I use a HTC Touch Pro running Windows Mobile 6.1. It has it’s own built in GPS which works flawlessly with Google maps. I have used it many times to help me navigate to locations, in fact sometimes i would be rather lost without it. (No pun intended).

There is this bit of software called Glympse that i sometimes use. Glympse basically uses the GPS in my phone and a map overlay and allows me to send my current journey to contacts. So they can see where i am, where i have been and where i am going. However for some rather odd unknown reason Glympse decided to get a bit confused, even though i had full HSDPA and full GPS signal. In fact it amazed me so much i fired up the screen-shot software for my Windows Mobile phone and took a shot.

I was meant to be on a train coming back from London via London Bridge. Now i have used this before without issue.  But for some odd reason it decided my location was in Firth Of Forth traveling at around 230MPH. So i closed the program and re-opened it and it still done the same thing! I know I’m on the fast train but i highly doubt the fast train goes 230MPH and i highly doubt it goes via the sea! I then checked via Google maps and it had me in my exact GPS location which was on a train just leaving London Bridge Station.

I have a 17inch IMac at home that I sometimes use for Photo and Media editing etc. I use Aperture 2 on it, and finally decided to upgrade to Aperture 3. However little did I know that I was opening a can of worms there!

Basically there appears to be a massive and I mean massive memory leak in this software. It decided to fill 100GB of space. Basically what happened is, I updated the software, and it started converting my library. So I left it running and when I came back my IMac was saying “Out Of Disk Space”. I was like that’s bizarre, as I only really have like 10GB of Pictures in the library, and some music. There should be no way in hell that software could have managed to fill 100GB of space, but somehow it did! Not only that but it also used up all the RAM as well! I cleaned up the system and currently it seems to work well and there are no issues. Maybe it did not like a setting or something. However i am going to keep an eye on this!

Apparently I am not alone in this issue either, according to the apple support forums that is. It seems to be the way Aperture handles the swap file. Oh well nothing major lost anyway, backups FTW!

That’s a very good question, and it’s a question i have the answer to. I hear you ask how can you charge an apple, it’s a piece of fruit. Well I’m not talking about an apple as such. I am talking about the Apple IPhone.

You will be pleased to know someones come up with a very ingenious solution to this problem. A problem that should never have been a problem in the first place. Basically using a multimeter, some copper wire and approximately 2,380 Orange slice (595 Oranges) you can in fact use their combined charge to recharge your IPhone. Oh and lot’s of patience.