When it comes to Apple, I don’t really take the time to speculate but I thought now would be a great time with the imminent launch of the 4th generation iPod Touch, it seems like a great time to start.
My iPod history
The launch of the original iPod saw a new era for music. It’s taken an extremely long time for record companies to come around to the idea of music being digital and I feel that consumers are still being ripped of. Ripped of quite a lot since the introduction of Apple’s 3-tier price structure in iTunes.
With the release of the iPod Mini, I found my own way into the iPod market as I needed an affordable storage device but wanted a small factor MP3 player too. The Mini fit perfectly, although it’s 4Gb capacity wasn’t ideal for the video editing projects I embarked on in University.
In 2008, I purchased an iPod Touch after soon after it’s launch. I never got the iPhone and didn’t understand why you’d want all your eggs in one basket. The iPod Touch came along, but I my iPod Mini still did it’s thing and there was no need to replace it. In the build up to the iPod Touch 2G’s release, I had had my Mini’s battery replaced under the extended warranty and it’s 4Gb capacity was just unmanageable now.
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My BMW key fob has had an issue for years where the middle button wouldn't lock the car, and as a result the immobiliser wouldn't initialise.
After a quick search on Friday, I couldn't confirm that the key fob could be opened. Today, I took to it with a stanley knife and prized it open and fixed the offending button. A small metal cage had come loose and a flexible piece of metal had made its way to somewhere else in the fob!
Now that everything was back to where it should be, and had to superglue the two parts back together.
If you need to repair or replace the battery, don't be afraid. Attack with a knife, as carefully as possible and you'll be ok. Superglue or the equivalent is necessary to get it back together, but not as hard as I thought it might be!
Possibly the best way of pronouncing the new year, 20:10 has already begun and I've already made more changes to http://charanj.it!
My portfolio site now has a slightly better layout, more functionality for the portfolio showcase and more key terms and information about me, as a developer.
I'm looking to improve the twitter situation, because not all my tweets are really suitable for my portfolio site, but I'll decide what to do with that a bit later!
As the world waves it's goodbye to the year that was 2009, I thought I'd write a quick post on how the year went for me.
I got married and achieved a lot of other personal milestones this year.
I got to see Hawaii and an active volcano. Got to see Anfield and sit in the Kop. I got to see Francesco Totti play for Roma at the Olympico while taking my wife around a city I love.
The year has had a few downs, but many many ups and I can't wait for the new year to start. Happy New Year all! :)
I haven't had the time to work on receeve.it properly for a few weeks, but I am looking to release the following things in the near future:
1. Nike+PHP v0.9.1
2. A mobile poker site (trying some revenue ideas out)
3. Migrating the odd blog post from the old Be Unequaled blog
As you may be aware, Be Unequaled is no longer around as a fashion site, but will return in the future in a different form. I feel that the blog had some decent content so I'll be migrating that over bit by bit to this blog.
So I am a lover of Nike+ and have had a Nike+ stat widget on the side of my blog for quite a while now. The project can be found at http://nikeplusphp.org.
It came to my attention that the method used wasn't the easiest and certainly wasn't up to date. Looks like something changed on Nike's end and that has broken the API I was using.
Looking around for an alternative, I was inspired to build my own class and am now firmly at version 0.7 with it. I've created a small website for the project where you can grab the code and there's some documentation to help you get started.
The project is called Nike+PHP and all you need is a Nike+ account, PHP5 and SimpleXML installed.
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So my wedding is less than a week away! Keep an eye on my Flickr wedding set over the coming weeks and I hope to post up videos from both the wedding and our honeymoon too.
I've been uploading some photos throughout the day here at FOWD. Take a look at the slideshow below, or check out my Flickr set.
As we speak only photos I could Bluetooth to my phone have been added, will upload some more from my More photos added from my minimo later!
Over the weekend I ordered the Toshiba Camelio H29 camera and it arrived yesterday. The quality is great in good light and not so amazing in low light, but at £165 I don't really expect a HD camera with every bell and whistle.
It is a little dissapointing that it wasn't slightly better, but it's small, plastic and full HD so there's not much to complain about!
Check out my YouTube playlist which I'll update with more HD content soon!
Posted by Chaz 27th August 2010 @ 15:33pm - 
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