what is the difference between an alone calculator and a sole steps?
August 13th, 2010Why is writing in a mirror reversed?
August 12th, 2010
Most hits when Googling make no real attempt to explain why writing in a mirror doesn’t appear upside-down. This article is interesting, and comes close. I'm still not sure, though.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/PhysFAQ/General/mirrors.html
Interestingly, if you consider up, down, north, east, west and south, and point in each of those directions and observe where your virtual you (in the mirror) is pointing, he points the same way as you, but reflected in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the mirror.
But I still don't get why writing is reversed, but not upside-down 🙁
The new gmail layout is a bit odd. Mail, Contacts and Tasks in the top spot on their own. Should …
August 11th, 2010The new gmail layout is a bit odd. Mail, Contacts and Tasks in the top spot on their own. Should Buzz move up there to join them? Maybe move reader, calendar (and wave!) there too all with useful indicators, and then move the panel down to the bottom left.
First comment on my blog! Yey!!! http://disq.us/jzj53
August 10th, 2010Discovered wikitravel.org today. It has huuuge amounts of information about travel destinations.
August 7th, 2010Discovered wikitravel.org today. It has huuuge amounts of information about travel destinations.
Just jailbreaked (or jailbroke, or jailed break?!) my iPhone using jailbreakme.com So far it’s be…
August 2nd, 2010Just jailbreaked (or jailbroke, or jailed break?!) my iPhone using jailbreakme.com
So far it's been really easy and straight forward. It's downloading updates to cydia…
This post gives some interesting insight to the differences between business in Europe and China….
July 26th, 2010This post gives some interesting insight to the differences between business in Europe and China. It seems very biased, but I find these sorts of differences fascinating. Comments are worth reading too for some other biased opinions 😉
http://maxkle.in/giving-up-on-europe
iPhone 3G performance on iOS 4
July 25th, 2010I found this hint on Daring Fireball, and my iPhone is happy again!
If you’ve found your iPhone 3G to be almost unusable since upgrading to iOS 4, then try doing a DFU restore, as described at http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1034
I did it last night, and so far the phone is loads better. It restores all your data and settings, but does a completely clean install of the firmware.
Since doing it, I’ve been switching between apps, loading websites etc and nothing has crashed (yet). Even apps that always crashed are working now!
Update: Shortly after this, I jailbroke my phone. The extra features were great – particularly having a wi-fi hotspot for my iPad, and being able to pull down a little system panel any time, to enable/disable radios or check the status of my memory/network etc.
However, performance again deteriorated until the phone was pretty much unusable again 🙁
I’ve done another DFU restore to the latest firmware… Let’s see if the phone maintains its usability this time.
iPad app pic: Air Display is great. Especially for Aperture if you don’t already have a second sc…
July 6th, 2010iPad app pic: Air Display is great. Especially for Aperture if you don't already have a second screen 🙂
I've been doing full screen mode, with the photo browser on the iPad screen, and the currently selected photo filling my main display. Can even tap on photos to select them (but, sadly, trying to scroll by swiping doesn't work and keeps catching me out)
Turkish Stars at Waddington Airshow 2010
July 3rd, 2010
I was digging through some old panoramas, and found this photo that I took back at the air show at RAF Waddington, in 2010.
It’s actually 4 pictures stitched together. There’s 2 planes flying together, with one upside down, and they both flipped over at the same time. I’d like the 4 points in time to be more clear, but the pilots were just too quick!
