Frog’s Blog

The embargo is over and I can finally announce that I have not had an iPad to play with or review for the past week (not like that Andy Ihnatko fellow). Yes, I signed an embargo to not say that I didn’t have an iPad before the release. I’m terrible about contracts (I have 8 time shares, 4 adopted children, 2 wives, and an endorsement deal from Rita’s Water Ice). Now that I can finally talk about the fact that I have nothing to talk about, I thought I’d share my (completely made up) review of Apple’s new iPad.

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A moving light in the sky is guaranteed to catch my attention. If it is slow moving and …

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Updated from previous posting!

UPDATE: thanks to the efforts of lots of people in the community we are now able to download tracks …

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I mentioned before that I was excitedly awaiting the release of the HTC Magic. Well, it’s out! Reviews that aren’t just marketing hype are hard to come by but the Telegraph have a nice video review of …

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Awesome 3D Aerial Virtual Tour of New York, view here >

“Pixelcase is a small, innovative digital imaging company, specialising in world-class fullscreen virtual tour presentations. With over a decade of professional virtual tour creation expertise and utilising the …

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The 2nd Google Android handset, the HTC Magic, is out on 5th May exclusive to Vodafone so say the Telegraph.

I was in a store at the weekend and they said 16th May, but either way it’s coming …

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Bethemiddleman.com is a project we’re currently working on to provide the housing market a FREE option when selling …

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Boston.com, the online newspaper of the Boston Globe, has a special advent calendar on their website on the moment, counting down the days till Christmas 2008. Every day they upload a picture of Space, taken from …

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Here are 20 must own gifts and gadgets for all geeks to wish for this Christmas. I’ve got the Ariel Atom on my list as it’s friggin awesome, maybe asking for too much though!

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Following on from the 9xb digital staff portraits, new starter Gyles Seward has had his very own created. After suffering hours of digital torcher in Frog’s special Frankenstein-esk Lab this hideous creation appeared….

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You know how this goes! Cow… Bells… Ring… Tone …and so on, and so on!

Let’s start with ….. FROG!

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Hi faithful blog fans.

Nothing much to report – busy with the kitchen, have replaced the rotten joists (read: door frames, grrr!) and laid new laminate. On with the new units now

Oh, and upgraded to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, seamlessly as …

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Morning all, I’m very very excited, just had to write a quick post.

Today was my first attempt at gathering a serious amount of GPS trace data.

The cat woke me up at 05:20 which was what I had hoped. I got …

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I got my NaviGPS BGT-11 in the post last week – yay!

To get it talking to Ubuntu I used this nifty perl script. And I could download all the manuals and things from the Locosys website.

Hurrah!

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Had a problem last week where my editor was defaulting to using UTF-8 whereas the files i was editing were ISO-8859-1. This ISO character set allows for extra single-byte characters beyond those in standard ASCII – including 163 …

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