"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
Romans 8:28 (NIV)

Desktopography 2009 Released!

Friday, July 31, 2009

The new set of wallpapers from the desktopography lads are here! Just head over to the site to see all that graphic goodness.

My favourites include:

Violin Desktopography

Mountain Desktopography

Wonderful stuff I’m sure you’ll agree.

Google Wave Presented

Monday, July 27, 2009

Wow, that was good. If you haven’t seen it yet, I advise checking out the YouTube video.

Here’s a brief run-down of what I managed to catch from the 80 minute video:

  • Email reinvented – Instant messaging and email combine
  • Live updates when people post replies to your messages
  • Live character by character updates when you’re both online
  • Private messaging
  • Playback – Skip through a conversation stage by stage.
  • Simultaneous editting
  • Collaboration – Edit each others posts
  • Extract elements of a Wave to a fresh Wave (all images or all text etc.)
  • Use tags to organise your Wave catalogue
  • Live spell checker
  • Blog Interaction – Embed Wave into your blog for live interaction
  • Inline Google Search
  • Embed Video / Maps
  • Use Twave to Tweet through Wave
  • Create your own add-ons
  • Live Language Translation – Rosey
  • Bugee – A debug log
  • Polls native to Google Wave – Polly the Pollster
  • Play games in Wave
  • It’s all opensource. You can make your own version of Wave and compete against Google.

Check it out, we could all be using this in a few years time.

Follow Your Dream

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Ever muttered to yourself ‘If only I was born X years ago’? I did just yesterday.

On reflection I didn’t mean it at all, but it brings me to a good point. Anyone can see the venture they could have done, the one that has already materialised through someone elses actions, but we have as many opportunities if not more than each of the previous generations, right now.

Yeah, it’s not easy to get into that mindset and do something that hasn’t been done before, or do it better, but that’s the fantastic challenge we face. Every new day presents us with millions of possibilities, we just need to realise them.

Just remember. Anything you think of, 99.999% of the time will have gone through someone elses mind. Don’t let this put you off however. It may have already been done, you can do it better. Be optimistically realistic. Follow your dream.