Monday, 31 August 2015

Google Nexus Sim Card Size

I own a Nexus 4 phone and have come across a great phone deal and have decided to change, but when ordering needed to know which type of SIM card I needed. A brief search on net answered my question, the Nexus 4 takes a micro SIM card.

It seems the difference between a normal SIM card, micro SIM card and nano SIM card is just the size, there is no functional difference, so I ask the question why did they just not manufacture nano SIM cards from the start?

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Lightroom - How to multi select photos to import on a Mac

I have been using Lightroom for a couple of years now and the other day I needed to import some photos from my camera, but I did not want to import all of them. I started clicking through each photo I wanted and quickly realised this cannot be the way to do it and what I wanted was a way to multi-select a load of photos. The way to do it is as follows:


  1. In the import screen uncheck all the photos.
  2. Select the first photo in the range, this is not clicking on the checkbox, just click on the photo and it will turn a light grey.
  3. Hold down the 'Shift' key.
  4. Select the last photo in the range, this will turn all the photos between light grey.
  5. Now click on a check box of the last photo, this will check the tick boxes of all the selected photos.

Monday, 11 May 2015

Apple iWatch, who is wearing one?

Recently Apple launched the iWatch, I like Apple products and most of them if I had the money I would go out an purchase one. However, the iWatch is a product I cannot see me ever buying or wearing. Here are a few reasons why.

  1. It looks too big on the whist. Some watches are meant to look big, but they must also be comfortable, but the iWatch looks too big.
  2. I have a Smart phone, iPad and computer, do I really need something else going off with alerts? NO.
  3. I see a watch as well as being functional it is also a piece of Jewellery, the iWatch does not come across as this.
  4. I do not want something else to put on charge.
  5. It's not cool.
With regards to the last one, I have not seen any popular celebs wearing one, or images of celebs wearing one from searching on Google. I would imagine if the iWatch was seen as cool, a lot of celebs would be showing them off by now.

I will start a list here of celebs, popstars and actors who seem to think the iWatch looks cools:




 

Sunday, 23 November 2014

YouTube search results additional filters

While using YouTube I thought of a very useful feature they should include, filter results by your language. When I do searches I get a lot of results in Russian and other languages which I obviously don't want, so having an option to filter out results I am not interested in would be useful. I think they could also have another additional filter to filter out results with swearing.

Saturday, 1 November 2014

LG 42UB820V TV Manual

I cannot believe LG have released a new TV without any manual, I have just spent ages looking for the manual online, but cannot find it anywhere. The TV is quite recent and appears on LG's web site and the box does not contain a manual, but when you try to search their support for any documentation the model cannot be found. Someone at LG needs to pull their finger out and sort the support web site out.

Monday, 27 October 2014

Apple Yosemite Spotlight

Currently I have Mavericks installed on my iMac and last weekend considered updating to Yosemite, but thought I might leave it a couple of weeks. While out shopping I was in a shop that sold Apple products so I thought I would have a quick look at Yosemite. My first impression was not good, firstly the close button in the windows did not look central, when clicking on a program sometimes it opened the right click menu and I was not convinced with the flatter look. 

I did not spend much time looking at it, but the main change I did not like was spotlight, I could not move the dialog can could not get rid of the explanation of it. I looked at the possible settings, but could not find anything. 

I have decided to wait until Apple sort these issues out, I did think what would Steve Jobs think about it, especially the off centre icon seeing how much of a perfectionist he was.

Monday, 13 October 2014

How many people write Wikipedia pages?

A couple of years ago someone I worked with mention that most of Wikepedia entries were written by a few hundred people, I have since heard the bulk of entries are written by 1400 writers. However I find this very hard to believe seeing as there are over 33 billion pages on Wikepedia, that would mean if there was just 1400 people they would have each written over 23 million pages each, even if you said they wrote 20% that is still 4.7 million pages, so I find it very hard to believe there is a relatively small group of people busy writing the bulk of wikipedia.

How much big internet companies make

Here is a list of internet companies and their revenue and market value.

Company Revenue ($bn) Market Value ($bn)
Amazon
74.5
150
Google
15.7
378.5
Yahoo
4.7
36.9
eBay
6.6
62.8
YouTube
5.6
21.3
Facebook
7.9
161.4
LinkedIn
1.5
19.1
Twitter
0.2
20.1

These values show how much in turnover the company makes and the market value of the company, it would be useful to know the profit value to make a more realistic comparison with the companies. I was surprised how little revenue Twitter makes, I am not sure how popular it is in Asia and Europe.