Much as i love my Canon digital SLR camera and Canon HF100 HD camcorder, sometimes you just want something a bit more compact for casual snaps & clips. But at the same time you don’t want your causal snaps & clips to look like shit either. My previous compact camera was a Sony Cybershot T200 and it’s a brilliant snapper but the video wasn’t great. So i’ve upgraded to a Sony Cybershot T500 which is pretty much the same camera (though it goes from 8 to 10 megapixels) but it gains a 720 High Definition video recorder. Here’s my first test video with the camera:

I think it’s pretty good considering it came from such a tiny compact camera! Obviously it’s no replacement for a dedicated HD camcorder but it’s brilliant for something you can carry everywhere. Oh, and the photo’s ain’t bad either!

Click read more for my review
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(Not sure who wrote this but it’s very clever!)

My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you has screwed up my life.

I see your face when I am dreaming.
That’s why I always wake up screaming.

Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes everything you are not.

Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,
But I only slept with you ’cause I was pissed.

I thought that I could love no other
– that is until I met your brother.

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl’s
empty and so is your head.

I want to feel your sweet embrace;
But don’t take that paper bag off your face.

I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Damn, I’m good at telling lies!

My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?

My feelings for you no words can tell,
Except for maybe ‘Go to hell.’

What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.

Have a block party: Tetris turns 25

The puzzle video game Tetris is shown at Barcade in the Brooklyn section of New York. Tetris is perhaps the world’s most recognized video game. Still played by millions around the world, on Facebook, the iPhone, on computers and gaming consoles, the casual game pioneer celebrates its 25th birthday. – Read the full article here.

Click More to play Tetris!
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Ok, i’ve had about as much of Firefox 3 as i can take! It’s an unreliable (on my pc) memory sucking piece of shite. This has become more noticable after using Google Chrome and the new Intenet Explorer. I don’t know what’s gone wrong at the Firefox camp but they’re certainly not the cool cats that they used to be. If it wasn’t for the vast amount of add-ons i could see very little reason for using it to be honest and if the sleeker and speedier Chrome has as a big a selection of add-ons i’d dump Firefox like *snaps fingers* that!

I find that whenever i click on certain links (not all, just particular types) Firefox 3 crashes on me. For instance, in WordPress if i try to click ‘Insert Image’ to either upload a photo or add one from Flickr Firefox just shuts down on me. Every single time wtihout fail. Very annoying. So i’ve just downloaded Firefox 3.5 Beta and i’m hoping i get on a bit better with this one. Half of my add-ons don’t work but that’s to be expected seeing as it’s Beta but if it stops crashing on me then i can live with that until the full blown release. Fingers crossed . . . .

This is my new radio. It’s a DAB wifi radio which is great because no only can it get the high quality DAB stations but it can also pick up thousands of internet channels. I’ve hardly used the DAB radio, i’m hooked on Internet Radio! My favourite channel at the moment is 1.FM Chillout Lounge.

The other thing you can do is stream music stored on your PC to your radio wirelessly. I just tell the radio where to find my Music hard drive and i can access it all on the radio. Hoorah! You also get to join The Lounge website, here you can organise your favourite internet channels (for example i have a folder called decades and within that the 80′s channel, 70′s channel, etc etc). Then when you switch your radio on it recognises the changes you made on the website and you can now access all of your fave organised web stations on your radio. Again – Hoorah!

Ooh and it’s also an alarm clock, the snooze button is cool, it’s the handle, just give the handle a tap and it goes into snooze mode. I bought the optional rechargeable battery too so it can come out into the garden with me especially on these lovely summer days. Very very pleased with it and i highly recommend it to anyone looking for a radio with a shed load of options!

UPDATE . UPDATE . UPDATE . UPDATE . UPDATE . UPDATE

Well i’ve been playing with it for a few days now and i am really pleased with it. The sound that comes from it is out of this world. I’m mostly using it as an internet radio and for streaming music from my PC’s hard drive. I wish there was a way of it grabbing music from an external networked hard drive though so i don’t have to leave the pc on all day.

For anyone who has googled the radio and found this article – if you bought the optional battery and are having problems, it’s not faulty! I found when i switched radio off whilst unplugged from the mains with the battery in it was shutting off completely rather than going into standby, and it wouldn’t turn back on. Well actually it will turn back on, you just hold in the on/off button for a few seconds. Gawd.

I might but the optional remote control next because the menu system on the radio isn’t the easiest to navigate. It’s not as nightmarish as some have said but it takes some getting used to and a remote control would speed things up a bit. Might save a few sticky finger print marks on the piano black finish as well! Anyway, I LOVE IT!