Wings On Some Wheels

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Category: Technology

Us Now

An excellent 1 hour documentary film about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet. Check it out;

Synopsis
“In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is staring intently into his computer screen. He is picking the team for Ebbsfleet United’s FA Trophy Semi-Final match against Aldershot . Around the world 35,000 other [...]

Museum Navigation

I decided to post some of my work from the end of last year, below is a cut down version of the design brief followed by 3 proposals. After each proposal I’ll follow up with some advantages and disadvantages to the design. 
The Brief
To successfully enhance the visitor experience within a museum environment, that has [...]

Chat on a 4G Nano

 

 
So, is this new iPod Nano? Who knows but it did get me thinking. Last year the iPod user interface got a fresh new update (see second image above). On the supposedly new Nano the screen is much longer, but doesn’t look as wide as the fat 3g Nano from last year (which could [...]

iPhone 2.0

Ok, we all want to see a new iPhone in the next coming months, but what exactly do I want the device to do? After reading the article from MSNBC asking “What should the next iPhone have?” I decided to make my own list.
Ok, here are some of my requirements:  

3G
VOIP (Free Internet calls – Maybe [...]

Running Vista SP1

I’ve just managed to install Vista Service Pack One (I was missing an updated driver for the finger print reader) – It is running very well, although the start up seems slightly longer.
Lets see how things go…
-Kyle

Will I or Won’t I

After thinking about installing Vista service pack 1 I decided against it. According to the vista blog everyone who can receive the update via Windows Update will, if you don’t, then there’s issues (I can’t get it). Here is the reasons for not getting the update yesterday; 

You have a pre-release version of SP1 and [...]

Slider Mouse at CEBIT

I’ve just watched a video on the BBC about Simtrix’s Slider mouse and I’m blown away by the concept, good work! It certainly looks like it could reduce problems with RSI, I hope a big business jumps on to this device and ploughs it into the main stream. Although, I’m actually a little pre-cautious with [...]

PicLens

Right listen up, you need to head over to Piclens.com and download their plugin for Firebox, its amazing for Facebook and Google image results.
Watch the demo;

Very Impressed, although I’m sure I’ve seen this before and skipped over it.
Maybe it was Lifehacker?
-Kyle

Looking forward to this…

Since the BBC iPlayer has been updated I been a big fan and a regular user, I just love watching the shows when I want to watch them. Therefore the news that they’ll soon be serving up content to Apple’s iPhone and Touch is a welcomed add on. Now I’ve been hard on the [...]

Bargain at Dell

For £199 (take the warranty off), who would complain;
Components Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E4500 processor (2.20GHz, 800MHz, 2MB cache) Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium – English 1Yr Basic Warranty – Next Business Day Included – No Upgrade Selected Monitor Not included 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024] 1.0TB (7200RPM) SATA Dual Hard Drives (2X500GB) [...]