It’s All in the Detail…

 iPhone, Random Musings  No Responses »
Jan 292013
 
It's All in the Detail...

I used to view Apple as a company that cared about the finer details but today’s update to iOS6.1 is making me change that view. Before I go on, let me just say that yes, I know how trivial this will seem when you read it, but it’s just one of those little things that is going to annoy the crap out of me now that I have noticed it! iOS6 added a somewhat pointless feature whereby the volume knob would ‘reflect’ light depending on what angle the phone was being held at – as though you were looking at

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BT: The Saga Continues…

 Computers, Internet, Life  No Responses »
Dec 182012
 

This is getting longer than the Star Wars Saga now*… Following on from my initial moan about BT and my second blog post about it I thought I’d give an update seeing as they have annoyed me yet again. And I still have no Internetz. On Saturday morning (5 days after BT should have installed my broadband) I submitted a support request to @BTCare who had already said that if I didn’t hear from someone by Friday at 8pm to get in touch directly with them. This is what I sent: Hi. Still waiting for my Broadband to be connected

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BT: Bloody Terrible

 Computers, Internet, Life  1 Response »
Dec 142012
 

Follow on from this post So 8pm came and went, I called them and spent 40 minutes on the phone to India but couldn’t actually get anywhere because the orders and billing departments were both closed. So they have requested a call-back for me between 10-11am tomorrow… I wonder if THAT one will materialise? As you can guess, I’m pretty mad – even more annoyed at the number of broken promised from BT. I mean, really, how hard is it to activate a phone line before an engineer comes?! They managed to get the hub to me on time… not

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Moving to BT: Not The Best Start…

 Home, Internet, Life  2 Responses »
Dec 142012
 
Moving to BT: Not The Best Start...

On Friday 23rd November we exchanged contracts and agreed a moving date of Friday 30th November. On that day I also ordered BT’s Infinity 2 60MB Fibre Optic Broadband Package as my previous supplier of 60MB broadband, Virgin Media, don’t do our new address. After ordering I was told they couldn’t connect it all up until Monday 10th December. A bit annoying, but I could live with tethering on my phone. Monday 10th came and my son had been admitted to hospital the night before however Mrs-MaFt was at home for when the engineer arrived at 8.45am. This is when

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Bad Maths…

 Scams  No Responses »
Dec 142012
 

I received this email ‘from’ a colleague the other day: Subject: We invite you to work in your spare time for 100 Eur per hour We invite you to work in the remote assistant position. This work takes 2-3 hours per week and requires absolutely no investment. The essence of this work for incoming client requests in your city. The starting salary is about 2500 EUR per month + bonuses. You get paid your salary every 2 weeks and your bonuses after fulfilling each task! We guarantee work for everyone. But we accept applications this week only! Therefore, you should

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Self-hosted WordPress Users – A Tip About Photos

 Blogging, Sites, Work  1 Response »
Dec 142012
 

I’m just transferring all the media over for new client who is moving from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress site (using my hosting company Salt & Light Solutions) and it reminded me to write this post…! The photos that had been uploaded to the WordPress.com blog were approx 4MB each (4272 x 2848 pixels!) – this causes a few problems when you transfer to self-hosted. 1) space issues, 2) bandwidth issues and 3) visitor experience – more info: 1) Space – each photo is 4MB – on WP.com this doesn’t matter, you get as much space as you need. As

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Scam Call 6: Keyboard Shenanigans (4th July 2012)

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Jul 042012
 

This was a great one – I got the caller so wound up he actually told me to f-off! Sadly my mobile got a call so the last minute or so wasn’t recorded. I paraphrased the missing audio though at the end of the video. Other highlights were going through every letter on the keyboard until I found the ‘flag’ key he wanted me to press.

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Scam Call 5: Microsoft? Windows? Creative Solutions Online?

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Jul 032012
 

This was an early morning call and it caught me off guard. However I mumbled something about ‘having to do something’ (i.e. set the phone recording) and asked them to start again saying who they were. Throughout the call they couldn’t make up their mind what company they were calling from. The highlight though was being asked if I had a false leg! For info they called from: 004588632589 and the call quality was awful!

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