2010... The Year We Make Contact, but with what?

Best of 2010:

Photos: National Geographic

"Most Significant" Gadgets: Wired.com - Apparently! 3 of them were phones, 2 were tablets (3 if you include the kindle), others: Macbook Air, MS Xbox Kinect, a Canon Powershot S95, and you know, something actually important / significant, that can actually change people's lives: the bionic legs that help people WALK again.

Best Tech of 2010: By Pogue

The year in tech lunacy: on the register.

Gaffes: (Mistakes made by important or TV people) Gaffes of the Year | Guardian.co.uk. (You should / could also add the Times paywall to this list...)

will add more if / when I find them...

Related / Previous Posts / Years:
2009 In Review by Yahoo/Flickr Photos
2008 Best and Worst of 2008
2007 Best Freeware of 2007
2004 Best and Worst
2004 MP3 Players were expensive!
2003 Good stuff about 2003
2003 Top 5 Websites or Things
2003 B3ta best of 2003.

MP3 Tools: Want to (semi) automatically find album art for all your mp3s?

Then why not try:

"Album Cover Art Downloader" (unrealvoodoo)

This one seems the most automatic, and will just get on with it when you "select all" and then click "download missing..." but has less sources (walmart, best buy, yahoo, but not amazon), and seems slower.

"Album Art Downloader" (sourceforge.net)

This one likes you to select and double click the image you want to be your album art, and seems quicker (but also depends on you responding to the prompts) and possibly more up to date than the top program, it also has more sources for album art including google images. You can also click "auto download and select artwork" which speeds up the process. It also lets you know how many albums you have without artwork, and then you can select them, and find artwork for them. Good stuff.

MP3TAG - universal tag editor (https://www.mp3tag.de/en/)

Batch tag editing, includes online database lookups, and the ability to rename files based on the tag information, as well as adding album covers. It can also create playlists if you want.

tidying up on line

I've been tidying up on line and deleted a couple of blogs, being a blogger seams so retro now? (Where's the spell check button?) But more to the point who reads blogs these days any way?

I was amused to see that Dad is still doing seti, and is well over half way to catching me up.

There we go thats a post

Tools that might help fix your infected PC?

Anti virus software (Completely free)
http://www.avast.com
http://free.avg.com AVG
http://www.free-av.com/ Avira AntiVir

Online anti virus software:
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/ Panda Cloud Anti-virus

Standalone scanner
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

AV and Anti-spyware?
Windows Defender http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx
Microsoft Security Essentials http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials/ "Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software."

Anti-spyware tools
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ A-squared / Anti-Malware Free edition
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2008/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10844457 ad-aware
http://download.cnet.com/Spybot-Search-amp-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html Spybot

Lots more links and information here: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/free-anti-virus-software

I know this blog is kind of dead...

But this is flipping awesome. ignore the fact that they call it a "podcast" when in fact it's a Rave mix by Moby stored as an mp3... because it's quite frankly awesome and should be downloaded anyway. (via boingboing)

 

Tonight's Moon which also occulted The Pleiades at 1830 hours.

This is a test of the Nokia N97 as a blogging device

Note that Im having to use Opera Mini because the built in web browser is so crap that it crashes every time I try and post something on blogger.

The keyboard is a little poor. Space bar is in the wrong place. The keyboard works a little better and quicker when you use it liked a crackberry and type with your opposable thumbs (holding the phone rather than putting it down on the desk) but the spacing feels a little too wide when compared to a blackberry and the feeling is very ZX81. Where is the Psion 5 keyboard when you need it?

The screen seems much more responsive than the Sony Satio and is usable with just your fingers.

I guess its not too bad - perhaps quicker and more usable than having to use a normal phone - but nothing yet has convinced me that any phone is a suitable (perfect) blogging tool. The only thing they are really good at is photo blogging and posting short twitter style updates.

The Simpsons 10 Best Episodes Ever (by the BBC)

10 classic episodes: The BBC
20 best episodes ever: here at nelsoncolne

Would be interesting to compare the results, but I don't have time now. (Maybe later)