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WWDC – Nothing special, eh !

Published on June 8, 2009 in Apple, Expensive Stuff, Gadgets, Random Rant and Tech World. 0 Comments

Well, another WWDC over and out (is it just me or does that name conjour up images of Hulk Hogan smashing iMacs over someones head in a cage match… okay its just me then :)

well, all things being equal, i cant say i really cared about much that was announced at the WWDC, new macbooks (their just faster, whoop), built in SD card slot (sorry, but i prefer the ExpressCard slot, had some options what i could stick in there, extra firewire, external graphics, Memory card reader, my finger, etc)…

The biggest shout out in my opinion had to goto the official notice of Snow Leopard, looking really nice for a quick release, with its built in exchange support (watch out Windows 7, not even you do that lol, and its your software hehe), and full 64-bit architecture we might finally see a apple kicking into the business workspace for real (cus lets face it, Microsoft entourage is a piece of sh*t… memory sucking sh*t)… and at the price of Snow Leopard, it might even be worth ordering a nice shiney disk instead of the casual download (words of anti-piracy advise for all you nasty pirates out there ;)

and not onto my new pet peeve, iPhone 3G ‘s’… yup, this little puppy is kinda annoying, for all the nice features of the new iPhone, lets throw some consideration towards those poor iPhone 3G users (ME) who have just been told that they can have copy and paste, and a rotating keyboard, but if they want the nice new ‘cool’ feature of voice control (which i used to use quite a bit on my old Sony K800i) then i gotta start looking to the bank balence again…. Apple are inevitably gonna say the same thing they did with the gesture pad on the macBooks, ‘its a hardware based chip doing it’, WHY… if my touchpad understands they im giving it the old two fingers, surley it can understand how im moving them, do it in software you shmuc’s, we got RAM and processor cycles lying around doing squat, your telling me we cant spare a couple of hundered to monitor what im doing with my touchpad…

And the same really goes for this new iPhone voice control, i GUARENTEE that within 3 months of the 3.0 iPhone launch, some developer will of made an iPhone app (available within CYDIA) which will allow iPhone 3G users to do exactly that (the same as my MMS app which is doing exactly what apple cant do, for the mere few pounds it cost me)… id bet money on that, it might not look as pretty, or have some apple monkey on stage talking about it, but it will do the job, it will most likely be free and will prob be much more customizable !

Sorry Apple, I have a MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, iPhone 3G and you still consistantly dissapoint me at times, stop trying to reinvent the wheel, if another business who has been doing this for years (Nokia, Sony, Siemens, etc) have features such as MMS, Copy and Paste, good cameras then why was has it taken you this long to think they might be worth incorporating… Rule of development for revolutionary product [Everone elses good ideas] + [Your brilliant ideas] + [Industry standary technology (3G, MMS, Copy/Paste, Camera, Flash, Long Battery)] = YOUR NEW PRODUCT… Apples way of doing things [Our brilliant ideas] = somewhat lacking product !

Well, thats enough ranting, only to add one last thing, has anyone else noticed that the estimated battery life on the new iPhone 3GS is virtually identical to the old one, whats the bet that this one is gonna be just as crap on battery (aka, JuiceBox requirement) or they actually got it right this time… personally i think with the new higher power processor were all still gonna be looking to get some solar pannels stuck on the roof of our cars…

Over and Out….

P.S taking bets now that the tom tom is more expensive than the phone lol… and i love the ‘enhanced GPS’, that is a classic statement… read between the lines ‘tom tom said our GPS was shit, so they made their own’ lol

UPDATE : Looks like their is already an app out there (http://www.adelavoice.com/voicedialer/) so lets just give a shout out to apple for still not letting backgroud apps do the work they wanna charge us more for !

“I’ve never been on that site love… erm it must be a virus”!

Published on March 30, 2009 in Everyday News and Random Rant. 0 Comments

Politicians. Great aren’t they? The on-going expenses row is rumbling on. One got a second house just a few minutes away from his first and there are others ‘extracting the urine’, but one story this week has made people laugh and angry in equal measures.

