EirPod - a view from Ireland

MR3_0399 - Version 3

2011-04-01T20:47:00.001+01:00

MR3_0399 - Version 3, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

MR3_9594 - Version 2 (1)

2011-03-13T07:35:00.001Z

MR3_9594 - Version 2 (1), originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

MR3_5751 - Version 2

2010-10-19T20:54:00.001+01:00

MR3_5751 - Version 2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

MR3_1266 - Version 2

2010-07-26T22:57:00.001+01:00

MR3_1266 - Version 2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

Dawn Duel on the Liffey

2010-07-06T22:17:00.001+01:00

MR3_0236 - Version 2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

MR3_0052 - Version 2

2010-06-30T06:10:00.001+01:00

MR3_0052 - Version 2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

MKR_7881 - Version 2

2010-06-26T14:42:00.001+01:00

MKR_7881 - Version 2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

Apple - iPhone 4 - This changes everything. Again.

2010-06-07T23:34:00.000+01:00

Personal Shoebox Apple Store!

2010-06-06T22:04:00.000+01:00

Volcano eruption in Iceland. 24.03.2010. Day 4.

2010-04-18T08:44:00.000+01:00

Eyjafjallajökull - You're doing it wrong!

2010-04-18T08:32:00.000+01:00

David Bowie - Rebel Rebel

2010-03-17T17:05:00.001Z

ahhh brings me back

Why I Hate Pay Pal

2010-03-11T21:19:00.001Z

I really really dislike Paypal, when there is an alternative, i avoid PayPal like the plague....

The Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps

2010-01-16T00:11:00.001Z

way under-rated song, enjoy

MKR_0569_2

2009-11-17T23:49:00.001Z

MKR_0569_2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

GHOST CODE

2009-10-18T21:04:00.001+01:00

GHOST CODE, originally uploaded by Lanvacette.

I love this this photo

Amazing choir (Perpetuum Jazzile) uses their hands to simulate storm

2009-09-09T12:14:00.001+01:00

camaro 5ta gen a la mexicana

2009-08-22T13:02:00.001+01:00

Extreme Sports Videos

2009-07-04T16:44:00.002+01:00

Extreme Sports Videos

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Audi A5 Sportback sketched by Wolfgang Egger

2009-06-26T23:02:00.001+01:00

Hmmmm yes please

Kitesurfers Clean Up

2009-06-24T21:48:00.001+01:00

Kitesurfers Clean Up, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

My 1st Photoshop

2009-06-22T23:07:00.001+01:00

My 1st Photoshop, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

y first photoshoped image.... dont know why it took me to long

If you can guess what I was aiming to do, go to the top of the class.....

Colm Lynch - Quicksand (HD)

2009-06-20T10:28:00.001+01:00

MKR_6612_2

2009-06-18T22:39:00.001+01:00

MKR_6612_2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

Apple store in Dublin, at long last

2009-06-16T00:46:00.004+01:00

Here

Most articles seem to be cut and paste with the same info but here are my reasons why its on the way

1 There isn't one at the mo in the largest city on the island of Ireland

2 Spectra on College Green just closed last week, losing the almost standalone Apple retailer. You have to go northside to PC World in Jervis Street for instore apple purchases. With Spectras demise, the opportunity it ripe

3 They will need a bold retail presence when they announce job cuts in Apple in Cork...... Hmmmm stay tuned...

4 Property prices are falling to a more realistic level so Apple might buy and develop for the long term

5 Physical Presence is like advertising. Dublin is a good tourist destination so by association, both benefit.

6 Territorial advantage... Dublin is a capital city with a healthy student population who will be entering the job / commercial market with an appetite of what Apple are about

My choice of location.....

The vacant Habitat building, formerly Bank of Ireland 34 College green. Two store fronts, one opposite Trinity which would give a much needed retail boost to Dame St. The other front, Suffolk St, would lead to Grafton St. Split level, leaving room for the theatre / lecture space.... and a possibly a food outlet... Chill out and buy a latte & iPod....

oh and can I have an invite to the opening......

M

MKR_6583_2

2009-06-15T19:50:00.001+01:00

MKR_6583_2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

Kitesurfing.ie :: Kitesurfing in Ireland

2009-06-14T08:24:00.000+01:00

Kitesurfing.ie :: Kitesurfing in Irelandtest

Zemanta :: Add-ons for Firefox

2009-06-14T08:23:00.000+01:00

Zemanta :: Add-ons for Firefox

test

LONG BEACH SECURITY OFFICER SAYS SHE “DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THE LAW” AND CITY OF SNOHOMISH SETTLES FOR $8,000 WITH PHOTOGRAPHER OVER WRONGFUL DETENTION

2009-06-14T07:33:00.003+01:00

The video above is a video from a Discarted.com altercation with a private security guard over a photographer’s right to shoot in public. This video was taken as part of a National Photographers Rights rally in the Port of Long Beach, a place where both security guards and police frequently harass photographers shooting in public. After telling the photographers that they are not allowed to photograph the refinery, the security agent proceeds to tell them that she “doesn’t care about the law.”

