Technology

The last few days, I’ve been playing with a little desktop photo processing toy which I discovered through one of the photography blogs I follow. It’s called Camera Bag and it’s a hoot! I believe it began as an iPhone app but it is now available for both Mac and PC desktops. Essentially, it applies a number of filtering effects to your photos, which can be mix and matched by checking the ‘multiple filter’ box in the tool bar. My favourite effect so far has been the one titled “1974”... More...

SHELDON It must be an emergency; everyone at the university knows that I eat my breakfast at 8 and move my bowels at 8:20 LEONARD Yes, how did we live before Twitter? - from The Big Bang Theory, S.2, Ep.23,The Monopolar Expedition. When even the boys of The Big Bang Theory, champions of all things techie and geeky, appear to use Twitter merely... More...

Any native English speakers living in Japan will have experienced Japanese English speakers/students when lost for either words or courage flip out their electronic dictionaries and deftly tap away with their thumbs till they come up with the English word they need. At this point they will either show you the screen or say the word, depending on their... More...

NB.. For those of you who have stumbled on this page looking for directions and aren’t interested in a review of the shopping district of Osu Kannon (to wit: is it really the best place to go for cameras et al.) – scroll down to a little above where the photos begin. Okay, I’m not actually accusing any person or persons of deliberately... More...

but ain’t they cute!! I spend a fair bit of my days listening to Radio National podcasts while pottering around cooking or doing housework so the speakers on my PC are often quite high so I can hear it over both the distance and the noise of cooking or chopping or the dishwasher chugging away. I often worry that I drive my neighbours mad (though... More...

I wanted  to be able to blog happily from Japan during our orientation week and to keep in touch without the fuss of mobile phone “roaming” issues so I pulled out my old tablet PC and have spent the last couple of days giving it a good tune-up.  I bought my tablet back in 2003, giving in to my gadget-girl proclivities and going for the... More...

Last night I was up till 5a.m. getting the final step of my blog upgrade done – moving it to its own domain (see that up there? www.narrativedisorder.com ? that was HARD, that was lol). I’m not deluded that many people read it or that there was an urgency at all but it was a new challenge damn it! And it was one of those thing where you... More...

Err… wow. I almost hate to admit it, since I always prefer open source if I can get something suited to my technical ability (i.e., I’m not brave enough to go linux), but I am seriously impressed. Windows Live Writer may not have a flash Flash upload media gui but it has something better – it does exactly the same thing simply (and... More...

Proud clutterbug that I am I am nevertheless spending today trying to get my digital world in check. I can handle cluttered physical spaces because my memory is physical (I know I reached over here when I put that down…) but I’m really having trouble with email at the moment. Which address to use when signing up to a forum or buying software... More...