I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Month: January 2014

A huge and amazing guide to iOS automation and workflow has arrived

Posted by on in Mobile Applications, Tech

I was recently contemplating setting up a page to collect all of the various resources for iOS automation and then today, Mac Stories published this guide to automating iOS workflows! It’s huge! I haven’t actually read the whole thing as yet, in fact I’ve just started reading it, but it has enormous promise, and I’m very hopeful that it is, in fact, just what I’ve been looking for to get me going.

So, I’m going to read the whole thing and then embark on my task of getting things properly automated in iOS. I think I probably will put together a resources page as well soon, and I think that this guide will almost certainly be on it.

Of course, if you don’t know about drafts (for iOS iPhone or iPad) then this won’t mean a lot to you. However, if you’re an iOS user and automation is something you’re interested in then this is the app to start with according to this guide.

Drafts (for iPad) on the app store:

The 6th Doctor

Posted by on in Books and Audiobooks

I’d never been a big fan of the 6th Doctor.  To be honest, by the time Colin Baker had taken over the role I wasn’t really watching anymore. Even so, the 6th Doctor never got a great reception. So when I had the opportunity to grab a 6th Doctor audio story from big finish as part of their Christmas sale, I thought, why not.

Anyway, I’ve just finished listening to “The First Sontaran”, and it’s great stuff. It far exceeded my expectations and made me want to listen more of the 6th Doctor stories. Also, this was one of the ‘Lost Stories’. I’ve got the 4th Doctor box set of these, but none of the others at all, apart from this one now of course.

So it doesn’t look like I’ll be running out of Doctor Who stories any time soon.

Finished the comic, watching the show

Posted by on in Comics, TV

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Continuing my theme of being into retro space opera, I’ve finally got around to finishing the comic version of the start of Space 1999, at least the first edition anyway, and I was surprised by just how closely it follows the original episode.

It’s quite interesting to read the comic and watch the old series at the same time! Although having just had a look for series two it seems to cost a fortune!

New mobile version

Posted by on in Admin

I’ve upgraded the mobile version of the site. It should look a bit different now and a little nicer too. Hopefully it’ll give me a little bit more freedom to make the mobile version a bit different from the desktop version.

Over the next few days I’ll be tinkering with different themes for the mobile version, so if you see it change it’s just me playing.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Posted by on in Films

I always think that the middle film is the difficult one. I thought that about the Lord of The Rings trilogy and I expected the middle film in the Hobbit to be difficult, but, I must admit that it was really rather good. If I had any complaints it would be that at some points the special effects looked a little too game-like. Aside from that I really enjoyed it. The 3D wasn’t bad either, it didn’t encroach on the story and it was quite subtle too.

So, overall I thought it was really good. I’m looking forward to the next and final part, and then I’ll have to get all the extended versions and try to watch them in a whole day!

Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – Tales from The Vault

Posted by on in Books and Audiobooks

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I bought this as the story had Mary Tamm in it. I hadn’t realised that she only had a really very small part in this, which was a bit of a disappointment really. However, as a story it was really very good and actually great to hear so many of the companions from the past again.

I’ve got another couple of companion stories to listen to, which I bought simply because they were Mary Tamm stories. I’m hoping she’ll be in them a little more than in this one though.