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LED Light Ring Blur

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Messing about shooting an LED light ring in the dark.

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Long Marston Moor

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Long Marston Moor

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Life with an HTC Desire part 3

Applications

Having more fun with apps, couple of my current time wasters are,

Sketch-a-bit

A collaborative, evolutionary-drawing app, the hook is that you can upload your doodles to the web and other people modify them. Some examples can be seen on their website at http://superfiretruck.com/sketchabit/ surprisingly you don’t see too many “adult” doodles.

Fractoid

Generates fractal images. Pinch zooming works well on the HTC Desire and the 1GHz snapdragon renders the images at an acceptable speed. Examples of the image can be seen on this Flickr group

Dot 2

Simple but addictive tilt control game

Problems

Couple of issues I’ve noticed with the phone, battery life, with everything turned on (wifi, gps, etc) I seem to be getting around a days use out of the battery when I’m using apps a lot. Take a bit of getting used to since my old phone used to last a couple of days, guess price you pay.

The SD Card becomes unusable, this seems to be a common issue with the HTC Desire, a co-worker has the same problem and its mentioned around the web a lot.

A simple reboot of the phone brings it back to life, according to HTC I should back up the data and reformat the SD card to solve the problem, not tried it yet.

I got round to installing the Android SDK and went through the classic “Hello World” app tutorial, step one done :)

1. Install Android SDK

2. Write Killer app

3. Profit!!!

My full current app list

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Create Fractals on the Move on Android phones

Found this neat Android application which lets you generate factals on the move.
It is called Fractoid and is available on the Android market place.

The multi-touch zooming works well on my HTC Desire.

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Approaching 9000

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Noticed that I’m approaching the 9000th Tweet mark on my Twitter account, this is scary so I decided to map my Tweeting habits again using http://tweetstats.com/

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Puppy Linux 5

Puppy Linux 5
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

The new Puppy Linux 5, showing the browser selection screen for easy install of your favorite browser.

So far it seems as quick as previous version running on a VM, need to try it with older hardware at home.

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Rusty Pipes

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A couple of shots of some rusty pipes at York University Science Park

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32 Free Software Solutions For Photographers | DIYPhotography.net

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32 Free Software Solutions For Photographers | DIYPhotography.net

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Easy flickr uploads with Postr

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A must for every Flickr Linux user.

Easy flickr uploads with Postr

via gHacks technology news by Jack Wallen on 5/12/10

For those that use Flckr, it’s always easiest when you have a simple tool that allows quick and painless file uploading. Although logging onto the web site and using the built-in Flickr uploader isn’t difficult, when you have a number of images, or when you upload frequently, this can be a real hassle. So having a stand-alone tool for this purpose is always nice. There are plenty of these tools for the Windows desktop. But what about Linux? You bet there are. There are Flickr uploaders for KDE for GNOME and everything in between.

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Weeds on wall

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Weeds on wall
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Weeds and moss growing on a church yard wall

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