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With the first Formula one race of the year a little over two weeks away the hype is starting to build and I for one can’t wait.
Puma is one company getting in on that hype, especially as they sponsor both the Ferrari and Red Bull teams.
The commissioned the Wilson Brothers to produce a life size Formula One car out of their shoe boxes.
The results are pretty cool.
For the rest of the photos take a look at the Wilson Brothers site.
I was a little bored last night so decided to browse the Apple app store on my iPhone and found Angry Birds as the top paid app.
It has a pretty good score so I decided to give it a go.
A few hours later it was wayyyy past my bed time but I wasn’t bored anymore.
Angry Birds has a very simple story, some pig like creatures have stolen the birds eggs and unsurprisingly they want them back.
Take a look at the video for the ‘full’ story.
Story aside, the game play is also pretty simple.
Using the touch screen, select the angle and power for your bird which is sat in a large catapult and release to fire.
The aim is to hit all the pigs to complete the level.
The said pigs are often in a variety of defenses made from structures like wood, stone, glass and rubber ducks.
To aid your endeavors you are provided with different types of bird with different abilities such as splitting into 3 mid air, speeding up or exploding.
These little touches make a simple game a lot of fun to play and add to the lifespan.
After every level you are given a score and rating out of 3 stars. This gives you something to do after completing all 100+ levels by trying to get the full star quota on the ones you missed.
The graphics are good in a cartoony way and the sounds fairly amusing though a little repetitive.
All in this is a great little game and my favorite on the iPhone for quite some time.
The best part is it’s only 59P (99ยข) so my advise for all you iPhone users is to give it a go.
Social media, we all love it and it seems like it’s here to stay for now.
As it grows and we become more comfortable with it ,the more we share.
BUT how much do you share and is it too much?
A new site pleaserobme is showing how you could be sharing too much and offering to let people ‘please rob me’.
Using twitter and specifically foursquare you can share your exact location at anytime.
Are you at the shops, at a game, watching a movie, perhaps on holiday?
What this is telling people is that you are not at home!
Now personally I think it maybe quite a stretch for someone to find you on twitter, find your home address, live with in a thousand miles and want to rob you at the same time but you never know.
What it does show is how much we have assimilated social media and how much we are willing to share.
It would be a lot easier for a potential wrong doer to find your name, address, date of birth, email address and maybe your full CV and use those details to commit fraud, whether you are home or not and without ever going anywhere near your house.
Don’t be afraid to embrace social media and share, just think twice about what you are sharing.
I’ve mentioned this before but I’m really looking forwards to Just Cause 2 which is due this March.
The first Just Cause was a good, but highly buggy game that showed some great potential but didn’t quite live up to it.
I really hope they get it right this time, all I can say for now is the sequel seems to be shaping up nicely if this this video is anything to go by.
Just messing with the jQuery Cycle Plugin for use in a photo-gallery.
It’s a really easy to use piece of javascript that allows you to make a slide-show of your photos that can fade, scroll, wipe, zoom into each other and a whole lot more.
It really only needs fairly basic coding skills, if you are comfortable with html and at least have an idea of what javascript is and how to link it you should be fine.
If you don’t I suggest taking a look here http://www.w3schools.com as a great place to start.
Will link to my full version once it’s finished and a few images have been uploaded.
To get the plugin and see it working take a look here - jQuery Cycle Plugin