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Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:51:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/chilaxing-day/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/powerising-with-mates/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/bye-bye-new-york/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/concorde/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/crazy-dancers-in-nyc/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/time-square-nyc/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/nyc-here-we-come/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/banana-split/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/beach-stacking/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/alligator-eats-golf-ball/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/new-camera-18-08-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/golf-lesson-from-open-winner-17-08-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/im-10-15-08-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/worst-golf-shot-ever-13-8-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/powerful-storm-12-08-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/flying-away-8-8-09-vlog/ Had to split this video into 2 parts due to Youtube's 10 minute policy. http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/laser-guns-5-08-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/more-storage-31-7-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/one-of-those-videos-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/22nd-july-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/20th-july-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/19th-july-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/14th-july-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/13th-july-09-vlog/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/12th-july-09/ http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/11th-july-09/ Hopefully there should be 4 videos a week but that is unlikely some weeks. Basically there will be at least 1 video a week but commonly a few a week. The video's will follow my life - as I see it and show that to you. Hopefully this will give you ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video-blog/the-weekly-project/ When I saw this tonight I immediately just had to share it, I love the music, the video just everything about it. It was done as a senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design and was directed by Bang-yao Liu. I didn't make this, just sharing it with ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video/deadline-stop-motion/ A collection of my favorite wordpress templates on themeforest. These impressive premium themes can be used with the blogging software wordpress. I have bought a few on this list for personal use when Im to lazy to design my own - There just so awesome :) http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/internet/10-impressive-premium-wordpress-themes/ Sometimes your email can just become full of junk from social networking sites, newsletters & blog updates. For me I needed a way to split my email up - so the items in my "inbox" are only important - Like client's emails for designs or quotes. I had heard about ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/a-quick-easy-way-to-fix-inbox-overload/ This is a very simple technique that most web designers need to be able to use, Internet Explorer causes headaches with web designers all around the world, when I see people having issues I feel their pain! On this website if you are viewing in Firefox, Safari basically anything thats not ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/how-to-give-ie-its-own-stylesheet/ The guys at the vimeo office want to make some changes to the homepage. Jack is the homepage guy but they don't want to talk to him because of...well..just watch. http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video/auto-tuning-at-vimeo/ Recently I have signed up to JungleDisk which basiclly is a really cool and easy way for me to back-up my important files (Mainly my photos!). The service uses Amazon S3 which is a wordwide network of interlocked data centers with fast network connections between, in a nutshell this means ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/jungledisk/ I got my graze box today, I have to say it's very good. I found them through a web designer I know in Leeds who tweeted about it, I decided I would check it out as it seemed like a good idea. I ordered my first box for £1 using a ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/graze-box/ Spotify has recently become a topic of conversation in the UK and other europeon companies. I have been using Spotify premium for about 2 months now and I feel I am ready to give a honest review of the service. I am going to cover the good features as well ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/spotify-music-service-review/ As you can see my website has undergone some changes in the design side. I have been working for the last week or so on a new design for my blog. This is the finished product, I hope you like it! It's not quite finished yet but it would be ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/new-site-design/ A quick tour of my bedroom, its only 15 seconds long and just gives a brief outline of what's in my room. I will at some point do a full room tour, so watch out for that. You can view the video below in HD and also on Youtube & ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/360-room-tour/ Songbird is a open-source (Which is AWESOME) customizable music player. It looks great, works great and basically I would recommend this to anyone. It’s currently been developed by Mozilla, the guys who brought you Firefox. The software has a very Apple feel to it, but in an open-source way. It’s full ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/software/songbird-a-open-source-music-player/ As some of you might now I run a server in my loft that has a printer and some network storage attached to it, makes life easier around the house when im on my macbook or my Dad or Sister want to get some files or print something out. I ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/681-upgrade-messagesand-counting/ I came across this video when I had just had my tv put on my wall, I remember watching it in HD on vimeo and was impressed with the quality and the intrestingness of the video. I thought I would share it with everyone. http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/video/the-history-of-the-internet-video/ This video just makes me laugh every time. It's all done in one take by the guys at XFM Scotland. http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/what-happens-when-a-song-is-played-on-xfm-scotland/ Happy 2009! 2008 was a year of ups and downs, we saw the collapse of the banking system, the election of Obama in the USA and tons of things between. Unfortunately 2009 is not looking good in the UK, a deep recession is on the way with a estimated 15 ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/happy-2009-my-new-year-resolutions/ Some guy had his laptop open at the genius support desk running xp, I am sure they were just showing him how to use Bootcamp but I still thought it was quite a funny picture. Do you think it's stupid to run XP (A 7 year old OS) on a ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/microsoft-xp-support-at-apple-genius/ Today was Christmas and this year one present was for my Canon EOS 400D D-SLR Camera. I asked for the BG-E3 Battery grip compete with 2 extra battery's. First Thoughts on the grip is it's size, it's bigger than I expected, but that's a good thing. It fit's my hand ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/canon-eos-400d-bg-e3-battery-grip/ Yesterday I went out and got myself a camera bag. I needed a way to carry all my camera equipment around with me safely and conveniently. Before I had this bag I would either stick it in my back pack which had way to much space so everything would move ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/new-camera-bag/ It's that time of year again, Christmas. Alot of people will be given new laptops, desktops or netbooks to replace or accomplish your old pcs. So the big question is what do you do with your old pc? If its new enough you might be able to sell it. If ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/top-7-things-to-do-with-your-old-pc/ As a teenager in the UK during the credit crunch I get to watch first hand whats going on whilst not been directly affected as bad as if I was an adult. I am finding it really interesting how all the companys are finding it hard just to survive with ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/the-credit-cruch-bright-side/ Want to know the hip sites out there? You propably want to be a information Junky? There is millions of bites of information flying around the internet, its a skill to catch the high quality stuff for yourself. I am going to link you to my top 5 blogs where ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/5-blogs-recomended-by-me/ I was wondering today who actually reads this blog. Apparently I get 5991 page views per month. I would like to know who is visiting? If they are reading it? If they like the content... I knew recently my updates have been a little slow, to say the least. I want ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/who-reads-this-blog/ As you can see, Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk has had some majour updates to both the front-end and the backend. The most Obvious  change for you is the new theme. It is lighter, simpler and is very easy to use. I have also updated the back-end of the site to the brand new Wordpress 2.7. The ... http://Jonathan.Thirkill.co.uk/thoughts/site-updates/