22 February 2009

Bolt


Up up and away
Originally uploaded by Roly Mo
Yep.
It was half term which is just coming to an end. We can all go back to work or in my case job hunting.

As a special treat as the cinema is quite expensive these days, we went to see Bolt. I am still not convienced that a 4 year old gets these CGI Disney films with the adulty type jokes. I'm sure they will like the toon itself but the subject matter is probably a little bit beyond them. None the less made the Journey to Portsmouth's Vue cinema in Gun Wharf.

After a few unsuitable trailers we got the film and it was basically all ok. Not fantastic as in Toy Story but it was ok. I spent most of the time trying to work out who voiced the hamster "Rhino". I subsequently found out it is Mark Walton http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0910559/

I would give the film a 3.5/5. Animation brilliant. I did not see the 3D version. Rhino character just perfect mix of cutsy unhinged hero's side kick.

The Picture. O on a flying thing outside the cinema after the film.

16 February 2009

Slideware

This dropped into my inbox http://blogs.msdn.com/atwork/archive/2009/02/11/death-by-powerpoint-giving-better-presentations.aspx

Now I am in 2 minds about slideware. I believe it should be simple, however most of the corp UK want detailed bullets over 20 slides. Great. What do you do?
R

Monday Morning

Its Monday and its half term here on the south coast.

Just thought I would jot down a few of my favourite iPhone apps. Its not many but to me they are worthy of appearing on my delightful Apple device (battery life grumble grumble)

  1. Tweetie - Awesome Twitter Client. I just prefer this one to the others. They are all good but this one has the edge for me. It has a little bit more depth. It makes it very simple for me to write tweets on the go and see other peoples pofiles. I like the nearby feature too.
  2. Weather Pro - Right lets get this straight, here in the UK the Met Office rule when it comes to weather. Although Weather Pro does not appear to take data from the Met office it appears to be most accurate out of all the weather apps. This was invaluable a couple of weeks ago when the UK had snow I was able to see the satellite and radar animations to determine what was going to happen. I checked the pressure and temp with a real weather station and they were pretty accurate.
  3. Feeds - In the world of RSS readers on the iPhone there is a lot to choose from and it is extremely difficult. I have 4 currently and I watching them all carefully overtime to see which one is going leap in front. Feeds currently has some great functionality that provides full sync with Google Reader. Brilliant!!
  4. Instapaper - Ahh man I am dead jealous of the developer for this very simple app who must have been following the KISS methodogy. What is even better is that both Tweetie and Feeds have functionality to clip to your Instapaper account for offline textual reading later on.Which is really handy when you are following 20 tech reporters who are all giving out URL's of articles to read, just simply hit the instapaper option and the pages is saved to your cloud account for reading later. This has been great when I am researching a company I have an interview with. If there is any last minute info I need I can use instapaper to give a nice iphone sized textual version of the the pages of their website. Couple that with the tilt scrolling which is soooooo cool.
  5. Nuevasync - Although not an app it is allowing me to have my Google Calendar and Plaxo contacts sync'd wirelessly. Yes Google Sync is now out for the iPhone, in my opinion that still has some way to go before getting close to Nuevasync. Especially in the contact area where the fields are not replicating the Outlooks.
Look out for all of these in the iTunes app store
R

15 February 2009

Signing On

Just created a new blog which is a little more professional rather than my personal stuff.

You will find links to my LinkedIn profile and Twitter accounts as well as some of my favourite websites.

I will add more stuff as and when.