WiiJing

Using two Nintendo Wii remote controls to DJ: Video on Engadget full details on DJWiiJ.com

The Flapcam Concept Folding Digital Camera

the flapcam at image-acquire - a prototype / concept - it folds up so that the lens and screen are protected. seriously I had this idea about a month ago and even sketched some designs (as shown here) my version allows you to use it folded so it's small, or (as shown in the middle) in a self-portrait mode where the lens and screen are pointing at you. My version was called the "Slim Shot" :)

obvisously it's already been done by Olympus with the IR-500, but shhh, lets pretend that never happened! :)

Apple vs PC Adverts UK Style featuring Mitchell and Webb (aka Peep Show Guys)

http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ quite funny, but blatantly Mac biased and partially annoying because of Apple's view that there are NEVER ever any problems with Macs, whereas obviously there are.

find-dvd.co.uk - cheap dvds

Ever wanted to find the cheapest place to buy your DVDs - use find-dvd.co.uk - it'll find the cheapest place to buy Simpsons Season 9 - the cheapest is a place called blahdvd.com. Hoorah for the internet. You'll also find nearly all the old seasons are now half-price! Hoorah!

Nelson Colne Blogger Upgraded

This blogs been upgraded to the new google blogger - so you will need to upgrade your account to post here. The forced you to upgrade all the blogs you owned when you logged in meaning you have to now use a google account instead of the old blogger account.

Amiga OS 4

ArsTechnica have reviewed Amiga OS 4. The only problem being that the company that manufactured the hardware (using a G3 processor) doesn't exist anymore.

Addictive Game

so very very very addictive. I think level 37/38 is the highest I got (out of 40 levels).

Blackberries are cool BUT...

Blackberry Pearl's look very cool, and the whole concept of "always on" email, that you can access anytime, anywhere is very useful for some people, but blackberry's are such a pain in the ass to setup and configure in an enterprise (exchange) environment! ARGH!! Hopefully sometime today I'll actually get this blackberry setup and configured and working... it's only taken me 4 hours!!!!! (and it's still not finished.. will it ever get past 92% activation?). More on the sexy looking Blackberry Pearl here.

Apple release the iPhone (PDA) thingy.

"So what we have ended up with is a widescreen, touch screen product that somewhat resembles a slick PDA. At just 11.6mm thick it is the thinnest smartphone in the world and comes with Mac OS X installed as its core operating system! A two megapixel camera makes it onboard along with the anticipated audio and video playback (supported codecs not revealed) and the large 3.5in, 320 x 480 resolution display automatically detects whether the phone is being held in a landscape for portrait position."

Widescreen 3.5" iPod (Video and MP3), Phone, Internet, 2mp Camera, 4gb or 8gb versions available.

More details: Trusted Reviews, Apple iPhone.

Best Teas of 2006!

Tea Review have published their list of the best, the greatest teas of 2006, including the all time best teas. Best Teas of 2006 at Tea Review. For more reviews and tea links have a look at the site - if you'd like to contribute please let me know!

Mixmags Best Tune of 2006

Mixmag says Ame : Rej is THE best tune of 2006. (available here). watch / listen to it on youtube.

In car DVD player 7" screen £299

It will play DVDs, or DVDs full of MP3s (4.7gbs worth), and it fits in a normal sized car stereo hole, and has a 7" screen that comes out of the unit, and when it's closed, the top of the screen has an LCD display so it looks like a normal car stereo! from Halfords half price - I seriously can't believe it's only £299 - it seems like it's so much of a bargain you'd be mad not to buy one - but for the fact that you can buy cars for less than £300.

Car Bibles.com

All you ever wanted to know about car engines, wheels, oil, suspension, brakes etc.

allofmp3 bigger than itunes

Story here (on boing boing) about allofmp3 - selling more than itunes apparently - and due to be shut down? - but still currently operating...

Have a Green Christmas - Gift gen dot com Christmas Present Idea Generator Etc

Gift Gen - suggests presents based on price, age, character, sex, could be handy if you're stuck for ideas.

FYI: Last post days are 19th Dec for 2nd class, 21st Dec for 1st class. But you'll need to check with the website in question to see what their last days are.

Metro have a news item on "giving africa an animal" - World Land Trust say it's "grossly irresponsible", Animal Aid say it does "not diminish poverty" due to the fact that "all farmed animals require proper nourishment, large quantities of water, shelter from weather, and vetenary care" which is something places like Africa lack (they lack them for people, let alone animals).

Some more links to Green Christmas sites:
www.oxfamunwrapped.com (give an alpaca or plant a crop allotment)
www.worldlandtrust.org (give an acre of land)
www.presentaid.org (give a community tap for £45)
www.goodgifts.org (cool things like a years supply of tea for £15, or save a penguin)
www.climatecare.org (a carbon offsetting company)
www.nigelsecostore.com (eco balls £30)
www.naturalcollection.com
www.ecocentric.co.uk
www.britisheco.com
www.greenerstyle.co.uk
www.ecogadgets.co.uk (sell "eco balls" £35 for around 1000+ washes, saves you heaps of money and is good for the environment)

Christian Albums CDs in the UK Cheap Cheep!

www.acorndirect.co.uk (based in Guernsey) sell cheap christian CDs, for example "Passion Everything Glorious" is £9.99 including postage. Wesley Owen sell the same CD for £12.99, and Amazon sell it for £13.99 as a "US Import".

Get the new AVG Free

If you're running AVG 7.something and not 7.5 - then you might get messages saying "this program is going to run out, please buy me!"* - when in actual fact, all you need to do is download the newer free version 7.5 from here and do a manual install (repair installation).

* paraphrased by me

Cheap cars on ebay.

Hey, if you're interested in buying a car, especially a cheap one, then ebay seems to be the place, with a 2002 model Proton Impian selling for £1550 (cost new £13000, valued at £2500+ by parkers), whereas a similar age Ford Focus is valued at £3500 - £4200 (cost new £12495). Knowing that some cars depreciate more than others, I've setup this ebay search that shows you all these cheap cars for sale. I guess they're like the modern day Lada, but better.

Cheap Cars on Ebay.

Alternatively you can search for "Buy it Now" cars under a set price, for example, under £250. This search gets you some good results, such as a Mk2 Golf for £100.

blogger beta gone live

blogger have started to let you convert your normall blogger blogs into the new "blogger beta" style of blog -

this has many advantages namely: tags* (used on technorati and other sites, and used for searching on certain topics), much quicker publishing, neater archive display, integrate other site's RSS feed onto your blog easily, private blogs etc etc.

however, there are some dis-advantages: you need a google account to logon. plus it's a bit of an unknown as to how well it will migrate over the current design, although I suspect it shouldn't cause any problems.

I've been using blogger beta for this: The Ricoh Caplio R5 Blog and it's been great!

So to summarise: I think blogger beta is quite good, but we need to make sure everyone is happy to move over to blogger beta with this site and has a working google account before we can move over. alternatively we could simply not move over, as what we have now is currently working.

*example tags for this post would be: blogger, beta, tags, etc

Update: Turns out we can't upgrade this blog yet as this kind of blog can't be converted yet: "A very large blog. (More than a couple thousand posts + comments.)"

Asteroids Revenge

a game in which you avenge the death of your fellow asteroids.