Such a beautiful place
By the sea
A lovely calm sea
With a lovely pier
And some pictures of Sopot
Author: ashleyelsdon
Storyteller - Poet - Explorer
A few pictures of Gdansk
Gdansk at night
A stunning town
With loveley streets
and buildings
Some pictures from B.E.F. at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush last night
Just some pictures from last night.
A reversal for pebble
The case for Lego
This is the best case I’ve had for my iPhone 5.
App of the week: Business Model Toolbox for iPad is great for developing ideas
I found this app because of some work I was doing around changing business models and revenue flows. It was interesting to read the book that generated this app/tool and use it in a practical sense.
The reviews on the app store for this app say that it’s overpriced for what it is, and I’d probably agree, but then again, given the relative niche market for the app it’s probably not a bad price in terms of the amount of work that went into it.
This app is really aimed at people who want or need to quickly understand the impact of different business models, so in a sense it’s a business model modelling tool, and in that sense it works very well. It’s best suited to that first step in evaluation, but once you’ve lined it up and got it where you wanted it you probably need something else, another tool after that.
The app is priced at £20.99.
Some pictures from Sound Lab at the Beautiful Octopus Club
Setting up at RFH
We were in a cage
Getting the gear out
We had lots of headphones
And nice silver tables
Setting out iPads
Getting the vocal zone set up
First SoundLab at BOC 2013
The Sound Lab
Using bloom and Thumbjam
We all wore white coats
Tweaking
The collaboration zone
The ambient zone
Using Mira
People loved playing
I posted a long-ish piece at Palm Sounds about this yesterday, but I thought that the pictures would look nice here.
A little update on my chilli plant
It looks like there’s a chilli on the way. Just the one, but it’s a start.
Time’s up for my 3G, or is it?
It’s a long time coming, and perhaps this is the last time around for this old device. I decided to give up the idea of a dual boot device and reset the whole thing to just use iOS. That is, iOS 4.2.1 !
Nothing new then!
But hopefully that’ll speed it up a bit and mean that I can do something useful with it. Time will tell.
So, where next for my Pebble?
I haven’t really used my Pebble smartwatch for about two months, possibly a bit less. Anyway, it’s just been sitting on a shelf for a while now and doing very little, which is a shame as it’s a lovely piece of technology. However, to be honest, I haven’t found a real use for it as yet sadly. I toyed with different faces for it, which was fun, and the notifications stuff was cool, but I never found it entirely compelling.
In many ways I’ve been struggling to find a real use for the technology, and it seems strange to try and find a use for something that’s meant to be useful straight away.
One thing I keep wondering is whether there’s a way to make the thing more useful in making music, but it doesn’t seem that this is being taken on board by developers really, or likely to be in the near future. My other main problem with it is that it isn’t particularly well supported by third party developers on iOS, whereas that’s not the case on Android. Now in part I expect that this is because Android is more open and developers are able to support lots of different integrations and features, such as Tasker support, which could make it very useful indeed.
But this doesn’t really work for me sadly as I don’t have an Android phone. However, I do have an cheap Android tablet that I’m starting to use more for bits and pieces, so my next step is to see what else I can use Android for and just how useful my Pebble will be connected to a tablet.
I’ll let you know how I get on.
I am Ashley Elsdon 