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  • R.E.M – Accelerate Tour 08 (24.08.08)

    R.E.M at the Manchester Lancheshire County Cricket Club (24.08.08).

    Late update I know, but I have a good reason. I was very lucky last night, as I got to see one of the biggest bands, (and after tonight I’d say they were the biggest) in the world, perform live. Yes, none other than R.E.M.

    The gig was held in the ‘Manchester Lancashire County Cricket Club’. Supporting were ‘The Guillemots’ and ‘The Editors’ – Also amazing. The gig lasted from 5.30pm to 10.30pm and was absolutely the best gig I have ever been too! – R.E.M, last night, literally proved they are the best band in the world.

    As Michael Stipe would say; “We’re R.E.M and this .. is what we do.”

    Here are some photos I took with my iPhone, from the gig.
    Click on a photo to enlarge …

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  • Palladio – [Briefly]

    Call me sad, but I have literally fallen in love with this piece of music. The track is called ‘Palladio’ and you may know the anthem better, if I was to describe it to you as being the signature track that made Escala the electric string quarte, from Britain’s Got Talent, stand out from the crowd. If you don’t already own it, I suggest you go buy it! – because honestly? – it’s one of the best pieces of music I’ve ever heard. It has been adapted too. Originally composed by Karl Jenkins, there are now dance versions available.

    See Escala’s performance again: Here

    I’ve been trying to find what the track was called ever since Escala performed in the first auditions of Britain’s Got Talent. Finally, I’ve found it …

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  • Exclusive: Get the 2008 Olympic Theme tune absolutely Free – [Expired]

    A Seven Day UK Exclusive!

    The BBC are offering the famed track ‘Journey to Beijing’ by Monkey, which is also the backing track to this years 2008 Beijing Olympics, as a FREE Mp3 download. This offer was available until Friday 29th August 2008 …

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  • The Photo-Editor to take note of: Picoli for iPhone

    Since the introduction of the App Store, lot of developers have tried to provide photo-editing capabilities on the iPhone in a clean looking, easily navigatable user interface. Many have failed by either, making the UI too over-complicated for it’s purpose, or simply pricing the application too high for the market.

    Introducing Picoli [App Store]. Priced at just £2.99 (~ $7), this application delivers photo-editing for iPhone in a stunningly, user-friendly, clean interface …

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  • Breaking: iPhone 2.1 Will Break OpenClip Framework.

    I recently told you all about Zac White, a college student from Oklahoma University who had modified and adopted the copy and paste framework found in the iPhone application MagicPad [App Store] to work outside of a sand-boxed environment and in partnership with other applications …

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  • iTunes 8.0, Snow Leopard gets Bluray, September iPod Updates – [Briefly]



    Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has claimed to have new information of upcoming iPod refreshes and iTunes updates. In the video above, Rose outlines what rumors have been going around the blog-o-sphere recently, and confirms that some of them have substance behind them, also claiming he has ‘seen’ pictures of the next iPod nano. Among the claims …

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  • iTunes no-longer transferring applications bought using the mobile App Store?

    Since updating to iPhone software 2.0.2, a few users have e-mailed me reporting of strange behavior between iTunes and iPhone. These issues are said to cause their mobile application purchases to not sync back up to their main application library in iTunes.

    As you probably know by now, Apple’s App Store works on an ecosystem. You buy an application, it downloads over the air, you sync with iTunes, and the application is transferred to your main ‘Applications’ library to be available for a future sync. Bearing in mind a sync replaces all content on the device with that of whats in the iTunes library your syncing your iPhone with …

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