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Meet our new neighbour. She spent 15 minutes or so looking around over the garden wall. More photos here.

Stunningly beautiful film exploring the link between nature and the Fibonacci Sequence. By Cristóbal Vila of Eterea Studios in Spain.

I’ve been happily using the Mail app in OS X for the past few years. Since I moved to Prime Focus I hit a brick wall when it comes to our corporate email and that brick wall has a name: Outlook Web Access. Slow, lumbering and exasperating as with all Microsoft products. What made the situation worse is that Exchange 2003 is unsupported in Snow Leopard (but supported perfectly well on the iPhone!)

I downloaded and installed a trial of Office for Mac to use Entourage and immediately hated the software. Uninstall and eradicate. After loads of searching I found DavMail, an open source solution for Exchange 2003 and Mail. DavMail sits in between Mail.app and the Exchange server and acts as a bridge. The config instructions need to be followed carefully but it works perfectly. And it has full support for Global Address Lists and iCal events as well.

No, not that Flame. This is a lot of fun. Flame Painter is a Java applet that lets you paint lovely freeform swirls. Prepare to lose yourself for a little while.

Stunning timelapse video of New York. All the tilt-shift/depth of field effects were created in post using Frischluft Lenscare, a plug-in I must have.

Apologies for the lack of updates. I’ve just returned from a 4 day shoot and I’ve been very very VERY busy. There’s a lot I plan to write about… the iPad arrives here next month, things I’ve been doing in Flame, lots of good software, links, and more.

While you’re waiting here’s the ad Apple aired during the Oscars last night.