Having just spent the last two hours following a number of live blogs and chatting with fellow fanboys on iChat I am left deliberating the iPad. Personally speaking I didn’t feel the buzz of excitement that came when the iPhone was announced and although I probably won’t buy one myself I do predict I will be surrounded by iPads by this time next year.
September was a bit of a turning point for DigMo! Having made the decision to focus purely on education it was great to see the learning technology content featuring favourably in the top ten posts of the month. The top article (10 educational uses for flip video) has seen over 60 re-tweets and over 80 delicious bookmarks.
I have been thinking over the last few weeks about school based pupil email provision. I have to confess we have been considering investing in an advanced Google Apps for education (paying so we can apply a policy) system for pupils after a very successful model with staff. When providing for pupils a school really can not provide any sort of ICT system without some sort of save guarding filtering or quarantine policy and this is what Google charge for.
Live TV on the iPhone is now even more enjoyable. The iPhone app that allows you to stream Live TV to the iPhone now displays viewer ratings, the remaining duration of currently running TV shows and also adds sorting features. equinux also released The Tube 2.9.4, the innovative TV solution for Mac users, that together with Live TV 1.1 enables Live TV on the iPhone.
It is hard not to be excited by today’s news that Native Instruments are on the verge of releasing Guitar Rig 4 Pro, the next generation of its acclaimed guitar studio. The fourth version raises the bar on sonic authenticity with advanced new speaker emulation technology, and further expands on nearly all aspects that sets Guitar Rig apart as the most capable digital guitar solution.
If you are anything like me you know frequently find yourself in the situation when you wonder where the last few hours actually went. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube they all offer an attractive distraction to our daily computer based chores.
Well now you can manage these distractions with a great little app aptly named “Concentrate”.
It would be impossible to have missed today’s release of Apple’s much anticipated Snow Leopard. I have just upgraded and other than the new desktop background I haven’t spotted anything different yet but as most of the improvements are under the hood I guess that is to be expected.
A number of blogs have listed the various applications to “have issues” and I have to say so far none of the applications I use daily have caused any problem.
One blog stated the Elgato Turbo.264 HD no longer works and to be honest this is only sort of correct. If you own a Turbo.264 HD you need to install Quicktime 7 (on the Snow Leopard DVD) as the new Quicktime X doesn’t offer customised exports. I realise this is perhaps a bit of a work around but I will make sure to post more information as I explore the new Quicktime options.
Facebook 3.0
Also this week Facebook 3.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch hit the iTunes store. The upgrade not only introduces massive UI improvements but also :
- See your upcoming Events and RSVP
- See Pages and post updates and photos to Pages you administer
- Write Notes and read your friends’ Notes
- Upload videos from an iPhone 3GS
- Complete photo management (create albums, delete albums, delete photos, delete photo tags)
- Change your Profile Picture
- Like posts and photos
- See the same News Feed as the Facebook website
- Visit links in a built-in web browser
- Quickly call or text your friends
Flixel
On a personal note I have set myself a 12 month challenge to become a better photographer and so have set up a little photoblog at www.flixel.net to document my journey on a rather steep learning curve. I am aiming to post a new photo each day on there and would appreciate any feedback or advice from the experts out there. Why not subscribe to the RSS Feed.
You may remember we reviewed the brilliant Gorillapod SLR tripod (Read: The Perfect Photo Joby). Well Joby, have just announced the Gorillatorch™. Expanding the Joby family of unique, creativity‐inspiring solutions for the consumer, the
Gorillatorch casts a focused beam of intense light and allows you to illuminate any target, hands‐free.
