So a friend of mine text me and says, “you want to go see Avenue Q”, and my reply was, “I’ve never heard of them”. After a bit of googling I find its a show not a band, lol, and has puppets in it. The best way to discribe it is an adult version of the Muppets.
So I went to see it yesterday at the Play House in Edinburgh, which is an amazing venue, never been there before, and it was fantastic. Not really one to take the whole family to but it was so funny and the cast were brilliant singers. There are some really good sounds in it and if you have a moment you should you tube them because they are hillarious. Really recommend seeing it if you get the chance.
Some holiday tutorials
Over the past two years I haven’t really done much Photoshop work, so I decided to look up some tutorials and try some new things. So I did two tutorials, which were mainly just trying new filters and merging Photoshop files, which I didn’t know was so easy. The first one involved setting up an action and creating some 3D text, which you then made into a word by playing the Photoshop action. The second was taking quotes or lyrics from something and displaying them using different layers and filters. That one is going up on the wall (bit of a Star Wars fan).
A cool website for laying out quotes -www.wordle.net
Here are the results.
WebOS v’s Android
WebOS wins. Point blank.
Ok i’ll go into a little more detail. With WebOS the interface is what it should be….. user friendly! Every application is opened in its own little window. When you want to close an application you get rid of that window (flick it off the screen).
With Android each application opens and then you close it, but wait oh its not closed and others are mysteriously running. WTF. So you download Advanced Task Killer app, very hand, and this shows that a whole bunch of app’s are running when you can’t see them in a window or didn’t open them. Annoying.
I’ll admit my Galaxy S2 is much faster than my Palm Pre ever was, the battery kicks its ass (once i figured out how to stop all the social apps syncing all the time and downloaded Advanced Task Killer), the camera is amazing and the app store is huge. But my Palm linked everything. My Facebook to my calendar and contacts, Flixster to my calendar, my emails to my calendar so that I knew exactly what I was doing that day. It was really simple to connect things and control syncing. The way an interface should be.
If someone actually put WebOS on a fast phone with a decent camera, and then convinced a UK service provider to sell it i’d buy it every time.