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talking about photography and how to use three of my favourite plug-ins to the altar and affect my photographs. One of them I used to make HDR photos, another one is for removing items from photos like magic and the other one gives a variety of effects from subtle to the nearly HDR.

I sold a Bitcoin so I would have the cash to buy a NEX6 camera and I am thinking I might sell the old one for Bitcoin. I made a pile of money with the crypto currency appreciating in value since I bought them. I am definitely encouraged to hold on to what I have now for the longer term. Also I started to mine some LiteCoin on my Mac. I don't think it is going to be successful but it did kind of work. There is a site which is giving LiteCoin away. You have to play a game which gives you a certain amount depending on how the numbers fall. I won 2 micro LiteCoin most times but I won 50 micro lite coin on one roll. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

dog walking David goes for a spin around the neighbourhood late at night and takes the camera with him. Yes that's right, I just myself a new camera a Sony NEX-6 and of course I have to have a little bit of a chat about it. It is a marvellous camera and I was even able to take a few pictures at night-time. This was mainly due to the fact that the moonlight was giving me sufficient light to work with. During the day I had been in the harbour of the nearest seaside town and taking some lovely pictures of boats in the harbour and the seafront. Weird alternative energy politics in Spain my wife had told me recently that the Spanish government were going to discourage people from putting solar panels on the roof and initially my thought was that she must be crazy. How on earth would a government have the cheek and stupidity to tell people that you can't put solar panels on your roof when the European community once more alternative energy generated. Is obviously important that we generate more free energy so t

I spent over a day putting the custom ROM onto my phone. It didn't seem that there was going to be any way that the operating system was going to be updated by the phone carrier. As I was doing it it was a little bit hit and miss even though I was using something that was supposed to make it easier. I used an application called ROM Manager and it was supposed to boot me into the Clockworkmod recovery mode, but it kept going into the ordinary recovery mode. Not quite sure how I managed to get the job done in the end, but I did. Now that I have done it once I will be able to do it again and get closer to the latest version of Android. I did the custom ROM on the phone so that I could get rid of the carrier installed junk and also the Samsung bloatware. I recorded this using Audio Evolution Mobile and converted it to MP3 using Media Converter so that I could send it as an email to Audioboo. This worked really well and so much better than the official Audioboo rubbish software for Android.

DayOne is a Mac and iOS app and I don't want to have my stuff in two separate places because I use Android and iOS. SO I have worked out a way to get posts into Day One from my Android devices using Draft app, Dropbox syncing, then some Keyboard Maestro magic to automagically get the text into DayOne. It works a treat because Keyboard Maestro is the dos doo dahs when it comes to Mac automation.

I had been meaning to buy myself a new airbrush for some time and I saw that there was a place that was having an offer on an air brush of the type that I wanted. So I am now looking forward to using this art tool to create some artwork with acrylic paints on in a canvas or board. I also saw an offer for a stylus that I can use with the iPad it is the Wacom brand and style of stylus that gives pressure sensitivity which makes it much better for drawing lines. the pressure sensitivity gives you a lot more finesse and control over or your drawing, the same sort of quality that you could achieve using the welcome tablets. I often feel that art chose me rather than the other way round. When you're a creative sort of person then it is only inevitable that you create art of whatever sort. I have gone from creating fine art, paintings and printing to photography and video are now once again I have the urge to splash some paint around.

Losing a chunk of the day due to getting up late and having no time to do much before heading to work. Watching Ringer on the TV with Sarah Michelle Gellar - lots of plot machinations. It keeps twisting this way and that. I want to see the hero of the story succeed so the story can't be too bad.

Watching the television series called Ringer with the actress Sarah Michelle Geller in it, it seems to be a low-budget series and there are one or two holes in the script. Why is it that women of a certain age turn into Crazy Cat Ladies and have the constant urge to feed all of the wild animals in the district? Mother-in-law's, neighbours and women at the campsite all want to feed the poor little kittens, pigeons and other vermin. I followed a YouTube tutorial showing me how to root my Nexus 7, it really wasn't too difficult. I rooted it so that I could use some software that wouldn't work otherwise, although I have to admit is not working terribly well at the moment. It seems that I have a little bit more twiddling and fiddling to do.

