By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 26 April 2007
 My gen3 Ipod has served me well on many a long plane trip across the world or within Australia but after several years the battery has lost it lifespan. I had simply assumed it would spend the rest of it life in its dock until I came across this do-it-yourself battery placement kit at Jaycar.
The instructions were clear, read step 1 before step 2  . I almost stuffed up but ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 26 April 2007
 Ok..couldn't help myself...we did a dash to the Gold Coast to grab me a new 70-200 f4L IS lens for the trip.
It's really light and really sharp. Took a quick snap of the dog at ISO800 and still very sharp. If you look really close you can see me in his eyeball 
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
We just came back from a weekend in Canberra where i took the opportunity to take some pics in the little spare time we had. As the Sunday was very grey it showed up lots of "spots" in the some of the pics. Assumming we'd gotten fluff on the lens I gave them a good clean and then took a few test shots to discover the spots were on my sensor!!!!
So we opened up the camera used the "puffer" and gave it a good blow and wiped the visible dust with a cotton bug (yes I know it's not recommended). So took a few more test shots at F22 only to discover still had quite a few spots
So my dilemma is.. ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 23 April 2007
 For anyone who cares...we're off to Thailand for 2 weeks on Friday. When and if we get to and internet cafe or two we'll be posting our adventrues here...so stay tuned.
Our itinery is posted earlier here. If you're only interested in the holiday then best to just read this feed rather than the feed for the whole blog.
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By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 20 April 2007
In preparation for our recent presentation on Virtual Earth I made a few "backup videos" of the demos we were going to show. We've tried a few different screen capture tools before and most of them seemed to kill your pc so made the video pretty useles.
The 2 I experimented with and found pretty reasonable were:
- Wink - It's free and simple to use. It can create PDF's or output the result to flash.
- Windows Media Encoder - It's free and simple to use. It outputs ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 18 April 2007
We did our presentation of Virtual Earth for Scalable Applications last night. John spoke tirelessly for 1.5 hours and we only had a few minor glitches and even had an internet connection so we didn't need the "backup video demos" we'd made just in case.
For anyone who missed the presentation of for those who attended and wanted to see the slides, code or demo again we have put all the content into an article here.
For those who attended, we'd appreciate any feedback (good, bad, indifferent) so we can refine this talk and know what to concentrate on for next time.
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 12 April 2007
We just got back from Age of User Experience Brisbane session. It was great to see an event in Brisbane. Overall, I found the session disappointing..felt like it hadn't been properly prepared and parts of it seemed like it hadn't been run through at all before. Maybe some of the presenters were nervous or hadn't had a good chance to go through what they wanted get across.
I was really interested in the Expression Web and Expression Blend sessions. I totally missed most of the points being made in the Web session as it jumped all over the place...but it seemed like they've improved a lot of the CSS, HTML integration in Visual Studio to make it a bit easier if you prefer to drag and dro ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 9 April 2007
Just sitting here looking at my injuries from my "fun" activities for the week...and realised how we simply accept them and think no more of it. If i got the same injuries at work...would I be so forgiving...don't think so...
I played soccer and got my toes stomped on with studs at least 2ce in that game. It hurt, I expressed my pain and went on playing and now look at the big black bruise on my toe and think "that's why it hurt so much". Now if I was at work and a co-worker stepped on my toe in a stilleto shoe, there's no way they'd be just walking off and me say..."ouch" and go back to work.
When I played volleyball this week I ended up getting a very nice egg on my head from being below a team-mate up at the net blocking, then coming down and smashing their elbow into my head, and apparan ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Sunday, 8 April 2007
Our holiday plans so far....
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By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 6 April 2007
The other day I wrote about my new toy - LED tap light and promised some pics. So here it is...isn't it cool  . Unfortunatly, it's probably a water wasting device...since you just look for an excuse to use the tap...but i guess eventually the novelty will wear off
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