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Link Blog (Week 5 2010)Link Blog (Week 5 2010) Sorry I was too lazy and didn't do this the last few weeks and because of this the articles I post may be old. Also because it is quite time intensive to grab images and quotes for every link I am not...

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Googles Announcement at Taronga Zoo SydneyGoogles Announcement at Taronga Zoo Sydney I read last week from Gizmodo's article that Google was holding an event at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. I thought this was strange because Australia never things from Google or Apple or anyone else based in...

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Adobe Flash Sustainable?Adobe Flash Sustainable? Adobe Flash has become apart of our daily web browsing as much as HTML has. But is it as important? Not really. Flash has had the potential to become something quite great but the most useful thing it...

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Chuck Season 3 a success... For nowChuck Season 3 a success... For now A show that easily became one of my favorite shows of 2008/2009 was Chuck. I was given season 1 and caught season 2 mid way through. After season had finished and then learnt that the 3rd season was...

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Link Blog (Week 5 2010)

Category : Featured, Link Blog

Sorry I was too lazy and didn’t do this the last few weeks and because of this the articles I post may be old.

Also because it is quite time intensive to grab images and quotes for every link I am not going to do it, instead I am going to write a little comment/description.

The FBI Sucks at Photoshop | Mashable – http://bit.ly/ccipi4

This post confused me at first because I was trying to figure it out, because I didn’t the FBI would take someones image off then internet and use it for probably the most known terrorist in the world.

Kid Creates Enormous, Surreal Picture in MS Paint | Mashable – http://bit.ly/9eLd4B

I just thought this was cool, I remember back in primary school I used to draw pictures and sticky tape them together to make make large ones but the dedication and the simple fact that he only used paint is incredible. When you look through the picture you don’t see any cover ups or errors pretty amazing.

The Statistics Of Game Consoles, Summed Up In One Big Graphic | Gizmodo Australia – http://bit.ly/9KuuXl

…. It’s just interesting.

Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something | http://youshouldhaveseenthis.com – http://bit.ly/cqy3nY

Well the title says it all. Tho I can’t say that I have seen them all.

How to present like Steve Jobs | TUAW – http://bit.ly/aRKdLc

If you have every watched an Apple keynote you know how powerful Steve Jobs presentations can be. Well this is a video talking about features of Steve Jobs presentations. Quite informative, well worth a watch.

How To Replace A Lost Mobile Phone Charger (For Free) | Gizmodo Australia – http://bit.ly/dlIBQZ

It’s a great idea.

Wii Balance Board: decent for measuring equilibrium, medical study says | Engadget – http://bit.ly/ceffox

The console that just keeps on giving.

ABC Launching A Dedicated 24-Hour News Channel | Gizmodo Australia – http://bit.ly/d5q4o2

I hardly ever watch TV any more but this TV related news excites me. The BBC does the same thing and it also streams online, the ABC are quite savvy when it comes to online media, so you can only hope that they will create a web stream of it.

Stop Losing Lens Caps With These DIY Clips | Gizmodo Australia – http://bit.ly/cfH1Qe

This looks like a good idea but I have yet to try it out.

Lenovo RapidDrive brings SSD and HDD together, demoes 66 percent speed boost on video | Engadget – http://bit.ly/b7cNEK

SSD are fast at copy data but are very expensive, HDD are slow in comparison to SSD’s but now a days are quite cheap. Bring them together and well check out the story.

Why Nikon as Video Cam Doesn’t Stand Up to Canon as Video Cam | Photofocus – http://bit.ly/cVjVwO

Title tells it all really.

Using copper and electricity to scrub air of greenhouse gas | arstechnica – http://bit.ly/7EWXwl

Interesting discovery

Australian Manages To Track ‘Needle In A Haystack’, Finds Lost Camera Owner Via Facebook Group | iTech Report – http://bit.ly/aj8Rs6

A guy finds a camera on a wall while on holiday, so instead of keeping it for him self or pawning it off he try’s to find it’s owner on facebook.

How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep | Dustin Curtis – http://bit.ly/9vUYcF

I found this very interesting and I linked and talked about it to a lot of people but the problem with all of us trying it, is either school work. But seems very interesting.

Asimo stars in Living with Robots | Viddler.com  [Uploaded by Engadget] – http://bit.ly/aidCyz

I love watching robot technology slowly grow up.

Illusion Labs shows off multitouch ‘Touchgrind’ gaming demo on a MacBook | Engadget – http://bit.ly/dBlWPT

Seems cool, wish I had a multitouch trackpad to try it out on.

IBM and Fujifilm develop 35TB magnetic tape cartridges, unveil it in black and white | Engadget – http://bit.ly/aImAzO

This is very cool, back ups of a sudden don’t seem like that much of a burden.

Two YouTube Videos And A Motherf***ing Crossfader, Dot Com | Gizmodo Australia – http://bit.ly/9556TX

Pretty much you have two Youtube video embeds that you can change by searching for other videos and a dodgy slider in the middle. I had fun with this for about 20min.

