Tom Smith
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Tag Archives: iphone
Maps, Mobile and Instant Backchannels
Whoo hoo! Doing OpenStreetMap based stuff in Plone works (thanks to some pointers from Giorgio Borelli). Here’s two offices, mine and Alistair’s in Heslington Hall added to the University of York map. Perfect! Interestingly ANY Plone object can have coordinates … Continue reading
Launched! The Random Activity Generator
The RAG iphone app is now available on the AppStore. It’s an educational-inspiration-onometer that generates lots of, well, random and educational activities. It’s hard to explain. If you want to watch a movie of the app or find out more … Continue reading
100 Reasons Why Not To Buy An iPhone
After my woeful iphone experiences (which apart from still not having any 3G) seem to have fixed themselves after upgrapding iTunes8 (eh?) I wanted to document what apps I’ve installed so that when I have to install them all again … Continue reading
Roll on Friday…
Rick tells me, with more than a chortle in his voice, that Apple are to offer bug-fixing iPhone software update… oh goody… If you follow my pathetic twitterings you’ll know that I’m unlucky when it comes to iPhones. I was … Continue reading
iHologram
John Davitt sent me this iHologram – iPhone application on Vimeo, which immediately made me think of medical simulations, perhaps waving the iPhone over someone’s leg and showing them a simulated knee joint inside. Whether it’s a fake or not, … Continue reading
Mactard
Andy recently called me a Mactard…and sowed seeds of doubt about Apple’s place in the universe. I recently lost a lot of my personal data upgrading my laptop to 10.5. The installer crashed. Yes I’d backed up and I no … Continue reading
Google, Spam Blogs and Originality
Dear Google, you can improve the quality of the web for all of us by killing spam blogs. It’s quite easy to do, just search for … “wrote an interesting post today on” and “Here€™s a quick excerpt“. Here’s almost … Continue reading
iPhone and Textual Input
One of my clients humorously lamented the fact that using T9 on a mobile phone for texting was becoming a lost art since they’d got an iPhone and started using the little on-screen keyboard. I am slightly amazed by the … Continue reading
iPhone …
There is an unwritten rule that just when you say “Well at least things can’t get an worse” that the really bad shit happens. I got a call from the lovely Barry at Carphone Warehouse to tell me that I … Continue reading
Carphone Warehouse iPhone Scum
It gets worse than worse…. (see previous posts)… So just now I phone the delightful Barry at Carphone Warehouse, who tells me… My iPhone(s) should have been delivered and that Carphone Warehouse have a few thousand on the stock databases, … Continue reading
iPhone 3G One Week Anniversary Interview
Who’d a thought? Time flies… I bumped into two fellow iQueue-ers this week, one in York and one on the train from Leeds. Only one of us has an iPhone. Two of us are plotting. It’s now the one week … Continue reading
The Carphone Warehouse iPhone Scam
It gets worse… I just called Carphone Warehouse and asked where my lovely iPhones were (due to be delivered Monday) and they said that they don’t have the stock to fill the order. The said that someone must have entered … Continue reading