iPhone Tethering
Well, Apple plan to charge £15 a month for the liberty of using their Tethering service. I’ve just used another method and configured it over bluetooth between my iPhone 3G and MacBook. I was quite impressed with the speeds I got (for a cellular network). The iPhone O2 contracts have unlimited internet so we’ll see if they pick up on the Tethering as I haven’t signed any O2 things to set it up.
On a less geeky and more housey note… Me and Sarah have a house. We move in next weekend. The Broadband is sorted to come first thing, on our first morning there (very important). The washer, cooker and freezer are also coming. We both have the day off work to sort everything out (a long weekend)
I’ve still got all my gadgets to take. There is all my AV equipment to take, for the living room and all my studio stuff for my studio. It’s a small room but it’s not going to disturb any neighbors and it will be big enough to fit everything in. It’s going to have a wrap around worktop going round 3 of the walls. And I’ll just leave enough space to open the door/ move my chair.
We are really looking forward ot the move. We’ve got a nice garden and patio and the house is excellent. The garage is big and we have a nice block paved drive.
Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard is now installed on the Mac Book. I’ve not played with it properly yet as I’ve only just finished upgrading. I saw Chris and Mark using it earlier and it’s got some impressive new features. I like the fact you can Quick View and Scroll through your previewed Docs. This is going to make finding the right version of a Document a lot easier.
Grand Central appears to have made things open and process quicker, it could just be a placebo but my cores are being used properly now, even in free apps which aren’t designed with multicore processing in mind, they now get to use the multiple cores in my Mac Book.
I’m looking forward to upgrading the Mac Pro to see what happens with some of my apps which are really useful but don’t make use of my 8-cores.
Boot Camp Aluminium Macbook
I have installed XP and Vista on my Aluminium 2GHz Macbook and neither of them worked properly, I was having an issue with the touchpad not right clicking or being able to use tapping.
I installed Windows 7 because people said they had it working just fine… The only difference this time was I used the OS X disk which came with my macbook to install the Boot Camp drivers rather than a retail copy. Everything works fine.
I’ve installed FL Studio and my VSTs such as Nexus and Vanguard but I can’t use more than one at any one time or everything grinds to a halt (even with latency slider to the far right) I think it’s a Windows 7 issue although to be fair the onboard audio is only Realtek HiDef so it’s not a hardware solution, it’s all software driven.
I wish I’d got the USB2 version of my Edirol FA-66 but then again, I’m hardly going to be using my macbook for music as I use my Mac Pro for that due to it being hooked up to 2x large screens and my Rokit 8 speakers.
Everything else other than trying to do things the laptop isn’t designed for… Is absolutely fine. Now I can go to work and use Windows which is better with Kaseya as I can VNC, etc from the browser, I can switch off from work and use OS X when I get home.
Holiday in Lanzarote
I´m currently on holiday in Lanzarote with Sarah. We flew out on Sunday and the weather has been really good. We are staying at the Ficus apartments in Costa Teguise and we don´t have anything to complain about. The food is great and the rooms are nice.
We went to the Timanfya national Park on Tuesday for Sarah´s Birthday and we rode on Camels which was fun but bumpy.
We took a bus to Puerto Del Carmen on Wednesday as we lost our ticket for a free excursion. It was great there though, we walked right from one end to the other occasionally stopping in souvenier shops.
We had a nice Sit down with a San Miguel before catching a bus back to Costa Teguise.
Yesterday was a day of Relaxation, we had breakfast then lay by the pool for about 4 hours. Then we had a bit of a swim and chilled on our Balcony.
It´s going to be similar today but we are going to have a walk across the sea front a little later on.
I bought a Samsung HD Video Camera at the airport, it was right bargain (cheaper than you will think Dad!) as it just does 720p (which is all my Tele does and looks awesome enough on Rambo). We´ve taken lots of videos of our travels and lots of photos on my Digital Camera so, combined, should make a good Hi-Def holiday video.´
We´re missing our little reptile dudes and dudettes but know they are in capable, caring hands. My mum says Tilly really enjoys coming out for cuddles but scratched her chest (she does get excitable and flail her arms about… Tilly that is, not my mum)
We fly back on Sunday and I have the monday off work so it should be nice, to just unwind and catchup with English life again.
It´ll be a shame to leave the island though as we are both really enjoying it.
Monkey Jumps and Falls
I’ve been meaning to cut the video I caught of a Monkey showing off, then his companion runs through and trys to steal the scene… He jumps for the hammock and falls to the floor. I’ve submitte it to you’ve been framed as I think it stands a really good chance.
Hopefully I’ll know, shortly, if it’s been shortlisted.
Noodles the Chinese Water Dragon
I have wanted a Lizard which requires a rain forest/ jungle type habitat since I first got into Reptiles. I saw a Chinese water dragon about 3 months ago and wanted one since.
Luke and Dan at L’N'D Exotics in Mansfield woodhouse had some young ones in for £30 each so I thought it was about time I got it. I bought a 3ft High by 2ft Wide Vivarium from them along with lots of Branches, a Waterfall and Pump, UV Light, Bark Substrate and all the other bits, yesterday morning. I fitted a 150w Ceramic Heater attached to my Spare Lucky Reptile ThermoControl Pro II thermostat and set it warming up. I drenched the floor and branches to start building humidity up.
Me and Sarah went into Mansfield then to pick up our Holiday tickets, some Euros and some Cloathes then went and picked up the Chinese water Dragon from them and took it back to mine.
He started eating straight away and loves his big Water Bowl. He was quite active last night for about an hour after his UV went out. I have to be very warey around him though compared to the Beardies because he can jump a massive distance and run extremely quickly (as we found out in L’N'D when Luke got him out).
Humidity was up at about 70% last night in his vivarium, I’m going to get a fogger though so I don’t have to spray as much. It’ll look great having fog at the bottom of the Vivarium as well.
Noodles the Chinese Water Dragon
I was looking on our google analytics stats the other day for www.our-reptiles.co.uk (Our Reptiles), we’ve been getting a lot more hits in the past week. It’s gone up by 1500% over the previous week. People are finding us by searching for L’N'D Exotics (this is good for them as their address is up at the top of the post). The key words seem to be working well, I’m going to focus on getting some more reference information on there soon as that is what people are after.
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