Stuff UK — June 2017

I TOUCHED

THE MOON

Who goes all the way to

Orlando and doesn’t set

foot in a theme park? This

guy. Not because my stomach is even more

temperamental than iTunes, but because

there were space rockets to be gawped

at instead. So I moseyed on down to the

Kennedy Space Center for an awesome

look at mankind’s endeavours in the great

beyond, and even got to slap my index

finger on a tiny piece of moon rock. That

beats the screaming children of Disney

World and Universal Studios all day long.

Rob Leedham, Editor

I USED GOOGLE
TO MAKE FIVE
MEMES A MINUTE
Time was, making a decent
meme meant firing up Paint
and doodling some dodgy shapes. Now
Google is here to help. I Initially dismissed
AutoDraw as just another canvas app, but
oh how wrong I was. As I started to sketch
out my hilarious vision of a sheep riding in
a pickup truck, Google began suggesting
appropriate images including – lo! – both a
sheep and a pickup truck. How did it know?
Someone murmured something about AI,
but I don’t think we’ll ever know.
Chris Rowlands, Staff Writer, Stuff.tv

I TECHED MYSELF
OUT OF A HIKE
The map geeks at Ordnance
Survey have released
another feature for their
OS Maps app. With a Premium subscription
(£24/year) Aerial 3D lets you swoop over
Britain’s glorious crags and oxbows as if
you were a circling eagle, hunting for rabbits.
You can even overlay your proposed hiking
or biking route, if you have it as a .gpx file...
at which point I realised just how high it
was, and decided to leave it for another
weekend. I’m guessing that’s not quite
what they had in mind.
Fraser Macdonald, Consulting Editor

I KISSED MY

DSLR GOODBYE

Mo’ money, mo’ problems...

or in my case mo’ camera

gear to lug around on

holiday, mo’ of an arse than it’s worth.

And so, I embraced the ‘keep it simple,

stupid’ principle. My pocketable three-piece

photography setup was a ‘classic’ Ricoh

GRD2 28mm fixed-lens compact, an

SD card reader and an iPhone with the

Lightroom app for RAW editing. I really

enjoyed the simplicity of my setup, and

without a DSLR swinging around my belly

I avoided looking like a dad at Disney.

Chee-Chiu Lee, Brand Art Editor

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