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So you’re feeling all snug and warm in your home office, well why not add some wintery charm to your Teams and Zoom meetings with these amazing winter and snow backgrounds.
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Time to get into the festive spirit in the last full week at work with these festive background for Zoom or Teams.
Last year I posted ten festive images, well here are ten new ones to get you and your meetings into a Christmas mood.
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Time to get into the festive spirit with one month until Christmas Day with these festive background for Zoom or Teams. As some of you are still probably working from home.
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Thinking that would never catch on….
I actually remember seeing this when it was broadcast.
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1437438420867956738
Michael Rodd makes a call with an experimental cordless mobile phone. It’s 1979 and time for the telephone to go mobile. In this report from a longer programme, Michael Rodd examines a British prototype for a cordless telephone that allows the user to make calls from anywhere. Also included at the end of this item is a rather nice out-take as Rodd also experiences the first mobile wrong number.
Of course we don’t really use our phones as phones these days, the mini computer we have in our pockets is now used for way more than just making calls.
So there I was leaving Bristol after an evening out and Waze was sending me out of Bristol via Princes Street Bridge. As I turned onto Princes Street the warning lights went on and the barriers came down!
I had to wait.
Even though I know the way home to Weston-super-Mare from Bristol, I sometimes use Waze to get me out of Bristol, as it knows where there is traffic and it also gives me an idea of what time I will arrive home.
Waze sent me down the M5 this time, the motorway southbound was quite clear, northbound it was a different picture with a ten mile tailback. Looked like there had been an accident on the Twickenham Viaduct, but the queue of traffic went back to the junction with Weston-super-Mare.
Can’t quite get my head around I have been using Snapseed for over ten years now…
This was my first use of Snapseed back in 2011 of Gloucestershire College.
Here is my most recent use of Snapseed in 2021. This is the old Grosvenor Hotel in Bristol.
I have written about Snapseed before. In 2018 I spoke about the app and showed of some of my photographs I had edited in Snapseed. There was an earlier post in 2012.
I was particularly pleased with the way this image of the Matthew at the Bristol Harbour Festival turned our, almost like an oil painting with the shadows and textures.
My original thoughts from ten years ago were in this post.
Over the last few days I have been playing around with the Snapseed app for the iPad. This is a wonderful photograph editing app that I was told about by Mark Power on the Twitter, here is a live link to his image.
I think I may be getting a little obsessed with @Snapseed 🙂 http://www.flickr.com/photos/markleepower/5821517175/
— Mark Power (@markpower) June 11, 2011
A prototype flying car has completed a 35-minute flight between international airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia reports the BBC.
The flying car has been a vision of the future for decades, along with the jetpack. Could this be the turning point and we start to see flying cars on our roads (and in the air) in the same way that we are now seeing electric vehicles?
Dr Stephen Wright, senior research fellow in avionics and aircraft, at the University of the West of England, described the AirCar as “the lovechild of a Bugatti Veyron and a Cesna 172”. Dr Wright said.
“Anyone can make an aeroplane but the trick is making one that flies and flies and flies for the thick end of a million hours, with a person on board, without having an incident.
Despite the easing of restrictions, think many of us will still be attending Zoom or Teams meetings over the next few months. So to get you in a summer mood here are ten amazing summer Zoom and Teams backgrounds to brighten your meetings.
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Time to get into the festive spirit in the last full week at work with these festive background for Zoom or Teams.
Right click the images to download the images.