Graphic from the WWF report The Living Planet Mankind. The worst thing for the planet Earth, according to The Living Planet Report (download the report – pdf (4.4 MB). The report is written in an easy to read style, not for hardened economists, so its worth taking a look at it and not just . . . → Read More: The worst thing for the planet
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Click to start the 360° Virtual Realitity And here, “The making of…” or how they set up the camera to take it. (Via Dark Roasted Blend) When we were in Spain, we took our i-Blue 747 GPS track logger with us and left it running most of the time when we were out with the cameras. I was expecting that it would be a simple matter to geocode the photos when we returned. But it turned out that there were a couple of snags to overcome first. Where to get your solid-silver security camera? Louis Vuitton, of course! (Seen in Valencia) Wow. Nasa publishes some really interesting photos. This one is of Phobos, the larger of Mars two moons. For more information and a larger version of the photo (up to approx. 3300 x 3300 pixels versions are available, so you could use it as your desktop background!), click on the picture below: Image . . . → Read More: Nasa’s photo of the day I found this excellent tip on lifehacker.com. If you have ripped audio books from CD into iTunes, normally iTunes will think that you have added music. Since iTunes 8.0 it is possible to reclassify the tracks, so that iTunes recognizes them as audiobooks, which means that they will appear in the audiobooks section in . . . → Read More: Get your audio books set up correctly in iTunes We were in Spain the last two weeks, and while we were there, we bought the Franklin TES-120 translator for spanish / english pictured above. It cost 39 Euro, and claims to translate 800 000 words (the screenshot shows part of its “boot” sequence, which repeats this claim every time you switch it . . . → Read More: Useless technology |
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