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Nokia Go Play Launch

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:39:19 GMT

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.

Review of Casio UK Service Centre

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:15:05 GMT

No concept of service whatsoever

website 'Casio UK Service Centre' reviewed on Mar 21 2007 by Conor O'Neill

Rating: 1/5

A 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.

LouderVoice Review Tags: casio, customer service, service, watch

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Review of Villa Maria Sauvignon Blanc Private Bin 2006

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:34:22 GMT

Our favourite white wine. For those who hate Aussie Chardonnay

item 'Villa Maria Sauvignon Blanc Private Bin 2006'
12:34 on Mar 15 2007 by The Live Arguer

Rating: 5 stars out of 5

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.

LouderVoice Review Tags: dry, gooseberry, marlborough, new zealand, sauvignon blanc, white wine, wine

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Test from WLW

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:23:56 GMT

Still having no joy with publishing using our app.

Does it work ok with WLW?

Test XML-RPC

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:17:44 GMT

Good replacement for default Linksys Firmware

Dec 1, 2006 by Conor O'Neill

DD-WRT Router Firmware

★★★☆☆ 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.

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