TomTom for iPhone - turn-by-turn navigation for iPhone

2009-06-10T19:40:00.001+01:00

Yeah but how much is the cradle?

Photography opens the eyes of Israeli special needs children - ISRAEL21c

2009-06-09T00:26:00.001+01:00

Photography opens the eyes of Israeli special needs children - ISRAEL21c

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Rubberduckzilla

2009-06-08T23:06:00.001+01:00

odd but ti works

SWEET JANE

2009-06-03T04:54:00.001+01:00

Hmmm misssed out on RS....

MKR_4176

2009-05-26T00:41:00.001+01:00

MKR_4176, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

Nikon D3 weeding photographer edition

2009-05-21T21:00:00.001+01:00

Nikon D3 weeding photographer edition, originally uploaded by couila.

HMMMM not sure ....

MKR_5926_2

2009-05-20T00:08:00.001+01:00

MKR_5926_2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

My 20,000 th Flickr Click.....

who ever you are thank you

All the best

Michael

2009-04-28T20:01:00.001+01:00

Geolocate this post.

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Woman Locks Herself In Her Car !!!

2009-04-19T14:00:00.001+01:00

Odd Photos

2009-04-19T13:43:00.002+01:00

Tour of the Science Gallery

2009-04-19T11:00:00.001+01:00

Convict Forced to Tweet by Tech-Savvy Judge

2009-04-18T17:29:00.000+01:00

The Guinness Bug

2009-04-18T17:27:00.000+01:00

Pirate Bay Solidarity Day

2009-04-18T17:26:00.001+01:00

Viral

2009-04-18T17:03:00.001+01:00

Nikon D750?

2009-04-17T20:29:00.003+01:00

Test. From Iphone

2009-04-13T14:50:00.001+01:00

Test

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U2.com > News > My shoe is black...

2009-03-16T12:12:00.001Z

U2.com > News > My shoe is black...

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U2.com > News > No Line On The Horizon Widget

2009-03-16T07:11:00.001Z

U2.com > News > No Line On The Horizon Widget

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Last Day of Summer

2009-03-06T22:16:00.001Z

So were you there?

2009-02-16T21:26:00.001Z

Annie Leibovitz

2009-01-20T21:58:00.000Z

BubbleShare: Share photos - Easy Photo Sharing

Goal

2009-01-12T21:49:00.001Z

MKR_0478_2, originally uploaded by MKR Photo.

Tony H on a run...

2008-07-06T17:03:00.002+01:00

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

New Audi Q5.... specced up a bit?

2008-04-26T19:32:00.000+01:00

stunning

2008-04-23T19:32:00.001+01:00

Stinning...

2008-04-23T19:24:00.000+01:00

Most Sexiest Kite Chicks

2008-04-15T19:32:00.002+01:00

Is it?

2008-04-15T19:19:00.003+01:00

IMG_4943, originally uploaded by Kasia Kite Babe.

??? Is it?

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

2008-04-11T23:56:00.001+01:00

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

2008-04-11T20:08:00.002+01:00

CCTV, originally uploaded by Dave Gorman.

As good an example of Miksang as it gets

Now, thats what i call lateral thinking!

2008-04-11T00:06:00.000+01:00

Katie Price , Gone Fishing

2008-04-11T00:00:00.000+01:00

Scott and Sam encounter a wave

2008-04-09T13:26:00.002+01:00

Scott and Sam encounter a wave
Originally uploaded by Dunstan Orchard

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

2008-04-09T12:33:00.000+01:00

The village of Lunt has a small problem...

2008-04-08T16:10:00.002+01:00

Changing L into C is not very PC but oh so easy

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test

2008-04-06T23:29:00.001+01:00

test

US man gets $2.6m for domain name

2008-04-05T09:00:00.000+01:00

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.

Photos from an afternoon in the surf

2008-03-29T23:35:00.000Z

Kitesurfing, Dollymount, Dublin

Dell Entry level laptops get Blu-ray

2008-03-29T06:38:00.000Z

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

2008-03-29T06:34:00.000Z

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.

iPhone to Hit Ireland

2008-02-28T19:33:00.000Z

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.

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

2008-02-20T12:35:00.001Z

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.

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Cadbury Gorilla - In The Air Tonight (Extended Mix)

2008-02-16T23:56:00.001Z

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 )

2008-02-16T23:36:00.001Z

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

DIY: $1 and pocket sized monopod

2008-01-27T23:59:00.000Z

$1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera - Lose The Tripod - video powered by Metacafe

MacBook Touch!

2008-01-23T17:26:00.000Z

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

Ferrari 430 Spider Bio Fuel Concept

2008-01-14T19:18:00.001Z

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%.

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A Photographer’s Adage

2008-01-07T23:45:00.000Z

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

2008-01-07T21:27:00.001Z

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

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

2008-01-01T03:19:00.003Z

But this is the real deal.....

