joshwaller (baboba)

Where possible, I've run 3DMark benchmarks on old and new graphics cards... this can be useful to see how much difference there is between your old card and new card, when upgrading a graphics card, or also when upgrading to a newer system. Scroll down and you'll find vintage graphics card scores as well.            3DMark 2006 (DX9)                                                              Latest graphics card: GTX 1060 3GB: 23,346* Previous graphics card: GTX 460: 22,876* 3DMark 2011 (DX11) Latest graphics card: GTX 1060 3GB: P 11,821* Previous graphics card: GTX 460: P 3635* 3DMark Version: TimeSpy v1.0 FireStrike 2011 2006 2005 2003 2001SE Geforce GTX 1060 3GB* +225% 3,762 9,607 11,821 23,348 21,998 124,611 63,025 Geforce GTX 460 2GB* +395% - - 3,635 22,876 - - - ...

Many people are looking to simplify their dependence, and addiction to smartphones (from Google and iOS), or perhaps you're looking for a simpler phone for use by someone small (like a child), or you want a smaller phone in your pocket, with better battery life. You might also want to avoid Google tracking your every move. You might want to use certain modern apps, such as Whatsapp, or Sat-nav, if possible. So in order to find out what could be done with an old smartphone, I thought I'd look at what it's like to use an old Symbian Nokia E72 smartphone in 2018. Many modern smartphones have large screens, and on-screen touch keyboards. "Back in the day" when phones didn't always have a large touch-screen, they'd sometimes feature a real keyboard. This is why I went for a Nokia E72, with a keyboard, rather than simply a numeric keypad, as I still wanted to be able to type or write text messages (and potentially emails). Lets dive straight in and s...

Nokia 105, Nokia E75, Nokia Lumia 520 (roughly to scale) Avoiding Google and other companies tracking your every move has become more and more difficult, as smartphones have become an integral part of life. We accept Google knowing everywhere we go because we find Google Maps extremely useful for getting us from point A to point B, for free. We accept tracking of distance and speed travelled, as it informs Google of traffic issues, and can then let other people (and yourself) know that there might be a quicker way to get to where you're going. Sure you can switch off tracking , but other apps may still be tracking you. For example, Google Play services also likes to know where you are, as does Chrome (for "helpful" location based search results). (Google's mail system GMail also likes to read your emails). Use Facebook messenger, and Facebook read (or scan) all your messages , or flag up your message to moderators to read. So if these are functions and...

Here's a link google docs spreadsheet . or downloadable .CSV file

Some blog posts of mine can be found here , camera and photography related highlights: Pentax MX-1 brassed off Sony Cyber-shot R1 RAW vs JPEG Old lenses: Olympus 50mm f/1.4 ZUIKO OM lens Helios 58mm f/2 (m42) + Olympus E-1 Minolta MC ROKKOR 58mm f/1.4 + Olympus OM-D E-M5

Photos from a walk around a derelict industrial area right in the centre of Sheffield. Seems graffiti is pretty big in Sheffield, with recognisable styles cropping up all over the place. These photos were taken with the rather nice Fujifilm X10, of which there is a review here .  When launched the X10 was very nice, but a tad expensive, but now that it's been out for a while, and been replaced by the X20 , it's available for a much better price, and well worth looking at if you like a camera to feel like a camera. Also if you want an optical viewfinder. YOLO.

Here's another site with great photos of classic cameras, and the odd test or two: http://camarasclassicas.blogspot.co.uk - if you're interested in "classic" or retro digital cameras, have a look at DigiCamReview:Retro .

Great new site discovered today, called 52cameras , and is all about film cameras. Yes, film. Check it out for some major retro goodness.

Here , here and here . Interesting, very interesting. Also new stuff .

This may work, this may not, hence me trying: HTTP link to spotify playlist ... Spotify URI ...

Clarks Selbourne GTX Gore-Tex Active Air . (Brown) Shown above. Reduced from £95 to £65 at Clarks "Factory" Store although I didn't notice a factory anywhere in the retail park... And they don't exist on Clarks website either, they seem to like the idea of removing shoes when they've sold out. You know instead of saying "Sorry this shoe has been replaced by this new version... why not buy it instead" they just say "Sorry you're wrong..." (and "Good luck trying to figure out what the modern day version of your last shoe is...") (PITA) Whatever happened to having a really good model and you know, continuing to sell it?!? Or perhaps archiving the information on your old shoes? I'd imagine some people (me included) want to buy the same pair of shoes every 2-3 years?! These are replacing Rustlers GTX (Black) Active Air Shoes. Shown below, they looked much better when they were new: like this . They don't seem to have las...

Photos of the Vito B, this is apparently the more desirable version with larger optical viewfinder, and brighter f/2.8 lens, made between 1954, and 1960, it's a neat little camera, with shutter speeds from 1/300 - 60, and aperture from f/2.8 to f/22. It has a neat (APS style) cartridge escape hatch on the bottom, (for ejecting fully rewound film without having to open the whole of the back), and the pop-up rewind knob looks rather stylish (in the same style and design as the Leica X1 pop up flash). Fully working, I picked this up at a car boot sale. It even came with film :)

Love these sites: http://tokyocamerastyle.com http://www.japanexposures.com/category/feature/ http://yowayowacamera.com/ Love this program: Image Resizer for Windows 7: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/ (essential!) File Renamer - Rename a batch of files: http://www.fauland.com/af5.htm

