Archive for June, 2007

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

The closest I’ll get to an iphone is….

this empty screen on my new version of iTunes

No Comments » - Posted in Technology by Steven

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

iPhone predictions.

Well, 3 more days and the iPhone hits the shelves after one of the most nail biting lead ups of any phone release since.. well…. Alexander Bell thing..

Here are my predictions

The news will find several people who’s phone died in the first week
The iPhone will be accused [...]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Safari 3.0 for Windows.

I would love to review in more detail,  but it keeps crashing as soon as it tries to authenticate against my employers proxy server.

Quick points

Looks like Mac - even the buttons, scroll bars and check boxes inside the web page.
Fonts look ‘odd’ on windows - but I [...]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Not Even Once

And now for something a little more serious.

Apples ‘Get a Mac’ campaign recently won and award - one of the runners up was the Montana Meth Project - with its ‘Not even once’ ads about Ice / Meth.

Very sobering stuff - but also amazing ads - why don’t they run this stuff in Australia? [...]

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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Wolff Olins, the Olympic logo and a load of crap..

Well, it looks like I’m number one on Google for Wolff Olins and load of crap!

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Wolff+Olins+load+of+crap&btnG=Search&meta=

It only took a day to get to number one - I’ll be happier when I can further up the results for more ‘flattering’ searches for them.

Update: “Wolff Olins” or “Wolff Olins Olympic Logo” has me at [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Internet Oddities, RubyOnRails by Steven

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

What a load of….

Well the new 2012 Olympics logo is out!

What a load of shit….

It looks like about 15 minutes of cutting out with the ‘good scissors’ followed by some coloring in with Dad’s highlighters from work.

For this, you can thank Wolff Olins - the worlds leading brand oriented something or other.

Lets all help Google associate [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in RubyOnRails by Steven