Blogspot vs the rest...
I'd blog more - or at least copy/back up things I've posted on FaceBook and Tumblr and Google+ here if only Blogger automatically made nice links with picture thumbnails like all those other places do. Blogger hasn't moved on much in yours now... Odd considering all the other attempts Google have made to try and do something new (all of them failed) in the world of social media.
This Week - yet another Tory shill gets a platform.
Was watching 'This Week' and being incensed by the vile Julia Hartley-Brewers effectively blaming the under-paid people who have to claim tax credits for er... being poor and having to claim tax credits. According to her it's a simple 'life style choice'. So it's nothing to do with businesses taking the piss by not paying their workers a decent enough wage so they don't have to claim benefits, nothing to do with people not being given the chance to take a full time job because, again businesses are finding it easier and a lot cheaper to take on two or three part timers rather than the one full time employee. Which has also been a crafty ruse of the government in keeping unemployment figures down, if it wasn't for the massive increase in zero hour contracts and part time jobs we'd more than likely have unemployment levels running at something like three or even four million. Julia Hartley-Brewers is your typical 'blame the victim' right-wing shill.
Worse - the token lefty Margret Hodge did nothing to shoot her down, instead she was practically agreeing with her. With people like her in opposition who needs door mats?
New google chrome now with audio out socket.
Woo-hoo which might make it a little bit more useful.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/29/9412755/google-chromecast-audio-announced-price-release-date
Battery life.
I could do with one of these now - to replace the dying battery in my Nexus 4.
World's first hydrogen-powered battery will charge your iPhone for 7 DAYS.
World's first hydrogen-powered battery will charge your iPhone for 7 DAYS.
The Smallest SLR Of All Time
Asahi Pentax Auto 110 Film Camera Review.
I really wanted one of these back in the day.
Vivian Maier
"The photographs reveal teeming streets, children at play in an alley, couples captured in a sleepy embrace, the intricate latticework of an elevated train platform, a drunk smeared in filth.
The arresting, artfully framed scenes from the streets and byways of New York, Chicago and beyond seem alive with movement. And for years, they were probably seen by no-one but the solitary Chicago nanny and amateur photographer who shot them.
But now, two years after her death in a nursing home, Vivian Maier is finally being recognised for her talent after a lifetime of obscurity."
pink shirt press releases
Papers mindlessly reprint Press releases - shocker
Daily mail:
The power of pink: Men who wear shirts of that colour earn £1,000 a year more than those who don’t
Daily Express:
WHY FUTURE IS BRIGHT FOR MEN IN PINK
No doubt there will be other papers covering the same reports findings.
Now why do I have a sneaking suspicion someone in some company somewhere* has an overstock of pink shirts they need to offload? Oh yes... that'll be because I've read 'Propaganda' by Edward Bernays where's there's a whole chapter on who he made velvet a popular fashion choice.
[*Stephanie Thiers-Ratcliffe, International Marketing Manager for Cotton USA - who commissioned the report.]
Daily mail:
The power of pink: Men who wear shirts of that colour earn £1,000 a year more than those who don’t
Daily Express:
WHY FUTURE IS BRIGHT FOR MEN IN PINK
No doubt there will be other papers covering the same reports findings.
Now why do I have a sneaking suspicion someone in some company somewhere* has an overstock of pink shirts they need to offload? Oh yes... that'll be because I've read 'Propaganda' by Edward Bernays where's there's a whole chapter on who he made velvet a popular fashion choice.
[*Stephanie Thiers-Ratcliffe, International Marketing Manager for Cotton USA - who commissioned the report.]
Housing benefit changes
BBC Wales on 'the Bedroom tax' [video]
A mother who has two children one boy aged 9 one girl 3 years old - but new rules state that because both children are under 10 - that they're supposed to move to a smaller property and the children to then share a bedroom. If they don't or simply can't because there's nowhere smaller to move to, or because they simply can't afford to move, then they get a cut in their housing benefit, and will have to make up the shortfall out of the rest of their already inadequate budget - just as fuel, food prices and everything else is skyrocketing.Add that to the information that
The UK builds the smallest homes in Europe, according to the government's adviser on architecture. [BBC magazine from 2007]
and
'Shoebox homes' become the UK norm.
and
No room to cook dinner or seat guests? Welcome to 'rabbit hutch Britain
showing that these smaller properties are just not there to downsize into - we've a perfect storm looming on the horizon.
