A rare daylight match at Etihad stadium. Nice to shoot when the light is clearer and more “blue” than the artificial lights.
Images from A-League action at Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. Good crowd of over 20,000 – High res slideshow is here.
If you like seafood fresh from the catch, these days you really have to catch it yourself of go down to the market and make friends with a fishmonger. However, at the township of Strahan in the southwest corner of Tasmania there’s a fish and chip shop that sells the freshest and best value seafood I’ve come across in a long long time. I bought a dozen Bruny Island oysters which were shucked in front of me for $17 when a week ago they were $35 on the menu at Prosser’s in Hobart. We also bought whole crayfish for $40 that had sweet and tender meat, and when you break the legs, the meat just pulls out in whole pieces. A little piece of seafood heaven. Tip: Skip the Fish Cafe that’s owned by the Strahan Village operation and head across the street to Schwoch.
This is a great post about what’s what in Australia. In summary:
GSM 900/1800 = Standard for Optus, Vodafone and Telstra
But if you are on 3 you should roam onto Telstra GSM, but note in places like Tasmania, this doesn’t work so you’ll have no coverage.
3G on UMTS 2100: Telstra 3G, Optus 3G, Vodafone 3G, Three (3)
3G on UMTS 900: Optus yesG and Vodafone
3G on UMTS 850: Telstra NextG
Important points:
- iPhone does not have UMTS 900 so you wont get 3G in places like Tasmania
- 3G phones like Google’s Nexus One doesn’t have UMTS 850, so you won’t get 3G at all
- Handsets like SE K610i on Three (3) with only UMTS 2100 won’t roam onto GSM in Tasmania, and if on Optus, won’t get any coverage except for big cities where there is 2100 coverage.
There are no excuses:
Here are a few images from Tassie. Some shot on an iPhone and some on a Nikon D3s and D700:
If you have an iPhone with a 3 SIM it will roam onto Telstra’s NextG network in Tassie. Very good coverage. It’s a UMTS 850 network which the iPhone works with.
However, if you have a handset that doesn’t support UMTS 850 like the Sony K610i it will not roam onto Telstra’s GSM 900/1800 network.
So, everywhere outside Hobart (and probably Launceston and Devonport) there is no GSM roaming for 3 customers unless they have a UMTS 850 handset. How stupid is that?
Had to pick an app for my iPhone. The choices were TomTom, Sygic and Navigon. As all three have had an update recently none of the current reviews were much help. Since TomTom didn’t have Text to Speech I decided to get Sygic. Well, initial impressions are very good. [update: TomTom's current release now has TTS according to some reviews on Whirlpool] I also got the TomTom car kit and the two work together flawlessly. It’s the best GPS I’ve had in a car. Better than the OEM ones on BMWs.
