Fruit Ninja Clip-ons

I really don't know how big thing Fruit Ninja is here in Finland, but in any case they are now selling Fruit Ninja related toys at the supermarket.

Angry Birds collectible figurines

Latest additions to our local supermarket's toy section. 

I think I enjoy going through the shelves and new toys as much as my kids!

Angry Hockey Bird

I just need to keep my pocket camera always with me or upgrade my phone to a one with a better camera.

It seems that there are a lot of things I would like to take photos of, but my old Nokia camera phone performs badly both in low light and in bright light. Sorry for the image quality in these photos.

This is one of the latest Angry Birds, the Hockey Bird! It is created by Rovio (so it is legit!) for the Ice Hockey Championships 2012 held in Finland.

 

Read more about Hockey Bird (in Finnish): http://leijonat.fi/index.php/maajoukkueet/maajoukkue-naiset/4375-angry-birds-yhtioe-rovio-mm-maskotin-taustalla.html

There is also a stamp with Hockey Bird in it: http://www.posti.fi/english/current/2012/20120221_hockeybird.html

 

Marco, Mario's and Luigi's brother?

I noticed this package on the shelf of our local supermarket.

With a little googling, I found out that I am not the first one to notice the resemblance between Marco, the character from pasta bag and Mario, the game character from Nintendo games.

Funny Superman burger van

These photos were taken on one of my trips to Taipei, Taiwan.

I enjoy taking long walks through the city and going through small alleys. The main streets have shops for luxury items and global brands and high quality restaurants, but immediately next to these shopping areas there are businesses targeted for locals. The price level for anything drops dramatically and they have clearly invested less to the environment and presentation.

This "Superman burger van" was parked in one of those alleys...

Amazing wall painting

I have planned to photograph this wall for some time now, and now when I had the possibility I took it. Unfortunately it was snowing a bit, so there are some white artifacts (snow flakes!) in the picture.

Colors and perspective are fixed in GIMP to improve the image.

In the painting you can see an old man, standing or kneeling in the field of flowers, holding his hat, in a position which makes me think that man is in grief. The blue serpent is laughing behind the man and has its tail around old man's arm.

More images about this painting

- http://graffart.eu/blog/2011/05/aryz-turku-finland/

- http://www.aryz.es/outdoor/page/4

The same wall used to have "Pepsi" wall painting on it. The old painting can be still seen from Google maps.

- Google Maps link

Samsung widget "Picture Frame" is showing image that does not exist

I recently tested Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and also my kids got a chance to try it out.

Of course they immediately took some silly photos and some how managed to put them into the "Picture Frame" widget which was shown on the home screen, immediately after opening the device.

As the device is not actually mine to keep, I needed to remove the photos my kids took. I used gallery to search the images and deleted the chosen image files. To my surprise, the removed photos were still displayed on the widget!

I tried many different things, I removed all the gallery related caches and image indexes, but the photos were still persistent in the widget.

Finally I removed the whole widget from the desktop by keeping the widget selected for a few seconds, and then dragging the widget on top of the trashcan icon in the upper right corner. After removing the widget, I added it back again and added some photos from the gallery to it. And no more silly photos were shown!

This was the only procedure I could find to remove unwanted and already deleted images from "Picture Frame" widget on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. I guess the widget makes some kind of own cache to the disk, but I was not able to find another way to remove/clear the cache than removing the widget and adding it back again.