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365 Days - January

Posted by Brusca under Apple, Photography, flickr, iPhone

I have decided to take a photo for each day of 2010 with my iPhone. They can be self portraits or anything that takes my fancy or wherever I am at at the time. At the end of the year I will hopefully put a book together, perhaps produced in Aperture. Here are my January photos.

For more details on these photos visit my Flickr account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brusca/sets/72157623118835992/

Tripit Online Travel Itinerary

Posted by Brusca under Apple, Software, Tanzania

Tripit is a very impressive website for adding your travel itineraries to and share trips with friends and family. You can manage your itineraries on Tripit or simply send in a booking confirmation number and it is all done automatically. A great compliment to this website is the iPhone App (FREE) to download your trip details and have in your pocket without the worry of loads of paperwork. Add images, notes, maps etc to your Tripit itinerary. Brilliant!

My Full Tanzania Itinerary is here

Vodcasts are the New TV

Posted by Brusca under Apple

As the wide world of online video continues to rise in the form of vodcasts and webisodes, so does the switch from regular viewing TV to online viewing on the big screen. It’s no news that this shift has been happening for some time, but the more it progresses the more the big broadcasters have to stand up and take notice.

I have to say Australian TV does not have a lot to offer even though the ratings season has just started, I’m not all that impressed. So it makes life easier to have such a wide variety of content available online. 90% of my viewing this week has been online content, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. This has been helped along with the advent of certain hardware and software such as Apple TV and other online media centers allowing easier access to regularly updated video content, such as FREE vodcasts and renting DVD’s and TV shows online.

In any case broadcasters are now embracing vodcasts more than ever with the release of some TV episodes online only 24 hours after airing. This could be seen as somewhat of an attempt to fight the illegal download of shows and a way for the big corporates to say “we can’t beat you, so we’re going to join you” in order to please the growing audiences craving Video On Demand. A perfect example of this is The Gruen Transfer aired on ABC. I actually don’t watch this when it normally airs on TV and subscribe to the podcast to watch when I find the time.

There is a plethora of content to subscribe to, with vodcasts covering a wide variety of topics that sit within many genres. The ease of which vodcasts can be produced makes it very accessible for anyone to produce one nowadays and they don’t need to be at the standards of a TV broadcast but can be equally entertaining.

A handful of my choices for online viewing are:

http://bestadsontv.com/
http://www.bestofyoutube.com/
http://totallyradshow.com/
http://revision3.com/diggnation/
http://revision3.com/diggreel/
http://www.screencastsonline.com/
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/aperture/
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/
The Official Lost Podcast

Kevin Rose iPhone App Review

Posted by Brusca under Apple

Kevin Rose reviews the iPhone application ‘Topple’. Looks like a fun download.

I have been wracking my brain for some good and unique ideas for new iPhone apps. Not easy as there are thousands of Apps on the App Store now. Will keep thinking and wondering what market there is left. Any thoughts?

iPhone 3G Review

Posted by Brusca under Apple

StuffTV have a very nice iPhone 3G review here.

http://stuff.tv/Video/EXCLUSIVE-Hands-on-video-of-the-iPhone-3G/Vidcasts/

Gotta get me one of these gadgets…