Amazon Downloads!!!!!
29/09/07 20:38 Filed in: MP3's
I've just been doing a little bit of music
shopping on the new Amazon MP3 download site.
Great site I thought, found some music to download, then came the surprise........
USA only, for $.89 for a song I thought id found an alternative site to use apart from iTunes.
I logged in clicked on what I wanted to purchase, selected my payment method, then I was asked to enter an alternate address.
??????? I thought, why ??????
After reading the Terms of use I discovered that,
Amazon MP3's are only available to residents of the USA................
Well that's a definite iTunes killer isn't it!
Great site I thought, found some music to download, then came the surprise........
USA only, for $.89 for a song I thought id found an alternative site to use apart from iTunes.
I logged in clicked on what I wanted to purchase, selected my payment method, then I was asked to enter an alternate address.
??????? I thought, why ??????
After reading the Terms of use I discovered that,
Amazon MP3's are only available to residents of the USA................
Well that's a definite iTunes killer isn't it!
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Pixelmator
24/09/07 20:39 Filed in: Software
Pixelmator is now ready
to come out of private beta and straight
into a full working release on sale 25th
September 07.
I've just purchased my license key for it ready for the general release on the 25th.
At $59 it's a an excellent purchase especially if you consider that Adobe has just updated it's Photoshop Elements app for the PC to number 6 and not bothered updating Elements 4 for the Mac which is still PPC.
Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline will be doing a free screen cast of Pixelmator so check out ScreenCastsOnline for a excellent Pixelmator video tutorial.
I've just purchased my license key for it ready for the general release on the 25th.
At $59 it's a an excellent purchase especially if you consider that Adobe has just updated it's Photoshop Elements app for the PC to number 6 and not bothered updating Elements 4 for the Mac which is still PPC.
Don McAllister from ScreenCastsOnline will be doing a free screen cast of Pixelmator so check out ScreenCastsOnline for a excellent Pixelmator video tutorial.
iPhone is crap say Vodafone!!!
21/09/07 20:39 Filed in: iPhone
If anyone's with Vodafone and is thinking of
getting an iPhone, you've got to tell them you
want the iPhone when you phone for the address to
send your cancellation letter to.
The conversation I had with there cancelation department went a little like this:
Me- I want the address to send my cancellation letter to please.
VF- Sure it's ***** ***** *****
Me- Thanks.
VF- Can I ask why you want to cancel?
Me- I want an iPhone.
VF- Your going to pay £300 for a iPhone.
Me- It's £270.
VF- You do realize it's been absolutely slated in the last few days since it came out, they say it's really crap.
Me- Not by all the people in the US who have already bought it.
VF- AH but they've changed all the technology in it for the UK market.
Me- No they haven't it's the exact same phone.
VF- No it's not, they have taken the 3G out and replaced it with a slower kind of technology.
Me- The iPhone has never been 3G in the US, it's always been EDGE.
VF- Well they have changed a lot of the other spec's.
Me- I think you'll find it is the exact same phone mate. I can read out the spec's from the Apple US and UK sites for you now if you'd like.
VF- Well if thats all sir.
Me- Yes thanks for your help......
It's sad that Vodafone feel that they have to resort to these kind of tactics to keep customers just because they didn't get the iPhone.
They obviously didn't try hard enough or didn't want to agree with the terms Apple wanted.
I still haven't decided when I'm going to actually buy the iPhone. I would love to but one on November the 9th but there are a few things that I would really like to wait for.
3G is a big thing here in the UK but I can live without that.
No MMS yet, I can live without that until Apple hopefully issue a software update to add this. Especially as the UK spent 325 million on MMS last year.
I know there is E-mail to send pic's , fair enough if the other person has an iPhone, but it's a nightmare setting up and using e-mail on most other types of phone.
8Gig is OK with me as I'd keep my whole music library on my 30Gig iPod video.
The main thing is the Bluetooth I think I can only use this as a means to connect to a headset or handsfree kit and not to swap files, Bluetooth is the way I swap files and pictures etc with most of my friends and I'm not sure if this can be changed in a software update.
The conversation I had with there cancelation department went a little like this:
Me- I want the address to send my cancellation letter to please.
VF- Sure it's ***** ***** *****
Me- Thanks.
VF- Can I ask why you want to cancel?
Me- I want an iPhone.
VF- Your going to pay £300 for a iPhone.
Me- It's £270.
VF- You do realize it's been absolutely slated in the last few days since it came out, they say it's really crap.
Me- Not by all the people in the US who have already bought it.
VF- AH but they've changed all the technology in it for the UK market.
Me- No they haven't it's the exact same phone.
VF- No it's not, they have taken the 3G out and replaced it with a slower kind of technology.
Me- The iPhone has never been 3G in the US, it's always been EDGE.
VF- Well they have changed a lot of the other spec's.
