I love notebooks. This particular one is made from the same type of binders and print as the official law book in Sweden is. It may not look as nice as my other thai notebooks or the paperblanks ones but I really like the feel of this. Very Swedish in design.
Todays shot is from the movie night held monthly at friends place in Täby. Movies, good food, good drink and jolly people and a very nice night!
I have tried to balance the flash here in two fashions. One is to balance the amount of light so that the candle flame is still seen clearly. The other is that normally a flash has a day light temperature but that would look really blue here.
So I have used a CTO filter (full CTO) to change the flash temperature to around 3200 K instead of the usual 5600 K. This means that the colour temperature of the flash light is about the same as the color temperature on the light coming from the flame.
My wife is a silver smith. She made these rings, which is my engagement and my wedding ring. The runes on the rings complete each other into full old norse runes, spelling our names. The bracelet is a birthday present from last year.
This is one of the westmost streets on Kungsholmen, one of the islands that make up Stockholm. I sort of like this street and its architecture even if many people don’t. I sometimes walk here during lunch, it is close to several rather nice lunch restaurants.
Today’s photograph is a shot of one of my favourite items when it comes to usefulness. It is my Galaxy S mobile phone, a ”smartphone” with Google Android operating system that enables it to plug straight into all google services online which is really useful.
Google maps for navigation, google reader for RSS, facebook, mail, workmail (exchange server using active sync) and many other things, not to mention it keeps track of my geolocation when I am shooting pictures outdoor and so on. Lovely little piece of equipment.
The expression ”there is an app for that” is just so true…
Most users of their smart phones have realized that althought the phone can do a lot, battery time is definitely a problem once you start using it streaming music with Spotify, surfing, watching movies on youtube and so on. The reason is that the processor needed to run these applications needs to be quite spiffy and being spiffy means it will use a lot of power.
Since there is a limit to the size of most phones, there is a limit to the battery size that can be used and so the phones with the fanciest processors are left with low battery times – unless you keep them in standby most of the time but then they are not so bad and might last a couple of days actually.
But what is the fun in that, you bought the phone to use it so you want to use it but you still wish you could avoid depleting the battery before that important call comes through. Or what if your youtube watching escapades drained the battery just before you really needed google maps to find the address in the old town you where looking for?
There is a solution for that and this is to get a secondary power source. There are plenty of different versions out there, some with solar panels that claim to charge themselves in the sun light and then you can connect your phone to them to charge the phone. They also have an internal battery so you can let them drink the sunlight in the day time and charge its internal battery, then later connect your phone to charge it. However I have tested two different brands of these and it does not really works.
First of all it takes forever for it to charge the internal battery. On the box and in the manuals it says 6-12 hours of sunlight ought to do it. Well, not in Sweden, not even in the summertime, in broad day light the charging is acceptable but not more. Even after three days in the windowtill trying to charge it was not good enough, in the summer with a really nice weather. Fortunately that one could also be connected to a USB port and be charged by the computer. And on a clody day you won’t charge enough to keep the internal drain on the battery at bay…
So unless you live in a country with a scorching sunlight, just avoid the solar charged power packs. What you want is something that can be charged in the car, from the computer or from a wall socket and carries enough of amps to charge your phone at least twice.
A lot of the modern phones can be charged on the USB port of an ordinary computer. This is good because it means we are finally seeing some kind of standard for charging small appliances such as MP3 players, phones and even camera batteries. So a power pack should have a USB port or perhaps 2 even.
The site is in Swedish but the facts for this power pack are: 2xUSB ports that can do up to 500 mA (which is standard USB current) each. The pack contains 5000 mAh (or 5 Ah if you want) which is more than twice that of my phone pack which also has a lower voltage. I should be able to get 2-3 charges out of this pack and now that I have tested it for about a month I am really happy with it.
It is small enough to fit in my pocket, only thing I need to take with me is a USB cable to charge the power pack or the phone as I want. I usually charge it from a USB wall socket charger and then just use the standard data cable for the phone.
The powerpack can be charging at the same time as you put 2 more appliances to charge from it. This is really good cause you can thus use it to charge your phone while at the same time you charge the power pack.
Are there anything on this earth that are more lovely than a couple of snuggling cats? Well I don’t think so so here is today’s picture of them.
