Yey! Merlin Mann is back as regular on macbreak weekly 😀 and they've gone back to the good slogan.
Yey! Merlin Mann is back as regular on macbreak weekly :D and they’ve gone back to the good slogan.
February 4th, 2010The Rule of Thirds
January 10th, 2010
I got a book about taking photos. It was cheap, but turns out that when it was written, any camera worth using was still analogue or wet. It talks a lot about chemicals and filters and film. However – I’m sure most of the concepts are still the same with digital photography, so I’m looking forward to developing some skills.
The first thing I’ve played with is the rule of thirds. Apparently you shouldn’t normally put your subject in the middle of the photo. Who knew?! I had a go at cropping photos taken at Kew Gardens a couple of weeks ago using the rule of thirds. Has it made the photos more vivid and captivating? Read the rest of this entry »
New Year’s Eve 2009 London Streets
January 1st, 2010
First SLR
December 30th, 2009
Caroline and I enjoy photography. We don’t have a lot of time to really develop skills, but like having collections of photos. When we went to New York in 2008, we planned to get our first SLR camera. Instead we got ripped off and came home with a point & shoot pretending to be an SLR (Panasonic DMC-FZ1) having paid twice what a consumer SLR should cost.
This time we were more careful and calculated and I managed to find a brilliant bargain for a Canon 450D – an actual SLR! We picked it up from Comet last night and had a play around.
GMail push to iPhone
September 22nd, 2009Another example of where I just had to wait.
I’ve wanted push GMail since I got my iPhone over a year ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Canal boating
September 13th, 2009
This weekend Caroline and I joined her brother for his 25th birthday party. He hired a canal boat from a nearby town, to drive it to Chester for the party, then drive it back again after. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes it’s best to wait for someone to do it for you
September 11th, 2009A few times I’ve desperately tried to find a way to do something that could be simple, but is technically a bit complicated, such as being able to have a subset of my iTunes library only MacBook.
It usually turns out to be best to wait until Apple do it for you :p Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome!
September 5th, 2009Welcome to fredsherbet.com! This is my first personal blog, so I’m finding my way with it :p
I enjoy playing with computers, and am a computer programmer in North London. I built computers in my teens, but got into Apple computers in the last few years. Most recently I’ve gotten into web technologies, and having my own webspace that I can SSH into is quite exciting!
Anyway, this is my personal outlet – we’ll see where it goes…
Portugal 2009
July 25th, 2009
Matthew and Caroline went on a relaxing 4 day holiday by the beach and pool. Read the rest of this entry »
Lunar Landing 40th Anniversary
July 18th, 2009
We had a Moon landing party to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing. Read the rest of this entry »
