Recent content by Mike s

There's a free app available called Vlingo which is similar to Siri and works remarkably well.

I'm down to 52% and it's the second full charge today. I'll try a couple of reboots but I've already done one.

I'm glad I'm not on my own too. I'm sure a solution will come to light over the next few days.

Logically I wouldn't have thought the notification centre would make much difference as it's only a different way of presenting what the iPhone has always done.

No, I haven't activated iCloud either.

Is anyone have problems with battery life since upgrading to ios 5? I'm losing 23% per hour with no wifi, no 3G and location services turned off.

Och, stuff the morals. Anyone with any ounce of humour would love to see the picture. :)

Single point for me too. I know where I stand with it.

If it was me, I'd be giving them 600 pixel (longest side) low res images. Certainly no more than 800.

The best thing to do when there is a strong red cast is convert the images to b&w. You'd probably get a much more satisfactory set of photos that way rather than using flash.

I'm with Odd Jim. Take the 50D and 10-20mm.

Thanks Les. Stone is only a twenty minute drive away.

I've just joined up so thought I'd introduce myself. My name's Mike (obviously) and I live on the edge of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. I took up photography in early 2008 and after the initial stage of photographing anything and everything I now concentrate on landscape, seascape and...