I have been restoring from backup the Nexus seven following rooting the device. Needed to route it so that I would be able to use it for creating android tutorials. I also had to download some iOS updates for the iPad and for the iPhone. It seems to be going well but taking a very long time. If only I had a better Internet connection that would allow me to download stuff much faster.

talking about getting ready for making tutorials using the Nexus 7, and the need to root the device and to set up other applications such as cam scanner. I really like the idea of going paperless and I have been using scanner applications on my iPhone and also now my android devices so that I can scan a document and get rid of the paper. I do have a system where I can put a scan into a certain folder and it will take it and put it into Evernote for me. This way I always know where the scan has gone to if I want to look at it later. I use an automation on my Mac to be able to do this. Still working at the campsite and I will be there for a another two weeks. I'm looking forward to having some time to myself to be able to get all of things done that I need to get done. I also have a TEFL course to finish. I might have two forget about everything else and just concentrate on that for as long as it takes to finish the job. Otherwise I will get back onto making videos again for YouTube and I will have extend th

I tried to make a recording and the traditional noises of the knife sharpening man came by. I like the sound of it so I continued. This was on the day when I have been setting up iOS 7 and also the Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 I got so that I can do more android application tutorials and it is a lovely wee device. When I had so much to do to work out how to use as I set it up with the iPad with the new operating system and the new device needing some love from the same day I could have done without the Samsung Galaxy S3 crashing on me. So I had to spend time fixing my phone when I had new toys I wanted to play with.

I start off by talking about the state of play at the campsite where I work while I am taking my break. It really is as quiet as the grave at the moment with many of the campers that stay for the season are packing up their stuff ready to go. The campsite closes on 12 October and with the poor weather over the last week people are deciding to get packed just in case there's more rain coming. I make YouTube videos, mostly tutorials showing people how to do things with the Mac, the iPad and also android applications. The problem is that while I am working during the summertime I don't have a lot of free time to be able to make these videos, so I complain a little bit about that. When I get home I am completely knackered and all I am fit for is to sit on the sofa watching some television. I started to watch a film called Battle: Los Angeles which looked like he was going to be a decent sci-fi film to watch. At least it looked good from the very short clips that we used to advertise it, because in reality it w

I start by talking about the goings on at the campsite and then move on to the chat which started by religious crap appearing on my Facebook timeline. These theists were not impressed or swayed by logic, reason and common sense of the argument. It was amazing the amount of babble and waffle that was spouted in this discussion by the god squad people. I was threatened with Hell but at least they stayed civil whilst babbling incoherently. I feel sorry for these delusional people who have been subjected to brainwashing from an early age. I call religion out as wilful ignorance. They know that what they say can't be true but they go ahead an say they believe it anyway.

in the weeks and maybe even months before there is an announcement by Apple of impending products, the blogosphere and all of the podcasts go crazy with predictions. I find it extremely tedious when there's people that really have no idea what is coming jump on every possible leak or made up story and talk about it ad nauseam. I do love technology, but it is not really about the hardware, it is more about how the software helps you get things done in your life during your day.

I had a weird email from my aunt that was quickly followed by a weird question in my messaging app from my mother. My mother wanted to know if I had health problems, I don't and I had to wait till the next day to find out how this weird rumour all started. Talking about being at the campsite working full-time and part-time and the fact that there are still one or 2 tourists left in Platja d'Aro. As I record the audio there are a couple of proper looking tourists with all of their beach equipment and that included two plastic blowup dolphins.

How to add a thunderbolt Drive, an SSD that can be used as the system drive and not mess things up in the process. Twiddling and fiddling with various applications to make sure that I don't lose any data while squeezing the system onto a smaller drive.