Newton’s Cradle is another one of those apps that’s pretty useless as far as functionality goes but it’s just great fun. What does it do? It replicates the old 70’s office toy by using real world physics and clash detection to make a very realistic Newton’s Cradle. Cool!!

Ohhhhh and it makes good use of the accelerometer too.

This app doesn’t really do much except roll a number of dice, that’s it, but it does this beautifully. The animation and real world crash detection is simply sublime. Just shake your iphone and watch the dice roll around and come to rest on your score. You can choose how many dice and from a number of different patterns. This is the lite version of a poker dice game by the same company which I guess will be excellent. As I don’t know how to play dice poker I won’t be partaking in this app, I’ll just sit mesmerised, looking at the beautiful rolling dice for an hour or two.

This app is great if you want to convert from one unit to another. It covers all constant categories Area, Energy, Temperature, Length etc and a very useful feature which is Currency. This would be great for those holidays abroad, though watch your data transfer rates. I suppose this is one of the apps shortfalls, if ya could store what the exchange rate was when you bought your currency and not go online to get the latest exchange rates, it would be extremely useful.

Aside from this niggle the app works wonderfully and is great when watching the olympics to find out what those powerhouses are lifting in lbs in the clean and jerk or just how tall that 2.1m guy is slam dunking the basketball.

Simple to use, useful and free a perfect combination.

my way to spend the sunday afternoon.

Originally uploaded by _uncommon

I found this HDR photo on flickr (a good source to see some fantastic HDR) and represents all that I like in a photo, composition, colour and alcohol. I think I would’ve touched out the leaves to the right of the photo but apart form that a decent photo.

I found this interesting painting of old Market Harborough. It shows the Grammar School and St Dionysius Church with everyday life taking place. I don’t know when this was painted but it’s interesting to see that not much has changed since the horse & cart era.

What particularly interested me was what, at first, looks like a gallows on the left. With closer inspection I guess this was a contraption for moving items from the backs of wagons into a local store and not where criminals met their maker.

I may take a photo from the same angle to compare the 2 scenes. Pop back to have a check.

So ‘Man of constant sorrow’ was playing on our sound system at work and it got me to wondering about Dapper Dan’s Pomade. After a lil research I found it’s a fictional hair product but ya can buy replica tins and fill with your own pomade.

It’s a pity I’ve not got much hair else this would be tempting.

Here’s my second offering on the useless iphone app front, kaleidoscope. It simply replicates the effect of the toy that ya used to put to your eye as a kid and marvel at changing colours as you twisted the end and watched the coloured sand swirl into different patterns.

To interact with this version ya can either touch the screen and change the patterns or use the accelerometer and turn the screen.

It may seem useless, but for 5 or 6 seconds a day it brings a little colour and a smile into your life.

Mmmmm it appears that Springfield Retail Park in Market Harborough has been sold. This is the Old Cattle Market area as far as I can make out, meaning Homebase, Brantano, In-Store and Sainsburys.

Springfield retail park in Market Harborough has been bought by an investor advised by Briant Champion Long for £9.1m – a net initial yield of 6.5%.

Source: propertyweek.com

Now, what, if anything, does this mean for the town? Will it mean new stores, or is this just an investor wishing to get a stake in our lovely town?

Comments on this would be welcomed.

On the 8th minute, of the 8th hour, of the 8th day, of the 8th month of 2008 is said to be doomsday time. The world will stop turning and we’ll all drop off into outer space or something like that. Well as a bona fide super hero I can’t let that happen, I will do everything in my power to keep the world turning and hopefully get us past this harrowing point in our history.

If I succeed life should carry on as normal, if not I’ll see you in space, I’ll be the one flying past with a red cape.

Up and Atom…

UPDATE: As you can tell (’cus you’re still alive) I managed to avert the end of the world and save the Earth. Don’t ask me how, you wouldn’t understand if I explained. Here’s till 09:09 09.09.09 when I must next thwart evil and once again save the Earth.