iPhone 6 predictions

Want I'd like to see;

• Larger form factor & bigger screen
• Better camera
• Faster wireless mobile / cellular data capability
• Enhancements to Siri
• Better battery life
• Faster processor / more memory / better graphics
• Additional multitasking functionality / dual screen functionality
• More reliable / robust / less buggy / lower failure rate
• Beautiful new design
• Smart bezel to have some interactivity with the bezel of the device with the screen
• Larger choice in colour?
• Better quality speakers / higher volume capability
• Reversible USB / Lighting connection
• Enhancements to the iBeacons technology / reliability / frequency reading capability
• NFC capability to enable the digital wallet in your phone

Let's see how many of the items I get right!

It's been seven months since my last post

Wow, it's been 7 months since my last post.

Since then I've been in a new role looking at things like Augmented Reality (Aurasma), Virtual Reality (Oculus Rift), app development (iOS / Objective C), and much much more. It's been fabulous, but has also taken up all my time, so my digital blogging has fallen by the way-side.

Additionally I helped setup and support several events this year, including the First FordStore, the Ford Go Further Event in December, the Geneva Motor-show, Ford's presence at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the UCL Champions League Festival in Lisbon, Portugal and many smaller events in Barcelona & Germany.

The job is quite phenomenal, and as the assets I develop get rolled out around Europe I'll be blogging about them.

www.kevingordon.org.uk - Kev's Web re-design

Here is an early design of www.kevingordon.org.uk;

It evolved from that, and I dropped the Sonic image at the top and replaced with a different header. Since 2010 I had a new design for the site planned, see the sketch below - it was based on a website I saw that I really liked;

So this month (October 2013) I finally got round to making the changes to the website, and this is what it looks like;

Internet and Raspberry Pi enabled model railway @ kevingordon.org.uk

I have been busy writing up my Raspberry Pi project, which is an internet and Raspberry Pi enabled model railway, see it here at http://www.kevingordon.org.uk/articles/raspberry-pi-railway-web-controlled.html In this article you will find the follow;

• The process I went through to create the project
• The source material
• The architecture diagrams of the design as it developed
• The source code, both for the Raspberry Pi (python) and server-side (PHP)
• Videos of the railway working at different stages/progress of the project
• Other relevant images
• The XpressNet API guide for download

I hope you enjoy, would love to hear if you use this to base your own project off of!

TheNotebookStore pilot project

I'm trying out a pilot to sell Notebooks at TheNotebookStore (The Notebook Store). You can buy them on eBay here; eBay sellers page.

As a pilot I'm trying to see the popularity, selling process and margin that can be made, I welcome feedback on this project.


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Practical Study of Parallel Algorithms - by Kevin Gordon

This is the paper I wrote for my final year project at the University of Warwick. I include it here for personal reference, and also in the hope that someone else will also find this useful.

http://www.kevingordon.org.uk/projects/bsp/experimental-parlallel-computing-final-report.pdf

Abstract

This project gives an introduction to the field of parallel computing and the parallel computing model: BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallelism). The aim of this project was to carry out the implementation and analysis of two BSP problems. The parallel broadcast problem and parallel matrix multiplication were implemented, several experiments were run, and the results were analysed. Analysis of the results revealed that the experimental results didn’t always match what the BSP model predicted, and this was highly dependent on both the type of architecture running the code and the optimisation of the code.

Where is the missing search feature in iOS 7?

Some people have asked me how you can search in iOS 7, because you can no longer swipe all the way to the left to search.

Well all you need to do is on any of the home pages, swipe down anywhere in the middle region of the screen and the new search feature will appear.

Voila, done!