So the same way the Govt. is trying to force people into jobs that simply aren't there and punish them harshly when they're not getting those non-existent jobs - they're now about to make people move to non-existent smaller properties and then punish them when they can't. Already councils are housing people in Bed & Breakfast - at great expense to the taxpayer and inflicting misery on people forced to live there because there isn't enough suitable housing... and it's now only set to get a lot, lot worse.
Apple fibs
What did a certain Mr Steve Jobs say about 7 inch tablets back on 18th October, 2010?
... I'd like to comment on the avalanche of tablets poised to enter the market in the coming months. First, it appears to be just a handful of credible entrants, not exactly an avalanche. Second, almost all of them use seven-inch screens as compared to iPad's near 10-inch screen. Let's start there. One naturally thinks that a seven-inch screen would offer 70% of the benefits of a 10-inch screen. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. The screen measurements are diagonal, so that a seven-inch screen is only 45% as large as iPad's 10-inch screen. You heard me right; just 45% as largeNow can you guess what the rumours are that Apple will be releasing soon? Hope they'll be giving away some Apple branded iSandpaper for the fanboys.
If you take an iPad and hold it upright in portrait view and draw an imaginary horizontal line halfway down the screen, the screens on the seven-inch tablets are a bit smaller than the bottom half of the iPad display. This size isn't sufficient to create great tablet apps in our opinion.
Well, one could increase the resolution of the display to make up for some of the difference. It is meaningless, unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of the present size. Apple's done extensive user-testing on touch interfaces over many years, and we really understand this stuff. There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touch screen before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them. This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps.
Third, every tablet user is also a smartphone user. No tablet can compete with the mobility of a smartphone, its ease of fitting into your pocket or purse, its unobtrusiveness when used in a crowd. Given that all tablet users will already have a smartphone in their pockets, giving up precious display area to fit a tablet in our pockets is clearly the wrong tradeoff. The seven-inch tablets are tweeners, too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad.
Fourth, almost all of these new tablets use Android software, but even Google is telling the tablet manufacturers not to use their current release, Froyo, for tablets, and to wait for a special tablet release next year. What does it mean when your software suppliers does not (inaudible) to use their software in your tablet? And what does it mean when you ignore them and use it anyway?
Fifth, iPad now has over 35,000 apps on the App Store. This new crop of tablets will have near zero.
And sixth and last, our potential competitors are having a tough time coming close to iPad's pricing, even with their far smaller, far less expensive screens. The iPad incorporates everything we have learnt about building high value products from iPhones, iPods and Macs. We create our own A4 chip, our own software, our own battery chemistry, our own enclosure, our own everything. And this results in an incredible product at a great price. The proof of this will be in the pricing of our competitor's products which will likely offer less for more.
These are among the reasons we think the current crop of seven-inch tablets are going to be DOA, Dead on Arrival. Their manufacturers will learn the painful lesson that their tablets are too small and increase the size next year, thereby abandoning both customers and developers who jumped on the seven-inch bandwagon with an orphan product. Sounds like lots of fun ahead.
gadgets gadgets gadgets
Well, the new iPhone is out - at least this time it looks different enough from the last one so the early adopters can brandish it around and those easily impressed will notice and make appreciative 'cooing' noises, A taller screen - or is it wider? The camera now has a panorama function. But it's all a bit underwhelming really.
Dan Lyons (Creator of the 'Fake Steve' blog)writes: Apple's iPhone launches no longer excite
Then I found this by Woz "I wish my iPhone did all the things what my Android does." which is faintly damning.
Soooo as far as the hype (or should I say tedium) goes I still really want a Galaxy Note II and a Nexus 7.
Dan Lyons (Creator of the 'Fake Steve' blog)writes: Apple's iPhone launches no longer excite
Then I found this by Woz "I wish my iPhone did all the things what my Android does." which is faintly damning.
Soooo as far as the hype (or should I say tedium) goes I still really want a Galaxy Note II and a Nexus 7.
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