Happy new year from me !

2010 has nearly closed it’s curtains, so Best wishes and Happy New Year from me!

There is plenty for me to look forward to in 2011. Glastonbury festival, a trip to spain, hopefully many road trips with friends to the British Touring Cars, the iPad 2 launch,my photo 365 project, and god knows what else!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

google latitude finally comes to the iPhone

 

After first seeing Google Latitude way back when I first had my N95 I was really impressed by the technology. As I wrote about only a month or so ago, it has been in the pipeline for sometime, probably since Apple releaxed their approvals process for applications. Anyhow it was finally released yesterday to hardly any fanfare.

I have played with the web based version for some time, but it’s use was limited as it couldnt run in the background. Now the service finally has a dedicated application which can run permanently in the background, latitude finally arrives “proper” for Apple iOS devices.

I’m happy !

Got a new car, Facelift E46 Saloon 330 with ALL the toys :-)

The insurance company haven’t decided yet what they are going to do with the car, they may repair it, they may write it off. Regardless of the outcome we have decided to sell it. We had some finace in place as we initially were sure the car was a write-off, so we have used this to buy a new one.

I found a 52 plate 330 M Sport in black. Its got virtually all the options from the factory, heated electric memory seats with lumbar support, auto Xenon headlights, auto wipers, Sat Nav, TV, sports upgraded leather interior, dropping back seats, ski bag, heated washer jets, heated mirrors, thermal windscreen coating, rear arm rest, MV1 Sport alloys, headlight washers.

It’s very nice, and drives great!  I upgraded the SatNav (Mkiv) firmware today to add 3d perspective view, and found some 2009 Europe maps which provde TMC traffic info and basic speed camera indication.

Very happy.