Archive for December 2007

Christmas 2.0

Happy Christmas to everyone out there – honestly, I’ve never had a 25th December where the web is used so much, with greetings over Facebook and instant messaging springing to mind… anyway, before I get back to the absolute awesomeness of the entire family crammed into a room that really isn’t big enough to hold [...]

Posted at 17:03 on December 25th 2007, filed under Life, with one comment

Nokia 2630

I love being able to post about Christmas presents safe in the knowledge that the person concerned will never ever read this :-)

The Nokia 2630 is an absolutely gorgeous phone. Sure, it might not be as flashy or desirable as an iPhone, but we’re talking about a very different target market here. And damn, does [...]

Posted at 1:10 on December 21st 2007, filed under Technology, with no comments yet

Apple Cares?

I’m sure friends of mine will be absolutely shocked to hear this, but I’ve fallen in love with Apple all over again. After taking my flickering MacBook to the Regent Street Genius Bar for the third time, they caved and completely replaced it for me. The only catch (so far as I can tell now) [...]

Posted at 14:17 on December 20th 2007, filed under Mac, Technology, with no comments yet

For Legal Reasons…

Taken from Transport for London’s online "Journey history" feature, which allows you to see where you’ve been on your Oyster card, at what time, and how much it cost (by the way, it’s a fantastic feature – except for this).
For legal reasons we are only able to display up to eight weeks of data.
Allow me [...]

Posted at 17:03 on December 16th 2007, filed under Life, with 4 comments

“Master Your DSLR”

End of school term means hardly any work to do, so I spent the evening playing with (learning?) my dad’s Nikon D80, seeing as I had pretty much no clue how to use it before now. I’ve been through Lifehacker’s tutorials (part one and part two) on mastering your digital SLR in both Program and [...]

Posted at 23:37 on December 10th 2007, filed under Photography, Technology, with no comments yet