The oGo (Oh-Go) is a freely-evolving (not patented) system for recording and sharing your life experiences. The oGo Screen is a curved, transparent, rearview mirror that captures your facial expression and a wideangle view of what is behind you while you record your experience.
Alas no Mac hack – yet
Some of us here on the Lifeblog team are true Mac fanatics. Kinda funny that we are working on a (currently) PC-only piece of software.
One of our designers decided to test Lifeblog in Virtual PC 6.1 on his Mac. Alas, even though DirectX 9 runs on the Win XP in Virtual PC, the graphics card adapter emulated by Virtual PC only has 4 MB (!) of video RAM on some old graphics card. That doesn’t cut it, because we figured we’d use 32 MB (and in some cases 16 MB) or video RAM as the minimum to run Lifeblog. I mean, don’t most PCs running XP have more than that?
In any case, we’re out of luck here.
The promising news, though, is that Virtual PC 7 will have better DirectX support (3D stuff for games) and that it’s coming out in October (well, hopefully by the end of the year). You can bet that we’re going to get a copy of it as soon as we can, and let you know. 😉
One other thing: No, we don’t know when the Mac version will come out, if ever. We’re just a small team with a small budget. But I’m always pushing for it.
First Lifeblog hack available!
Russell Beattie is a great guy who now has a Nokia 7610 and Lifeblog and really likes it.
In his review of the Nokia 7610 he says:
“The Lifeblog app is of course the star of the phone and it works pretty much as advertised.”
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007953.html
and I like it when he says in his next post:
“I’m all about simplicity, and this app has the Fischer-Price sense of bright-colors, big controls which is not a bad thing at all.”
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007954.html
“Fischer-Price controls” – very funny, but true. Keep it simple!
Yes, yes, yes. He so gets it.
But what is really cool is that his buddy Erik Thauvin (with concepting by Russ and Matt Croydon) has come up with the first bona-fide Lifeblog Hack that I have seen! I have yet to use it, but Russ seems to give it a thumbs up.
“LifeBlogger allows you to post your Nokia Lifeblog favorites to your blog.”
http://www.thauvin.net/erik/lifeblogger/
Check it out. Way to go Erik. This is exactly what I want to happen.
I’m no programmer, but I can sure give more ideas to these guys and will send unsolicited comments their way. 😉
More horse pics
Eyes. Row of luck.
Flowered luck from a wedding hall.
On a horse farm in Ikaala
We visited a farm to learn about plowing, horses in forest work, and to spend a nice sunny day outdoors with friends.
Moo
Ja-ha. It’s a hard life, but the don’t lose any of their kindness.
Gimme some of dat milk
Hungry little calf. I had nothing for her.
We were visiting the milking barn of the farm here where all the cottages are.
Moo
Too cool, two cool cows.
Seitseminen National Park
Old growth forest in South Central Finland. Blogging from the middle of nowhere (alas, in the heart of mosquito country).