Photography is here!

As you may have seen here, I am now the owner of a mac. I've been faffing with some settings over the week, and hope that I have everything set up ready for out short trip - which I intend to test out the machine as a photography assistant.

Generally been a pretty busy week, with site, getting the advert ready for Mellows and work that needed doing to the caravan.

All done now though and ready to go to the hills today and take some photos!!

New Blog

I've been debating for a while (one of the 2007 resolutions I made with myself), that I wanted to do more writing as a creative outlet and hopefully interesting and even useful to other people. I read a few sites about book writing, not that I'm getting into that - but the information on content and ideas was good.

The blog name is registered but nothing posted yet - hopefully later. It loosely ties in with another resolution that I am going to make my system more rigid - I try a lot of little ideas in my hybrid system and its about time I stop fadding and sorted it out. So I will be documenting my journey of converting myself and system to a mac.

I NEED an iPhone

I'm about half way watching the iphone section of the apple keynote. The delivery by Steve Jobs is amazing - he is selling it to me big style (not that it needed much help). Up to that point I'd only seen pictures, and it looks sweet.

The features have a real wow factor though, and the whole interface, with scrolling, cover-art, accelerometer (which had me) but SMS and pinch - jesus!!

The fact that it all syncs so easily with the Mac (you'd guess) and that it has OSX. Glad I got my yahoo! Mail account before the mad rush

Also watching some of Leo's MacBreak videos,

Geek Out!

Still didn't manage to catch the keynote last night, just busy doing other stuff. Got the chance to chat to Mark though which was very cool. Jumped a few older podcasts this morning to listen to the latest MacBreak from 21st Amendment. Its a very good episode, with the usual fantastic banter from Leo and Merlin. It was recorded in Dolby Headphone, which I didn't pick up on all that well when listening on the iTrip, but when I caught the end at my desk - WOW. There was a guy in the crowd who calculated how many hours it was until release, and while they were talking he wrote a widget app and published it - GEEK OUT!

UPDATE: Looks like rumours of iPhone in the UK from October, with possibly O2 getting exclusive on the deal. You'll never guess when my O2 contract is due for renewal!!

So it IS the iPhone..

As it was kind of predicted the iPhone commeth. At this point, I've not seen the keynote, only pictures - so I might have things wrong, but it looks sweet, with wide screen etc. Another product released by a 3rd part is the EWOO, which if it looks as nice as their site is a good sign.

Been very busy busy at work and also at home helping Tasha polish her lines and songs for the show. Managed to catch a couple of cool other non-MacWorld things though. Yotel opens up in London airports, wonder how that would look on the expenses!! It looks a little less claustrophobic than the Japanese versions (i.e. a coffin) but still think it might be a bit freaky. The hourly charge thing is good though (especially as when I'm working nights, I invariably don't sleep for long anyway. I'm guessing this is just a US feature (at the moment) but the latest tool add-on for google maps is VERY interesting.

Oh how I wish the place I am currently working (a conservative engineering company), would even buy a small way into the concept of instant messaging being good for business. IM is completely forbidden during work hours here.

UPDATE - Freshyill posted a good size comparison chart of the new iPhone here
and there is some great pictures/features here

I want a Mac!

Forget all the fancy advertising that apple pumps out, just listening to a few episodes of MacBreak weekly has me hungry for all kinds of apple products. In fact I need them all - and would sPC tomorrow.

Looking forward the holiday big time now - the long hours have really caught up with me.

Meant to ring Mark tonight, but ended up leaving work early and its been a whirl since I got home. Hopefully catch you online, but if not have yourselves a great holiday too.