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Hi, I am Martin.

This is my blog on mainly technology, entrepreneurship and design. Links about just about anything comes through now and then though. I also run a site on photography called Digital Photo Guide! If you are into photography, why not check that out?

Go to digitalphotoguide.net

Entertainment

Todays annoying product at Steam

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I am a big fan of Steam, I like the whole thought about having all games digitally available so that I can play them when ever I want. All would also be real candy-dandy if it was not for one little detail.

Stuff can be insanely expensive on Steam. And here is todays example. Sacred 2 – a cool rpg-game in old time Diablo-style.

Best Swedish internet-price: €7 (boxed-game, shipping included)
Price on steam: €49.90 (digital edition)

So stupid.

Technology

Chrome instead of Firefox

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google-chrome-logoFor quite a long time I have been completly loyal to Firefox as my number one choice when it comes to browsers. The possibility to create a configured tool which work in a way I have choosen have really been the functionallity I have loved. For just a few months ago though I started to glance over towards Chrome, the browser which is developed by Google.

To set the record straight right away I have not used Internet Explorer since back in the days when you used Netscape or IE. I never liked the way it worked and the ways you did configure it and quite early I went with firefox instead because it was primarily fast and did a better job in rendering pages in my point of view. Later on when I went into the field of web-design and coding I felt the real wrath of IE when trying to build design which looked good in different browsers. Firfox more or less was the better alterative for a long time.

Lately I have started to notice that my Firefox is running quite slow though. The possibility to add my own plugins and such have made it quite bulky. I know that it is my own fault in many ways but the possibility is there and when I as a user use it the applicaiton can’t really coop with the extra load. This was the main reason I started to look at Chrome.
First times I tried the browser out I was in no way hooked and just thought it felt a bit strange to “learn a new way” of how to do things. To be frank, the only direct differenct between Chrome and Firefox is that you can execute search-queries from the “adress-bar”. This may seem like a utterly small feature but when you have used it for just a day you acctually start to grow fond of it. This together with the shortcuts on your keyboard and you have almost the features which Firefox so strong. The entire Chrome also breath a GTD-feeling where functions can be found where you guess they be. All settings can be reach by clicking the big wrench for example.The browser today has become so much more then a simple browser for content, we use it as a platform in our everyday work and even use it instead of other applications in an ever growing pace. Just as with other tools we take for granted it has to work and be as transparent as possible. As a bonus on top of everything Chrome actually is faster to startup and even to render pages on my systems. This is true both on my computer at work and my computer at home.

So there you have it, the reason to why I ditched Firefox and went for Chrome: Speed, simplicity and GTD-mentality.

Random

Imagine the tenth dimension

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The full concept of dimensions is an area many of us run into during our late years of school and for the most part of us there it also ends. For people interested in physics dimensions is a crucial element though to understand our everyday happenings and doings. The dimensions is like the jester in a deck of cards, something we can pull out when nothing else seem to work out. The jester joins the game and bring with it logic which we can use to solve problems otherwise unsolved.

A while ago I ran into the book “Imagining the Tenth Dimension” by Rob Bryanton. Or more truthfully I ran into the website about the book where the concepts are visualized. It has become something of a mantra for me for every time I feel that I think to understand the world around us (or when Hybris kicks in as it does now and then) I use this visualization to get my feet back down to earth. Even though I’ve watched it multiple times not, I still get fascinated by it.

So I challenge you, look at the movie and really focus on understanding what is explained. Try to not think to hard though, when I look at it sometimes my brain hurts a bit.

Reflection

What? No money? But I want death-rays!

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stewieI don’t know if you heard but it’s all over the internetz at the moment – The Financial Crisis! Everywhere companies go bancrupt and families are in a struggle to get the accounts to stay on black numbers every month. But there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Just when you thought that a big thing in the entire world like this might unite people and nations the US just gave the go-ahead for spending three million dollars on…

Death-rays!

So I guess that the so called crisis can’t be THAT bad.

Read more about the real-life super-villian-weapons-of-mass-destruction over at Techradar.

Technology

Best online photolab

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Nowdays when almost all photos we take are digital they seem to end up in a complex directory-structure somewhere on our laptop, tucked away. When we then are about to show them for family and friends we have to go through endless of mumbo-jumbo to get the photos from the computer to the tv and so forth. Well, I for one think that we all should send off our best photos to get papercopies now and then. Not only do you get your photos in a better format for show and tell, you also get the feeling that you actually created something in a better sense then just the images on your screen.

The Swedish photo-magazine “Kamera & Bild” had a test in their latest issue about the best digital photolab and once again the winner was – Crimson. This is a company that almost always come up in forums, magazines or discussions when people are to rnak their best photolabs and therefore I would like to throw them a bone here aswell.

I have not personally used this company yet but I’m looking on using their services to get some posters printed using pictures from my last trip on the Transmongolian railway. That’s right, they offer poster-printing aswell!

Worth mentioning is of course also that the cheapest contendant did come in on a whooping thrid place (out of twenty-one) and this was Fuijifilm so if you are to print alot of photos these are defenetly worth a look!


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