Macintosh deliveries held up

We had some roadworks blocking access to the shop today so deliveries are a half day behind.

How hard is it to get one of these things round a round-about?

Plaster goes in

New rooms in the Big Trousers complex are nearing completion as plaster goes on the walls.

Al Gore's Triple head

Engadget has posted a short piece on this photo of Al Gore's triple 30 inch Apple cinema display.

Do we all want a set up like this? Not so messy perhaps?

Last line was a good one. ( thanks for the link-Ajay )

"P.S. -Yeah, fine, we're creepy gadget stalkers, what of it?"

Drobo Data storage unit

This piece from PhotoGeek on the new Drobo USB four drive storage unit.

This could be a very handy bit of gear and we have contacted Drobo to see if we can get hold of a few of these for re-sale.

The Drobo is unique in that it can have drives of unequal size inserted …

Elgato Turbo.264 hardware encoder

Just released the Elgato H.264 hardware encoder.

Make Apple TV ready content from Elgato recorded HD Free to Air TV in a flash. No more waiting for video to re-encode as 720p for iTunes playback.

This makes the AppleTV a much more useful device for managing Free To Air …

Bitumen

And the renovation at Big Trousers continues as the bitumen driveway goes in.

Good design a must

From an article by Daniel Turner from Technology Review about Apple and the pursuit of great industrial design. The process employed and the reasoning for this as a productive investment for those who use their products. I have to say I have never thought of Apple …

Ustream give live

Released a week or so ago, USTREAM provides a method of streaming live video and audio to a worldwide audience.

According to Cris Pirillo, this is indeed a revolution as it allows bloggers and video bloggers to go live with text chat to their audience. I suppose with …

PhotoGeek week #1

Good to see the photogeek podcast is finally online.

Cameron talks about the imminent release of the Canon 1D Mk3 along with other discussion and news.



Check out the site and let them know what you think.

Reproduction to canvas

This is a little job for Ringo, an artist from The StKilda Esplanade market.

Ringo wanted to know if we could reproduce from an original oil painting, a color accurate reproduction to canvas using the wide format Epson printer. The 4800 pro uses 100 year archive …

Export image

I received an email from a happy client today. Steve lives in Palm Springs and saw my landscape images online after spotting my website.

After some discussion he ordered a print and had it delivered with the intention of getting a custom frame.

Good to see it framed …

8 Core Xeon MacPro details

So it looks like there are 4 processor options now. Dual quad core "Clovertown" Xeon, Quad 2.0 GHz, Quad 2.66 GHz, Quad 3.0 GHz all "Woodcrest" Xeon.

Standard feature is the 2.66 GHz Quad, the 8 core adds a whopping $2400 to the price and the 3.0 GHz Quad adds …

Getting in to Twitter

So you may notice my little Twitter window in the sidebar and wonder what all that is about.

I will attempt to explain.

In the current climate of SMS messaging and IM using AIM or MSN, Twitter has emerged as an addictive web based SMS style mini blog tool. You can …

Ava

I just wanted to see if my little Ava would fit on the page here. Not quite.

A MacBook in the family

After many years as the token Windows geek in a medium sized firm of Electrical component manufacturers my brother has taken delivery of a new MacBook. For very good reasons Relay Monitoring Systems has run on a network of PC's kept in secure harmony under the gaze of …

Woops!

During todays part of the ongoing renovation of Big Trousers headquarters, a slight disconnection of the gas main was created. They cut through the pipe.

The emergency gas crew were called an within an hour they had two more trucks and were digging up bitumen. …

Recover deleted files

Jen Hawley of Siren music rang the other day after having inadvertently deleted a piece recored through Logic Pro on her MacBook. It was a classical piano piece recorded some weeks ago and when it was not found on the Firewire back up she wondered if it was still on the …

RED digital camera and Final Cut Studio 2

Having read about the details regarding Apple Final Cut Studio 2 and looking at some of the video online I have to say it was a surprise that this suite has moved so quickly to embrace new controls and new formats.

The impressive videos including the Cohen brothers talk …

Joost, is it too late?

I got my beta invitation to Joost today and for those not aware Joost is an internet TV service that works a little like free cable TV for your computer.

The content and channel selection is interesting and predictably of a standard inferior to "free to air" traditional …

Concrete...

All all happens at 7.oo AM.