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Monday, February 16th, 2009ShoZu Picture Of The Day
Monday, January 5th, 2009We’re back with the ShoZu Picture Of The Day! Mail me your best, most relevant or most unusual ShoZu uploads (to Flickr or the like) and we’ll put your name in lights here and drop your site a link. (I’m ewan@mobileindustryreview.com – use the subject ‘ShoZu Picture Of The Day’ so I can quickly spot your mail).
Today’s ShoZu is one of mine. From an hour or so ago:
Yes! I awoke in glorious Billericay to find the place literally covered in snow.
Well, not quite.
We’ve got an inch, perhaps less.
So for all the Americans and Canadians reading — or anyone who lives in an actually SNOWY part of the world, let me deliver you a bit of morning entertainment.
You see, despite there being less than an inch of shitty powdery snow, most of the area is closed. Shut down. Schools will close, offices will shut temporarily, trains will be delayed. We simply can’t handle snow in the United Kingdom, especially not in the suburbs around London where 0.5 inches of snow is comparable to getting a 4ft drop in -10c (without wind chill) conditions in the middle of Tahoe.
We just can’t handle it. Folk are putting on their Wellington Boots as I speak and ‘braving’ the terrible conditions. So terrible that it’s actually reading 1.5c on the thermometer. That’s right, the snow will be gone in a few hours but you can count on the total disruption of the entire region.
Only a few moments ago a van was valiantly battling against the snow to drive up my road. You see those tracks? Those were made by that very van. Such a brave effort. He was slipping and sliding all over the shop in 2nd gear.
We don’t bother with 5th-gear snow-driving nonsense here. Heh. We just point the vehicles in the right direction in 1st gear (WHY ISN’T THE WHEEL GRIPPIN’????) and curse the ‘treacherous’ conditions.
If you’ve got any pictures uploaded to ShoZu of some DECENT snowy conditions outside, please email them in.
ShoZu Picture Of The Day
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Today’s ShoZu Picture Of The Day is from our very own James Whatley.
This is his very first upload to Flickr via ShoZu. His first. Ever.
And would you believe it was only 53 weeks ago? Just a smidgen over a year ago. Wow.
And what was his first upload?
A Christmas tree!
He snapped it with the now ubiquitous Nokia N95 — but didn’t have the geo-encoding live at that point.
You can find the original here and the Whatley’s full Flickr feed here.
He’s also got a photo map here thanks to ShoZu’s automatic geo-encoding of all his photo uploads.
And, as a bonus, read this How-To on ShoZu authored by the dude himself.
ShoZu Picture Of The Day
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008We’re going arty once more with today’s ShoZu Picture Of The Day.
Here it is:
Now.
What handset do you reckon took that one?
N95.
Is the Nokia N95 one of the best mobile camera phones on the planet? I think so. You can see the original photo here.
This is another shot from the collection of MIR reader Mark Thomas. You’ve got a knack of capturing good lookin’ plants, Mark!
You can see Mark’s other submission last week here.
ShoZu Picture Of The Day
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008This morning’s ShoZu Picture Of The Day is from regular reader, Andy Hooper.
Andy uses ShoZu a lot to snap pictures, get’em up to Flickr, so that his kids can take a look to see what he’s been up to.
The photo below is from Andy’s flickr feed and shows a street in Ottawa. It was apparently -18 Celsius when he arrived on Monday — then the weather warmed up and promptly dumped a ton of snow:
That sort of thing is entirely foreign to us here in the United Kingdom. If we get more than an inch of snow, the country tends to shut down immediately, news teams rush to film stupid motorists who thought their Ford Ka’s would be perfectly fine driving up steep hills, and we all generally do a collective shudder and hope we’ve got enough breakfast cereal in the cupboard.
Goodness knows what we’d do if we were dumped a few feet of snow overnight.
I’ve got some more from Andy — including his first ever upload.
The Ottawa photo was taken with a Motorola Q9h — although that doesn’t get a description from Flickr and I don’t think it can use ShoZu’s geotagging functionality either.
Strange that it’s identified as a ‘Motorola Not Available’. I do think that’s a pretty good monicker for the Q9 series though — my Q9c from the States was more or less permanently unavailable. I’ve got a video to show you later.
Andy, thank you very much for sending this in – most appreciated!
ShoZu Picture Of The Day
Monday, December 15th, 2008This morning’s ShoZu Picture Of The Day is from reader Shazly Makeen. Shazly runs WoM Lanka, a side dedicated to covering all things Symbian out of the gorgeous Sri Lanka.
Shazly’s first ever ShoZu upload was to Flickr and was geotagged to Dehlwala, Western Sri Lanka. Very cool indeed.
I suspect, but can’t confirm, that this is Shazly’s young one:
Nice one Shazly! You can see his best ever upload here.
And in case you’re wondering, Shazly’s handset of choice? Nokia N82.
ShoZu Picture Of The Day
Friday, December 12th, 2008Today we’re going high-culture. Mobile Industry Review reader Mark Thomas has sent in one of his best ShoZu shots uploaded to Flickr.
Here it is:
You can see the original here.
That was, believe it or not, taken on a Nokia N95.
Wow.
Very impressive stuff Mark!
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As part of the continuing MIR ShoZu Campaign, I’d like to publish your first, best or unique pictures that you’ve uploaded somewhere. Send me a link to Flickr (or the like) to ewan@mobileindustryreview.com.