C'était un rendez-vous (déja vu)

2008-01-01T03:19:00.001Z

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

Funniest innuendo ever!!! This was a childrens TV Show

2007-12-23T10:27:00.001Z

here it is again

Gardai In Templemore At Their Best

2007-12-23T09:26:00.001Z

Ahh good to see the traffic gardai not annoying Dublin Motorists snarled up in Operation Cashflow

Darth Vader Feels Blue

2007-12-16T23:48:00.001Z

De Burgh 'will play gig in Iran'

2007-12-15T23:20:00.001Z

I suppose he has to earn a crust, especially as he has out stayed his welcome,Hypocritic that he is.

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Australian men find solace in a shed

2007-11-16T18:51:00.001Z

off beat but effective way of preventing suicide

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Information R/evolution

2007-10-23T01:51:00.001+01:00

Silva Method - an Introduction

2007-09-09T17:09:00.001+01:00

BarCode Scanner

2007-08-24T23:40:00.000+01:00

Nokia N95 Walkthrough

2007-08-04T18:12:00.001+01:00

just bought one and i love it

Painting with Light: Awesome

2007-07-16T07:03:00.001+01:00

A number of graffiti artists have been tagging everything thought to be impossible without being caught. Well — it’s actually not illegal for them.

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Spot Expo Zaragoza 2008

2007-07-16T06:38:00.001+01:00

looks interesting, so my hols for 2008 sorted then....

Building made from water walls

2007-07-16T06:29:00.001+01:00

MIT researchers are designing a "Digital Water Pavillion" for next year's Expo Zaragoza in Spain. The walls of the structure are sheets of water sprayed from suspended pipes. Software-controlled valves enable the valves to be opened and closed with high accuracy to create gaps at very specific locations, forming something like liquid pixels.

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Friday Joke

2007-06-15T11:15:00.000+01:00

Q Did you hear that three dead Arabs were found in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool?

A They were suicide bummers.

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Heavy hitting Irish TV Road Safety Ad

2007-05-10T09:15:00.001+01:00

Heavy hitting Irish TV Road Safety Ad

2007-04-26T22:04:00.001+01:00

wuzzlevideos (5 hours ago) Note from youtube
Look forward to having a DMCA takedown notice for this advert. I had the same advert in my uploads and I had to remove it yesterday night. Shame really, Lyle Bailie (the people behind the advert) are very silly for wanting to get rid of important safety messages.

My response

Fair point re DMCA, however, the ad was commissioned by the NRA, rational roads Authority, a Government Dept, paid for by taxpayers, eh me being one of them. SO the agency do not hold the copyright to it, or should not.

If I do receive a DMCA, it would make a mockery of what is being done here, promoting safer driving, Thats what the NRA are paying for, more exposure, to get the message across..

If the agency think about it, the ad gets more exposure, it becomes part of the conscious , ie a success in media terms, then they look good in delivering an effective product, it might actually win an award or two giving them some kudos, all the while getting across the message

Great White Sharks feeding on a whale carcass

2007-04-25T22:34:00.001+01:00

I saw this on TV a few years ago and could hardly beleive my eyes. It was gripping, espacially when the idiot film maker decided to use the shark as a dingy... with feeding sharkes inches away! Gripping stuff

The Zimmers

2007-04-21T13:52:00.001+01:00

Not sure I saw this first, but it was on TV.....

Photos from my week in Kerry

2007-04-19T23:34:00.000+01:00

Photos from my week in Kerry, this photo is of Banna Strand, about half a mile form where i was statying. Click the title link to access my folder of photos

New TV Ad from the Irish Tourism Board

2007-04-19T23:08:00.000+01:00

This is the new TV ad from the Irish Tourist Board. Failte Ireland. I'm actually quite impressed. It's well thought out, well edited, good soundtrack, not sure but it sounds like Snow Patrol to me, but I'm open to correction,

To put this ad in perspective, a few years the Irish Torust board was known as Bord Failte, - the Welcome Board... Cead Mile Failte ( a hundred thousand Welcomes). All was going well when the powers that be decided to rework a successful format, change the tourist board name and logo. A few logos later, none of which worked , or sparked the imagination and here we are today. A good ad and a million miles away from the twee ponytrap image of Ireland, peddled to genearations of Americans.

In fairness that image was one view of Ireland, at that time. i think this capturres a contempory Ireland, access to nature with modern acuhtrements. Anyone not from ireland might be surprised to see the Kite surfers and surfboarders....

America and Australia seem to think they have the franchise on surf related sports and who can blame them for being surprised, It is a well kept secret by default. The Surf community in the UK tends to be concentrated one the bit of the UK that dips its toe into the Atlantic , Cornwall, while the community here is dispersed in pockets all all along the west coast and as many surf here as play rugby. Dont think UK or Australia, or South Africa can match that...

Ok so youtube state you should not upload an ad without the permission of the company involved but Failte Ireland is a state company, and i a fully fledged tax payer, am giving myself permission to uplaod the ad. i hope you enjoy it and let me know if oyu have any thoughts.