http://www.mattytemple.com My Personal Site Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:04:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The other day I was thinking about buying a Hitachi DZ-HV564E HD camera well today I did and so far I'm very pleased with it. Especially for the price I paid, just £130. The build quality is great although the plastic body does fell slightly cheap. It produces great videos at 1080p down ... http://www.mattytemple.com/2009/01/05/hd-video-camera/ Last year I published some predictions for the year and I did so well I'm gonna give it another go this year. Here are my top 10 predictions for 2009: Windows 7 will be released Android will overtake the iPhone in market share More ISP's will limit monthly data transfer Portable GPS will be (almost) ... http://www.mattytemple.com/2009/01/02/predictions-for-2009/ The years almost up and it's time to look back and see how well I did at predicting what would happen this year. In January I predicted: Apple will announce a new Apple TV (details) iTunes will get movie rentals (details) The HD disk format war will not be won  iTunes will have ... http://www.mattytemple.com/2008/12/27/predictions-2008-review/ WordPress 2.7 has been out since 11 December, I sadly current get to a computer to write a post until now but here it is. There's been some Major changes to the back-end admin page design and some new keyboard shortcuts. Plus 2.7 also allows comments to be split into pages and threaded. WordPress ... http://www.mattytemple.com/2008/12/12/wordpress-27-is-here/ I made a short video today to address the 3-4 people that asked me, how do you rip a DVD? Well here's my answer. But before I start I would like to say braking the encryption designed to stop you making a playable copy of the DVD is illegal although there ... http://www.mattytemple.com/2008/12/10/how-to-rip-a-dvd/ Here in the UK an Internet filter designed to block child porn been accessible from within the country and most ISP's signed up to use this back in June 2004. Great in theory, but the problem with a nationwide nanny filter like this is it blocks the wrong stuff and the ... http://www.mattytemple.com/2008/12/09/uk-internet-filter-blocks-wikipedia/ Today Amazon Launched it's DRM-free MP3 music download store in the UK and it's cheap with prices starting at 59p per track and £3 for an album. The only draw back with the service is you can only download each track once, unlike it's closest rivals Play.com and 7digital. Which is ... http://www.mattytemple.com/2008/12/04/amazon-mp3-uk-launch/ Way back in September I wrote about the next version of the Windows Live software and services from Microsoft. Well It's rolled out to everyone yesterday. So what's changed from Paul Thurrott's Supersite Blog: Windows Live Home. Wish there was one place where you could easily manage all ... http://www.mattytemple.com/2008/12/03/windows-live-wave-3-is-here/ Last night's episode of The Simpsons, in the states, mocked Apple and it's fans. Which was absolutely classic and very accurate. http://www.mattytemple.com/2008/12/01/the-simpsons-mock-apple/ SonicWall have a very good phishing IQ test. So dar some intresting stats have come out of this, from CNET: "According to SonicWall, only 59.4 percent of test takers so far this year have been able to properly identify a legitimate e-mail, compared with 77.8 percent of the test takers in 2004. ... http://www.mattytemple.com/2008/11/22/phishing-test/