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Review: F-Stop Loka Camera Bag
The average camera bag is built like a sack of spuds and weighs about as much. This is not your average camera bag. The F-Stop Loka is a 37 litre daypack designed for outdoor photographers who need to carry other items, such as extra layers and some food, along with their camera gear when they [...]
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Tags: gear, photography, review
I’m Leaving the BBC
After much consideration, and with a little sadness and some regret, I’ve decided to leave the BBC. In the four and a half years I’ve been here I’ve had the opportunity to work on some fantastic projects. From those crazy early days on PIPs as a software engineer (hi guys!), to the later days on [...]
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Tags: bbc, personal
Back to the Future
When I was a kid, not much more than about 10 years old, I saved up my pennies and bought myself a camera. The Fuji fixed lens compact camera on the left. I used that camera for many years, eventually replacing it with a little Casio digital. Since then I’ve rediscovered my childhood interest in [...]
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Tags: photography
With the launch today of the iPlayer iPad app (poor @geofftech) I thought it was a good time to write an update on using iPlayer in the wider iOS ecosystem. I promise that this is the last time I will write about iPlayer on the Apple TV… A couple of months back Damon Rose left [...]
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Tags: accessibility, apple, apple tv, bbc, iplayer, software
Looking back on Backstage
So, BBC Backstage is sadly no more. Today the BBC released a beautifully compiled ebook retrospective of the last five years. There’s also a great article by Jemima Kiss over at the Guardian. I’m humbled to have been both interviewed in the book and mentioned by Jemima in her article. But I just wanted to [...]
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Telling Stories
I spent some time this afternoon in an edit suite in Belfast Broadcasting House. Some of what I watched, all of it in fact, was pretty powerful stuff. Footage of British soldiers on the streets, saluting the coffin at a republican funeral. A Panorama filmed in a local hall with an audience of political moderates, [...]
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Tags: archive, bbc, history, northernireland, storytelling, web
Last week I blogged about how I’d been working on a way to use BBC iPlayer on my Apple TV. At the request of the BBC, my employer, the plugin is no longer available. The BBC raised concerns around deep linking to iPlayer content and the use of the iPlayer trademark. The plugin was also [...]
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Tags: apple, apple tv, bbc, iplayer, software
