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Geotag test

oliver — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:09:18 +0000

This is a test for geotagging from my iPhone!

Posted from Camberley, England, United Kingdom.

MP3 Cue file splitting on a Mac (Snow Leopard)

oliver — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:18:26 +0000

I still run into one of these occasionally, although I cannot fathom why – what would you actually use one for? Anyway – it’s quite difficult to find a splitter program if you are using a mac – you’ve probably found that cue-splitter is no longer supported and you may have stumbled into MP3 trimmer; a horribly made program that also nags you to pay for it. Yuk.

I happened upon Max Mp3 Cue file Splitter this morning and it’s waaaay better! Easy to use and free – you can’t ask for more than that.

WordPress 3.0 + 1&1 = Error 500

oliver — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:33:50 +0000

I was having a few issues with my hosting from 1&1 last week where a new wordpress install would work fine, but when I imported a site directory and a db to work on it, it produced an “Error 500 – internal server error” message. This was frustrating and 1&1, although quite quick to respond (!), simply rolled out the ‘check your scripts’ advice. Not that helpful when the files and db worked fine on other hosting platforms so I thought I would post the remedy here in the hope it helps anyone else with the same problem.

It’s a very simple fix: In the end, I found a post (i’ve lost the link) that advised placing a ‘php.ini’ file in the root of the site directory and filling it with the line ‘memory=20MB’.

As soon as I ftp’d the file into the site, everything worked fine!

Embed flickr slideshows into your site

oliver — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:41:38 +0000

I’ve recently discovered the joys of flickr (yeah I know, but I had 12 giggs of photo’s with Fotki, it was hard to move!) and I’ve been looking to integrate my use of flickr with my blogs and for use in my clients websites.

First up is flickr slideshow using javascript – it’s nice and light and works well. On the downside it doesn’t look all that amazing and you can’t change the background colours. Oh, and it doesn’t work on iPhone’s either..poo.

Next up, Paul Stamatiou presents two ways of getting your flickr pics embedded in your site using iFrame or object tags – again, similar to the above, they won’t work on your iPhone but they work a bit better in other browsers as they are less clunky.

Still under development (and I couldn’t get it to work) is Flickrshow – it sounds promising and worth keeping an eye on for the future.

Pictobrowser is a nice flash based gallery that is very easy to set up as it has a configuration gui built into the gallery itself and you can tweak colours, positioning and other settings to get a look close to what you want on your site. It is flash though.. :/

Now for the official flickr slideshow – again it is flash, but being offered by flickr it should be better supported and it works really well, having a full screen option too. You simply navigate to a set or gallery in flickr, click the slideshow button and then click share to grab a link or embed code to post on your site. You may have to tweak this to get it to the right size, so it’s not perfect for newbies. See how it works here:official Flickr slideshow link.

So these seem to be the options at the moment – I’m waiting for a javascipt gallery that will just flick through pictures without any interface controls, so that I could add it as an icon or decorative piece in a website – so I’m a little disappointed at the lack of support for the iOS safari browser for this reason too.

Pictures from Farnborough Air Show 2010

oliver — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:00:43 +0000

Flickr slideshow link

Airbus A380 at Farnborough

oliver — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:31:00 +0000

This is the video of the huge airbus A380 taking off and then flying over the run way at Farnborough – I also shot this in HD on my iPhone 4 – spot the part where we got hit by the wash! There are also pics up at my flickr stream.

The Red Arrows at Farnborough

oliver — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:28:44 +0000

Put together this video in iMovie using the footage of the Red Arrows that I shot on the new iPhone 4 – quite pleased with the result! There are also pics up at my flickr stream.

Brilliant Parody!

oliver — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:49:16 +0000

Gravity + Slush + Bike = F’ing Cool

oliver — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:15:18 +0000

MEGAVALANCHE 2010 from GÉHIN Lionel on Vimeo.

Tory Tosspots.

oliver — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:06:58 +0000

“You could try as you say put it on VAT, sales tax, but again if you look at the effect of sales tax, it’s very regressive, it hits the poorest the hardest. It does, I absolutely promise you. Any sales tax, anything that goes on purchases that you make in shops tends to… if you look at it, where VAT goes now it doesn’t go on food obviously but it goes very very widely and VAT is a more regressive tax than income tax or council tax.”

David Cameron, Cameron Direct, Exeter, 8 May 2009