25 September 2007 – 5:22 pm
Quick note to check that the upgrade to WordPress 2.3 succeeded. Which it did. Happyness.
WordPress kicks TiddilyWiki 
25 September 2007 – 11:26 am
Some more iPod Touch related news: first, a review from US PC World Magazine, which describes a few issues with the screen, sound quality and stability. In particular, it seems to have difficulty working with high-end headphones – something you wouldn’t expect from a “high-end” MP3 player.
As usual with Apple gear, it seems that you pay dearly for being an early adopter. Speaking of Apple gear, I’m thinking about MacBooking myself… Any advice?
And back to the Mobishop project, I’m currently working on a set of prototypes (high and low fidelity [not in that order]), and slowly fleshing out the details of the features and user interaction.
19 September 2007 – 7:33 am
That’s no help to us, since O2 aren’t a carrier here. Given their wide range of choice between Hellstra, Optarse and Vodafaux (and 3, forgot them), I wonder which Apple will choose. On the upside, 3G networks have widespread (ish) coverage here – something the US doesn’t have (they couldn’t even settle on a single standard – and when they implemented GSM, couldn’t agree on a single frequency! Democracy at its finest!)
Back to the point, the BBC have a couple of articles on the O2 deal and the iPhone vs. the Nokia N95, both of which make rather interesting reads.
To finish, a rather odd quote from Steve Jobs (who described the deal as a marriage):
“We dated a few people who we didn’t get married to,” he said. “So there are a few unhappy girlfriends out there.”
15 September 2007 – 10:23 pm
This is very fun, it’s an iPhone smudge and scratch simulator! It even has a cute little cleaning cloth to wipe the fingerprints away. Given the way most consumer-electronics smudge up, someone really needs to come up with a smudge-resistant surface. C’mon nanotechnology, where are you now ‘eh?!
On a slightly more useful note, Gearlog reported a few days ago that Apple aren’t going to be taking a neutral attitude to 3rd party iPhone apps saying “software updates will most likely break” native apps. Or as Engadget put it: Apple aren’t playing Switzerland anymore 
Bugger.
14 September 2007 – 9:49 pm
This is pretty much directed at Rob:
I’ve mirrored my minisite at http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~dcos5821/deco1200/minisite1/ it’s been deCMSed (if that is a word). There is a version saved with the SWF and CSS if the spiders break – you can grab that here all in one ZIP file.
You can also grab the Minisite straight off the blog if you want to, but the WordPress may play silly-buggers with the CSS and Flash.
Cheers!
14 September 2007 – 12:51 pm
I hate republishing files from other peoples blogs, but since the original link to it has disappeared, google finds no leads and a few other DECO students want to print one off, I’ve put a copy of the PDF online for your very own iPhone cardboard cutout.
Kudos to the original author, and of course to Apple for designing the darn thing in the first place
12 September 2007 – 3:06 pm
I’ve quickly whipped up a little example of what you can do with standards-compliant CSS and XHTML. It’s an iPhone interface mockup. It’s not an iPhone simulator, but I intend to use this in some way to use this for some quick lo-fi evaluation.The iPhone mockup can be seen here: http://devslashtux.monproductions.com/static/2007/iphone/.
Oh, and on a useless note, here’s another iPhone video from YouTube:
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kr7yxLfiqSo" height="350" width="425" /]
11 September 2007 – 2:24 pm
Sorry for the silence for the last few days, the assignment for DECO1005 has been a pain. I’m grumbling that it took 4 weeks to get the marks from our first assignment – and we ultimately did get it back, the day the next one is due… So loads of fun trying to retrofit comments from the first into the second!
Anyway, thanks to those of you who have filled in my survey! And if you haven’t yet. DO IT NOW! My statistics are slightly skewed towards the 16-25 male bracket. So anyone who doesn’t fall into that category, your opinions are required!
Apart from that, everything is going along swimmingly! Posts will be appearing on a more regular basis as of now! 
6 September 2007 – 4:04 pm
Avast! It’s the Mobishop Survey Questionnaire thing.
If you have 5 minutes for a quick survey, your responses are important to me and I value your opinons! Help me get good marks for my assignment by having real data to base my assumptions on.
The survey is very shiny and it’s available online for your filling-out-pleasure.
I’ve changed the link to a different address, but it’s the same survey. Turns out that Safari on Mac disagrees with LimeSurvey, the FOSS script running the survey. Cheers for those who pointed it out to me.
6 September 2007 – 11:05 am
Crikey!
Considering rumours were flying about new iPods, Apple have really surprised this time by almost totally revamping the iPod line (with the exception of the Shuffle which only gets new colours).
The new line-up is as follows:
- iPod Shuffle (1GB)
- iPod Nano (4GB or 8GB)
- iPod Classic (80GB or 160GB)
- iPod Touch (8GB or 16GB)
- iPhone
The interesting bit in all of this is the iPod Touch which is basically an iPhone without the phone or camera! It’s the cheap peoples iPhone! And we get it here in Austerailia before Xmas. It’s also a “revolutionary internet communications device”, with built-in 802.11B-G WiFi and the mobile Safari browser. So our iPhone apps should also work on iPod touch (although a bit more limited by the wireless coverage).
Photo (lovingly) stolen from Apple.com. Some more useful posts can be found on Technorati’s 
ipod touch pages.