Friday, 15 July 2011

IPad what do I use it for?

My iPad 2 comes with me everywhere. Music in the car, research, magazine reading, eBooks, email, Twitter and Facebook. So which of these apps do I use the most?  Answer: none of them as in the photo I mainly use it as a humble tray? 

Thursday, 14 July 2011

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.

Sunday, 10 July 2011

Tony Banks. A Curious Feeling

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

Friday, 8 July 2011

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.

Friday, 5 November 2010

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. 

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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.