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Any one got a link to the smartphone software ?

Update:
https://barcode.ideas.live.com/
https://barcode.ideas.live.com/
http://diy.quickmark.com.tw/sa_eng/
http://www.dlsoft.com/sales/store.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

Now I love picasa and when picasawebs came out I thought fantastic, auto sync, memberships groovy interface.  Well I got part of one of those a pretty interface that I like, but thats about it.  Membership and sync were out and the limits, I wasn’t sure, thought they were too small.

Flikr on the other hand I hated, I still hate the interface, Im getting used to it but I hate it.  However when you have a large digital photo collection and loads more to scan then you cant fight it anymore, you have to pick flickr.

I wasn’t about to make my picasaweb photos public and maintaining a seperate page for the family changing each time i add a new set was a pain.

Now I’m used to flickr and it has great limits and tags, tags are great but that damn organiser in flickr is rubbish and flaky, it frequently fails on me.  So how to get tags into flickr ?  Picasa.

Picasa or at least the latest one Im using has “Keywords”, these are tags.  Picasa’s interface for adding tags, lots of them across your collection is really quick and really easy.  Now using Flickrs uploading tool with your newly tagged photos auto tags them in flickr as well.  This is really time saving.

So now I have the best of both worlds, a great client side photo organiser and a great web based photo sharing backup site, complete with fully tagged photos.

Well with a name like that how could I resist. I mean a Herb centre but National ! Who could possibly imagine the delights that lay ahead in a National herb centre.

Well I could not believe my eyes as I walked through the magnificent front entrance. The scankiest excuse for garden centre on the face of the planet. Bucking current trends of great facilities, huge ranges of garden paraphenalia large stocks of plant, there was practically nothing. A poor excuse for a shop, plants that were dead and dying ravaged by insects, I know its close to winter but hey. A childs play area for those children with the attention span of a goldfish.

Its only saving grace was the coffee was really nice in the coffee house, even if it does take 15 minutes from point of order to arrive.

But despite this the car park was full (everyone was in the coffe house though).

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Originally uploaded by SimonTocker.

Its an odd picture to blog about but this is a blog from flickr test. Feel free to steal as a texture if you want.

Here is a site created by Green Peace criticizing apple’s manufacturing processes and clean-up.  The site copies apple style which I thought was a stroke of genius.

Whether you agree with Green Peace or not  its worth a look just from a web design standpoint but read the site and make up your own mind. 

Problems like this are not just restricted to one company.  Electronic goods recycling is pretty poor I know I have loads of electronics stored in the house because I can’t bear the thought of it going into landfill, at my local tip they are now separating all electronics but for what purpose I’m not sure I hope for sensible disposal and re-use.  Truth is I need to find this out its my responsibility too I bought the damn stuff.

I know I can do more, instead of blaming everyone else start with ourselves, what did you do with that old CRT Tele ? Did you bin it ? Sell it ? Give it away ? 

Anyone want an old 233 intel celeron and motherboard BTW ?

tags: greenmyapple, greenpeace

This is a fantastic mashup of with google maps.

Goggles

Fly your plane over, wherever, and shoot at it. 

I love gadgets, I have a few.  Like most they are USB devices that require charging.  I tend to charge them from my PC, when Im using it, or with the proper charger.

The proper charger, especially for my windos phone, charges in record time, the PC charges a lot slower and so I only PC charge when at work.

There is a reason for this, a USB socket from the PC will output 500ma at 5v, thats a power consumption of 2.5 Watts.  (If there are any electric engineers who want to correct this please do, but its the next part thats the kicker).

Tuesday I get a call from my mate saying we’re not going drinking he’s got back late and knackered, a sometimes regular occurance and a symptom of working in the games industry, but during this he tells me he is going to have words with his son.  Apparently when he got home he found his PC on, a device with a 450 Watt power supply and all the bells and whistles and uber gfx card, as you would expect for a games write, left on with the screen saver running maybe not the full 450watt consumption but a damn site more than 2.5Watts.  Plugged into said “small replica if blackpool illuminations” was his son’s GIRLFRIEND’S iPod on charge.  Some explaining was given to the son on his return.

So a lesson for probably quite a few people out there, it might be a good idea to not use your PC as the sole charge device for your USB /Firewire enabled kit IF your not using it.

You could however try this

http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/

but best of all is Go Gadget Go (not mentioned on his blog yet) who can charge all his devices with solar power, which I find soooo cool.

Source BBC News

A former US Marine has become the first woman in the world to be fitted with a “bionic” arm that she can control by her thoughts alone.

Its a start, but a pretty amazing one.

tags: bionic+woman

Now I’ve not tried ths yet but I’m very interested.  A colleague here has just had to write a CSV parser and this would have saved some time.

www.filehelpers.com

Thanks to secretgeek for the heads-up.