Set up the latest beta version of Blogo on the MacBook, the licence allows up to 3 computers & the developer was helpful with my setup today!
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I am looking forward to interviewing an @artisticbrit this evening. He does interesting creative things to talk about
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Posted via web from Mac 20 Questions Josep is a student at the Escola de Hosteleria in Girona on the entertainers course. My wife teaches on that course and had been asked by Josep to attend. The weather that night was bloody cold and she was really tired but we got on our glad rags to go out. I personally was delighted in the end to be there because the Xirois drummers that won the contest were amazing and there were other good acts too. I was quite impressed with the trick that Josep did with the help of the beautiful assistant, another student on the course. I still can’t imagine how many knots that the poor girls must have been tied into to avoid being stabbed to death with snooker cues by Josep. Well done there Josep, good illusion. He did win a prize, I think it was second place in the ‘Tu de Que’ Vas competition that was part of the Platja d’Aro Carnaval week of events. I have to admit to not being the wielder of the camera on this occasion, Victoria did that part of it and I just did the editing of it in FinalCut Express afterwards. The lighting was a bit poor to work with but you can see clearly though what a good trick this was.
Little by little Time for me to break out the calculator and look for some prices for some panels and a Grid tie unit. More on the subject when I have some numbers worked out. The Electric bill is between 80 and 90 Euro per month so that is the maximum that a solar electric system can save until you get to the point where the output is more than the input. It is unlikely that the first system in place could do much more than save 30-40% off the bill. If it saved a 3rd off thats only about 30 euro going towards paying back the investment. If 900 was spent initially it would take 30 months to recoup the outlay. It really is a long term project. There is a solar power farm near here, it is on the road to the Girona Airport, there are hundreds of solar panels. It must have cost a fortune to set it all up. Back to to the number crunching…. Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Bento
Setting up a database with Bento and using the information stored in record that you have already in Address Book and getting access in the same place to iCal events and Apple Mail.Using data that is stored in one place and one place only is a nirvana for databases. That way you can’t have different versions of the same data and lose your database integrity. That’s what I want to have this work so that I can collect the data in Address book and so long as I put in a keyword in the Note fired then the information will also propagate into Bento also. So I don’t have to have Bento open all the time but when I do open the application I will have all at my finger tips.Why I think Bento is so useful is because it is easy to set up extra fields for information that you want to track and even though it isn’t a relational database like Filemaker is it so much better that keeping your data in a spreadsheet table. Setting up a database with Bento and using the information stored in record that you have already in Address Book and getting access in the same place to iCal events and Apple Mail.
Using data that is stored in one place and one place only is a nirvana for databases. That way you can’t have different versions of the same data and lose your database integrity. That’s what I want to have this work so that I can collect the data in Address book and so long as I put in a keyword in the Note fired then the information will also propagate into Bento also.
Why I think Bento is so useful is because it is easy to set up extra fields for information that you want to track and even though it isn’t a relational database like Filemaker is it so much better that keeping your data in a spreadsheet table.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download In the previous years here in Spain I have got dressed up and gone to see the Carnaval procession and then gone out for a meal followed by a visit to a disco. Never enjoyed the disco because people were smoking in there and it is always difficult to breathe and it is so smelly. More fun while outside on the street seeing everyone walking around looking ridiculous and loving it. Some very good costumes there.
I wonder who was making the foley effects for the movie? So far no one has owned up?? Seriously though here are a couple of film makers that are going to go one to bigger projects, This one goes for funny but they like to make social comment in their movies shorts.
 I like the look of it, I want one but don’t really need one. My wife will be getting one of these beauties though. She is a teacher and has been on the look out for something exactly like this for using with her work. She wanted a MacBook Air for the lightness of it and this is lighter. The iPad has a super looking version of Keynote on there for $10 and she can do all her information management that teachers have to do easily on this device. Best of all – She may let me touch it from time to time, perhaps even use it?  Later today Steve Jobs will be getting on stage to tell us about his new toy for us all. Time for all the rumours to be quashed and all the picking apart the bones of whatever Apple comes out with today. 10 inch form factor with an iPhone like interface. Will it be fast? Will it have Kindle like abilities? Will it be a game changing platform that will take the world by storm. Are you going to buy one as soon as it is in the store? It is still all questions right now as I write this but in eight hours time there will be an explosion on the internet when every Mac fan has one topic to talk about. The iSlate, iTablet or the iPad. For sure some will be deleriously happy with the new toy and many will snipe at it, saying well it doesn’t do this or doesn’t do that. It will depend on whether the hype has been over done or not. Adam Weiss is a successful educational podcaster and podcast consultant, as well as a sought-after digital media strategist. An expert interviewer and communicator, he aims to show that digital communication is more about story, presentation, and technique than fancy gear and tech toys. He is the creator of the award-winning Current Science & Technology Podcast for the Museum of Science in Boston, which he hosted for more than two years. He now hosts his critically-acclaimed Boston Behind the Scenes Podcast, and has profiled everyone from street vendors to senators and astronauts in his career. Read more and listen to the podcast.
My son has been in Australia for nearly two years now and here is a picture that shows what he went there for.
So what do you think Apple have planned for 27th of January will it be the iTablet and will you want to buy one. Have you got money put aside to be able to get one as soon as Apple pulls the trigger?
I just saw a video on Metacafe which purported to show the new device from Apple.
Hmmmm I wonder is it real or is it a fake? Watch this video http://metacafe.com/w/4034253/ on Metacafe – Youtube Apple Tablet Islate Video. Tell me what you think about it/
Movies and Macs with Tyler Weaver
Tyler has been working for a non profit organisation and has produced some movies for them. There is ‘Il Mio Canto Libero’ in which there is some totally enchanting music that just swept me away. Means something like ‘Its my song of freedom’ then there is Gather ‘Round the Mic’ which is broken up into parts and available on Vimeo.
Danny Lacey has set himself off on a course of learning how to make movies. Danny makes video for corporate customers anyway but making movies, either short films or feature length film is a whole different kettle of fish. As part of his learning regime he has mad a short movie for a horror competition called ‘Angel of the Night’. I watched the 3 minute version of the movie and was impressed. You have to have a twist in a movie to make it more interesting. |
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So I don’t have to have Bento open all the time but when I do open the application I will have all at my finger tips. 
