Friday 23 April 2010

British Council Plan B

OK, so my plan B is now perfectly viable! Hooray!
If I don't get onto my choice Social Work MA, I have got onto a teaching assistant programme in France! yay! It's always good to have something to fall back on if everything goes pear-shaped, and knowing I will get money is also a boon! :D
So yeah, pretty chuffed...

Thursday 22 April 2010

Photo Vandal Review

Best iPhone apps at AppStoreHQ


There are now thousands of app's available for the iPhone that are simply piling up in the iTunes store, this is making it increasing difficult to sort the gems from the general hoi-polloi. Photo Vandal is an app. that has been, so far, seemingly overlooked.
Yes, it isn't a super practical tool to help you scrape back some control of your 'every second counts' life, but it is a fun, entertaining program which is used with relative ease (and if there is any confusion, a quick perusal of the short 'help' screen will set you straight) and you can create some cracking pictures.
This is an app. that people of any age can appreciate, just load up a photo (one you've taken with your iPhone, or just one you have in your album) and you can 'vandalize' it with a good selection of comedy clip-art. Turn your muscle men into babies with bonnets and pacifiers, put pig-tails on the bar man... there's many pictures to choose from - and if you are really that keen - you can make your own clip-art to load into the programme.
The best feature for this programme is the upload straight to Facebook aspect; this means you can sit in the pub, snap pictures of your friends in fiendishly embarrassing (or slightly inebriated) poses and splatter their faces with beards, moustaches, scars, glasses, silly hats and a hundred more things. The end result is of a good quality and kept us laughing for hours. It's an entertaining app. which you can use again and again - guaranteed to get a laugh and people wanting a turn.
*****