Posts by Matt_payne666
225 posts • joined Thursday 27th August 2009 18:32 GMT
Wireless charging
I hope this isn't a direction nokia is taking... I have found the ease of charging my phone really rather pleasing... yes, its not hard to poke a micro usb cable in, but at night or at my desk, if I want to pick up the phone I just do... there isn't a mess of lead to snag, or deal with...
and the wireless jacket, Christ on a bike! way to murder a lovely design!
I used to like the old swapout policy... ITunes does a very good job of backup and restoring a full phone...
and apples quick and easy nearly new phone has pleased me when I had my iphone 3G replaced twice and my partners iphone4s - refurbed yes, but new batteries & new cases = better than what I handed in...
hmmm... wheres Eadon to stand up for this??
"Customers are apparently allowed to black out "sensitive details" on the copied documents, according to our source. "
Well, that's sorted then... they can have a copy of my back statement and passport... ill just blank my photo, my address, DOB, Account & passport numbers, expiries, transactions, bank address, etc....
and possibly scan a turd for good measure too..... effort to clean the scanner glass after - totally worth it....
Re: He has a point
Ill upvote this as I've been using win8 since the RC, the advantages far outweigh the new start menu... Which isn't really that difficult to navigate...
why do I always think Omni Consumer Products when I hear of OCP taking over the world!
Ive always thought there were one too many (major) variants of Win8 - winPho8+WinRT should merge, 3 different metro apps for - as simpletons see things - the same OS is silly - screen sizes differ, but hardware specs are similar enough to support the same os on both devices, this will create a much more sensible environment for devs which will in turn help the end users, which will in turn help Microsoft...
WinPho8 is nice - better than iOS&android? all have advantages and disadvantages, take application availability out of the equation and all three are equally as good as eachother....
I and my users....
I like win8 as it is and I personally think that MS have chickened out a little replacing the start button already...
My laptop doesn't really reboot, so its almost always at the desktop, if its not, then a large tile (showing a picture of my desktop) takes me to it...
If I wish to launch a program that isn't pinned to the taskbar I go to the bottom left and click - much like I used to with the start button... then instead of navigating a small tree to find my desired application I click a nice big icon.
My gripes lie with the disjointed way that proxy settings are reflected across the system - TIFKAM, windows update and other settings dont always reflect the settings in internet settings, requiring netsh importing, which is a bind...
windows q and rhe bottom left+right click are tools that I sorely miss on win7
As for my users... when confronted with win8 well, there is confusion, but like most things they have grumbled and then just got on with it... for good or bad, change happens and humans adapt... its only a few cosmetic changes, not replacing the keyboard with a sliding block puzzle block device inscribed with Klingon!!!
I have often been classed as a cynic....
Facebook is driven by advertising and publicity...
there is no such thing as bad publicity...
A photo of a woman brestfeeding/post surgery/artistic/etc - all tremendously mundane...
A video of ultra violence on the other hand, this will create media interest, this will create morbid curiosity, this will create page visits... page visits = advertising income....
Common decency and moral values? these were left by the door long ago.
isn't this contempt of court or some other naughty deed??
Posted in Twenty classic arcade games
not a good game, but one worthy of a mention
Holosseum - I had never seen anything like it before! holographic fighting...
Posted in Twenty classic arcade games
Re: Golden age of racing games
Yes, but no!! I learned to drive playing Hard/Race Drivin' - realistic speed, force feedback, multiple turns lock to lock, ignition key, real gearbox and CLUTCH PEDAL!!! not to mention a loop-de-loop!!
and a huge soft spot for ridge racer full scale...........
Ive a Gen1 500GB momentus XT and it cold boots my win8 enterprise core2duo laptop to the logon screen in 14s, and another 12 to join the domain....
Had this thing for a few years, tried a full SSD VertexIII and yes, its quicker but instantly compared to almost instantly wasn't worth the space trade off...
Posted in Review: Britain's 4G smartphones
sort of and generally speaking your right, but I know that with available bandwidth I like to ramp up streaming quality... I use plex and if I could afford a 4g connection I know id enjoy loosing some more compression artifacts...
Re: Really?
Yep, I have had a Lumia920 since launch day... and have had to do a hard reset to find that all my app data had gone down the pan, my homescreen needed setting back up and lots of the contacts were screwed.
The phone does backup to skydrive and I checked the settings before I restored... losing all my car fuel data was a sod! as was the only game I had played... neither app having the ability to export data...
it would be nice if Orange got behind their own NFC products... Orange Quick Tap NFC payments can only be done on 2 or 3 phones... and not on any of the win8 phones that support the feature....
I cant belive no one has mentioned the lack of a 'backup and restore phone' option in winpho8! yes your app list gets saved and you can re-download them, but any data will be lost and hardly any apps have an export option... yes, your contacts get synced, but if you add images to the contacts those don't get restored when you reset and restore your phone...
