I seem to say this all the time!

Okay okay, i seem to use this excuse over and over again.. But what the hell its true! I havent been blogging, making website changes or posting youtube videos in a while now, i have been really busy what with Work and stuff and everything else has come to a stand still. Im currently sat up thinking of new ideas for YouTube. Wish me luck.

iPad 2 Launch

Well this was a big suprise! Apples new eagerly awaited piece of crap turned out to be a.. well.. pile of bigger crap than the last one it seems. All of this hype for "Now even thinner and HDMI output" Ohh great thanks Apple! Hardly HDMI output when you have to buy the accessories seperatly to be able to do so.

This is just turning into one of my rants isnt it? Apple just try something new for a change, quit with the constant updated versions of the stuff we already have and get your designers etc to make something worth while. Motorola XOOM and the Samsung Galaxy S tablet seem to have this one covered now, and leave your space in the market to the original iPad.

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Nearly at 25,000 Upload Views on YT

Nearly at 25,000 upload views most of them coming from an old video of mine with NO editing knowledge ever. So thankyou to everyone who has subscribed, viewed, commented and rated!

FREE Software of the Year 2010 (Online and Desktop)

These 5 masterpieces might not be the best ever but they have been chosen because they have helped me the most this year in one way or another, if i could put them all first i would.

Shotwell: Amazing viewer and good easy editing tool for images, really helped me will sorting through what pictures i wanted to keep and the organisation of it made it even easier. The negative side is that it crashes allot on Windows. 9/10 Download Here.

Grooveshark: Remember this name because it WILL be the hottest thing around in the coming years, its very similar to Spotify in the way you can legally stream music for free anywhere you like now they have the Android, iPhone and Web app. No need to download, just head over too www.grooveshark.com. The negative side is that you need a VIP account if you want music on the move stress free. 9/10

RockMelt: New browser anyone? One question, do you like Google Chrome? if yes then try this out, the team at RockMelt have built this simply amazing browser using the source code for Chrome. But this is bigger and in many ways better. It has built in Facebook and Twitter feeds which are displayed down the sides so there is NO reason to have them open in a tab. The negative side is that it is a little slower and more buggy than Chrome, obviously they will be sorted in future releases though. 8/10 Download Here.

Device Doctor: Device Doctor is a savior if windows messes about and deletes some drivers that you need especiall if the device is internal like a sound card on a laptop. All you do is open the software, scan system and download the advised packages. Negative side is that its time consuming and not that attractive. 8/10 Download Here.

SuperAnti Spyware: SuperAnti Spyware really does show how good Open Source and Free projects can be, after scanning with AVG i always think my system is safe but one day i opened SAS just for the fun of it and believe it or not it found a bad amount of threats on Windows. To be fair they werent major viruses but that is beside the point. Great back up software to any Anti virus program no matter what it is you have. The negative is it does look slightly outdated, really nothing bad though. 9/10 Download Here.

ShotWell Photo Manager Update

You can now apparently upload your photos straight to YouTube and the program will make a slideshow for you! How awesome is that. I thought i would try Importing some of my photos from my laptop to my now favoured Ubuntu pc over the wireless network. Its worked well and gives you the option to copy all the photos over to the new machine or just create links, which means its taking up very little room on my pc but still there to view. Definately my most rated software of this year! There really needs to be a mobile version too.

Widgetbox

I have been using Widgetbox now and then for years now but they recently seem to have gone all greedy on us, i just logged in to change the header on the mobile site and they seem to be charging now :( The site is still running with my basic account for now but how long before they shoot me an email asking for monies...

New Blog design

Yup last night i changed my youtube background (again) and my blog background and logo,
it looks less busy and more welcoming. The pictographic 'O' Sets off the whole logo and makes the whole thing look less boring.
Hope you like it :)

Snowing

Yeah its snowing and i love it! Who would have put odds on a white Christmas after the snow we had earlier in the year, who ever did will be rich this Christmas time. But i am slightly shoved off about the snow (well not the snow.. ROYAL F*****G MAIL) Those halfwits who complain about every weather condition and demand strikes because of it need to be strung up and shot "Eww its Snowing, Eww its raining, Eww its too hot.." Grow the hell up and do your job...

Today i interviewed a Royal Mail worker, well okay i didnt but im pretty sure this is what he would say!
Me: Why cant i have my presents i ordered from Amazon over 17 days ago?!
Him: Eww i cant get my van through that, its slippy.
Me: Well get a better van or better still... WALK! You were born with legs god damn it.

Actually had enough now
image from http://www.osney.org

Having a laugh in the Snow

Shotwell Photo Manager

Shotwell is a new piece of kit i found built in with the newest edition of Ubuntu, it gathers all your photos from your computer and VERY cleverly sorts them into dates and certain, easy to understand directories all compiled into a nice viewer which lets you preview images and edit them!
Of course the best thing is.. ITS FREE!!! Yes Open Source has bitten commercial software in the butt again, Big time. Its developed by Yorba and really is the software to show off on any computer, its available for Linux and Windows machines here.

image from: http://chrisdenbow.com/

Ubuntu 10.10

Lucky Tens all round, so here i am with my old computer just sat in the corner gathering dust. Yeah its not the best thing in the world with 256MB Ram and 80GB hard drive but what the hell, that can run any Linux distro with ease! So what do i pick? My usual of course.. Ubuntu, but not just Ubuntu. I installed 10.10, the safest most powerful and nicest looking Ubuntu to date.

Linux Gaming

There needs to be an Open Source games console launched by someone. Running VLC Media player and other cool stuff, something that hackers would have no need to hack. A games marketplace with games made by us, the community. A Homebrew world inside a homebrew box, why hasn't it been done yet??!

Black Ops

Recently i have been doing college work, playing football once a week and relaxing on the Xbox. But i want to start blogging again, so why not combine? Hopefully im going to start making tutorials on how to make awesome  Emblems and logos on Call of Duty Black Ops, whether they will be written or video is something else i need to decide on.

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I'm back again

Just because i haven't blogged in a while doesn't mean I'm not working, incase you havent noticed the new 2011 site is live. Its taken nearly 3months of development and I'm finally happy, it may be down soon due to html i need to add.

Xbox Faceplate

New coat of white paint and FlashNett decorations!

Browsers

Okay so your running the Mac OS X operating system and your not getting on with Safari for some reason, for example the interface or speed. Well you could always use Chrome or Firefox these days but they are very unApple if im honest, you still want something to say "Hey im a Mac user and proud of it" well you can! 
Mozilla (the people who power Firefox) have distributed a browser made specially for Mac, which does all of the above. Its quick, Powerful and customizable much like Firefox but you keep the look and feel of your OSX platform. The project is called Camino and this is stated on their website "Built from the ground up exclusively for Mac OS X, Camino is designed to make your browsing experience better. With features like annoyance blocking, tab overview, and phishing and malware detection, Camino keeps you browsing safer and faster on the Web."
It really is something to look into and possibly download, which you can do here.