Archive for November 21st, 2008

TV: I despair

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Have males been completely eradicated from the thoughts of producers?
Apart from Top Gear, which serves as the last bastion of political in-correctness and male programming, just what is there for us to watch?

The obligatory sport of course, but there is literally nothing else in the way of dramatic programming for us. As the viewing figures for each channel are continually eroded (thanks to DVD box sets and the proliferation of satellite channels), I can only hope that we get something like an HBO over here. Where quality drama can flourish, without being dumbed down to pander to the masses, reach specific demographics or get viewing figures. Simply to give us something home-grown and worthwhile to watch again.

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TECH: iPhone 2.2 and still no MMS or cut and paste

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I’m very fond of my iPhone but I can’t help but wonder if Apple have some of the priorities wrong. The 2.2 release of the software has just hit the servers and there is still no support for MMS messaging or cut and paste. I only hope they have fixed the email problem that has blighted 2.1 (doesn’t check for emails at the pre-determined intervals).

Roll on 2.3…

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WRITING: Computer Buyer video feature

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I recently contributed a beginners guide to video article for Computer Buyer magazine. The aim was to give the reader a layman’s guide to cameras, editing and publishing video project on a desktop or laptop computer (Windows based). Nothing heavy so if your thinking of picking up a camcorder for Christmas, it may be worth you checking the next issue of the magazine out. Available in all good newsagents.

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WEB: combistore.co.uk now live

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Here’s another CubeCart based website I’ve just got up and running. The company wanted a simple and affordable ecommerce system they can start to sell their boilers and accessories from. As the company is in its infancy, expect far more product to be added to the store in coming months.

Visit the store here: www.combistore.co.uk

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WEB: chicubes.co.uk live

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Here’s a small ecommerce site I created using CubeCart as the basis. It’s an interesting company doing something a little different: the company sells Coops for Chickens, other poultry and small animals. They needed an ecommerce system they could manage themselves and provide an all important online brochure for their products. It was a matter of setting up their domain and hosting, installing and configuring CubeCart and then creating them a custom CubeCart ’skin’ and adding things like the google maps and contact page etc.

Check them out here: www.chicubes.co.uk (pronounced ‘Chick-Cubes’)

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