Migrating one win8 phone to the next should be as painless as an iPhone, back up backs up the whole phone, restore restores the whole phone... simple! people do loose phones, people do break phones and people might possibly want to upgrade one win8 phone to another...
Re: Poor Apple.
and Silicon Graphics/SGI has been doing its own take on UEFI firmware a lot longer than apple........
Too many windows 8 os's...
I think Microsoft should have just had 2 OS's, Full win8 for laptops, desktops, and high end tablets/convertibles.... Win8 Phone for phones...
And for ARM devices, they should really be running Windows phone 8 OR RT, merge or kill off one of the two... phone and tablet hardware crosses over nicely - just add another resolution or two and a happy phone/tablet software ecosystem could grow... instead there are 2 small niche software platforms in the ARM hardware stable... similar, but different... with a terrible software selection.
as for surface pro? well, im typing this on an Acer W510 Full win8 convertible, running on an atom, I wont be doing any CAD or any video editing, but for office, internet and remote desktopping, its a very useable platform, after remembering odd swipes, metro makes sense, the win8 desktop and standard windows applications respond nicely to prods and having used the machine all day having the battery remaining at 70% is remarkable!
Come on orange... allow secure nfc equipped nokia's to use your secure tap payment system! Don't be the last to the party!
all publicity is good publicity... I upgraded my iphone to win8 in November and the current crop of titles is so poor... so much for the 'top x titles are on windows store' no they arnt!!! the current crop of apps look like the zlist apps on android and ios.
Re: @AC 10:41
what's RICHTO???
hmmm.... a couple of those racks would sit nicely next to my Onyx, Octane, O2 and Indigo............
Re: Winding watches daily
Not necessarily, the omega speedmaster pro isn't a self winding caliber, its a manual wind even today.
to be honest, im surprised its taken this long to become an issue... the number of these things ive seen spring up, with no accompanying text is quite alarming and I live out in the sticks!
even ive been tempted to make my own QR labels - nothing evil, just pointing to an educational site saying - 'you were lucky this time' and see how much traffic I can generate!
a friend of mine wants to get an e-reader for his wife... the thing that got him was the amount of stuff and zingyness that the kindle fire could do, compared to the kindle, for not a lot more... the perceived value of a 7" tablet is huge compared to the equivalent e-ink device... no wonder traditional ereadres are getting a beating...
but once down to brass tacks, the e-ink is a much superior device for the task of reading books... so he his getting the standard kindle...
I have a couple of tablets and an old Sony e-reader, I can count the number of books ive read to completion on the tablet on less than one finger, the e reader on otherhand, dozens....
Re: Fewer apps == fewer crap apps
unfortunately most of the apps on the winpho store are like the tier 3 shite that you find at the bottom of the apple app store, with very few tier 2 titles and quality titles from major players is even thinner!!
Re: MS seems to lack vision here...
I agree here, I bought a win8 phone expecting much tighter integration with office and real win8... this is a missed opportunity, but nothing that cant be fixed with an update...
The app store side of things... I knew the limitations when I migrated from iphone, but with 'the top46 of 50 apps availiable' chant I didn't expect a huge amount of issues... of the apps on my old iphone, only onenote and skydrive are available on both platforms...
MS does really need to throw some weight behind this platform as the devices and experience are better than my old iphones...
Re: Here's an idea ...
Well that is jolly short sighted of you... Given a choice between a licence for a current OS or a licence for an old OS Id take the new one every day. there are always foibles with a new OS and a learning curve but this is silly nose cutting sensationalist madness!
or do you not a) realise that your Win8 Pro licence is downgradeable to Win7 pro or b) deploy an oem shipping image on your devices?
Re: So far...
with mouse to close a 'metro' app move cursor to the left top corner, it shows app thumbnail, right click and close...
Metro proxy.... yes, that implementation is a real shambles!! you need to [Netsh winhttp import proxy source=ie] to sync the ie proxy with the system... then it sometimes works or else it will work after a reboot....
I just use the trackpad as a dumb pointer, gestures were more hassle than they are worth...
Re: So far...
yep, transparency is gone... but bizzarely the task bar is still transparent, if a translucent bar, 30 pixels tall is enough to anger you that much, id hate to see what happens if you get a dirty spoon!!
to change the lock screen image... windows key&q type lock screen, lo and behold there are the settings for the lock screen.... rocket science it aint...
Posted in Ten technology FAILS
UMPC's rule!
Netbooks are a bit limp after you've played with a core based one of these...
where else can you run VM's on a hardware accelerated 4" screen.... if only my UX1 had a capacitive screen it would be awesometastic!
Posted in Ten technology FAILS
Re: Blu Ray
oh yes, as the quality from a streamed service comes close to the 50GB of HD picture and 8 channels of HD sound....
