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iOS
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20th June 2011How I Use InstagramI started using Instagram several months ago. The homepage describes itself as a "fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures". I'd say that's accurate. Essentially, it's a social photo-sharing network which exists primarily within an iPhone app ((Currently there is no iPad-optimised version of Instagram. iPod touches can run the app fine too, even if there is no camera on the device.)). For me, this isolation of the network is the most interesting aspect to Instagram. It gives it a small-community feeling, unique for such a large and popular service ((The description ...
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3rd February 2011Two EcksHappy new year everybody. It's 2011. Perhaps my favourite improvements ever added to iOS were those made to the music player app in iOS 3.0: Search was a nice addition, variable-rate scrubbing very useful, and I use the 30-second rewind button all the time. But I find particularly the playback speed button the most indispensable. It has changed the way I listen to podcasts. Since the release of iOS 3.0 in 2009, I have listened to most of my podcasts on the "2x" speed setting, with only one or two exceptions. On a walk along West Sands back in December, I brought this up ...
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3rd January 2011Second-Hand TechI've set myself half an hour in which to write, so I'm going to write. WARNING. SHIT POST. On a topic entirely unrelated to the subject of this post, I was wondering: on which day of the year are the greatest number of blog posts published? Is it even possible to tell? Perhaps the graph of blog postings against time has a positive derivative at all points, with no pattern discernible in the rising tide. Perhaps blogging varies with current affairs far more than any predictable pattern. Perhaps every day is essentially the same. Or, perhaps, as I suspect, blog posting is ...
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18th September 2010Moved to UniversityI was up until 4 am last night, packing a few bits, but mainly setting my computer to how I wanted it whilst I still had my own internet connection. I'd read the relevant information on St Andrews' website, and as far as I could tell ((Those things are never clear, are they?)) there'd be a lot of restrictions. Basically, you're only supposed to use your internet connection for university-related things, but I thought that's probably what all universities says; it doesn't mean they enforce it. But I'm here now and I'm can definitively say that... it's pretty bad. Whilst I was ...
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8th September 2010The Last Day Before the First Day of the Rest of My LifeMuch has happened since my last post, and I would have written about it to record my state of mind had circumstances been different. However, history did not differ from reality. Last Wednesday, just after I published the previous post, Apple announced a stunningly cool new iPod touch. It was everything I hoped it would be, and I hope to buy one in the near future (before Christmas). I hope you enjoy yours Ruairidh. As I had expected, the Terms and Conditions of Apple's Back to School offer restricted my choice to previous generation iPods (the iPod classic was unchanged, meaning ...
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
