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Lenshero Rocks

Saturday, 18 December 2010 21:35

It's quite hard to understand which lenses fit your DSLR and what will be most effective. I've just seen a new website, Lenshero. At Lenshero you search by specifying the camera you are shopping for and your budget. You can then narrow the search by indicating what kind of photography you need the lens for such as landscape, portrait, low-light, sports, or other situations. Lenshero then kicks back search results that include specs on the lenses like whether or not it has a focus motor, the minimum and maximum focal length, minimum aperture, and more.

The site allows you to query lenses based answers to questions like what camera, what budget and what is the intended use? and what kind of photography do you want to do – sport, portraiture, landscape, etc?

Using LensHero is a lot less daunting than many other review sites which assume you understand the technicalities. For the beginner photographer, the site offers a great way to compare lenses they may be interested in adding to their gear collection and for the seasoned professional or serious amateur, the breadth of reviews makes this a great place to start when shopping for new glass. Take a look and see what you think

http://lenshero.com/

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Last Updated on Monday, 20 December 2010 18:05

Music Cloud

Saturday, 10 January 2009 14:07

Here's a Cloud made from my current Amarok stats (Relative text size denotes the score of that artist). That's a lot of music !

(06) Depeche Mode 30 Seconds To Mars 4hero 50 Cent Adam Cohen Aerosmith Alex Parks Alice Cooper Alicia Keys Alien Ant Farm Amy Winehouse Andrew Wk Anne Murray Aqualung Arctic Monkeys Audio Test Avril Lavigne B*Witched Bachman-Turner Overdrive Basement Jaxx Beautiful South Beth Rowley Biffy Clyro Bing Crosby Black Eyed Peas Black Sabbath Bloc Party Blur Boston Boy Kill Boy Britney Spears Buffy The Vampire Slayer Calvin Harris Carlos Santana Chad Kroeger Feat. Josey Scott Chantal Kreviazuk Coldplay Corinne Bailey Rae Crash Test Dummies Crowded House Curtis Stigers D-12 f/ Eminem Dame Vera Lynn Damien Rice David Gray Deep Purple Delta Goodrem Depeche Mode Dido Disturbed Dixie Chicks Dizzee Rascal Doves Duffy Echo & The Bunnymen Editors Elbow Elvis Presley Embrace Eminem Europe Evanescence Everything but the Girl Faith No More Faithless Fatboy Slim Foo Fighters Franck Pourcel Franz Ferdinand Fun Lovin' Criminals Gabriella Cilmi George Harrison Glassjaw Gnarls Barkley Goo Goo Dolls Good Question Derek Gossip Green Day Guillemots Guns 'n' Roses Gwen Stefani HARD-FI Heather Nova Hoobastank Hootie & the Blowfish Jack McManus Jack Penate Jamelia James Blunt James Morrison Jamie Cullum Jamiroquai Jessica Simpson Jimi Hendrix Jo Stafford Joe Cocker John Lenon Jose Gonzalez Joss Stone José González KT Tunstall Kasabian Kate Bush Kate Nash Keane Kelly Clarkson Kelly Jones Kings Of Leon Kings of Leon Klaxons LEMAR Lamb Lemon Jelly Lenny Kravitz Levellers Lighthouse Family Lily Allen Linkin Park Lost Prohets Madness Madonna Mark Ronson Feat. Daniel Merriweather Maroon 5 Maximo Park Maxïmo Park Meat Loaf Metalica Mika My Chemical Romance Mylo Nat King Cole Natasha Bedingfield Nelly Furtado Nickelback Nikki Hassman Nirvana Oasis OneRepublic Orson OutKast P!nk P.J. Olsson P.O.D. Paolo Nutini Papa Roach Paul Simon Paul Weller Paula Cole Pearl Jam Peggy Lee Pink Prefab Sprout Primal Scream Queen Queens of the Stone Age R Kelly R.E.M. Radiohead Rage Against the Machine Rainbow Ram Jam Razorlight Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chilli Peppers Reverend And The Makers Richard Marx Rival Schools Robbie Williams Robyn Rolling Stones Roots SUGABABES Sam Sparro Shawn Mullins Shayne Ward Sheryl Crow Shooter Sixpence None the Richer Snow Patrol Sophie B. Hawkins Soundtrack Sozzi Spin Doctors Staind Statix-X Status Quo Stereophonics Stevie Ray Vaughan Stiltskin Sting Sum 41 Sébastien Tellier Take That Texas The Automatic The Beatles The Beautiful South The Bravery The Calling The Clash The Coral The Cranberries The Enemy The Feeling The Fratellis The Fray The Futureheads The Hives The Holloways The Hoosiers The Jam The Kooks The Libertines The Offspring The Orb The Pigeon Detectives The Streets The View The White Stripes The Zutons Thin Lizzy Tim Daniel Toploader Travis U2 Ugly Kid Joe Universal Crew Various Various Artists WILL YOUNG Whitesnake Will Smith Wood World Party ZZ Top the silverchair pit

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Last Updated on Saturday, 10 January 2009 15:15

OpenStreetMap

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:46

I've found a new, hobby, one that is possibly int he ultimate geek league - OpenStreetMapping. This is an attempt to create a freely available, freely editable source of map data to all, in the same way Opensource software works (free as in beer).

There are several ways people can contribute, there's an online map editor, a downloadable java based client for editing, and a system to upload GPS tracks of areas, Yahoo have also geenrously allowed the project to use it's aerial photography to generate maps from.

You can see my tracks here and my userpage on the wiki here.

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See My BOINC Stats

Thursday, 07 December 2006 19:46

For those of you who don't know, BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a Grid computing application that grew out of the SETI@Home project from Berkley university in the good old US of A.

I Run BOINC, and currently provide computing power to SETI@Home to search for Aliens, Rosetta Stone to do protein folding for medical research, ClimatePrediction.net to model the future of the planet's climate and the world community grid which doesmore medical research.

If you're interested, you can see the current stats for me here. If you're really interested, you can download BOINC and help save the planet (or look for Aliens !)

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