Me- I think you'll find it is the exact same phone mate. I can read out the spec's from the Apple US and UK sites for you now if you'd like.
VF- Well if thats all sir.
Me- Yes thanks for your help......
It's sad that Vodafone feel that they have to resort to these kind of tactics to keep customers just because they didn't get the iPhone.
They obviously didn't try hard enough or didn't want to agree with the terms Apple wanted.
I still haven't decided when I'm going to actually buy the iPhone. I would love to but one on November the 9th but there are a few things that I would really like to wait for.
3G is a big thing here in the UK but I can live without that.
No MMS yet, I can live without that until Apple hopefully issue a software update to add this. Especially as the UK spent 325 million on MMS last year.
I know there is E-mail to send pic's , fair enough if the other person has an iPhone, but it's a nightmare setting up and using e-mail on most other types of phone.
8Gig is OK with me as I'd keep my whole music library on my 30Gig iPod video.
The main thing is the Bluetooth I think I can only use this as a means to connect to a headset or handsfree kit and not to swap files, Bluetooth is the way I swap files and pictures etc with most of my friends and I'm not sure if this can be changed in a software update.
iPhone, to buy now or wait...
18/09/07 20:40 Filed in: iPhone
To buy on November the 9th or do I wait?
I can start by saying that I'm glad we finally have the iPhone here in the UK. BUT
NO 3G!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a surprise, especially as O2 have said they only have 30% coverage. There is the benefit of the free WiFi from The Cloud.net and their 7500 hotspots, but its something I wouldn't get much use of.
I could live with the speed (or lack of speed) of EDGE if I knew that I would be able to use the iPhone when I wanted to but with only 30% coverage I dont think that there will be many place's to pick up a EDGE signal.
The UK has massive 3G coverage. O2 has along with every other network operator in the UK made a massive investment over the years in 3G and to spend money now downgrading just doesn't make sense, I cant see them continuing the investment once the 3G iPhone is released. The shareholders wont want that.
I have said that no 3G means no iPhone for me, BUT I may be changing my mind. I booked a holiday at work for the 9th November and was about to pay for a return ticket to the Glasgow Apple store but then started thinking about the extra cost of the tickets added to the cost of the phone plus whatever else I manage to buy on the day would all add up to a rather expensive iPhone. So I'm now back to thinking that waiting till maybe march 08 to get a phone I can use anywhere in the UK with a larger memory, 3G and whatever else they might add is a better idea.
As for the price plans:
O2 has a £15 a month price plan with 200 anytime voice minutes and 400 text messages without a contract, so the unlimited data plan is actually costing you £20 a month along with a 18 month contract and your getting 200 text messages a month less.........
So...... What to do.......................
One thing I cant understand is that there are people already saying that the price of the iPhone is actually £899 (£35 x 18 months + £269).
This I dont understand. I wouldn't say my car cost £10,000 + 3 years of petrol payments and service costs..................
Anyway one thing that's made me a very happy person is that O2 will have a dedicated UK care facility for iPhone owners, that it's self is worth paying a little extra for in my book.
I can start by saying that I'm glad we finally have the iPhone here in the UK. BUT
NO 3G!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a surprise, especially as O2 have said they only have 30% coverage. There is the benefit of the free WiFi from The Cloud.net and their 7500 hotspots, but its something I wouldn't get much use of.
I could live with the speed (or lack of speed) of EDGE if I knew that I would be able to use the iPhone when I wanted to but with only 30% coverage I dont think that there will be many place's to pick up a EDGE signal.
The UK has massive 3G coverage. O2 has along with every other network operator in the UK made a massive investment over the years in 3G and to spend money now downgrading just doesn't make sense, I cant see them continuing the investment once the 3G iPhone is released. The shareholders wont want that.
I have said that no 3G means no iPhone for me, BUT I may be changing my mind. I booked a holiday at work for the 9th November and was about to pay for a return ticket to the Glasgow Apple store but then started thinking about the extra cost of the tickets added to the cost of the phone plus whatever else I manage to buy on the day would all add up to a rather expensive iPhone. So I'm now back to thinking that waiting till maybe march 08 to get a phone I can use anywhere in the UK with a larger memory, 3G and whatever else they might add is a better idea.
As for the price plans:
O2 has a £15 a month price plan with 200 anytime voice minutes and 400 text messages without a contract, so the unlimited data plan is actually costing you £20 a month along with a 18 month contract and your getting 200 text messages a month less.........
So...... What to do.......................
One thing I cant understand is that there are people already saying that the price of the iPhone is actually £899 (£35 x 18 months + £269).
This I dont understand. I wouldn't say my car cost £10,000 + 3 years of petrol payments and service costs..................
Anyway one thing that's made me a very happy person is that O2 will have a dedicated UK care facility for iPhone owners, that it's self is worth paying a little extra for in my book.