My gen3 Ipod has served me well on many a long plane trip across the world or within Australia but after several years the battery has lost it lifespan. I had simply assumed it would spend the rest of it … Continued
Ok..couldn’t help myself…we did a dash to the Gold Coast to grab me a new 70-200 f4L IS lens for the trip. It’s really light and really sharp. Took a quick snap of the dog at ISO800 and still very … Continued
We just came back from a weekend in Canberra where i took the opportunity to take some pics in the little spare time we had. As the Sunday was very grey it showed up lots of “spots” in the some … Continued
For anyone who cares…we’re off to Thailand for 2 weeks on Friday. When and if we get to and internet cafe or two we’ll be posting our adventrues here…so stay tuned. Our itinery is posted earlier here. If you’re only … Continued
In preparation for our recent presentation on Virtual Earth I made a few “backup videos” of the demos we were going to show. We’ve tried a few different screen capture tools before and most of them seemed to kill your pc … Continued
We did our presentation of Virtual Earth for Scalable Applications last night. John spoke tirelessly for 1.5 hours and we only had a few minor glitches and even had an internet connection so we didn’t need the “backup video demos” … Continued
Video: The 10min Map
We just got back from Age of User Experience Brisbane session. It was great to see an event in Brisbane. Overall, I found the session disappointing..felt like it hadn’t been properly prepared and parts of it seemed like it hadn’t … Continued
Just sitting here looking at my injuries from my “fun” activities for the week…and realised how we simply accept them and think no more of it. If i got the same injuries at work…would I be so forgiving…don’t think so… I … Continued
Trip To Thailand – Plans for far Date Details 27 April Flight: Thai Airways TG984 Depart Brisbane 15:20 Arrive Bangkok 21:40 Hotel: Trang Hotel Bangkok 99/1 Wisutkasart Road Bangkok 10200 +66 228114023 28 April Walking Tour pg 116 Wat … Continued
The other day I wrote about my new toy – LED tap light and promised some pics. So here it is…isn’t it cool . Unfortunatly, it’s probably a water wasting device…since you just look for an excuse to use the … Continued
I signed up for Cluster Maps the other day and put it on our blog page. Ever since I seem to find myself checking on the progress of the little dots each day, to see if they’ve changed and grown. … Continued
With Version 5 of Virtual Earth unoffically released as part of the upgrade of maps.live.com I have had a quick look at the performance and it is great news! Compression has been enabled for not only V5 but also V4 … Continued
Today the VE team released an update to Virtual Earth and have converted http://maps.live.com to the new version. Of particular interest is the support of 3D in Firefox, until now it was IE only. On the VE side the new features of … Continued