iPhone Pictures

Interesting edition of MacBreak Weekly podcast this morning, saying that some pictures had been posted to Flickr this week that were taken on an iPhone. The pictures seem to be taken in a cafe 3 miles from Apple HQ and were quickly withdrawn from the Flickr feed. The EXIF data showed the type to be an iPhone and the resolution of the images ties in with the size quoted (about 3MP). The images were pretty detailed though.

Apparently there have been numerous sighting in the Apple HQ area of folks with iPhones, assuming they are employees on test.

Very quiet in the office today - same old folks out at Gatwick, but Mark & Pete have gone down for some fire training at Stanstead. My cube bay is empty apart from me, checking out some MacBreak and iLifeZone.

The Daily Grind

Really struggling to stay focused on work at the moment. The task that I have isn't very taxing and involves a lot of reading (which I personally can't stomach a great deal of in one sitting), so my mind is naturally wandering to creative pursuits. This situation is not helped by the new mac and setting it up with sweet little tricks.

Had another great life-laundry session last night, this time sorting out all the wardrobes, archiving the winter coats into the new wardrobe in the loft and making up some charity bags.

Completed the latest ubermaclife post using TextMate, another tool that I've got on trial I'm finding it really good to have the ability to blog whilst not on line (just while working for this client, although I'm looking at getting a wireless mobile based modem)

Just taken a look at the video introducing some of the features of OmniFocus which is hopefully due for beta release in the next few weeks. It looks really cool and will be a direct replacement for Kinkless.

A casual line

Just finished watching LOST - gee they know how to throw a line in!! Didn't see that coming at all - WOW! Brrrrr!

Anyway - managed to get my calendar drop down sorted.

first monthly invoice away too - so fingers crossed they'll be no clitches with that on Friday.

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!!

Photography on the horizon

Not sure why, but I've just not been all that organised with my media feeds the last few months. I seem to concentrate on just one or the other. It dawned on me that I've really neglected Flickr and its one of my favourite for enjoyment and inspiration. The truth is I was just rying to do too much in the time I had available. I realised I was doubling up on information in the RRS feed and my podcasts list. Now the podcasts I can listen to in the car whilst driving, so I cut a few feeds there but a lot from my reader account, which is now much more manageable. This now leaves me time to use twitter, blog and catch up with Flickr (which I also have streamlined a bit)

I think the mac will be getting bought on Wednesday - if I can get away at a reasonable hour.

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!!

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.