| Nokia Go Play Launch |
[Aug. 29th, 2007|02:34 pm] |
Review of Nokia Go Play Launch This was a desperately underwhelming event, I was looking forward to a new gaming device that would take on Nintendo, Apple and Sony Ericcson at the same time. All I got was men in buttoned-up suits and Finnish accents talking about "funky" and ""rock your world". They couldn't even get the name of The Ministry of Sound right. They need an evangelist. Call him the CEO, the Chief Evangelical Officer. Someone who can control a crowd like Steve Jobs. Someone passionate, someone who understands the web (which I don't think these guys do). Hell I'll do it for them and I won't need to hold paper notes whilst speaking on stage. So basically the announcements were:
- An 8GB N95
- Some music phone with a 3.5mm jack (wow!)
- Some Ovi stuff coming whenever
- Touch sensitive screens on Series 60 in 2008
- A new UI coming whenever
They need to do wayyyyyyy better than that.
Why not jam a GSM chipset into the N800? I know a LOT of people who would buy that. |
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| Review of Casio UK Service Centre |
[Mar. 21st, 2007|04:15 pm] |
No concept of service whatsoeverA watch was returned four times and "fixed" four times. Most companies with a real understanding of service would have replaced the watch for free at this stage. I will never buy another Casio product after this even if the final fix turns out to work. |
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| Review of Villa Maria Sauvignon Blanc Private Bin 2006 |
[Mar. 15th, 2007|12:34 pm] |
Our favourite white wine. For those who hate Aussie Chardonnay We are fanatical about New Zealand Marlborough Sauvignon Blancs. Every other white we try is measured against them. They are extremely dry, almost tart wines with buckets of flavour and without the taste of oak sawdust to be found anywhere. There are a bunch of good ones: Montana, Hunters, Kim Crawford, Huia, Oyster Bay, Cloudy Bay, Babich. All except Cloudy Bay are great value (to be honest I think Cloudy Bay is way overrated). But our fave has to be Villa Maria. Not just fantastic value but consistently great Sauvignon that is fab with food or just to sip on its own. If you like gooseberry and grapefruit flavours then you will love this wine. It is a screwcap like almost all Kiwi white wines and I'm a big fan of that for wines which should be drunk young. Keep an eye out for any of the Villa Marias and grab the Private Bin ones if you spot them. |
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| Test from WLW |
[Dec. 22nd, 2006|10:23 am] |
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Still having no joy with publishing using our app. Does it work ok with WLW? |
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| Test XML-RPC |
[Dec. 6th, 2006|04:17 pm] |
Good replacement for default Linksys FirmwareDec 1, 2006 by Conor O'Neill product ★★★☆☆ The standard Linksys WRT54GS firmware is pretty good but lacks a lot of advanced features such as port re-direction which we need. Install is pretty straightforward but there remains questions over performance. 0.3 This hReview brought to you by the hReview Creator. |
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| Second hCard Test without the stray markup (previous one worked!!) |
[Aug. 24th, 2006|11:49 pm] |
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| Test hCard |
[Aug. 24th, 2006|11:46 pm] |
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