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As 2021 has started, more people are considering how they can bring their dreams to life through entrepreneurship. In case you're a fashionista at heart and you know you'd be able to contribute to a unique fashion-oriented business in this industry, then the pandemic shouldn't stop you from pursuing your professional goals. If anything, it should i...

If you're thinking about starting a new business, there are more than a few things you'll need to pay attention to. For example, you have to build a strong team, adapt to your target audience, protect your intellectual property, etc. However, one of the most important things to consider is making an impression by building a great brand – and here's...

​Looking through hashtags is one of my favourite ways to discover what's big right now (and one of the quickest too!)  - I think that's why I am so in love with this infographic made by thefarthing.co.uk

For the tidy man or woman who hates tidying up after her man. by Style Editor TL DR It actually works! So for a christmas present for any bearded chap click through to amazon where we might just make a dime and keep this site and the reviews coming along!  Buy a similar beard apron from Amazon.com for US customers.  Buy a beard ...

If you want a rough and tumble drone for Christmas this could be a great choice. No complicated (separate) charger not that it would survive everything you might throw at any of these I think this is as tough as any I have seen. What might break pops off like the props so you just push them back on. It comes with spare props too. The shell has no m...

Diving to a depth of 150m is something that needed a specially trained kind of diver (a technical diver) or a submarine- UNTIL NOW! This is a wired solution much like research submarines keep a contact with the surface. Developed in Norway by Pioneer this is going to be a bit hit with undersea explorers who can remotely drive the sub with HD c...

​The instant messaging applications since the technology has brought among the people, its usage is continuously increasing among every age group all across the world. Young kids, teens, adults and even older ones have their accounts on social messaging app's platforms. Almost 2 decades ago when Yahoo was introduced it hit the world by storm. Every...

Many people have attempted different Monitor setups, however significantly less have attempted a UltraWide Monitor, which rivals setups with a few Monitors one next to the other. The UltraWide Monitors are increasing increasingly popularity and they are looking better and getting shrewder with extraordinary specs as well. Having more than one Monit...

Accessories have the ability to express your personality in a way that clothes simply can't duplicate and most us use jewellery as our only means of accessorising. But what about the wrist watch? With technology as it is today and each of us spending over 2 hours a day looking into the screen of our devices we've stepped away from these traditional...

(And tips on how you should actually buy something..) I am going to say that after a good few hours going over all the specs reviews and videos on you tube I have done my usual thing and ended up buying a slightly different model than I thought I would. Lets back up a moment though. What are you going to REALLY use the Camera for ? I asked myself i...

This week end I repaired my own macbook air power cable ! I ordered just the broken lead from an ebay seller and it arrived just fine in a jiffy pack able to go through the letterbox so was awaiting my arrival.
The most tricky thing was getting the white power pack open and using pliers in the unnatural way (outside edge of the square tips start closed then open to force apart the case) to open the thing .
Noticing that there is little room in there once open I decided like you should to splice the new power cable to the old wires instead of trying to get to the PCB Printed circuit board instead.

Why do this ?

Well a new power pack is 69 pounds and this is throwing away a perfectly working pack it’s the wire that is at fault. The cable was 6 pounds and fitted perfectly both ends ie in my macbook air and the power pack.

I was going to epoxy the power pack back together but decided that black electricians tape was a better option at least initially.
Warning : Don’t use normal non electrical tape as power packs get warm and only electrical tape is valid.

Tips:

Try to use a correctly cut piece of heat shrink tube to neaten the soldering joint. Use flux to get a better soldering joint. Most solders come with flux or buy separate it make sure the imputiues don’t cause a bad joint. Test the joint using your needle nose pliers. I also used pike disgorger that is a great tool as you can grip and fix the nose on the subject very handy in holding these wires.

Should you do this ?

The phantom 3 from dji brings quite a lot of new features and improvments across but from my own phantom 2 experience I want to tell you what I need and see if the phantom 3 delivers on that.

Indoor Aerial filming

The phantom 2 would be incredibly hard to get steady meaningful indoor shots as the motion of the drone is going to be more random due to there being no GPS available indors - doh of course not !
The phantom 3 has the same underside camera/sensor recognition system so that it can feedback motion from the floor detail into the brain of the drone and correct - I would be keen to know if this also works outside to augment the GPS or if that is then just ignored.

Camera Control - the biggie for me

A big issue for me is not having access to any video camera controls while in the air - we do have tilt control for the gimbal in the phantom 2 of course but now the phatom 3 brings in start and stop recording (how many times I have landed to realise that I wasnt recording I am ebarassed to say !) and there are some exposure contros I believe too. The software allows some further custom Tx (Transmitter) inputs for you to assign in the software. I am not quite sure what you would use these for yet.

For businesses involved in dressmaking, couture or alterations, a good dressmaker's dummy is an essential piece of kit for designing, modelling, sizing and altering clothes. But with so many different types on the market, how do you choose the right one? Our handy guide will help.

Picking the right dummy

To pick the right dummy model for your business, it helps to know what your needs are. Those who sow for one customer, or a particular standard size, may be happy to use a standard dress form with a single set of sizes. Those who need to use a dressmaker's dummy for a range of clients will prefer to have an adjustable model, which allows adjustment for height as well as girth. Most good models will be adjustable for the dress form and have a minimum of eight sections.

