Tom Goskar – Archaeologist

Research-led 3D scanning, surface enhancement, audio restoration and AI for heritage

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  • Why the Apple Tablet will be the ‘Computer for the rest of us’

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    Amongst all of the speculation about the rumoured forthcoming ‘Apple Tablet’ computer, I came across an excellent article entitled Why The Tablet Will Finally Be Steve Jobs’ “Computer For the Rest of Us” on Cult of Mac. It sums up what was important about the iPhone – hiding the complexity of the workings of the…

  • London, life and Brompton folding bikes

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    I’ve realised that I never got around blogging about some changes in my life recently. First, I have moved to central London. I still work for Wessex, but now do so remotely, visiting the offices once a fortnight (or more often if needed for a meeting there or elsewhere). I am loving London so far…

  • Official Skype for Symbian S60 native client

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    At long last, Skype have released an official Skype for Symbian client. I have it installed on my Nokia E71 and it works well. So far I have only two issues with it: when I lose 3G reception (which happens frequently where I live), despite having a preferred access point defined in the software, the client…

  • Being @tag on Twitter

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    When I signed up to Twitter in early February 2007 I wanted as short a username as possible, and as Twitter was still young, I was able to get a three letter username – @tag – which are my initials (@tom had gone) to save on those precious 140 characters. Twitter didn’t do tagging, and…

  • New Gong album “2032” coming soon

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    Pioneering psychedelic space rockers Gong, who have been making music for well over 40 years, are soon to release a new album, entitled “2032”. This track, “How to Stay Alive”, along with its outstanding video, is a taster of what is to come when the album is released on 21 September 2009. From what I…

  • Stonehenge at the Summer Solstice 2009

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    It’s just over a month since the summer solstice, and, if you have never spent the night at Stonehenge with 35,000 other people, this short film should hopefully give you a hint of the sights, sounds and atmosphere. The film starts in the evening as the sun sets, through to partying in the dark of…

  • Shared Items in Google Reader

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    I’m just getting into the idea of using the “shared items” feature of Google Reader (Google’s online RSS reader). I’ve been a heavy user of Google Reader right from the start, after using NetNewsWire (which is great) but wanting to read my feeds on a variety of devices (not just my Mac). Google Reader has,…

  • “To Do” managers on Symbian S60 – where are they?

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    iPhone users seem to have it all (except battery life) these days. There’s a slew of ToDo managers available for it, with beautifully designed interfaces, and crucially, for me at least, those that sync with online services such as ToodleDo or Remember the Milk. // // Folks have been asking Remember the Milk developers for…

  • The fabled Google OS

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    Well, it had to happen eventually. Google have just announced their latest project: Google Chrome OS. You can’t download it just yet, but we can expect to see products (initially netbooks) running it next year: Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year…

  • Sample photos taken with an LG KC910 Renoir

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    In the last few days I’ve taken a lot of photos with my new LG KC910 “Renoir”, and I’m quite taken with the camera. Here’s a slideshow of photos taken with the phone – this will update automatically via Flickr: I’ll do some more movie recording soon, and post  samples here.