Archive for July, 2008

iPhone 2.0 software update

Jul. 12, 2008 2 Comments Posted under: Random

Having missed out on a 3G iPhone, thanks to O2’s shoddy organisation, planning and web servers, I have been consolodating myself with the iPhone software update.

The 2.0 software covers most of the existing applications, many with just minor tweaks, but some are quite a bit better (caculator), and some are new (address book).

The real fun [...]

O2 fail where Apple succeed

Jul. 8, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Random

Yesterday saw the start of pre orders for Apple’s new iPhone here in the UK. Unfortunately for all Apple are reverting to a traditional phone sales model, subsidised by carried and therefore are unable to sell the phones themselves. This means that O2 had to step up and handle the hoards of Apple fanboys (myself [...]

A while ago I created a dashboard widget to help people accessing the admin side of Ceros. It saves a lot of time with remember user credentials, and acts as a master key for accessing restricted areas.

One thing that was causing a bit of a problem was saving preferences (passwords) when the users restarted their [...]

TFHell on the iPhone

Jul. 1, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Random

I love the TFL website! It does an amazing job of find a route from A to B around London, using the various different forms of transport. However the site massively fails when I need it most!

I normally use the TFL site to plan a route, but by the time I’m out of the door [...]