dready blog v2.0

Just received a Singapore Airlines newsletter announcing the discontinuation of the in-flight broadband service - Connexion by Boeing, affectionately called CBB. For those in the industry, this may not be news but the following might be welcoming news for those belonging to the Too Frequent Flyer Club (of which thankfully I’m not a member): the service will be free of charge from now until the end of the year when the service will be withdrawn.

I’ve always found it thrilling to be IM’ing and checking emails mid-air, and to imagine the packets travelling all over the skies. I might have the chance to make use of the generous offer when we make the move to Sterling at the end of the year ;-P

Zooomr released a new feature called “Portals” which lets you define hotspots in your photos - kinda like Image Maps cross QuickTime VR. VR stands for Virtual Reality, in case that term has long been paged out to disk (sorry, geek joke) long ago. If you think that that’s so 1990’s you’re partially right. What is so ingenious about this is that it works right out of your browser and it so smOoOth! You’ve got to see it, and you will love it, as I have.

We have loads of photos from the Barcelona trip that I’d like to share but I just don’t have the time to upload them so I’m just waiting for Tiff to come back to do it. But now I can’t wait and I’ve already uploaded some of those to showcase the features.

Check out the Casa Batlló portal that I created (it can’t be embedded on the blog so you’ll have to click through to go to the Zooomr site):

I’ve picked some photos from our Marrakech-Zürich-Barcelona work-cum-holiday trip. We have a lot more (6GB worth, to be exact) but a lot of them were taken in portrait style so it wouldn’t fit well in this slideshow format. I will wait for Tiff to get back from Hua Hin and blog ‘em all!

For now, these are some of the nicer ones from Barcelona.

(You might want to wait for it to finish loading all of them and loop back to the first photo - it’ll be much smoother)