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		<title>Link Blog (Week 5 2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ayre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I was too lazy and didn&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nickayre.com%2Flink-blog-week-5-2010%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nickayre.com%2Flink-blog-week-5-2010%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Sorry I was too lazy and didn&#8217;t do this the last few weeks and because of this the articles I post may be old.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>The FBI Sucks at Photoshop | Mashable &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/ccipi4" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ccipi4</a></h2>
<p>This post confused me at first because I was trying to figure it out, because I didn&#8217;t the FBI would take someones image off then internet and use it for probably the most known terrorist in the world.</p>
<h2>Kid Creates Enormous, Surreal Picture in MS Paint | Mashable &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/9eLd4B" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/9eLd4B</a></h2>
<p>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&#8217;t see any cover ups or errors pretty amazing.</p>
<h2>The Statistics Of Game Consoles, Summed Up In One Big Graphic | Gizmodo Australia &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/9KuuXl" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/9KuuXl</a></h2>
<p>&#8230;. It&#8217;s just interesting.</p>
<h2>Greg Rutter&#8217;s Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You&#8217;re a Loser or Old or Something | http://youshouldhaveseenthis.com &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/cqy3nY" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/cqy3nY</a></h2>
<p>Well the title says it all. Tho I can&#8217;t say that I have seen them all.</p>
<h2>How to present like Steve Jobs | TUAW &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/aRKdLc" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/aRKdLc</a></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>How To Replace A Lost Mobile Phone Charger (For Free) | Gizmodo Australia &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/dlIBQZ" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/dlIBQZ</a></h2>
<p>It&#8217;s a great idea.</p>
<h2>Wii Balance Board: decent for measuring equilibrium, medical study says | Engadget &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/ceffox" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ceffox</a></h2>
<p>The console that just keeps on giving.</p>
<h2>ABC Launching A Dedicated 24-Hour News Channel | Gizmodo Australia &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/d5q4o2" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/d5q4o2</a></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Stop Losing Lens Caps With These DIY Clips | Gizmodo Australia &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/cfH1Qe" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/cfH1Qe</a></h2>
<p>This looks like a good idea but I have yet to try it out.</p>
<h2>Lenovo RapidDrive brings SSD and HDD together, demoes 66 percent speed boost on video | Engadget &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/b7cNEK" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/b7cNEK</a></h2>
<p>SSD are fast at copy data but are very expensive, HDD are slow in comparison to SSD&#8217;s but now a days are quite cheap. Bring them together and well check out the story.</p>
<h2>Why Nikon as Video Cam Doesn’t Stand Up to Canon as Video Cam | Photofocus &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/cVjVwO" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/cVjVwO</a></h2>
<p>Title tells it all really.</p>
<h2>Using copper and electricity to scrub air of greenhouse gas | arstechnica &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/7EWXwl" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/7EWXwl</a></h2>
<p>Interesting discovery</p>
<h2>Australian Manages To Track ‘Needle In A Haystack’, Finds Lost Camera Owner Via Facebook Group | iTech Report &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/aj8Rs6" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/aj8Rs6</a></h2>
<p>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&#8217;s to find it&#8217;s owner on facebook.</p>
<h2>How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep | Dustin Curtis &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/9vUYcF" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/9vUYcF</a></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Asimo stars in Living with Robots | Viddler.com  [Uploaded by Engadget] &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/aidCyz" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/aidCyz</a></h2>
<p>I love watching robot technology slowly grow up.</p>
<h2>Illusion Labs shows off multitouch &#8216;Touchgrind&#8217; gaming demo on a MacBook | Engadget &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/dBlWPT" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/dBlWPT</a></h2>
<p>Seems cool, wish I had a multitouch trackpad to try it out on.</p>
<h2>IBM and Fujifilm develop 35TB magnetic tape cartridges, unveil it in black and white | Engadget &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/aImAzO" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/aImAzO</a></h2>
<p>This is very cool, back ups of a sudden don&#8217;t seem like that much of a burden.</p>
<h2>Two YouTube Videos And A Motherf***ing Crossfader, Dot Com | Gizmodo Australia &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/9556TX" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/9556TX</a></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>The Fastest Text Input Test: Laptop, iPhone, Pen, Palm Or Newton? | Gizmodo Australia &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/9rnHz5" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/9rnHz5</a></h2>
<p>Not all that surprising but still interesting.</p>
<h2>Canon 7D Loaded With $US6 DIY Follow Focus | Gizmodo Australia &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/cH45Hd" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/cH45Hd</a></h2>
<p>I don&#8217;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&#8217;s into ways of producing very high quality videos.</p>
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		<title>Googles Announcement at Taronga Zoo Sydney</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ayre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read last week from Gizmodo&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nickayre.com%2Fgoogles-announcement-at-taronga-zoo-sydney%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nickayre.com%2Fgoogles-announcement-at-taronga-zoo-sydney%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>I read last week from <a href="http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/01/what-will-google-launch-at-taronga-zoo-next-week/" target="_blank">Gizmodo&#8217;s article</a> 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?</p>
<p>Well today they announced that they are launching a new Google maps service relating to street maps. A Google Street view trike.</p>
<div id="attachment_131" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://blog.nickayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Justin+Baid+rides+the+trike+past+Giraffes.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-131" title="Justin+Baid+rides+the+trike+past+Giraffes" src="http://blog.nickayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Justin+Baid+rides+the+trike+past+Giraffes-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">From Google Blog</p></div>
<p>&#8220;Our Street View Trike made its first outing in Australia today, taking a spin around Sydney&#8217;s beautiful Taronga Zoo. We&#8217;re really excited to have the Trike in Australia for the first time, because it will let us collect imagery of some of Australia&#8217;s most spectacular natural and man-made places that are off the beaten track &#8211; or, at least, set back from the public roads along which our Street View cars normally travel.&#8221;</p>
<p>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.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you would like to see a place imaged by the trike, Google is asking you to suggest places <a href="https://services.google.com/fb/forms/streetviewausuggestions/" target="_blank">here</a></p>
<p>I hope they won&#8217;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.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.nickayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Nick-Ayre-google-street-view-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[129]"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-132" style="border: 7px solid black;" title="Nick Ayre google street view 1" src="http://blog.nickayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Nick-Ayre-google-street-view-1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://blog.nickayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Nick-Ayre-google-street-view-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[129]"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-133 alignleft" style="border: 7px solid black;" title="Nick Ayre google street view 2" src="http://blog.nickayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Nick-Ayre-google-street-view-2-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://blog.nickayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Nick-Ayre-google-street-view-3.jpg" rel="lightbox[129]"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-134 alignleft" style="border: 7px solid black;" title="Nick Ayre google street view 3" src="http://blog.nickayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Nick-Ayre-google-street-view-3-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>Yeah they are actually me</p>
<p>Thanks to my sources</p>
<p><a href="http://itechreport.com/2010/01/25/google-street-view-trike-comes-to-australia-launches-at-sydneys-taronga-zoo/" target="_blank">iTech Report</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/01/what-will-google-launch-at-taronga-zoo-next-week/" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a></p>
<p><a href="http://google-au.blogspot.com/2010/01/trike-has-landed-nominate-your.html" target="_blank">Google Blog</a></p>
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