Malta

Facebook + Spotify (and how to use Spotify internationally)

May 26, 2011

Facebook and Spotify teams up to provide a new music service to Facebook users. The new service will probably be named “Facebook Music” or “Spotify on Facebook” and is said to be launched in as soon as just two weeks, according to Forbes. Apparently there’s no money shifting hands in this deal, Facebook doesn’t pay [...]

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Photo of the week: Aerial shot of Malta, Gozo & Comino (with iPhone 4)

March 17, 2011

I thought I wanted to try something slightly different for this Photo of the week and show you a real snapshot for once, showing a little bit of where I live. What I mean by “snapshot” is a photo that was born for no real reason other than just to take a photo of whatever [...]

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Photo of the week: Naxxar Parish Church in Malta

January 24, 2011

I think it’s been a few weeks since the last photo of the week, so I thought it was time to post another recent photograph. The photo below is the top of the local parish church here in Naxxar, Malta. The chuch itself was built some 400 years ago and it’s a stunning looking church. [...]

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Photo of the week: Rainbow over Malta

January 6, 2011

Here’s another photo of the week where it’s all about being in the right place at the right time. I can’t remember the last time I saw a rainbow in Malta – in fact, I can’t remember the last time I saw a rainbow anywhere and I had a camera handy. Needless to say, I [...]

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Photo of the week: Birds (pigeons?)

December 6, 2010

I forgot to put this one up yesterday, so even though I’m posting it this week it’s actually a picture for last week Anyway – time’s not important. I didn’t get to shoot much last week but this is probably the one I like the most. I’m a complete newbiew when it comes to photographing [...]

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Photo of the week: Birth of Christ

November 26, 2010

I don’t get to experience much daylight during this time of year. In the mornings, sure, but that’s when I go to work – and when I leave work, it’s dark. So when I had to go out and play with my new Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 lens tonight, it was completely dark. In fact, darker [...]

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Spotify lost nearly £17 million in 2009 – but still plans on a 2010 US launch!

November 23, 2010

The swedish music streaming company, Spotify, just released their financial results for 2009 which shows a loss of £16.66 million, around $26 million. Sales, administration and distribution accounts for about £27.7 million but Spotify couldn’t get their revenue above £11.3 million for the year. Music Ally estimates that Spotify had 7 million users across Europe [...]

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Photographing Lightning [pictures included]

September 10, 2010

Last night we had some thunderstorms over Malta with a good amount of lightning as well and I’ve always wanted to get a really great shot of a lightning strike, so I figured I might as well begin to practice and figure out how to do it. At first I stepped outside on the patio [...]

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Sony HX5V – First Impressions (Quick Review With Video & Photo Samples)

August 7, 2010

This is just a short “first impressions” review of the Sony Cybershot HX5V digital camera with GPS. I’m not going to go much into details and technical analysis, there are many other photo review blogs out there doing a much better job at that, than I would probably ever be able to do. Here’s a [...]

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Win The Greatest Holiday in the World with Radisson Blu Hotels

July 15, 2010

Wouldn’t you just love to win the greatest holiday in the world? Thanks to Radisson Blu Hotels – you now can! They’re having a contest where you can win 365 nights worth of hotel stays on 200+ Radisson Blu hotels over a 5 year period. It’s really easy to enter, you basically just have to [...]

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Vodafone Malta: iPhone 4 – “Coming Soon”

July 2, 2010

Vodafone Malta is now listing the iPhone 4 as “coming soon” on their website, despite Apple has not yet said anything public as to when iPhone 4 will actually reach Malta. Malta is not included in the next batch of countries to receive iPhone 4 in late July: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong [...]

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Three Million iPads Sold In 80 Days, Apple Says

June 22, 2010

Apple just came out with a press release (read it below), stating that they have now sold three million iPads in less than three months, in fact, in just 80 days. In the last three weeks alone, they sold a million iPads. Overall, that’s 26 iPads sold every minute, on average. In May, the iPad [...]

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Video & Pictures: Pope’s Visit to Naxxar, Malta

April 17, 2010

Pope Benedit XVI is in Malta this weekend, visiting during April 17-18th, 2010. He landed at Malta International Airport at around 5pm and after all the formal stuff was taken care of, he drove around in his Popemobile to greet people, on his way to other destinations. I figured, since I was only a walk [...]

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Friday Flick Find: The Italian Man Who Went To Malta

April 16, 2010

It’s Friday and that calls for a new Friday Flick Find video. I figured, since the Pope (Benedict XVI) will be visiting Malta this weekend, that the video for today should be something about Malta. Just so we’re clear, this video has nothing to do with the Pope (I’m not going to have some crazy [...]

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Zooming In With The Tamron 70-300mm & Nikon D5000

January 10, 2010

A few days ago I recieved a Tamron A17 70-300mm lens for my Nikon D5000. The full name is Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro. I don’t know enough about DSLR shooting to determine whether or not the lens is any good, but for the price of less than $200, I’m quite satisfied with it. [...]

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Friday Flick Find: Snow Leopard & Get A Mac Ad’s

August 28, 2009

Today is the big day, August 28th, where Apple releases their new big cat: Snow Leopard. We’re going to see Mac geeks all weekend creating countless of threads on Mac forums about this and that, how great Snow Leopard is, how much it sucks, how many installation problems they had, how easy installation went and [...]

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How Do You Decide Which Charity To Donate to? Childrens, Animals, Cancer, or…?

August 24, 2009

Last week I was very close to donating €10 to a 17-year old girl who was injured in an accident here in Malta where a lightning set collapsed and injured her spinal cord. The complete treatment should cost €150,000 and she needs to start treatment as soon as possible, in order to increase her chances [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Ready For Pre-Order. What About Malta?

August 24, 2009

Apple is now offering its users the ability to pre-order Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard from the Apple Store. You can get a single-user license for just $29 and a Family pack license (install on up to 5 Mac’s within the same household) for just $49. One should note though, these are Leopard upgrades, [...]

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iPhone 3GS In Malta Has Arrived

August 1, 2009

According to Vodafone Malta and the “iPhone 3G/3GS in Malta”-Facebook group, Vodafone Malta now has the 16GB iPhone 3GS available and in stock. You may have to go to Dickens in Sliema to get one though, I’m not sure yet. The list price is €599 but they also write “Special offer price: €75″ – not [...]

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iPhone 3GS In Malta By Vodafone Late October

July 22, 2009

Sorry non-Maltese readers, you will probably not find this one that much interesting. However, I know a lot of people in Malta are getting really impatient waiting for the iPhone 3GS to arrive in Malta and Vodafone doesn’t seem to be willing to release any information at all, not even an expected release date. When [...]

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