Posted July 3rd, 2008 | No Comments
Sorry for the slightly sensationalist headline! But iPhone 3G day is only 1 week away and I’m over excited!
It is also true, well in UK at least. But I know a high proportion of readers to this blog are not in UK, so apologies if the same does not apply to you.
Old Contracts
One of the main reasons I didn’t purchase an original iPhone last year (apart from the lack of 3G) was the poor contracts. This was probably due to Apple only allowing 1 network provider, therefore removing the need for o2 to be competitive and also Apple taking a cut of each contract for themselves.
I am with 3 Mobile at the moment and receive 750minutes and 300 texts for £35 a month. At the time this was a good deal and much better than the stingy o2 iPhone contracts. I also pay £5 a month for unlimited web browsing/data.
New Contracts
As excited as I was to hear about 3G, GPS, MobileMe and the App Store at the Keynote last month. I was even more impressed and surprised when I found the new o2 iPhone Tariffs.
As you can see the new tariffs are vastly improved on last year and actually very competitive at the moment. I plan on signing up for the £45 contract. I will be receiving 450 extra minutes and 200 extra texts for just £5 per month extra! Already a very attractive deal but the best is yet to come!
FREE iPhone!
As you may have noticed in the tariffs above, you can actually get your iPhone totally free!
The 8gb model is free with the £45 and £75 and you can even get the 16gb model free with the £75 deal!
Although it’s great to be able to get the iPhone for free, especially considering it cost over £300 on it’s launch last year!! I think personally I will be getting a 16gb model not the 8gb, but even that at the new price will cost an amazing £59 on my contract!
Thank you Apple and thank you o2!
If you are still not sold on the iPhone, check out Apple’s guided tour videos.
Tags: Apple, iPhone, iphone 3g, o2 | Posted in Apple, Uncategorized, iPhone |
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Posted June 26th, 2008 | 5 Comments
Hopefully none of you are using Internet Explorer 6 because this site looks REALLY bad in IE6. Due to the use of transparent PNGs and the fact that I can’t be bothered supporting IE6 on a personal site.
Looking at my system logs it seems a few of you still are! Around 12% of this site which is low compared to the 30% usage IE6 has overall.
WHY?
All I can say is WHY? There are so many good free browsers to choose from! My favorite is Firefox (see picture ;) ) but Safari, Opera and even IE7 are all massive improvements on IE6. [...continue reading...]
Tags: browsers, Firefox, ie6, ie7 | Posted in Interweb |
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Posted June 23rd, 2008 | No Comments
Today I have finally completed the redesign of my business website, it’s been by far the longest i’ve ever been working on a website. Finally my business has a website that it as good as the ones I design for my clients!
I no longer feel like a designer hairdresser with a 1980’s style perm!
The new site uses Wordpress as a CMS which I’m really enjoying, I encountered quite a few interesting problems on the way which I plan on blogging about in the future. [...continue reading...]
Tags: relaunch, Web Design | Posted in Jigsaw, Web Design |
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Posted June 14th, 2008 | 4 Comments
Firefox has been the web browser of choice for many people, particularly in the web design industry for some time.
Internet Explorer Sucks
Firefox 2 is a great browser, only Camino and Safari for Mac OSX can rival it. It’s by far the best Windows browser and shows Internet Explorer up big time.
To be fair to Microsoft, the beta of Internet Explorer 8 already… [...continue reading...]
Tags: Browser, Firefox, mac, Mozilla, osx | Posted in Apple, Firefox, Web Design, mac |
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Posted June 9th, 2008 | 7 Comments
Finally the rumours have turned to reality. At WWDC 2008 Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 2 or the iPhone 3G as it’s been named.
Apple Fanboy
I’m the first to admit I’m a massive Apple fanboy, I have 3 Macs at the moment including a MacMini Media Center (at the top of my shopping list is a 24: iMac and Time Capsule) and countless iPods… [...continue reading...]
Tags: Apple, iPhone, iphone 3g, keynote, steve jobs, wwdc08 | Posted in Apple, iPhone |
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Posted May 31st, 2008 | No Comments
Raver
In a previous life I liked to party, or rave as Americans would say.
When I was too old to be down with the kids (I finally realised when I had my own!) I found something else to do with my weekends. I developed a love of fine dining in expensive restaurants.
Read my review of Gordon Ramsay’s Boxwood Cafe in Knightsbridge, London. [...continue reading...]
Tags: boxwood, boxwood cafe, fine dining, food, gatecrasher, gordon ramsay, knightsbridge, london, restaurant | Posted in Real Life, Restaurants, food |
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Posted May 26th, 2008 | No Comments
I have just completed a website redesign for my client PaintMyProperty.com.
I had been planning to write an article for my blog at Jigsaw Internet Solutions about my web design process for a while. I have used the PaintMyProperty site design as a case study for the article and included the whole 10 step process along with screen shots and even a photocopy of my initial sketches! [...continue reading...]
Tags: css, html, sketch, Web Design, web design process | Posted in Web Design |
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Posted May 11th, 2008 | 11 Comments
I know these lists have been done many times before. In fact, a lot of the apps on this list I picked up from lists just like this one. So they can be useful, even if there is only 1 app on here that you have never tried it’s worth it. [...continue reading...]
Posted in mac |
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Posted May 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments
This is part 2 of a long detailed 3 part summary of my day at the Future Of Web Design 2008 conference in London. Part 1 is here and Part 3 is here coming soon.
We left part 1 after 3 exceptional presentations from Patrick Neil, Andy Clarke and probably the best so far Andy Budd. Could the next 3 possibly be as good? [...continue reading...]
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Posted May 6th, 2008 | No Comments
Until Monday 5th May I was one of the 14 people left in the world without a Facebook account! Actually, that’s not strictly true, I did have an account, I’d joined a couple of years ago when it became ‘the next big thing’ but it had been inactive since the first day.
Facebook rebel
I hadn’t even added any friends. I didn’t have a need for it [...continue reading...]
Posted in Facebook, Personal, Real Life |
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