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Cuckoo Junk Mail

Originally uploaded by wolfcat_aus

Once again I get home to a pile of junk mail. Yes I could put a no junk mail sticker on the box, but hey when you get 99% bills junk mail can make a difference 🙂

And even the sticker doesn’t do much to stop the flow anyway. But this, as you can see by the photo, really gets up my nose.

There is not enough room in the mail box for the junk mail, so instead of going… hey it is full… our junk mail does a Cuckoo and pushes out the other junk mail so that it is dominate. And often it is. The stuff that was pushed out today for example was wet and ended up straight in the recycling bin never to be read.

I think the people delivering this junk mail should take a moment, consider what it would be like to be pushed out into the rain because some one else came along. Because if they don’t stop doing it I am going to track them down and push them out into the rain so I can stand in there house nice and dry.

Tags: Annoyances, Photos by Me
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Nokia Photos 1.5

Nokia Photos has hit 1.5 (Beta that is) …. (which is kind of amusing as I didn’t realise there was a 1. But I digress with my lack of knowledge….)

Better integration with Share on Ovi
Maps view and geotagging: your photos and videos on the map
More supported devices
Import pictures from also from your digital camera
Ovi look and feel

“Fully supported: N70, N71, N72, N73, N75, N76, N77, N78, N80, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N90, N91, N91 8GB, N92, N93, N93i, N95, N95 8GB, N96

Partially supported: all Nokia S60 devices and most digital cameras (import pictures/videos only).

PC system requirements:

Operating system: Windows® XP (Home and Professional, Service Pack 2 or later), Windows® Vista”

Important! If you are a Windows XP user, you must first update your computer with the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 from here. This update is not necessary if you are using Windows Vista

………

So that is the standard hype… here is what I think…

It does things that lots of other things do for my photos already… yet for me this is the big and very nice kicker… the maps.

And by using the Navtec maps it means I can zoom in nice and close (unlike Flickr) on street level to see where to place a photo that did not get geotagged correctly. Once you have opened a photo you can move its geodata as well. The one thing that is missing from the Navtec Maps however is a Satellite view. So what most people would say… but if you have a photo that is not correctly tag and you took the photo in say a wilderness area that is easy to recongnise from Satellite imagery then you can easily tag it, this you can’t do. I have actually got quite good at this, but that is mainly due to flickr using yahoo maps for Australia which basically suck big time.

The software is not without it bugs mind you. I am having trouble navigating between images in map mode for example. Also it says it can intergrate with other hosting sites, but it does default to OVI.

Perhaps, just perhaps I will shift a bit more to OVI for my photos as well. Yet this is a bit of software I think I am about to become very accustomed to.

But if you want to set up Nokia Photos with flickr (and I do)

here are the instructions… (care of http://europe.nokia.com/support/nokiaphotos)

Settings for Flickr:
Note: Flickr requires Nokia Photos to use a special login that is different from your normal Flickr/Yahoo! login. Get your special Flickr login here.

Server address: http://www.flickr.com/services/atom/
Username: get your special username here
Password: get your special password here

I am going to set it up at home simply to use it as the primary way of accessing my photos at home. The geotagging and maps feature alone mean that I will want to use this over anything else. The maps are not another application that has to be launched and then data passed back and forth. They are a tab.

Now I must go and start geotagging 10 years of digital photos….

Tags: gps, n95, nokia, Photos by Me
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