Last month I entered Smashing Magazine’s desktop calendar competition, unfortunately my design didn’t make through to the final 30, there are some good designs in there this month but I like to think mine was a strong contender. Here it is along with all the different versions for you downloading pleasure.

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To promote his new album, Moby has got together with Instagram and SoundCloud and has put together a minisite to stream his album (via the SoundCloud API) and to show off photos (via photos taken with Instagram and hash tagged #destroyed) from cities at 2am in the morning.

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About.me is great, I love the idea of a great big photo for your profile page along with all your social networking links – it’s great place to advertise yourself and a great starting point for people wanting to find out about you… or me. Here’s 26 of my favourite profiles I’ve seen so far.

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Instagram recently published its API allowing websites and services to use it’s data. Instagreat is one such website, built by the very clever @elliottkember and @dizzyup it allows you to browse the Instragram stream.

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After about three and a half months of near continuous work – our entire DVD film collection has been ripped, converted and is now stored on a Western Digital NAS drive available for Apple TV2. Here’s how I did it.

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Last night I finally got the opportunity to watch Tron: Legacy – after three previously failed attempts. Expectations were pretty high, there’s been lots of positive chatter on Twitter about the film, I’ve been listening to the soundtrack since it was released in December – it’s Daft Punk’s best work since Homework – and I’ve seen plenty of trailers, so I knew it would look good!

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Instagram has been mentioned a lot in my Twitter stream over the last couple of days, and rightly so. It’s a great photo sharing application with a camera app that’s capable of creating some lovely filtered images. At first look I wasn’t sure I was going to use it – the filters are so similar to Hipstamatic – but because the pixel size is only 612 x 612, it was never going to have the quality of my favourite camera app.

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Inspired by Toby Long – a friend and fellow new parent, I’ve started to record snippets of our every day lives; usually concentrating on the family’s new addition – Finley, as well as a few other day to day happenings. I purchased a Kodak Zi8 for the task at hand, a point and shoot video camera capable of High Definition 1080 pixel video at the touch of one button, it’s also got zoom and a macro setting. It’s great and so simple to use.

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I’ve recently come across candid photography, and it’s definitely something I want to try out in the future. It seems like one of the main skills you need is being in the right place at the right time – which I’m not sure is a skill exactly, but more about luck.

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Without doubt the best camera app for the iPhone! I was a little unsure when I first looked at the app, it wasn’t free which always makes me second guess an app – how many times have you been caught out by an app with a good write up which doesn’t live up to the PR. But in Hipstamatic’s case all the reviews were so positive a jumped in and paid the £1.19… and continued to spend money on the in app products; different flashes, lens and film options to give you even more effects.

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