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Preparing for our trip to the lake district I really wanted a way to be able to;
a) See where I was
b) Geotag my photos on my return.

So after some digging around I came across a piece of GPS software called GPSed which is available for download on most mobile devices including luckily for me my blackberry.

The great thing about this service is you can tag photos to the “track” either from the device (for a fee) or from Flickr and assuming your computer and camera have their clocks synced it can fairly accurately tell you where you were when you took the photos. This then enables you to add the geotagging data to your image and services such as Flickr or Panoramio should be able to use this data.

For instance here is my track of our walk up the fell known as High Street in Cumbria.

After some jiggling about you can also export the GPX file and import it straight into google maps so that you can also post them straight to your blog like so.

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The following are images that I geotagged for our High Street walk in the Lake District

So around this time last year my xbox decided that it didn’t want to boot up.  No amount of coaxing would bring the console out of hibernation and the only sign that it was still alive was the 3 red illuminations on the front.  Now if you’ve been lucky (or you bought an elite) you’ve not seen this before but I can assure you its a very common fault due to a manufacturing flaw.

The good news was they had just extended the warrant in light of the fault and all that was required was to log it with Microsoft and get them to pick it up.  I was without my console for a couple of weeks while the boffins in Germany put it all back together and eventually I recieved the console back in full working order.

Now I figured that they had actually bothered to fix the original fault but last week I realised that they couldn’t have as to my horror it happened again.  The good news is I sent it off at the begining of the week and it would appear its already on its way back, so at least Microsoft have got their turnaround time sorted out.

Still I’ve yet to experience a single fault with my Sony PS3 so perhaps Microsoft were not so wise to just chuck out their next gen console so they could cash in on early sales.  If a jobs worth doing its worth doing right my mother used to say.

Hopefully it’ll be back soon so I can get back to playing some Rock Band!

Well if your like me your probably patiently awaiting Transformers: Revenge of the fallen and Terminator: Salvation which are both set to be released next month.  Now what if you could save some time and view both films at the same time.  Yes thats right I give you TRANSORMINATORS

Some people clearly have far too much time on their hands.
The release dates for both REAL movies are as follows:

Transformers: Revenge of the fallen – 23 Jun 09

Terminator: Salvation – 3 Jun 09