August 5th, 2008 Piers
I don’t own a Mac. Or a Macbook (although I am tempted). I don’t own an iPhone. I do however have a 5th Generation iPod (aka a “video” iPod). No, that iPod has no internet connection. It has no calendar software, nor can it send, receive or have email “pushed” to it.
So why, when I go to my Control Panel in windows, do I see this (click the image for the full size view):
I’m assuming that it came with the latest version of iTunes when I downloaded it the other day, but I never asked for it. I don’t even think it asked me if I wanted to install anything to do with it. And I thought it was bad when Microsoft used to install things without my say so.
Apple, you’re taking liberties!!
(Apologies for the bad image editing. Photoshop was never my forté)
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January 23rd, 2008 Piers
I got an email yesterday from Fasthosts. Yes that Fasthosts. The tag line? “Risk Free Web Hosting!”.
Oh the irony.
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January 23rd, 2008 Piers
I’ve been looking to a way to post to this here blog from my N95 for a while and had heard good things about Wavelog (just released). I’m going to have a play over the next couple of weeks. You’ll see the results here.
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December 5th, 2007 Piers
One thing I have noticed recently is that more and more spam is managing to bypass Gmail’s spam filter and is successfully infiltrating my Inbox. Admittedly it’s only the odd one or two, but I’m sure Google used to be better than that.
Anyone else having this problem?
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September 19th, 2007 Piers
Ok, lets get the preamble out the way: iPhone blah blah Uk blah O2 blah.
Finished?
Paul Annett, over on his blog, has pointed out that even though they have been deemed great enough to be the ones to offer the iPhone (officially of course, since it’s apparently very easy to unlock it to other networks) the O2 website can’t be used correctly on (of all things) Safari, the very same browser that (wait for it) ships with the iPhone.
[Image from http://paulannett.co.uk]
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August 29th, 2007 Piers
Apple finally announced today that us poor folk in the UK will be able to download TV programs (but not yet movies) from the iTunes Store. Being the ever curious person that I am, I downloaded Make Love, Not Warcraft, the South Park episode thats half South Park, half WoW Machina (movies made using games for those that don’t know).
On the whole, pretty cool. at only £1.89 an episode, that’s not really that bad. The download was fairly speedy and the quality wasn’t too bad. The only thing that lets it down is the lack of content available at the moment (no CSI and no movies yet, at least in the UK) but hopefully that will change pretty quickly, especially as Google is no longer a competitor.
More info here
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August 29th, 2007 Piers
I have 5 Pownce invites if anyone wants one. Just post in the comments.
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August 10th, 2007 Piers
Yes I know it’s only a “proof of concept”, but the idea of a combined DAP and CD player where you can see the CD turning is awesome!
[linky]
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August 3rd, 2007 Piers
Well, I’ve started so I’ll finish. Received an email from VCI systems (the company reselling machines in the UK):
Apologies in advance for any doubling up to those correspondents who may have already received similar from the US, or been included other mail outs.
A Drobo unit with no drives is £350.00 inclusive of VAT with UK shipping at £14.95
A bundled unit including 2 x 320Gb drives is also available at £499.00.
We are expecting stock into the UK in the coming week.
Best regards
Robert Creech
So, 640 Gb with Drobo for £499? Not too bad. Probably going to wait for some reviews first (although if ayone from VCI is reading this and fancies loaning me one…)
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August 2nd, 2007 Piers
Wow these guys like to keep you up to date!!
I’ve just received another email from Drobo (see here for the last one). This one states that the £499 is including disks (although it didn’t specify how much storage). If you just want the Drobo system without any disks, it’s going to cost you £350 inc VAT. Now thats a bit better (since the $499 US price probably doesn’t include sales tax).
I’m definately seriously thinking about getting one of these. If anyone’s got one and they don’t mind loaning it to me (or if VCI is reading this can I have a loaner pretty please?)
[update]Just another thing that crossed my mind… For the £499 model, how much space do you get with it? £150 you’re only looking at about 150GB worth[/update]
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