OS: Symbian ^3 (v011.012) Typing *#0000# gives me the following nerd numbers: Release: PR1.0 Software version: 011.012 Software version date: 2010-09-18 Custom version: 011.012.250.02 Custom version date: 2010-09-21 Language set: 011.012.01.01 Product code: 059C951 (Tesco Direct / Pay as you go phone?) Model: N8-00 Type: RM-596 Latest Update: Not updated Browser Version: 7.2 Flash Version: 4.0 Java Version: 2.1 Switch on time: N8 25secs N97 Mini 49secs Built in apps: Default OVI Maps pre-installed: v3.04 10wk34 b03 - Can be updated to v3.06 in betalabs (10wk36 b06) which is a dramatically improved version. Music player - very loud!  Must have apps: (download them from ovi store / beta labs) OVI / Own Voice - lets you record your own voice for use with OVI maps. Swype - clever quick input and BETA version adds a portrait keyboard to touchscreen phones (Not available for the N8 yet...) Mobbler (for last.fm) or Spotify - online streaming / tracking musi...

Here are some of the more interesting sites listed in the Top 500 websites. 1 Google (obviously) 2 Facebook.com 3 Youtube.com 4 Yahoo.com 7 Wikipedia.com 8 Blogger.com 10 Twitter.com 16 Amazon.com (.co.uk is at #155) 20 Wordpress.com 22 Ebay.com (.co.uk is at #97) 31 Myspace.com 37 Flickr.com 42 Apple.com 46 BBC.co.uk 191 Dell.com 194 TheDailyMail.co.uk ! 202 HP.com 217 TheGuardian.co.uk 237 Telegraph.co.uk 284 Engadget.com 318 AVG.com Anti Virus 413 Last.fm 422 Gizmodo.com 1102 DPReview.com Interesting to see thetimesonline.co.uk down in position #1484 - I wonder what it's position was before the "paywall" (having to pay to use the site!) was introduced, it would have definitely been in the top 500, see picture below, also note that pageviews are down 71% over the last three months! Stats from: http://www.alexa.com/topsites

This is a list of things that could^ boost your mood / and general health. It is only related to food and diet and is not medical advice.  I have been following this for about a month now (mostly with regards to oats, milk, vitamins and minerals, omega 3s, and lots of cereals for breakfast) and whilst I don't necessarily feel noticeably happier due to the diet, I do feel generally healthier, and have used some of these recommendations along with increased exercise to help boost my general fitness. Daily Diet could / should include: 2 - 4 cups of filter coffee or tea (for caffeine, less tea if you want to avoid staining your teeth) 6 brazil nuts a day (for selenium*) Hot chillies (a couple, releases endorphins) Dark chocolate with 60% or more cocoa (30g/day has phenylethylamine) Garlic cloves (1 or 2 a day - horribly strong when eaten raw) Oats (bowl/day) Wheat germ (30g/day increases dopamine - found in wholemeal bread) Milk (dopamine) Zinc 10-15mg day (Zinc can inc...

They're all mobile phones. Although apparently you're supposed to call them "SmartPhones" these days. What difference does it make? Seriously, who cares, just call them all Mobile Phones and keep it simple. Anyway - I was interested in finding out about Google / Android phones, and thought maybe the best solution was to find and collate the information myself. So here goes - a guide / timeline of Google phones and any alternative names used for the devices (nice way to add confusion to an already confusing market place guys!) 2011 Phones: Ones to watch... (Availability in UK unknown so far...) Samsung Infuse 4G - Engadget - 4.5" Super AMOLED. Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc - Engadget - 4.2" LG Optimus Black - Engadget  - 4" 21/02/2011 -  LG Optimus 2x  Dual core 1ghz CPU, 1080p video, 8mp, 4" screen. 2010 Phones: - Announcement Date / Release date, Device / AKA, Release OS etc 15/12/2010 - Google Nexus S (by Samsung), 4.0" AMOLED Curv...

It's been a surprisingly long time since I've posted anything on this site. I had a few ideas: Annoying characters from cbeebies. This could go on for a long time... Spud (Bob the Builder) Too sqeeky, raspy voice, annoying. The squeky one from Basil Brush (Madison?) but she is cute. Basil Brush from Basil Brush. The cat from Shaun the Sheep. Right little evil monster of a cat. The Dinosaur from Driver Dan's story time - annoying character always doing stupid thing. The Blue bird thing from Everything's Rosie. Chuggington - all characters, especially the humans. Big Barn Farm - the goat's voice is somewhat annoying, and seriously a character that just eats, nothing else? Excessively 2D. ZingZilla's - it's all just wrong. All of the characters. DirtGirlWorld - is wrong for many reasons. Child sized people with adult faces and expressions. It's grim. The only programs that don't seem to have annoying characters are: Charlie and Lola... and...

1 - You think in sentences no longer than 140 characters long 2 - You take your twitter enabled phone with you everywhere you go 3 - You've setup your phone on twitter so that you can text updates to twitter 4 - You visit a website (from a twitter link) and the first thing you do is look for the Twitter link to follow them 5 - You spend so much time on twitter, you don't know how to find anything without first asking twitter (what's Google?) 6 - You take your phone with you everywhere you go, just in case: Something Happens! 7 - The first thing you do in the morning, and the last thing you do at night is update your status. 8 - You wake in the middle of the night, and check twitter, then go back to sleep 9 - You wonder why people still use websites like "Facebook" when twitter is obviously better (What's Facebook?) 10 - You wonder why there haven't been any replies or updates since your "Tweet" 1 minute ago Give yourself 1 point for every...