/04 Kickstarter funds stand at an incredible:

$2,708,238

PLEDGED OF $100,000 GOAL

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DAYS TO GO

“Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion”

Deleted Instagram, there are better ways of applying filters, and logging into Facebook isn’t one!

After a long hiatus you may have noticed I’ve restarted my blogging.

A recent partial move of host has me committed to the WordPress platform for a while to come, and I’ve re-started my idea of using this as an information store.

Wiki’s seem like hard work, so I’m keeping it simple and using tagging instead. MarsEdit is the choice for pushing stuff out from the desktop, and Twitter the remainder, but at some point I am going to work out a cleaner integration with my personal journal, I still don’t know where it is going to go, but blogging is not abandoned yet.

We switched to Google apps at work, and I was looking forwards to being able to use gTasks within the whole Google Apps framework. Sadly it is not really worth the effort, repeating tasks were promised during 2011, and three months into 2012 there is no word about when they will become available.

Much of the rest of the suite is pretty usable, within an expanded intranet framework, but I’m very disappointed that the Google machine can’t produce a working task application. For the time being I’m sticking with Toodledo, though I am attempting to see if gTasks HD works out on the iPhone.

This is a little work around to bring the Toodledo interface into Google.

This is for anyone who is debating on which to use – I myself had wanted to use GTasks just so I could have tasks and events all inside my calendar screen… Once I got it through 2.0 I really hated GTasks versus Toodledo and all its features. GTasks is limited in what it will let you set online, no context, folder use is clunky at best, tags non existent so i switched back to toodledo.

Then poking around Toodledo I found that using Google Apps, they have a lab feature that let’s toodledo replace GTasks in the Google Calendar window so Toodledo will show up right in your Google Calendar window where GTasks would normally go. A perfect solution to GTasks with all the Toodledo features.

Just thought I’d add this in case someone else was experiencing the same thing…

Can find it inside Toodledo here http://www.toodledo.com/tools/index.php

I’d only just installed it on one machine in a failed attempt at a backup idea, right before the Flashback thing broke. Can’t get rid of it on my main machine as it is required by a couple of apps that are very important, and possibly best of breed. For that I patched to the 5/4/12 release, and verified Flashback was not present.

Flashback check:

How to remove the Flashback malware from OS X

Removal:

I followed the instructions followed in this blog and they worked for me.

The steps are as follows:

1. Check for Java Installation: sudo /usr/libexec/java_home -xml (an output with two JVM dictionaries confirms that Java is installed)
2. Run uninstaller: sudo /usr/libexec/java_home –uninstall
3. Remove JVM installation location: sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Java
4. Run command from step 1 again (an output starting with “Unable to find any JVMs matching version” confirms that Java is no longer installed

Unfortunately, this process doesn’t appear to work after the 2012-04-05 update. There is no -uninstallargument to the java_home binary. – Sean 2 days ago

Note that these instructions do not work if you have patched Java to block the Flashback exploit.

Three different weather apps, three different results. Do I go optimist with the best one overall? Or should I average them? #weather

Finally the HP drivers are available for my 6500A on OSX 10.7.

How may months since Lion was released?

Fish is food not rubbish! Don’t scuttle the discards ban on Monday. @simoncoveney @hughsfishfight PLEASE RT #fishfight

Les poissons= nourriture, pas ordure! Ne sabordez pas l’interdiction des rejets en mer ce lundi! @Bruno_LeMaire #fishfight

My God! What kind of food is this? http://t.co/9JGxlDTU