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When you take photos on an iphone or other such device it’s easy to take photos and never organise them, unless you share specific photos with specific people. Images are automatically organised by time, date, month, location and people by photo apps but this is just an illusion of organisation.

By playing with Photoprism, Nextcloud, OneCloud, MyCloud (the Swisscom one), Immich and others I have often come across the same problem. When you’re synching thousands of images at a time devices time out after a few minutes, and you need to start from scratch over, and over, and over again. I’ve encountered this issue with almost all backup solutions.

For a while I had been thinking of getting a device to play audible books that was not an iphone. The reason for this is simple. A portable MP3 player costs the same, or less than an iphone battery, and can play audio books, or music for 17-19hrs in a row, if you want to listen for that many hours in a row.

No Need For Constant Synching

With podcasts you want a device that can sync while you’re walking and listening. With books the experience is different. At most you may need to sync 12 times a year, or 24 times a year, depending on which Audible contract you have.

The Swiss Television archives shared this nice news item about how to prepare a fondue from 1969. It’s nice because we see the old way of preparing a fondue with the fluid burner rather than electric heaters. We also see the ingredients being placed in the caquelon.

Hello Twitter-ers! As you may already know, Obvious is the parent company of Twitter and it’s never a dull day around here. Today our little building is abuzz with activity surrounding an announcement that Odeo (another Obvious product) is ready for a new home. We’re entertaining offers from potential buyers because Odeo deserves the same love and attention we’ve been heaping on Twitter these days. Have you been by lately? http://twitter.com More about Odeo: http://tinyurl.com/2yoy84 Defamer Brings The Oscars to Twitter Popular Hollywood gossip blog Defamer.com is going to the Oscars this Sunday and they’re bringing Twitter! Sorta. Follow Defamer on Twitter and you’ll get live from-the-scene updates. Who won what? What’s happening in the seats? What are the stars doing? Get the updates on your phone while you watch on TV to make things more interesting or if you can’t watch, just get the updates. Text FOLLOW DEFAMER to 40404 or, Visit http://twitter.com/defamer Oscars: http://oscar.com If you haven’t set up your phone to work with Twitter yet, now is a good time! You can do that here: http://twitter.com/devices. The Oscars are broadcast live February 25 at 5pt/8et on ABC. Speaking of coveted awards, you can still vote for Twitter and help us win the SXSW People’s Choice awards. We will be so psyched if we win. Vote Twitter! https://secure.sxsw.com/peoples_choice/ SXSW Update There’s going to be lots of folks from three industries represented at the SXSW Conference in Austin next month. We’ve heard from people in the Interactive, Music, and Film industries who are excited to get on Twitter during the week-long event. We’ll have big screens set up in the hallways and we’re setting up a special, easy way for folks to get their updates on the screens. Once we set that up, we’ll tell you more. Even if you can’t make it to SXSW, you’ll still be able to catch all the buzz. Office Full of Great Folks Obvious employs less than ten people but the building is filling up fast since we’ve opened our doors to some other really cool companies working on interesting projects. Two of the projects are still top secret, there’s a couple Y Combinator startups sharing space with us, and the other folks are 30boxes.com, Boso.com, and the illustrious Niall Kennedy. (Hi Niall!) When the secret projects launch, we’ll tell you about them–they’re cool! http://30boxes.com http://boso.com http://www.niallkennedy.com/ http://ycombinator.com/ Okay, back to work. Lots to do this week! Happy Twitter-ing, Biz Stone and the Twitter Team http://twitter.com/biz

Is your internet connection slow, do pages take a long time to load, do you visit certain sites more than others? If your answer to any of these is yes then I suggest that you download Netsonic, a program I have tested which works well, since I’ve installed it my browsing is much faster.

At first it’s normal for the netsonic program to seem a little slower but once you’ve started using it and it some files are cached the surfing speed will be far greater since pages which are constantly visited load faster. There is also another function on it which allows you to pre-fetch pages which are kept in a cache file