Optus, MMS, and idiocy.

Posted by Tim Neill, 20th October, 2008 (10:24 pm).

Tags: Customer Service, iPhone, optus, rant

This weekend, two of my friends have sent me an MMS message each. Then they sent me follow up SMS messages because I didn’t get a single one of the MMS messages. This is a widely lamented missing feature of the iPhone, and I totally agree something as basic as MMS should be included. That however, is not my gripe. 

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Updation Stagnation

Posted by Tim Neill, 12th October, 2008 (8:54 pm).

Tags: Desktop, Financial Crisis, Stagnation

For those of you reading my blog, thanks to both of you! I promise I’ll do more in the coming weeks to this place. Right now it reminds me of one of those banks that have gone under in America… Impressive looking from the outside and a lovely shiny place to be - but nothing going on anymore just a million empty desks! And an echo. (…echo….echo…echo)

So here’s something I’m liking at the moment. My new desktop!

Tjdsn.com version 1.5

Posted by Matthew Hilton, 14th June, 2008 (8:04 pm).

Tags: Site News, Update

Okay, so a month or so later and I’ve been a very busy boy!!!

There’s been quite a few updates to the site in this version, which I officially released today, including:

• Unified theme - we finally decided on a consistent look for the page, which has been implemented, with the side effect of largely simplifying the number and content of files it takes to get the site looking like this
• Contact box - now AJAX-ified and slick; available on all pages
• Updated Lightbox (the cool image viewer in the gallery item pages) - it’s now quicker and better
• 404 Page - a custom “404 not found” error page has been created and implemented
• Slimmed down - the site is now about half the size (megabyte wise) as it was before, as many redundant images/style files have been removed
• Gallery index - there’s now a notification when there are no items under a certain category, rather than just nothing
• Gallery items - more modular for Timmy, more flexibility (ie can do image-only projects… page dynamically updates according to what’s in the database. If there’s no brief, the heading won’t show :))
• Maintenance page - nice little page which I can pop up while I’m editing the site

Yet to do:

• Matt: Change the iconset for the Blog… Done
• Matt: Add the About and Downloads pages
• Tim: Populate the Gallery

Woohoo!!!

A little bit excited

Posted by Tim Neill, 5th May, 2008 (11:18 am).

Tags: iMac

Currently I have sitting on my desk the fastest computer I think I’ve ever used. Also the sexiest and the most well endowed. Display-wise anyway. That’s right, the iMac has arrived. Everything about it is so slick, from the quiet, smooth keyboard to the unit itself to the shiny, shiny OS. 

Now, to re-rip all my CDs at a higher quality and import all my old crap my dell and Marvin, my poor iBook.

GTAIV, Site Updates, and One More Thing…

Posted by Tim Neill, 30th April, 2008 (12:13 am).

Tags: GTA IV, iMac, Site News

GTAIV

Wonderful game here, Great graphics, great story, much more grown up than previous titles. I’m not going to bother reviewing it, because every man and his dog already has, however I will outline some cool bits.

• Mobile phone is the lifeline of the new game, the game is much more social this time around and the phone helps get this across immensely (Also, the way it ‘interferes’ with your TV speakers if a nice touch)
• Graphics are stunning
• The constant in-jokes and silly names are brilliant, as always

24″ Display

3.06Ghz Core 2 Duo
2GB 800Mhz DDR2 SDRAM - 2×1GB (Will eventually be upped to 4GB, but this ram is faster than the last model with different DIMMs, so will have to wait for shops to update their lines)
nVidia Geforce 8800 GS 512MB
500GB HDD