It’s going to host Windows 7 integrated theme packs; a feature in Windows 7 that I really like!

It’s very early stages now, but over the coming days and weeks it should approach completion so… bookmark it!

Thanks a lot; I’ve got a lot of iPhone dev stuff going on as well, I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has experience in developping iPhone applications.

Speak soon,

Chris

How to find your UDID Article:  7000 hits

Windows 7 Code Branching :  4000 hits

Access iPhone 3.0 Beta: 10,000 hits

Obviously… I’ve rounded those figures off!!

Thanks guys… hope it’s useful!! I have a couple new projects that I’ll be linking off to / blogging about in the coming months once my dissertation is in!! I look forward to chatting with you all about it!

Chris

I suppose I’ve been living in the past for the last year with only one moniter on my desk but now, having two… I can see why people say that two is the way forward. The only problem is I don’t know how I’m going to go about not buying a third!

It’s so much easier to do two things at once; the ability to watch an episode of a TV show, or chat on IM while working on the other screen is invaluable (saves switching) and if you’re copying data from program-to-program etc… it speeds things up no end!

In synopsis; if there’s currently one moniter on your desk; get to dell.com and buy another while I take a picture to update the blog header! :)

Chris

“…a Zillion is 1 followed by a Katrillion zeros…”

I thought that was funny!

On an unrelated note, I got my iPhone today :). Oh god is it good… loads more soon, check out my twitter and flickr for more regular posts… more iPhone-native :)
Chris

DELL have a sale on monitors here in the UK and so I’m very tempted to go ahead and take advantage of this :).

Here’s the problem… I’m not sure whether to go for dual monitors, or one big one. I have a 22″ DELL at the moment, so it’s either get another 22″ and have duals, or get the 27″ and sell the 22″ (at least partially because different sized screens can look a little stupid beside one-another, but mainly because being a student…).

So.. anybody have any opinions? I suppose it’s mostly coding / writing that I’ll be doing…

Let me know!

Chris

As it turns out; it was too large. It just made me laugh that they didn’t put the few lines of code in to check if the file was too big (the file finished uploading from what I could tell) before proceeding and replying with an ambiguous message.

I love twitter too much to have any complaints though.

Long live Twitter and all Twitterites,

Chris

There are hundreds of ‘blogs’ out there, 99% of which report the exact same stories, sometimes with a slightly different twist, or humour added, but rarely is there any editorial added; a dialogue that transcends the facts and places the pieces together to make sense of the story in context.

I feel the urge too; to copy and paste an Engadget story, add that joke that you think makes it funnier, wittier, better, and then post it up. It’s easy & it’s fun, but it adds nothing (well little) to the sum total of information out there.

When I started to create this blog I thought that I would try to use the fact that I’ve spent a good deal of the past few years of my life both involved and deep in reading of the technology industry to create this editorial that I feel that technology so needs. I don’t know how well I’m doing; scanning the main page there’s a mixture of editorial pieces and ‘replogs’ (replicated blog posts).

Accountability also plays a part; a. it’s all too easy to just ‘produce’ when there is no identity attached to the post. I like to take a leaf from Jason Calacanis’ book and create all online content under my real name that way it’s me that you see; my identity, my opinions and I have accountability. I believe that as a result of that, I am inherintly more trustworthy and believable in the minds of readers. It’s almost like a implicit declaration of ‘my word’ attached to the blog.

Give any person the anonymity that the internet can provide, and all of a sudden, people are producing content and conducting themselves in a manner that they would never have dreamed of in the real world. That surprised me a little to begin with; I have never felt the need to behave immaturely or irresponsibly just because the consequences won’t get back to me however over time I’ve realised that a great number of people do; just jump in to an online game of Halo 3 and you’ll see what I mean!

Anonymity and replicative & useless information go hand-in-hand, each creating and necessitating the other respectively.

The solution; add an element of accountability. People won’t post rubbish under their own name, they won’t be abusive and they won’t behave in a manner they wouldn’t consider appropriate in any physical public forum. I also believe there would be less blogs filled with replicated articles, and more editorial pieces adding actual value to the internet.

Are we on the right path?

Yes. The fact that audio and video casting is becoming much more popular (and available) is meaning that a lot more people are being forced to use their true identities, or are at least seeing it as a more normal and acceptable thing to do. It would be silly to publish a video podcast with your image and voice but under a handle and imagine yourself to be anonymous. With these phenomena, I believe that the web is heading in a very positive direction that will lead to more and more unique, original, and intersting content with known authors; giving non-technical audiences the faith to use and cite online materials.

Chris

a. It’s great they maintain their products
b. How do they find so many updates each week; and also why do we wait (at worst) a week for an update that’s done?

To be fair, in a world of broadband, 10 updates totalling 36MB took no more than ~1 minute, although anyone on a dial-up must have real problems keeping a Windows Vista / Office 2007 combo up to date!

Chris

Tips include using Macintosh computers to save on IT department costs, free in-house lunches to simulate meetings and purchasing a professional coffee machine to save on coffee-trip time(I don’t need to be told that one twice!).

Find it over on calacanis.com.

Chris

http://www.mahalo.com/Best_Fictional_Brands

Mahalo is a project by Jason Calacanis seeking to hand-index the web relying on both the work of a strong in-house team and the community to create a search engine that provides reliable results that make sense to people, not web crawlers.

If you like Mahalo, you can get involved using the Mahalo Toolbar or join the Greenhouse to begin contributing; if you write a page, you will even get paid!

Check it out…

Chris

*Edit: this post got featured on Mahalo’s Press Coverage page.