My Europe's map (on the iPhone 4)

This is how my camera roll's places map looks like on my new iPhone 4 -it obviously imported some of the data from the pictures taken with my previous iPhones. I guess I should write a proper review one of these days, however, I am enjoying the phone and trying to take advantage of the new features of the OS update.

My new Brompton M3L

I have recently changed my old Specialized City Globe, for this beauty, comfortable and versatile Brompton M3L; and am proud to be part of the 1w2w movement!!

More iPhone and streaming tv

Upgraded to iPhone 2.0 and lost all the applications I have previously downloaded, therefore I have been trying to find good replacements. Found BookReader and got again three books on the phone, the NES emulator, a decent paint app, the facebook one –which isn’t impressive and a Sudoku for the long tube trips! Need some suggestions on good apps though.

Have also been spending some spare time watching TV -mainly sports, the reason, found Justin.tv and cannot get enough of it. Watched the tour, tennis, F1 and have been catching up on heroes!

iPhone apps

Last weekend for some reason I could not sleep properly, it could have been the uncertainity of the job hunt or the joy of knowing I am staying longer in the UK. In the end, I decided to play around with my iPhone.
My top five apps:
- Books, an ebook reader
- weDict, a dictionary, I also installed the Merrian-Webster plug-in
- NES, a NES emulator
- OpenSSH, alows you to connect the iPhone via FTP
- PDFviewer, guess?

Video Downloader

Thanks to the recent Top Gear posts I came to know how to download these stream videos into one’s computer. One of the drawbacks is this VideoDownloader only works with Mozilla Firefox as it is an add-on for the browser; the other thing is you have to download the Flash video player to reproduce the videos.

It has been stated on their website that you can download videos from the following sites:
Angry Alien, Blip.tv, Break.com, Dailymotion, eVideoShare, Free Video Blog, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Keiichi Anime Forever, Metacafe, MySpace, MySpace Video Code, Putfile, Totally Crap, vidiLife, vSocial, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Blastro, Bofunk, Bolt, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, EVTV1, FindVideos, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, Vimeo, Yikers YouTube and ZippyVideos.

About podcasts...

Am getting into the podcast trend and have found very interesting topics along whit websites and other sources of information; honestly that’s why I was dying for an iPod, I felt I was lagging behind my time by not having one of those devices. In fact a friend of mine brilliantly pointed out that if an iPod is used for the mere purpose of listening to music, it’ll be a waste of money and time. Anyway, now not only have I got the latest headlines on my pocket, articles from top universities, music (obviously), but also language courses, movie reviews and so on and so forth.

Among my favourite PodCasts, I will definitely mention BBC4’s In our time, Bill Wilson’s Wine for newbies and The Economist’s weekly report, all of which highly ranked in iTunes. The first one is focused on a wide range of historic topics and is hosted by Melvyn Bragg. The second one is about wine in general, varieties, regions, producers, etc. The last one is a review of the most recent issue of one of the most trustful financial magazines, the Economist.

Even if you do not have a mp3 player, as long as you can access the Internet from a computer with iTunes you will be able to enjoy these and other podcasts and videocasts and keep you updated of many things that are happening around.

Google Analytics

I’ve recently started to use Google Analytics and I must admit that am very impressed. If you don’t know what it is, I’ll briefly explain it below:

Google Analytics are some statistical tools that allow webmasters and marketers carry out some studies based on the amount of people who visit a website by using a wide range of options to sort the information out, such as: most visited pages, domains, companies, countries, languages, browsers, etc. What is more, it can be easily linked to Google AdWords, therefore a campaign can be effectively tracked down.

One of the most remarkable features is the fact that it is for FREE and on top of that its implementation is very straightforward, it only requires adding a couple of Javascript lines before the end of the page you want to study.

One can also select the date range on which the study is to be carried out. I almost forgot something very important, within an account one can register several websites.

If you happen to be interested in using it, browse: http://www.google.com/analytics/