Sunday, July 06, 2008

Tony H on a run...


Tony H on a run..., originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

I just knew when i clicked this that I had it in the bag. Stuck with 3 fps ,(but about to change) so a good victory . Just as well i had cleaned the lens. a few min before

Thanks to Tony H for showing off

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Most Sexiest Kite Chicks

Is it?


IMG_4943, originally uploaded by Kasia Kite Babe.

??? Is it?

Friday, April 11, 2008

IBM's 'racetrack' technology could increase iPhone storage tenfold

Click the link...... this would man an avg iPod would be

500k songs at 30mb each ave , is 1464Gb or 8 top of the line current iPods....

500k songs...
21k HD movies

And we'll still want more....

CCTV


CCTV, originally uploaded by Dave Gorman.

As good an example of Miksang as it gets

Now, thats what i call lateral thinking!

Katie Price , Gone Fishing

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Scott and Sam encounter a wave

Some nice vids. Bit like wallpaper, if the image could be blown up, that'd be cool to have them as a background

Flickr Video

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Saturday, April 05, 2008

US man gets $2.6m for domain name

The domain name was registered in 1994
A US man has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m (£1.3m) - after maintaining the site for just $20 a year since 1994.
Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction.
"It's crazy, it's just crazy," Mr Clark, who lives in North Potomac, Maryland, was quoted as saying by the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
"It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure," he added.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Photos from an afternoon in the surf

Kitesurfing, Dollymount, Dublin

Dell Entry level laptops get Blu-ray

Dell is the first manufacturer to offer a portable with a Blu-ray below 1000€ and even under 900€.
This machine is still unbalanced with a 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, its resolution of 1280x800 and above all the GMA X3100 (integrated) video board, but apparently is capable of playing a Blu-ray movie in conditions still needing to be verified.
In fact, the processor may need to give everything it has to decode the video, which might be saturated, make noise and have far too low an autonomy.
But the most interesting thing is the the price, proving that with putting a little more money, a few hundred euros, we could get a really well equiped machine. It is sufficient to add a decent graphics chip capable of ensuring hardware decoding of H.264 so that the video decoding is better.
We look forward, of course, to Apple offering decoding Blu-ray in its machines but also authoring for this format on the Mac Pro. Toast 9 is already doing it, but in a frustrat way, but at least proving it is possible to do.

DivX Certified Blu-ray DVD Players

If you follow the digital media space at all (and, because you signed up to receive the DivX News, I have to assume that you're at least somewhat interested in digital video), you know by now that the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD has finally ended and that Blu-ray has won. Now that the war is over, chances are a lot of you will be looking to upgrade your home theaters to get in on all that HD goodness. But before you run out and drop a wallet-full of cash on a new Blu-ray player, remember that not all Blu-ray players are created equal. While they'll all play the new HD Blu-ray discs, some of them are DivX Certified as well, meaning they'll also play your collection of DivX videos.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

iPhone to Hit Ireland

Am I impressed ? Yes and No
Yes..... we are getting access to a cool product?

No... .as i have always said... its a cool gadget for the then unsophisticated American Market... but still no Camera,
the Tariff is too restrictive. On Appleinsider some wag has called the Irish Data Famine...
Data is what the iPhone does best and having a too restrictive tariff is dreadful but then mobile or cell phone tariffs here have always been on the expensive side, not to mention the initial handsets.

A new genuine 3G iPhone is on the cards for a Q3 release and as Apple don't run dual stocks... Ireland will have access to it when its available in other markets...

Back to the Camera. it seems at odds that Apple have pioneered the easy access to the digital media (iPhoto, itunes, Podcasts, Quicktime.......) and we take it for granted on other handset to have a half decent camera.

What would make me change over...?
A better tariff in line with US carriers, maybe O2 could combine their Wirless Boradband service to finally kick start the 3g revoloution,
A decent camera,
More ipod space
64GB anyone?

One reason Ireland may have been chosen as the next market? Google... Google have their European HQ in Dublin, so with the iPhone developers kit being launched in a few weeks and the already progressive Apple / Google partnership, Ireland and dublin in particular seems a good play ground for the iPhone, but only if are not picking up the bill.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

BBC confirms iPlayer for iPhone, iPod touch "within weeks"

The BBC has confirmed plans to make streaming TV services using its iPlayer software available to the iPhone and iPod touch, "within weeks".This will be the first time the broadband TV service has been available beyond PC and Mac computers.

read more | digg story

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Cadbury Gorilla - In The Air Tonight (Extended Mix)

I spotted this in Tv last week and was memorized, cant believe I missed this on the grid, either I'm losing my touch or I've gotton a life, well almost , I guess i "Mist" the Gorillas

Guinness - Surfer ( extended )

Voted the best ad ever..... well perhaps, it is cinematic , crank up the volume

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

MacBook Touch!




Looks almost finger lickin good..... but hold the mayo!

Monday, January 14, 2008

Ferrari 430 Spider Bio Fuel Concept

Biofuel Ferrari? Labeled as the 430 Spider Bio Fuel, the roadster runs on the familiar mix of 85% natural ethanol and 15% gasoline, which reports suggest yield a modest 2% increase in power. That's enough to bring the 4.3-liter V8's output up to 500 from the standard 490 with torque rising 4% and fuel economy improving by 5%.

read more | digg story

Monday, January 07, 2008

A Photographer’s Adage

A Photographer’s Adage

Photography requires growth; you learn, you grow. You stop learning, you stop growing. Those who say they know it all... are either liars, or extremely naïve. The more you know, the more you grow. - Tedric A. Garrison



Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. - Arnold Newman


Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. - Imogen Cunningham, Interviews With Master Photographers : Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Cornell Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Yousuf Karsh, Arnold Newman, Lord Snowdon, Brett Weston by James Danziger




It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I’m not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I’d be out shooting all the time. You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you. -Lee Friedlander, "Documentary Photography - LIFE Library of Photography" , page: 178



Hmmm maybe somday I'll be quoted as a photographer, but for know I'll accept that I will capture some bad photos, that I can take good ones as well, and know the difference....

Tango Flashmob No 2 (c)- Harry St, Dublin 2

i think i've seen it all , pity i missed it.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

C'était un Rendez-Vous (1976) - Claude Lelouch - Ferrari 275

But this is the real deal.....

C'était un rendez-vous (déja vu)

I've been looking for this vid for ages...... still looking for a DVD that'll be posted to Ireland