Breakfast in America - Supertramp

Their most amazing USA breakthrough album. Released in 1979 and includes three hit singles: The Logical Song, Goodbye Stranger and Take the Long Way Home.  The album shows a New York scene with the World Trade Centre depicted by two fragile stacks of boxes. Interestingly Hodgson doesn't play his 12 string guitar on this album. One of two not to feature it. The other being Crime if the Century. Lots of Fender Rhodes piano on this instead reminiscent of Dreamer.

Tony Banks. A Curious Feeling

Amazing album grossly underrated. As good as any Genesis release at the time (...and then there were three)

Rush Signals

Great 1982 album by Rush. Signals is arguably the best of this era Rush.

Rush Hemispheres

I worked at Trident Recording Studios in August1978 when they came in to complete this perfect album.

Great HTC Sensation photo

Great contrast of colours on HTC Sensation.  Perfect conditions helped.

Windows Phone 7–HD7 update

Hi, i’ve been using my HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 for a few weeks now and have some updates.

Let’s face facts this is a gorgeous phone with a great screen and wonderful interface.  However, there are some cracks.

It’s hung on me a couple of times.  The apps aren’t as great as the iPhone  yet.  It’s so hard to get my already iTunes ripped media onto the HD7.

Microsoft have bought out an iTunes Windows Phone 7 sync tool for the Mac. 

It look’s great and works a treat.  Well I thought it did.  It can’t sync half of my music (wrong format but its Apple lossless so why not – it’s DRM free!) and neither does it sync any of my movies (AVI DRM free).

So it’s a great phone, a wonderful new interface BUT without easily sync’ing of my iTunes music it’s hopeless.  I can;t set up Zune on my Mac and I really don’t want to use two different Music Apps.

Windows Phone 7 - HTC HD7

It looked great so I had to get one. But Windows 7? I was concerned that this would be a facade that would soon require the dreaded stylus. How wrong could I be?



The screen is excellent and very large and clear. In fact larger than the iPhone 4 but a different clarity. Colours are superb and the ozone has nice touches like a kick stand for video viewing.

Battery life seems to be on low side but I need to do a full days test with full sane usage. Watch this space.



Music sounds great although the bundled headphones are rubbish. There are great sinus enhancing effects like Dolby Mobile and SRS and an equalizer.

Apart from that the interface is superb. Fast, easy to read, great animation and so so different from the old winmo experience.



Soft keyboard. It's great the best on a windows mobile device yet. However one gripe. It is so hard to hold-press and get the I-bar for editing. It seems that your finger covers the text so you have to peep around your finger to see where the edit point is going to be. I am waiting anxiously for cut and paste- why don't they get that right out the box? It seems to be something to shout about separately. Let's see if Microsoft can beat the iPhone.

Using the app store is simply not as great and as easy as the iTunes app store. Also when I installed and set up my exchange email I simply could not find the icon to access it. It had disappeared. A quick reboot and hey Presto! It returned. That would never happen with Apple!

Keep watching as I will report some more findings from the field over the next few days. I am going to see The Gaslight Anthem in Bristol tonight so let's see if I can grab some video! My test vies seemed not be able to easily grab focus. We'll see what it's like in the darkness of a gig.

Regards Jon
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