The home of Thor Erik on the internet!

A bouquet in Latvia from the Lituanian president

No the Sneekpeek isn’t done yet, but it is close there’s a lot of content to handle for it

but let’s talk about what’s been holding that post back a bit, Vacation!

I had a few(4) weeks on vacation around the eastern baltic states, through sweden, in finland for a week, then Estland, Latvia, Lituania, Poland and Germany.

It was a nice holyday

now below you see some more pictures, and more will be added later, to keep 100% up to date, look at my deviantart page!

now off to a bit different topic, Internet radio, since my host is so kind to give me shoutcast, I thought why the heck not?

While I’m getting everything ready it’s “just” going to be a 24/7 stream with Creative Commons music from Jamendo this won’t change now or in the future

If you hear a song you like, you can just head over there and search for the artist, song or album, and it’s there, your’s to keep can’t get much better than that can it?

you’ll find the player and links to the stream here, or just direct your player to http://radio.thorerik.net:8201

If you got any requests(they must be Creative commons licensed, preffer if it’s available at Jamendo(link above), that way I can get away with not having it as a download here(my philosophy: if I can download it, everyone else should, legally!))

click the pictures for their deviantart page!

Jenny looks a bit bored...

Mmh beutiful blue sky!

forever?

Lovely sun in helsinki

Jenny playing on my iPod

A lovely sun behind a chimney in Helsinki

A sunset north of Turku in finland (HDR)

Do you belive in ghosts?

Remember that wonderful plugin I had a while back, that let you log in with practically any account you could have?

Today I brought it back, don’t be scared by the “you need to be logged in to comment” it is quick and easy(the registration process is just a login box).

you can even log in with even MORE services now

currently supported:

Twitter

Facebook

Yahoo

Google

Live

AOL

Blogger

OpenID

and Flickr

My Space will be added soon(when I bother to register an app over there as well ^_^)

ps.

This is better for you also, cause I trust your providers so much, I trust that you are human and that you don’t spam my blog, no moderation for you

pps.

Share This! sorry I meant Sociable is also available, see those small icons below each post? click one of the service icons and it will take you to it with a link to that post

by nickwheeleroz

Hi

Posted a survey cause I’m curious, what do you guys and girls think of my blog, and what do you like and hate

The Survey is 100% anonymous and everything is optional, so if you like you could send a blank response(but why would you? :p)

Head over to it now and let me know what you think!

Picture is by nickwheeleroz Original picture can be found here.

Picture is licensed CC by nc sa 2.0

Update:

Thanks for all the response,  thanks to all of you who responded to the survey!

Over all people liked my blog as it is which is good news to me

Jeg har forresten presentert bloggen min på Bloggurat.

Alexander Rybak og Tone Damli Åberge

Today Alexander Rybak won Eurovision Song Contest for norway, beating the finish record of 221 points with 95 points, totaling with 387 points!

The song can be found on youtube (HD if you please )

The cool part is that officially he won on the constitution day, and in 2010 we can celebrate that Norway first time entered Eurovision Song contest!

So today we also celebrate the Constitution day, 17th May. Norway’s Consitution is now 195 years old.

For those of you waiting for the iPodMovie review, It will be around on monday, I hope, things got hectic here so things did’t work out that well at first, Also comming up is a update to the twitter client’s review, as Twitterrific is out in version 2, and several more have popped up.

Note: I’ll be posting a more in depth overview soon, this post is still very correct(little have changed, mostly aditions)

This post is also featured at iModZone and LovingTech

So I got a good friend who asked me if i wanted to test out the iphone 3.0 firmware beta, so i said why the heck not? and now here i am, after roughly 2 weeks of active use, happy as ever, and relying 100% on the features it provides.

there isn’t as many new features in the iPod as in the iPhone version, I’m only stuck with iPod cause that’s what i got (:()
The home screen looks the same, with some tiny differences(one not shown in the screenshot, but the app is shown later)

Springboard

mainly the only difference is that you got a tiny spotlight icon on the bottom page indicator, if you slide to the left you get access to spotlight:

Spotlight

this thing searches everything by default. Mail, contacts, sms(if your on a iphone), music, bookmarks, and history.

Now the seccond bigest new thing for iPod users is Voice Memos(dunno if iphone had this, but i think it had)

Voice Memo

It do require a iPhone headset or the new Shuffle headset(with the controls), and works quite simply just press the red button and record, press the listing and you can view the recordings you’ve done.

now, back to spotlight a bit:

Spotlight

as you can see, it’s available practically everywhere you’d need to search

Here’s a few more features podcast related:

Podcasts

from left to right, first is mail-to, this links to the itunes page of the podcast you’re listening to, use this to for example tell friends about how awesome Eddie Izzard is , second is used to jump 30 secs back, which is pretty nice, instead of the 10 sec it sort of dose at random where you got no control, last is podcast speed, this setting allow you to speed up a bit(twice as fast, or half speed), useful if you can’t be bothered to use the next function:

Scrubbing

Scrubbing, you could do this before too, but only at real-time speed, which made it hard to fine scrub to the place you wanted to listen/watch from, so by sliding your finger down from the bar you can control the scrubbing speed.

last screenshot:

Bluetooth

Bluetooth! I haven’t gotten it to work properly yet, but I’m not even sure if it’s supposed to work yet(kind of like MMS in beta 1-2 for iphone)

now there is a new feature on the main settings menu, called store, this is ment to let you get a quick overview of your itunes account, not that good looking yet(just a badly formatted embedded webkit view) and not functional.

have any of you guys tested it? what are your thoughts?

I love it