Hi Apple, I love my iPhone. It took a while to ween me away from wanting to actually be able to store and organise my files, control directories, copy files on and off my 16GB £400 memory card, install applications that haven’t been through your ridiculous process, copy and paste (until very recently) data etc.. [...]
09
Sep
The calm after the storm – Post ‘Jobs-note’
So, Steve’s taken the stage and done his bit. Now it’s up to us to spend the next 3-5 days marveling at the design brilliance of Apple and how they’ve changed our lives before settling back down in to the (not unimpressive) reality that they’ve just re-engineered an existing solution to be intuitive and look [...]
09
Apr
Wonderful Success Message
Error messages have gotten a lot of flack over the years for unintuitive wording or programatic creation (causing odd succesions of phrases to the effect of ‘there was an error’) to which all you can reply is ‘okay’ implying that somehow it is acceptable for the computer to erase all your data. Today, however, a [...]
25
Mar
Why wordpress is so great.
Like many students, I got given free hosting by Microsoft under their ‘dreamspark’ initiative. It’s a great idea, but the service is unfortunately so crippled that all it did was encourage me to go and hire a linux server and a domain! :s. It will only execute ASP.NET code from the main folder, getting a [...]
25
Mar
Why are we five years behind?
*transferred from old site* This Wednesday Hulu’s set to launch; Hulu for those of you in Britain who don’t know is a service created by NBC and News Corporation. It is an online service that allows you to watch any NBC content (with more coming), on any device, for free. All content is free. This [...]
