Bag, a photo by Julia Revitt on Flickr.
This gorgeous girls back comes in black with blue trim, with a handy fleece lined goggle pocket & insulated water bottle holder.
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Bag, a photo by Julia Revitt on Flickr.
Don’t let the lack of light put you off running, get yourself a light and a running buddy and hit the trails!
Testing the head torch at the lake
Every year as soon as the clocks change I swap my weekday runs to indoor aerobics workouts. This year I really want to keep my hard earning milage up so that I don’t have to start over again in spring. So I had a look on the internet and bought myself a basic head torch for £35 from Amazon
I am lucky enough to own an iPhone, iPad and iMac but I think the i’s might be taking over my life!
I’m rarely off one of these devices. They are my email, my twitter, my blog, my TV, my music, my camera, my diary, my alarm clock, my book, my internet – my life basically. When I am on one I tune out of conversations, lose track of time and become generally unsociable. I can try to hold a conversation whilst writing this blog on my iMac but it will be a shallow form of conversation with my mind half split between the task in hand and trying not to be rude.
Games are my downfall. I must have an addictive personality because when I find a game I like, I’ll play it constantly until I’ve cracked it or got bored of it. Don’t let me near Tetris, or Freecell, or Farmville or TradeNations – seriously, don’t let me near them or I will disappear into them for hours.
But the thing is as all true addicts will admit – I don’t want to stop. I love my i’s. My iPhone feels great in my hand, my iPad is fab to watch videos on and my iMac is awesomely fast. They inspire me, they relax me, they enable me. Don’t take away my i’s!
The Camera+ application from taptaptap for the iPhone gives the iphone camera a new lease of life. It turns a mediocre picture into a great one by using a series of filters, crops and borders. Check out my before and after pictures below.
You can use it to take photos, edit them on the spot and update immediately to twitter, Facebook or Flickr. Or you can use it to edit existing photos from your camera roll. The special effects are wonderful, I use the ‘clarity’ effect on most pictures to bring up the details and then use a colour filter such as ‘vibrant’ or ‘so emo’ to create the effect I am looking for. The crop option allows for freeform cropping and the border selection has everything from plain black & white borders to fancy bleeds and rounding.
All this just for 59p! I can guarantee it’s the best 59p you’ll ever spend. I was thinking of buying a new camera this year in the region of £300 but it’s not worth it. Camera+ turned my iPhone 4 camera into a £300 camera. Try it, you won’t regret it!
Bagcheck
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Bagcheck.com is a new website community that allows you to share your favourite gear with each other. The idea is that you create a ‘bag’ and put items into it with a short description and reason why you love that item. I have created an ‘Alpine running‘ bag with all the bits of kit that I love in it. It’s a wonderfully simple idea and great fun. Check out the bags for ‘Ways you can tell your cat is spoiled rotten‘ and ‘Want‘. At the moment the site is still in beta testing and you can post by invite only but if you’re already a friend of mine on Facebook you will be able to post immediately. Have a look and get bagging!
