As Street view goes live in Australia I was sent this from Alan in The USA.
It looks like the young bloke was on the way home from school as the Google van went past.
Google Earth gets an update and now has Sun effects.
Our 3D model now can appear as it would look at sunrise.
Download our 3D Google Earth model here
Announced today, the Wordpress application for the iPhone.
Make web additions from anywhere
The Albert Hotel on the corner of Eleanor Street next door is nearly knocked over.
I never thought it would happen.
My city view is greatly improved.
Sorry but I could not help myself.
They grow up too quick, get in while they are cute.
At Big Trousers we have been trialling the offline backup and storage solution provided by Amazon S3. Jungle Disk works very much like the iDisk, a service offered by Apple.
A hard drive icon appears on your desktop with the server based files at your disposal from any Mac or PC.
The backup application costs $20 but you need to set up an account with Amazon as well. The Backup utility is quite straight forward to set up so that files are automatically uploaded at some predetermined time at a frequency that suits. For our purpose we have the files we print photographs from and also the current working files for graphics projects backed up every night.
You can leave older files versions on the server as a backup of versions if you choose and have them deleted after a predetermined time if you wish.
The best news is that this is a no contract service and you only pay for what you use.
In fact there are no limits to the size of the backup and you pay 15c per Gig per month.
Data is stored at multiple Amazon.com datacenters around the country for high availability and security. Your data will then be available via any computer that has the appropriate login details. This feature also gives distant co-workers not on your network a way to collaborate on projects just as if they were on the same local server.
My good mate James has finally got his CD “Carpet Bomb” onto the iTunes music store globally.
His mates in the band, Velvedene have done a great job with this album and the video footage in support.
Have a quick look at the new video.
Or get the album now using iTunes
Here is the progress on the long weekend project.
I am now officially sick of laying tiles.
Last night at the Telstra Dome The Greater Western Chamber of Commerce and Industry held its annual business awards.
Here is Phil doing a Peter Garret impression overlooking the grounds.
Also seen playing up last night was Helen McLean from Limelight Studios, Ailsa Page from AP Marketing Works, the illustrious council member Catherine Cumming and Petrina playing up with Carpet Court Jester and Awards MC, Jamie Robertson.
And playing up to the camera Helen and Ailsa pretend to win an award but on our table a real winner from Burbank Homes.
Apple has announced the release of Leopard and will be made available through Big Trousers from around 26 October at $158.
From time to time I will be picking out new features that may be of interest.
The first installment is of interest to us at Big Trousers and may well be useful to you.
Font Auto-Activation
Automatically activate fonts as you need them. When an application requests an installed font that’s currently disabled, Leopard activates that font and keeps it active until the requesting application quits.
Now that will save some time in the design office.
Well I finally took delivery of a shiny new MacPro quad core Xeon.
I have to say it was a decision made for me by the continuing requirements of current software.
When the new iMovie failed to load that was the straw that broke the camels back.
I put if off for long enough but the wait was worth it.
I can stop bugging Petrina for Aperture and Joost and the Mac Pro runs HD video a lot better.
After much messing around we finally got Velvedene.com online.
This is a WordPress site that contains video and audio from the debut album “Carpet Bomb”
We used one track from this album for the PhotoGeek podcast intro each week so we owe James this plug at least.
Have a listen to the sample mp3’s and see the video “Fear Your Gods”
Wizzard Media , the industry’s largest podcast hosting network and part of Wizzard Software (WIZD), announced today that it has entered into exclusive advertising partnerships with two popular comedy podcasts: Tiki Bar TV and Keith and The Girl.
How cool is that? I think this is a first for a podcast.
Tiki Bar TV.
Wizzard Media will secure advertising campaigns from national brands appropriate to each show’s content.
Well we along with everyone else tipped this but the new brushed aluminium iMac is here. What is cool is just how thin it is, up to 4.0 GIG RAM, Up to 1 TB HD, up to 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme processor, ATI Radeon HD graphics card, and a brand new keyboard.
This photo from Engadget
Ailsa Page of AP Marketing works and my good self have released two new podcasts covering Marketing and web strategies.
We intend to continue with this theme and explore new ways to apply Ailsa’s marketing skills online as well as in general.