The Fastest Text Input Test: Laptop, iPhone, Pen, Palm Or Newton? | Gizmodo Australia – http://bit.ly/9rnHz5

Not all that surprising but still interesting.

Canon 7D Loaded With $US6 DIY Follow Focus | Gizmodo Australia – http://bit.ly/cH45Hd

I don’t exactly find the follow focus interesting but I find all the ways people are turning a once first thought of as a gimmick feature for DSLR’s into ways of producing very high quality videos.

Googles Announcement at Taronga Zoo Sydney

Category : Companys, Featured, Google

I read last week from Gizmodo’s article that Google was holding an event at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. I thought this was strange because Australia never things from Google or Apple or anyone else based in America. Also it was held at the zoo?

Well today they announced that they are launching a new Google maps service relating to street maps. A Google Street view trike.

From Google Blog

“Our Street View Trike made its first outing in Australia today, taking a spin around Sydney’s beautiful Taronga Zoo. We’re really excited to have the Trike in Australia for the first time, because it will let us collect imagery of some of Australia’s most spectacular natural and man-made places that are off the beaten track – or, at least, set back from the public roads along which our Street View cars normally travel.”

The Street View Trike is a 110kg modified bicycle that can access many places a car cannot (such as bike trails, national parks and beaches) and includes a mounted Street View camera and specially-decorated unit and GPS system.”

If you would like to see a place imaged by the trike, Google is asking you to suggest places here

I hope they won’t be re-imaging my area with the street cars any time soon or I will have to get out there on my bike again.

Yeah they are actually me

Thanks to my sources

iTech Report

Gizmodo

Google Blog

Adobe Flash Sustainable?

Category : Applications, Featured, Internet

Adobe Flash has become apart of our daily web browsing as much as HTML has. But is it as important? Not really.

Flash has had the potential to become something quite great but the most useful thing it has achieved is being the standard for web video and some good online applications. Almost all web video is played through a video player running on flash. Probably it’s second biggest use is ads. Almost all the moving ads on the web today is built on flash even, website’s have been created using just flash.

“So with all the potential that flash has why isn’t it gaining web greatness?” Because its slow, even on modern Intel core 2 duo processors, after having a few videos open at the same time the computer can start to lag. Also normally when a website has been built using flash it takes forever to load and it just doesn’t feel as clean to use as the alternative.

“So why not something else?” Well their isn’t really any other options. Sure you can embed a Quicktime or a Windows Media video but it just doesn’t have the flexibility or features you can implement with creating your own flash video player. “Silverlight?” I don’t have enough experience with Silverlight to comment on it.

It’s not all bad. Flash applications mainly video players have been worked on and worked on most notable Youtube and Viddler’s video players. They both load quick and most of the time run great and have great features like annotations and time line comments. But they both suffer from the same problem and it’s how resource hungry they are. Just decoding flash is just not optimised well enough and his all lays on adobe. Also flash video isn’t a small file. Can be quite large.

“So the future is gloomy?” Actually no, and this is the whole reason I am writing this post, HTML 5, the new revision of HTML. A couple of it’s new features are audio and video. Youtube is demoing it here and I found it quite great. My CPU didn’t spike and for a beta product it was quite nice to use, I could use the video slider and it didn’t skip around (Youtube has fixed this to some extent but it still exists in it’s flash player).

“Great HTML 5 it is then.” ummm no, well not yet. HTML 5 is still quite new and the players still need to be built and popularity needs to be gained. The player that Youtube was demoing had no more features than a Quicktime embed.

Hopefully soon all the major video hosts will follow Youtube’s lead and start using HTML 5 because it sure seems much better than flash. I don’t think flash will die well not in the fore seeable future, their still are many online applications that use flash and you can’t forget flash games but adobe really need to optimise it.

Chuck Season 3 a success… For now

Category : Chuck, Featured, Tv Shows

A show that easily became one of my favorite shows of 2008/2009 was Chuck. I was given season 1 and caught season 2 mid way through. After season had finished and then learnt that the 3rd season was grim. Which I didn’t find all that surprising because the show is corny and quite PG at times but unhappy. I stopped checking on the show till comic-con when I discovered that the chuck cast had a panel and also discovered that the show was coming back for a 3rd season and also that the show had been saved by fans of the show.

So after a really long wait I found out via twitter the first episode of chuck was airing and then last night I found out that Ep 2 and 3 had aired. So now with all three episodes under my belt the only surprise I took away from the show is someone was actually killed with a gun and blood was involved. In the past the shows had explosions and guns shot as far as I can remember no one has ever been shot only hit. So the show is stepping away from it’s corny PG. I tried to find out what the episodes were rated but I couldn’t find them.

So how is the 3rd season of chuck? Better than ever.  The seasons seemed to have a lot of changes but didn’t change at all which I guess the same with most shows. What did every one else think of it? Well from what I could understand from the LA Times article it went well.

Well I like the 3rd season every one else liked the 3rd season lets hope the ratings stay good and hope to see a fourth season soon (seeing this season is only nineteen episodes) instead of in a year.

What did you think of season 3 leave a comment below. If you enjoyed this article please tweet it out. Thanks for reading.

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