Got a text from O2 saying that my tariff is being upgraded… woo! Instead of 200 minutes I now have 600 and 500 texts from 200.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7217184.stm
Hopefully they’ll release a 3G version and give us all discounted upgrades.
I need to strip our HTML tags, but not all of them, in ColdFusion so needed a CSV of HTML tags. Now, this is probably quite useless to most but someone but find it useful!
a,abbr,acronym,address,applet,area,b,base,basefont,bdo,big,blockquote,body,br,
button,caption,center,cite,code,col,colgroup,,dd,del,dfn,dir,div,dl,dt,em,fieldset,
font,form,frame,frameset,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,head,hr,html,i,iframe,img,input,ins,
isinde,kbd,label,legend,li,link,map,menu,meta,noframes,noscript,object,ol,
optgroup,option,p,param,pre,q,s,samp,script,select,small,span,strike,strong,
style,sub,sup,table,tbody,td,textarea,tfoot,th,thead,title,tr,tt,u,ul,var
A little while back I had an email, via Flickr from and editor at Schmap saying that one of my photos had been short listed for the next version of their London travel guide.
For those who don’t know, like me, this is what’s Schmap is about.
Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The innovative technology behind Schmap Guides also lets end users publish their own ‘schmaps’ (to share trip itineraries, local reviews and more), and powers a popular range of Schmap Widgets, displaying maps with content and event schedules for travel, sports, concert tours and more on a fast-growing network of websites and blogs. Founded in 2004, Schmap is privately owned and based in Carrboro, North Carolina
The photo in question was a quick snap I’d taken with a Sony Ericsson K750i when I was up in London on Oxford Street outside of John Lewis back in December 2006. The original photo on Flickr.
Today I received another message congratulating me that my photo had been published! Kinda cool for a camera phone shot!
It’s featured in the Computers & Shopping section of the latest Schmap guide.
Announced today and rapidly spreading over the blogosphere a post by Jonathan Schwartz that Sun have acquired MySQL.
Hopefully this will lead to MySQL’s GUI tools coming on and better support all round.
With the release of the iPhone/iPod touch 1.1.3 firmware you can now save webclips, basically thumbnailed bookmarks, to your homepage. That’s cool, but, what if you want a custom icon, just like a favicon?
Look no further and go check out this article (VIA).
There’s a petition going on the UK government site to have the Monday after remembrance Sunday made into a national holiday. I think it’s an excellent idea as we should always remember those who have served for us, I don’t always agree with why we’re fighting around the world but non the less the people have done their duty.
Well I was close. A new Macbook “Air” which for business people or those who travel a lot looks awesome… I want, but, don’t need one. An update to the iPhone firmware which was expected along with movie rentals in iTunes so all in all nothing really shocking. The Apple TV upgrades look kinda cool.
To update the iPhone though looks like you have to get iTunes 7.6 first because before I did it didn’t work.
Had my iPhone about 2 weeks when through no dropping, hitting or otherwise obvious force the screen cracked. Not the top screen but the underlying layer rendering it useless.
I took it back into the O2 store where I’d got it and showed the manager who said they’d send it off for repair. OK, that’s fine 7-10 working days turn around, not great but at least I’ll get a phone back. 2 working days (plus a weekend) later my replacement iPhone arrives in store.
Once I’d got it home I plugged it in to sync it up and iTunes asked me if I wanted to restore my settings, so, yeah I do. All seems fine, go through an activation process of my mobile number, mac account and email and all is well and I carry on.
Next time I plugged the phone in to sync it I was asked to put my mobile number and mac account etc. After the third or forth time this gets quite annoying. Apple support were 100% useless. I was told the only fix was to reinstall iTunes and that they’d email me details. Twice I rang and twice nothing.
After some googling and trying every option until the last one of choosing the restore option I went for it and I’m pleased to say it worked. It backed up my settings, downloaded the firmware, did it’s thing and restored and activated all fine.
O2 store great, Google great, Apple’s phone support definitely needs some work though.
Macworld is coming up on Monday (14th) and as usual the rumour mill has been rife. My predictions aren’t that shocking but hopefully I’ll get a clean sweep.
This is one of those random posts that I just need to talk about.
Over Christmas the Sky Guide planner has been playing slightly odd, slightly dancey Christmas tracks. That’s all well and good, I reckon there was about 5 or 6 of them in total.
So why is now we’re subjected to the same 2 poxy tracks all year long! I know they occasionally change and yes, I can turn it off, but, come on Sky… give me something new to listen to!
Ian Winter