Most professionals will also need an adjustable dressmakers dummy that is sturdy and easy to adjust. Twelve adjustable sections are the most common for those sewing exacting garments. A deluxe trouser form is also very useful for those making trousers.

Popular models

The K&L, available from Morplan, is the industry's best-selling standard model. Its dimensions are modelled on the female form, according to the UK's sizing definition and the dummy is made with a polyester body, reinforced with long lasting glass. The highest standards of production have been applied to ensure accuracy when pattern cutting and the dummy can be adjusted using the tubular steel base.

Well you may not catch me taking a ride in this just yet as I dont think for a moment that the multirotor is proven in flight as much as a helicopter but this is a fantastic stepping stone from concept to reality. Thanks to the fastcodesign guys for inspiring me to write this early in the week. Here is the full suite of images

 

This image found on the google group Aerial Photography and Videography [as we love this kind of good press for drones] and now the coming reality showcased already at the german air show AERO Friedrichshafen 2014 seen here..
I count around 14 motos and no doubt you can fly on fewer. So long as there is quite a bit of redundancy then this should be as safe as a helicopter both share the same principals of aeronautics.
I think personal transport systems are one of the more exciting things to come. Get me off the darn roads.

Also see below for the answer to the Question : What is the gopro hero 4 black 4k video like ?

I run a Phantom 2 from DJI FPV system which is capable of full 4k professional aerial footage both photographs and video. This inspire takes things to a different level in areas that you may or may not need. I shall explore the inspire further but for now the phantom 2 has everything I need and travels well also.

What is the big advantage to the inspire ? Well for me it is the almost full control of the camera while flying. So you can tune the exposure for example or frame rate or resolution, yes it does support 4k up to 25fps so seems to be on a par with the hero 4 black from gopro. But this is adding a lot of cost to the hobbyist and I feel pushes this into the company realm. We will have to see how the production inspires turn out and maybe see what a second generation inspire brings. But in closing it is what dji do best they marry the apps and peripheral stuff to the multirotor model - its how they weave it altogether its what apple would be making if they did quad copters. I am very very happy with mine.

Answering the question on how good is the video of the gopro 4 black edition shooting at 4k in reality?
Here is a still made from 4k video with the gopro hero 4 black edition. (the image seen needs to be downloaded or inspected at the full file size it has been reduced in size to fit this blog post.)

In fact its not true 4k but UHDTV with a slightly smaller resolution of 3840 x 2160 (this was my first shock)- you may need to right click to get the image in a new browser tab to see the full size version - or download it and inspect it more closely. I do have to say that you can zoom in and take a crop at a quarter and still see a sharp image. I might be with a lot of people saying that technology has gone beyond what we can natively appreciate ! I think the value of the slow motion 1080p for action sports is worth looking at otherwise 4k might be of use for projecting a large image perhaps. Not sure..

My research has led me to the following:

The original discussion on dji forums: http://forum.dji.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1514&page=1#pid11247

Here is saying that the Phantom 2 is hard to beat, the all up package is around a thousand. But the flamewheels maybe will date less quickly than the Phantom. But the flamewheel needs to be packaged up and these guys offer this..

http://www.marionvillemodels.com/rc-shop/dji-f450-flamewheel-naza-light-readytofly-package.html

So I will look to see what the flameweel vs phantom 2 bundle could work out at.

Do all phone deals include a free SIM card?

Your Subscriber Identity Module, otherwise known as your 'SIM', is used to identify you as the carrier of your phone. Everyone have their own SIM card, and this will carry their phone number, data plan, and other details within it. It can be treated as a digital identity card. As such, when you purchase a new package or a new phone, you can continue to use your same SIM card and data plan. 

Neat, functional and fashionable; the BlackBerry Z10 Smartphone

On older phone models, your SIM card carried your contacts and text messages as well. Nowadays, however, modern smartphones will carry these details on the actual device itself. The specific purpose of the SIM, therefore, is purely to link you to your data plan and phone number. When you use your specific SIM in different phones, you will still be able to access your pre-paid plan, or phone contract, without any trouble. 

However, you need to be aware that SIM cards come in different sizes. Different SIMs will fit into different types of phones and card modules. So, for example, if you have a BlackBerry, and you lose it, you will need to get a new SIM card if you start using a different type of phone as a replacement. This SIM will be 'programmed' to still carry your data, but will be specific to the type of phone it is used in.

The growth in home entertainment has reflected the pressure of modern day life; it may be that both parents are working but also the time taken in commuting to and from work has increased. An eight hour working day may be a ten or eleven hour day from front door to return.  In these circumstances there is little time or energy for socialising other than at the weekend.

Alternatives to television

Television is an obvious source of entertainment but the mundane ordinary schedules were a reason for the popularity of video and DVD releases of the latest films once the distributors thought they had maximised box office potential. It was another revenue source to augment the takings at the box office. There is a third source of revenue for the movie studios and that is the deal negotiated between the film companies and satellite broadcasters to show premiere films much quicker now than television would previously have provided access.

Satellite television has made major inroads into the traditional terrestrial companies and its owners have explored every way to market themselves to reach income levels via subscription and advertising.

The Internet has provided a new opportunity and that is for consumers to buy access to their products through the Internet. These on demand services provide users access to an online interactive library of movies that can be accessed anytime. A good example is NOW TV. All that is required to watch Now TV movies online is a good broadband connection.