For those of you who know me, you’ll know that I like watching video on the move, and up until now it’s been either YouTube or the videos I’ve downloaded or captured myself. What I really wanted though was the iPlayer from the BBC, because a lot of my favourite shows are on the platform, Torchwood, Doctor Who and dare I mention Holby City!
Well you know, now I can watch some of these, not all shows are available right now but I’m sure that will change, on the iPhone very easily. I managed to watch this week’s episode of Holby City quite happily while sat in bed the other night. I haven’t tried this via EDGE as yet, but I’ll keep you posted.
Could it be better, yes! They really need to build an iPhone interface for it, because the standard one is a bit fiddly! The video quality is very nice though.
So great job BBC!
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Apple today amongst other releases let out of the Cupertino Campus iPhone and iPod Touch firmware 1.1.4.
What does it do?
Nothing.
No really nothing.
It improves stability as everyone already knows with the Apple notes and thats basically all it says. Maybe something to do with 3rd party applications is included but not documented. Engadget say that the jailbroken phones will update without problems everything still intact but be careful and if you have any complaints complain to them not me
It is a hefty update clocking in at around 160 megs it is almost as big as a OS 10 upgrade.
If you have one of the touchscreen Apple devices then update it and enjoy the nothing.
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This is a really good mock up of how the iPhone copy and paste could and should work. If they choose to implement it in this way I would be a happy man.
If any of the iPhone developers are reading this then take a good look. I find this video could educate you and make you see your mistakes. People complained about Leopard’s Menu Bar and you changed that. If we whine enough about the copy and paste will you? I realise I’m talking to no-one here but I am doing my little bit to help.
Funny great video.
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Also there seems to be a new 32GB Ipod Touch costing $499 also good day for bank managers everywhere!
Ladies and Gentlemen, start your credit cards!
UPDATE: The UK store doesn’t seem to show the new 16GB iPhone or the 32Gb iPod Touch yet
update 2: Now looks like the 16GB iPhone is listed as costing £329 GBP whilst the current 8GB remains at £269 GBP.
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If you have not bought an iPhone to me it is now looking mighty sexy to anyone who is on the fence here in the UK. O2 have just added some bolt-on packages for the iPhone now to try and entice customers into buying the device. Recently they changed the price plans and now they have added bolt ons.
Basically a bolt on is something you can add to your contract to give you more texts or minutes and O2 have a great selection that are as follows:
If you have bought your iPhone over here in the UK then you will probably have been scared of the iPhone having a price cut and you might have been scared if you have bought one before now by the title of this post but FEAR NOT!
If you have previously bought your iPhone then you will get this deal. Basically O2 have changed the price plans for the iPhone to try and bring in more customers. They have kept the general same price points but you now get more bang for your buck. Or to be more precise:
If you already have the iPhone then O2 don’t panic O2 are going to be rolling it out for everyone with a contract by mid-march at the latest. Look out for a text on the 7th of February. You won’t need to do anything they will change it all for you.
If you have been putting off the iPhone because you don’t get enough bang for your buck then maybe this will swing you?
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In the days of yore back before this small little blog was spawned there was no such thing as TV shows in the UK according to iTunes. Although we had this device they called the iPod, which would play video, there was only really one legal way of watching video and that was video podcasts. iTunes was just a small lump of a application learning its ways. Then we saw iTunes turn into a bouncing baby application when it signed up some of the shows such as “That’s So Raven” and “Hannah Montana”.
Now our little baby is turning into a boy. With Warner Bros signed up we are getting hits like:
Bablyon 5
Wonder Woman
The Jetsons
The Flinstones
and of course it wouldn’t complete without possibly the greatest show ever
Friends!
Also joining WB are “Aardman Studios” they are the genius boffins behind the great Plasticine duo “Wallace and Grommit.”
Now we are seeing our iTunes grow up. I don’t think we can call him a man yet as he still hasn’t got his first movie but he will probably panic and give us Matrix 2 as the first one.
Someone at Apple has really started to listen to us here in the UK and with Steve saying at Macworld this year he was determined to get at least Movie Rentals to the UK.
Me and Stu both jumped at the chance to watch these new videos and Stu and I both feel they have great quality. Stu bought Bablyon 5 and I plumped for the Friends episode titled “The One With The Baby On The Bus” which is highly recommended by yours truly. We only have seasons 1-3 of Friends and it looks the same across the board but as time goes on so will more and more content come into iTunes.
I could have a massive rant about how we are not being treated fair but I won’t. What I will mention is the price per season! WOW! That is a lot! Sort it out Apple.
For now though lets celebrate with our model made friends, our iTunes’ first tooth and first words.
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As most of you know up until the latest update I’ve had a jailbroken iPhone, and as such I didn’t really pay any attention to the many web apps out there, which I’m starting to regret but now I can put these apps as shortcuts onto my iPhone home screen (of which you can now have 9!)
While I was encoding tonight’s show I spent some time playing with the web-clips feature of the new iPhone software, I started with two apps I have used before; Facebook and Meebo but I came across some real gems in the web apps directory, one in particular UKTrains from www.themacbox.co.uk/iphone caught my attention and I want to tell you all a bit more about it as well as some other great web apps I now use as web clips
As you may have heard in the Apple blogosphere there was a Keynote yesterday done by someone called Steve. Steve told us some very exiting things about Apple and their new (th)inovations and updates and although we have two (both LIVE and Studio) shows all about them in which we will be discussing our views and you can share yours I thought I would give you a quick rundown of the keynote’s announcements.
Hi everyone, hope you’re all well, bit of housekeeping first of all - BUMP 012, our iPhone UK special is being edited as I write this, should be out by Thursday at the latest, sorry for the delays to most of our releases lately, we’re working on some new structural stuff with the edits. I’m going to officially say that from now on our shows we record on Fridays will be out by Wednesday of the next week, gives us all time to test it and for our beta listeners to give us feedback.
Right, onto the issue at hand - I bought my iPhone from Carphone Warehouse (CPW) on Saturday 10th November, you’ll hear my thoughts on their service on the show, and bought their insurance product after a rather long sales pitch from their people. I had my doubts about some of the things they were saying, but with a 14-day cooling off period I thought I’d take it out and then cancel if these came out to be justified doubts, well I have to report to you all today - they are indeed justified!