Re: Old skool.
Fitting out a secondary school lab, had this about 10 years ago with a batch of Tosh desktops... one PSU going pop is a surprise... the next curious, the third - cant be coincidence, the fourth confusing... all the PSU's were 110v spec
made a days work nice and short!
Re: No-brand power supply
My old deskside computer used to idle at around 700-800 watts and peaked at 1.3kw under load....
used to heat the room nicely!
Re: First impressions were not great
well said, the search is very good...
and as for the metro start? well, how about have some of your applications stuck to the task bar, some accessed from a context menu and the rest hidden in folders, accessed from the file explorer... OSX relies on spotlight more than win8 relies on search...
Yes, Win8 is so much more complex than other solutions!!
Re: Might not be pretty...
My girlfriend is a nice combination of functional and pretty...
My car is more style over function, but with a lot of sensible features...
my kettle is style over features...
Other than my double glazing, or possibly the extractor fan in my bathroom, I find it hard to recommend pure function over form... there are happy mediums, Neilsons an function extremist, to the point that to me - living in a world of rich media I find his website quite difficult to use...
We are not robots, we are able to see the shades of grey in the horrendously black and white wold of binary, celebrate this! enjoy some eye candy and cheer up you miserable sods!!
Re: Anyone flashed one of these with Android?
Nope, all the 920's are one piece affairs, no changeable backs here!
and the yellow? Personal preference really, i like it and the finish is great, certainly a change from my old fruity phones!
My 920 has been rick solid, no lockups or reboots...
All hardware will have a bad day at some point, my iPhone certainly had its fair share of moments... Apps closing to desktop, mail wiping its contents and having to re download from scratch, phone needing a reboot and in one case a full restore... Its one of those things!
Re: What's the big deal?
Bingo... content aggregation at its best... this is what facebook is for, you sign up, you sell your personal data to them in return for webhosting... they then market your details in various ways...
This can only help couples on FB, just think... you have broken up with your beloved, your in tears, close to the edge, this saves the task of putting up a gut wrenching attention grabbing status... you just change your marital status and everyone is instantly emailed...
Christ, ive seen an upside!! just friend all the fit girls you can find, when you get the automated breakup email, dive in for some rebound sex!!
Cold boot times??
My dell E4300 13" P9400 C2duo will cold boot in 7seconds after the bios screen, include the Bios and its 12 seconds... this is a 3 yearold laptop with a Vertex3!
I don't deny the MBP is pretty, but I feel its time for a little design change, it looks all very, well, been there, done that...
Re: Some questions for the author
You can add multiple sub calendars to that list too!
On my iPhone I have my main google calendar which has a sub calendar for work and the subscription to my girlfriends calendar, all works a treat, on my win8 metro calendar I can get my main and sub calendars up, but not the subscribed one... Then only the main is selectable for adding appointments!
I should be an analyst... I bet these people get paid more than me!
I predict sales will happen, irrespective of how good or bad win8 is... Hardware spec isn't a factor for the os, its not a niche, it's the defacto oem shipping os for manufacturers.
Standard economic factors are what will dictate spending abd in my opinion the big reason consumer sales have slowed is that over the past 4 years, there hasn't been a real need for people to upgrade hardware... Pre core2 machines dated pretty quickly, but anything with that processor and above is more than capable of perfoming all non gaming tasks more than adequately.
The Microsoft downgrade rights only apply to pro and above licences, even then you need a volume licence to activate the downgraded os... So most consumers can't take that route
Re: Secure handsets
And the platform for sectera? windows phone :)
Good review and all that, but it would be nice if someone would tell us when we can actually walk into a store and buy one!!
the headline makes this sound overly sinister! and its hardly secret! its a live tile and a setting that allows a user to tailor their data usage, offloading to wifi if needed or when approaching the limit on the data plan...
yep, good specs, like the LG optimus a lovely screen - rdesktop is a dream on that device, but as an android tablet owner, I wouldn't want to rely on that OS for my day to day life...
Android has a very open source feel to it, just like Linux - yes, it is infinitely customisable but in my opinion, that's its downfall, for any one simple situation - ie, copying my photo collection to the device - there is no single way of doing it, just lots and lots of ways that pretty much almost work... generally with poor documentation and I just don't have the time for that sort of malarkey...
as a windows 8 user, I like the idea of some sort of compatibility and with its iTunes integration it means that photos, music, etc are things that hopefully I dont have to worry too hard over...
does balmer realise that you actually have to have devices on the ground to make a sale?
Im getting more and more fed up waiting on the 920, Ive resisted the iphone 5 thus far, but if there is nothing by the end of the week, then windows looses out and Ill be on my 4th Iphone...
A lovely day out walking with the girls, home to find this story... what a great end to the week!
