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About Guthlac

An artist, historian and middle aged man who'se aim in life is to try and enjoy as much of it as he can

Nicole Kidman and Zire

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Guthlac

First an apology. What a complete arse I am. There I said it. I am a real bumpkin. Yesterday I wrote, if that is the correct way to describe my ramblings in this blog, about the app/magazine Zire when actually I meant Zite. If you have been follow… Continue reading →

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BBC News – ZX81: Small black box of computing desire

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Guthlac

via bbc.co.uk arrrr those were the days… Continue reading →

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More on Zire

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I’ve spent much of today trying to make the new app Zire work for me and the more you work at it the better it gets. However, this is the problem – why should you have to put so much time and effort in just to make the thing produce something… Continue reading →

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Body Painting (megaodd.com)

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Guthlac

Some wonderful and not so wonderful examples of body painting. Body Paintingmegaodd.com???/art???/body-painting???/ Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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Thomas Moran (linesandcolors.com)

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Guthlac

Wonderful selection of landscape paintings Thomas Moranwww.linesandcolors.com???/2011???/03???/06???/thomas-mora… Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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How Many Nipples Are There In … (londonist.com)

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Guthlac

This is some of the most important art history research ever published! How Many Nipples Are There In The National Gallery?londonist.com???/2011???/03???/how-many-nipples-are-th… Sent from Zite personalized magazine iPad app. Available for free in the… Continue reading →

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Search Technology Behind iPad Magazine ???Zite???

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Guthlac

via searchengineland.com Thia article gives a good summary of how Zite works. Continue reading →

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Zite v Flipboard – some more thoughts

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I’ve used both this morning over breakfast in a very unscientific experiment and at the moment Flipboard is the winner. For those of you who don’t know flip board allows you to add content from a number of sources such as the Guardian or Mash… Continue reading →

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Power back on

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Guthlac

Well the power came back on at about 04:30 hrs. K wonder what will happen tonight – will it go off again at 21:00hrs? Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

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Zite magazine App

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Guthlac

Well I’ve just downloaded the Zite app which is supposed to offer you customised news feeds based on your Google reader and Twitter accounts. This is seen as competition for Flipboard which provides a similar service. The USP of Zite is that it cu… Continue reading →

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