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Aug 17, 2010

The Batch Watermarks

It has been a while since I have done a review of an application for the Mac. Correction it has been a really long time thinking about it. There is only one reason for this, and that is the simple fact that I had all the applications I needed, didn’t have a need or desire to look at any more as was more than content to be using my Macs after years of reviewing applications rather than just using them.

So what has changed?

Title The Batch Watermarks. Full Post (430 words, 5 images, 1:43 mins)

Apple

Feb 1, 2010

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MiLi Power Skin Battery Pack For iPhone

If the applications were the customisation that made the iPhone useful, and let’s be honest until Apple opened up the SDK to developers it really was very limited, then the MiLi Power Skin (£59.99) is the Unleaded Super 98 that keeps it running long enough for the iPhone to be of real use.

To be perfectly blunt, the iPhone battery is terrible, and that is doing it a favour. I am not a heavy user of the iPhone in so much as I maybe make on average 5 minutes of calls a day, send on average no more than 3 SMS messages a week, keep it charged every night for a minimum of 7 hours, yet am still lucky if it gets through a whole day without going into the red!

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Apple

Jan 8, 2010

Security Cam app turns your iPhone into a security camera

Couldn’t resit giving the 99¢ Security Cam application for the iPhone from Crowded Road even though I couldn’t see the point of it!

Apparantly the application was first submitted to Apple in December 2008 but hasonly just been launched as the concept of using the iPhone as a spying device proved a stumbling block.

Security Cam offers two camera-related functions: frequency capture, which lets you set a specific frequency for how often the iPhone’s camera will take a photo, and audio trigger, which takes a photo whenever a customizable, pre-defined level of noise is detected. A third mode, frequency and audio, combines the two features, taking photos at predetermined intervals as well as whenever the sound threshold is met. All photos are time and date stamped.

Title Security Cam app turns your iPhone into a security camera. Full Post (216 words, 52 secs)

Dec 14, 2009

When Will There Be Good News

When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson is probably the best Kate Atkinson book that I have read.

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend — Jackson Brodie — himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

Title When Will There Be Good News. Full Post (122 words, 29 secs)

Dec 14, 2009

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Headset Buddy

Picked up a couple of neat headset adapters recently from the aptly named Headset Buddy company, that specialise in adapters for your headsets. As such it is possible, and extremely easy, to use your existing headsets with your PC, Mac, iPhone, Mobile Phone, Home Phone, Office Phone etc.

Having recently embarked on a bit of a de cluttering project I am all for anything that means that I can use less for more.

Title Headset Buddy. Full Post (463 words, 1:51 mins)

Nov 26, 2009

Jibbigo

Living in Spain as a British Expat I am always keen to look at applications that make my limited use of the Spanish language better, so I was excited to take a look at Jibbigo which promised:

Your world just got smaller thanks to a speech-to-speech translation app for your iPhone.

Hmm what is the point of having a application launch on an iPhone with the message that this is the first time you have launched the application and suggesting you watch the introductory video which ……….. doesn’t work on the iPhone!

Title Jibbigo. Full Post (918 words, 3:40 mins)

Nov 24, 2009

Dead Simple

Possibly my favourite so far! Clever (but warped) back story of a prank gone wrong. Great characters, including the continuation of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace’s life.

It is possibly the only book that actually made me gasp out loud at one totally unexpected plot twist, very unexpected indeed.

Still a great read …. as ever couldn’t put it down and finished it in about two days!

I must confess that I do like the use of ‘copy n paste’ that he uses from one book to another ….. gives a nice sense of continuity. If you don’t know what I mean read a few and you soon will!

It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace – a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife – is contacted by Michael’s beautiful, distraught fiancée, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison’s whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot to gain – more than anyone realizes. For one man’s disaster is another man’s fortune . . . Dead simple . . .

Title Dead Simple. Full Post (234 words, 56 secs)

Nov 23, 2009

Looking Good Dead

Really enjoyed this book. Great (but sick) back story of snuff movies . Great characters, including the continuation of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace’s life.

I don’t think I have any criticism of this book. Kept me guessing right to the end, realy well written and the plot had more twists and turns that a downhill slalom course. Couldn’t put it down!

Still a great read …. as ever couldn’t put it down and finished it in about two days!

I must confess that I do like the use of ‘copy n paste’ that he uses from one book to another ….. gives a nice sense of continuity. If you don’t know what I mean read a few and you soon will!

Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then his young family are threatened with their lives if he goes to the police. But supported by his wife, Kellie, he bravely makes a statement, to the murder enquiry team headed by Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a man with demons of his own – including his missing wife – to contend with. And from that moment, the killing of the Bryce family becomes a mere formality – and a grisly attraction. Kellie and Tom’s deaths have already been posted on the internet. You can log on and see them on a website. They are looking good dead.

Title Looking Good Dead. Full Post (287 words, 1:09 mins)

Nov 23, 2009

Dead Man’s Footsteps

Really enjoyed this book. Great (but tragic) back story of 9/11. Great characters, including the continuation of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace’s life.

If I had any criticism it was that compared to other books by Peter James it became too obvious what the twist was going to be a little early compared to other books.

Still a great read …. as ever couldn’t put it down and finished it in about two days!

I must confess that I do like the use of ‘copy n paste’ that he uses from one book to another ….. gives a nice sense of continuity. If you don’t know what I mean read a few and you soon will!

Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne’er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Six years later, the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman’s body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton.

Title Dead Man’s Footsteps. Full Post (229 words, 55 secs)

Featured

Nov 7, 2009

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Toyota Prius Hybrid Review

If you buy a Toyota Prius Hybrid you better have, or develop, good bladder control!

Last May when I was back in the UK I was impressed with my parents new Toyota Prius Hybrid, so much so that I said:

Without a shadow of doubt I would buy one as and when we finally need to replace the old Jeep.

My parents recently drove down through France and Spain to stay with us here in Almerimar, and they arrived full of praises for the car. It also gave me the opportunity to drive the car, both locally and on a trip we took to Granada.

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Jul 6, 2009

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Review of the Jawbone 2

I have a perfectly good Bluetooth Headset already, the Blue Ant Z9, that I really haven’t used all that much so why did I want another Bluetooth Headset, and why did I decide on the Jawbone 2?

Why Another Bluetooth Headset

A number of things have happend in the last couple of months:

I have pimped the Road King Classic and added the Garmin Zumo 550 which I use on the Harley and in the Jeep, so have been using a Bluetooth headset more to listen to the music and directions from the GPS. I have tried the Blue Ant Z9 for this and it is great BUT when it came to trying to make a phone call the wind and open faced helmet won!

Title Review of the Jawbone 2. Full Post (1130 words, 5 images, 4:31 mins)

Jul 2, 2009