Photography and videography make up a large part of my trips around the world with a typical week long trip generating 100-200GB of files. I would normally choose between my netbook or MacBookPro based on the amount of luggage and airline limitations. The netbook provides a very basic mechanism to back up the files...
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Gadgets
iPad becomes photo and video backup device for travelling
Volcano Boarding
If I haven’t already tried out some stupid sports, this ranks high up the list. An outfit called Bigfoot Hostel’s offer a Volcano boarding package at around $28. This 4.5-hour excursion will have you climbing to the top of Nicaragua’s ominous Cerro Negro volcano, only to mount a sit-down board and travel at speeds...
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More apples?
Not content with plugging my MacBookPro into the TV to watch movies, slideshows and the BBC iPlayer(and now SkyPlayer) I decided to splash out on a MacMini and AppleTV.
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Droboshare
Way back in 2008, I bought an Apple TimeCapsule (1Tb) as both a backup solution for my MacBookPro and wireless N router.
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Elgato Turbo.264
Turbo.264 comes with an easy “drag and drop” application (for Mac OS X only). The application converts video that is not copy-protected one at a time or in a batch, and drops the converted file(s) wherever you want them. Instead of the default, I’ve have it configured so that they get dropped off ready...
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Summer Screen
Last friday evening was the Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House, featuring a fantastic double bill of Hot Fuzz and Point Break. Introduced by the one and only Nick Frost the setting, atmosphere and even weather were great.A couple of tips for anyone going next year book tickets early arrive when the gates open...
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Camera crisis!
Just returned from the races and discovered huge great dirty smears across most of the shots from the day. Most apparent through the Tamron 11-18mm, the photos are pretty much rubbish. What to do? Luckily I found a company called fixation hidden away in a downstairs warehouse near Vauxhall. For £25 (plus vat) you...
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Poor old vista
Dan Geer thinks up uses for the Vista speech recognition bug “Here’s $500 for the first documented case of someone using the white courtesy phone in an airport to page Mr Shootdown, Reese Sett, Sleep Now, or whatever and blanking all the laptops in a concourse. An extra $500 if it’s DC National…” read...
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Tower of London Googled?
Here’s a snap of what appears to be a Tower of London themed Google logo. It’s probably being held by a regional winner of the current doodle4google competition. Yes, it’s a bit fuzzy!
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Xbox360 suicide….
“Due to severe lack of gaming… I am thinking of shutting myself off… permanently… let’s see how badfracture digs on that!” “Where is badfracture at? I want to disown him. I am putting myself up on eBay ASAP” Two annoying comments from my xbox306voice . Anymore of this sh*t, it’ll be providing a nice...
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