I’m not going to spoil a journalists dream of a story to whinge about politicians and their misuse of their expenses, if you want to read that I’m sure the Daily Mail is having a 40-page pull out on the issues blaming immigrants, the labour party and David Beckham.

If you’ve not heard this story, Home Secretary Jaqui Smith’s husband put two pornographic films on her list of expenses. 

The story goes that he downloaded several pay-per-view movies while his wife was away on government business, added them to the expenses form and didn’t stop to think that two of them were hardcore porn.  Take away the press coverage and what you have is a story many men have experienced first erm… hand. Being caught by your partner watching porn. but of course those websites you got caught on were pop-ups or adverts that opened after you googled “romantic weekends away” (I’ve got to be careful here as I could start to sound like the voice of experience)

However most people are surely not stupid enough openly admit to viewing porn by putting it in writing are they? Or is that what a freshly deleted history and temporary Internet files is? And to quote one Mr Michael McIntyre

“I think i’ll use the Internet”

“ONE SECOND… It umm needs fixing love”

“WOW, it looks like no-one has ever used it”

For most ‘normal’ people watching porn while your partner is away means that you have to spend at least one night sleeping on the sofa but only after ducking and dodging the barrage of cutlery and crockery that come your way. For Mr Home Secretary he has to publicly admit not only has he been found out he watching  porn, he also was stupid enough to watch Ocean’s 13. Twice.

Virgin Media & Sky are Friends again ;-)

Published on November 4, 2008 in Random Rant, Random Stuff, Tech World and TV Shows. 0 Comments

Whoo… I still remember the day when I turned on my faithful Virgin Box and received the “Thanks to Sky, the Sky One channel is no longer available. They’ve picked up their ball and gone home. Foul play? We think so.” It was such a shame to loose all these valuable channels just cus these little kids couldn’t get along anymore….

Well, after a valiant attempt by Virgin to actually sue Sky for competition rules in the UK high Court, it seems they have decided to be friends again… A new deal which comes into affect on November 13th will see the return of Sky One, Sky News and some other channels not yet declared. This deal has also been secured untill 2011 (so the Olympics are gonna clog it up for a good 6 months then)…

Gotta say its very nice of sky to come back to the table, especially now, since many of the current US TV shows which are exclusive to sky are now airing regular again, begs the question what exactly did Virgin do to pull these channels back into their sweet embrace !

Now the argument over the future of ITV is to be settled, but that’s left to the power players (Murdoch’s) to sort out… Does anyone else feel like kinda an ant playing in the giants playground…?

Credit Crisis Explained… I Like It ;-)

Published on October 21, 2008 in Random Rant. 1 Comment


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Male Geeks, here’s your robotic Girl

Published on June 24, 2008 in Random Rant. 0 Comments

She’s very lovable and though she’s not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend.

After years of Sci-Fi films where technology has advanced enough to satisfy our need for love and sex, we are finally starting to see the fantasy become a reality with the release of Japan’s robotic girlfriend.

EMA, Eternal Maiden Actualization, produced by Sega Toys, is 15 inches tall and kisses on command, which is a lot better than the recent release of cell phone robotic friends.

Strong, tough and battle-ready are some of the words often associated with robots, but we wanted to break that stereotype and provide a robot that’s sweet and interactive, said Minako Sakanoue, a spokeswoman for the maker, Sega Toys.

Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the EMA enters into a sort of ‘love mode’ and will pucker up to kiss any nearby human heads. She can also walk and dance when in the presence of another human being.

The EMA robot will go on sale in September for around $175 and will be targeted towards lonely adult men. Sega is hoping to sell over 10,000 units in the first year.

It is shocking, with the amount of full size robots being developed and how real looking the romantic dolls are, that they did not create a larger and more life-like version than they did.

I guess they figure if they could afford to pay for a life size one, then they probably don’t need it.

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