Just wanted to mention that today is the day for the Almerimar Treasure Hunt

Raising money for the stray animals here in Almerimar so if you are so inclined there is a PayPal donation button on the Almerimar Life site.

Photonic ($25) is a cool Flickr client for your Mac that allows you to upload, browse and search your photos in a very ‘Mac like’ way. It is also Leopard only, so if you don’t use Leopard, or don’t use Flickr, then this isn’t going to be any use for you. You should still take a look at it though as it is a very well thought out application, with a good user interface and some pretty useful features that take it beyond other Flickr clients that I have used.

First up thanks to Gary for pointing this out to me, and second thanks to What The Duck for allowing people to republish their stuff.

As you will see it is a pretty cool comic strip, and the one that I have posted below just seemed so appropriate on so many levels!

What do you reckon?

What a great job!!! Just picked this up off Macworld UK

MI6 is searching for a Mac user to help the secret service in its work.

Watched Blood Diamond last night. It must of been good as dispite still felling ill I managed to stay focussed on it for the whole 140 minutes, which is rare even when I am feeling well.

I like films that are based on history or a period of time and use a story to help eduacte you on the past. On that basis this did very well, with some good characters and excellent acting. Nice an emotional at the end in a ‘feel good’ way, it only had Sands turning her head to avoid the violence a couple of times.

This is a great book. It is the type of book that I really enjoy, as by telling the story it passes on some of the history of the place – this time 1960’s Nigeria.

Not a part of the world that I know much about, but I know a little more now, and have a good appreciation for the effect that the conflict had on people, and it has to be said any war must have on any nation.

Sime great characters, well writtte, powerful and very enjoyable indeed.

Let us for a moment imagine that the iPhone wasn’t around! What ’smartphone’ would be your weapon of choice? Why do I ask? Because I am starting to look around for a alternative or complimentary option for my increased business travel.

Let me save everybody some time though – I am not interested in a BlackBerry. I have nothing against them and liked the one I had when I was working in the US, but I do not want to take on a monthly contract for this handset, as when I am in Spain I have no need for it and I want to be able to use it in both the UK and Dubai.

As you know DEVONtechnologies sponsor my segment on The MacReviewCast, so it is good to see the updates that they have been promising for a while:

DEVONthink Pro Office 1.5.1 adds support for version 2.x of the Fujitsu ScanSnap Manager, deletes the original files after they have been successfully imported through OCR, and allows to resize the input panel for PDF meta data. This makes it easier to identify the scanned document on screen. The embedded OCR engine has been updated to the most recent IRIS engine. Both editions of DEVONthink Pro also come with new scripts for importing Adium, iChat, and Second Life chat logs, BluePhoneElite SMS messages and BluePhoneElite call logs. Additional scripts back up the database to the iDisk or JungleDisk and archive flagged news articles from NetNewsWire.

I have just sold the old Sony DSC F707, which I loved but have no use for, so we are looking for another Point & Shoot. I will keep the Sony DSC T7 as I am happy enough with it, although the battery life is pretty poor. but Sands wants something that she can carry around with her all the time, has a viwfinder idealy as she is not a fan of just using the LCD, and has a pretty good zoom capability.

I have been spending the morning catching up – both with Moreno and Saidi having basically been out solid for the last three days, and with a whole bunch of digital content.

As you know I tend to put all of the cats stuff up on their iWeb site, and all the Almerimar Life stuff on the Almerimar Life site, but from time to time (well once so far) I come across something that I reckon can go up on this blog as well.

Mac recently suggested that we picked a weekly subject and both took a photograph, posted it and let you guys comment on it.

I liked the idea as I need the motivation to get out with the camera more, and I like the idea that this will make me take a greater variety of pictures.

I was less enthralled with his first choice of subject though – Interesting Fruit or Vegetable. Taking pictures of food isn’t my favourite, and the choice of fruit and vegetables here is always limited (mostly fresh, locally grown – not many imports) but on the other hand it made me think!

Wayne sent this in to share with you all. Thanks Wayne!!! As ever if you have anuthing that you want to share I will happily post it.

In this day and age, information is king, and “unless you have video, it never happened� – as the saying goes. The Flip Video and Flip Video Ultra is to the camcorder what the point-and-shoot camera is to the DLSR. I don’t think it is designed to replace your current digital camcorder, but at roughly 4 inches by 2 inches, it is a fantastic product to carry “just in case.