Don’t know why i never looked for this before – but when Doctor Who resumes on the 27th I will be ready. I have been using Expat Shield to keep up with Torchwood on BBC Iplayer which is blocked to folks without a UK ISP address, this one gives you one, so Iplayer plays fine. The only byproduct I can find is a close-able banner header that only appears while the Expat Shield is running. When are the powers that be gonna realize that they can’t keep pretending that their are walls between geographical locations anymore?
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hungry hungry iphone: iflash
I love my iphone, seriously i didn’t think i would…or rather i was afraid i would. The more I play with it, the more things I am finding that it can do. Last month I went a little mad uploading my entire DVD collection using ICollectMovies Pro and the camera slash barcode reader function in the Iphone. Of course the camera is very sensitive, my brain said, ‘Hey, what if there was a flash for shooting documents?!?” well there was, IFlash it’s not so much a flash as a light, but you plug it in and it runs off the Iphone’s battery. No muss no fuss, one draw back is that the damn thing is so tiny, i have misplaced it three times. Now i have a small bag for all my Iphone attachments, just have to keep track of the bag. Well worth the $12.
The other draw back is that my iphone is encased in a hard shell and i needed to buy a tiny adapter so that the flash could be plugged in.
hungry, hungry iphone: Jotter (handwriting notepad)
I didn’t think i needed as yet ANOTHER data acquisition method, but ya gotta have a handwriting app, right? not sure of the difference yet, but the free version will be fine for now.
hungry hungry iphone: Mini Keyboard
I couldn’t stand not having a keyboard, so $15 dollars later I have a Bluetooth mini Keyboard I still haven’t used it yet, but if i need one I have it in my accessory kit. I have all the same sort of document software on my iphone that i have on my PC and Laptop. I can fondle Office and Google Documents with the best of them, but alas so far I haven’t had a lot of datacrunching that would need to give my thumbs a rest. Besides..she’s cute.
App addiction
My name is EG and i am an app addict.
These damn clever things are totally addictive, like all damn clever things i tend to overdue. It is very easy to load this device up with tools that are strikingly similar and end up with little bits of data spread out over a few of them, and using none of them properly.
I foundyself having to decide between two programs that stored data: one that was cheap and simple, and one that was pricey and very fancy.
In my younger geekier days i’d have forced myself to use the more elaborate program just because i had paid more money for it. But i have reached the point in my life where i always take the easy road when it presents itself.