Monday
15Jun

The iPhone 3GS Situation

DateMonday, June 15, 2009 at 10:06PM | Print ArticlePrint Article

Updated on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 1:30PM by Registered CommenterStu Helm

So you all know how much of an Apple geek I am, every computer in our house is a Mac, one of our routers is an Time Capsule, both my parents have iPods (Nanos to be precise) and of course I have an iPhone 3G (16gb Black) I love my Apple tech and wouldn’t dream of switching to another platform, at least not for full time use, I do have a Dell Mini 9 which runs Ubuntu 9.04 very nicely.

When Apple announced the new iPhone 3GS, at their WWDC 09 Keynote on Monday 8th June, I was incredibly excited by the prospect of a new phone with some great new features, the digital compass, voice control, the great new 3mp AF camera, and to top things off, a whopping 32gb of storage. I was all ready to plan my trip to the o2 store to get my hands on the latest incarnation of the ‘Jesus Phone’ (of course as a Christian, I’m not sure if that’s a wholly appropiate name, though I’m certain if Jesus was around he would of course be a Mac user, ‘The Keynote on the Mount’ comes instantly to mind)

Great, sounds good so far doesn’t it, well hold your horses there partner, there’s an issue and it all goes back to pretty much a year ago, when I got my current iPhone 3G.

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Sunday
31May

Speech!

DateSunday, May 31, 2009 at 11:21PM | Print ArticlePrint Article

So my parents both turn 50 this year, Dad has already done so on the 9th May and Mum passes that milestone on 9th June, we’ve had two parties to celebrate the occasion, one over in Preston (our hometown) and then one here in Leeds.

At the Leeds party I was called upon to give a small speech to introduce the blowing out of the tradiotional birthday cake candles, which if you ask me is just another way for older people to feel young again!

Thankfully, a good family friend, Barry Pearson, captured the speech for me using my Flip Mino HD, even more impressive is the fact he didn’t ‘nick’ it afterwards, given the fact he is a Scouser (slang for person from Liverpool, sorry Don McAllister!)

So for your enjoyment, here it is!

Alan & Denise @ 50 - Speech from Stu Helm on Vimeo.

 

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Friday
17Apr

New Home, New Start

DateFriday, April 17, 2009 at 10:26PM | Print ArticlePrint Article

So, here we are, my new home - well at least the new home of my blog and other online activities. I've decided to move to SquareSpace after the raving reviews from people like Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton and Kevin Rose, and it's got to be said, not having to worry about hosting for my blog is going to make a nice difference.

I'll be upfront and say I've never been amazingly good at a regular blog, so I figures what better time than a move to a new service to do start clean, hence why I haven't imported any of my old content across from the old blog.

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