There was only one big player when it came to tablets last year, one and a half if you include the Samsung Galaxy S. We all know I’m talking about the iPad. I snapped one up from the states when I had the chance, and I love it. And now we’re coming up to around a year since it came out, so we’re about to see the next version of the device that causes so much debate. But this year, there is going to be serious competition to Apple’s crown.

Apple – iPad 2 and iPhone 5

iPad 2: Some sort of amazing new sound tech?

When apple release a new line of products, they tend to dip their toe in the water with a “Not quite everything that’s possible will be done” way. The first iPhone was a very basic phone compared to the technology around at the time, it had a few ‘wow’ factors, the screen was one of the first to use ‘captive’ technology, when you clicked on things, things actually happened first time around. But it was still only ‘2G’, when middle line phones were ‘3G’. Same thing has happened with the iPad. Apple was launching “Facetime”, set to be the future of communications, video calling, but it wasn’t included on the iPad, even though it was being introduced even on the iPod Touch. Why? Some would say they wanted to refine the technology, but the more cynical in me is saying it is because when they launch it in the iPad 2, it’ll be a ‘new feature’. It will also have a back facing camera, which I believe will be a bit useless, imagine holding a book to take a photo, it’s just not practical.

• Front facing camera – For video calling.
• Back facing camera – Pointless
• ‘Retina Display’ – A higher screen resolution, as high as the eye can see, ala the iPhone 4. Trouble with this is that it would be a ridiculously large resolution, bigger than any TV on the market, in a 10” device.
• No ‘3G’ version, maybe (see ‘iPhone 5’).
• Some sort of ‘High Def’ or ‘3D’ sound system.

Apple’s direction seems to be moving into the connected home, using your iPhone as a remote control for your television. They’ve developed something called “AirPlay”, where you can seamlessly transfer video from one device to another. Your iPad could act like an interactive Radio Times. And the main thing with the connection to a television is; it’s more than affordable. I think we’re going to see a high def Apple TV this year too.

The personal Hotspot - Great for me, might piss off a few though.

In the latest features iOS (the operating system that runs iPhone/iPad/Touch/TV), they have something called a ‘personal hotspot’; this will connect your iPad to the Internet via your iPhone. A lot of people will be very angry by this; it will cause an absolute uproar. People have signed up 2-year deals at £20-30/month to get their iPad online, and I think most people with an iPad have an iPhone. Not only that, they’ve spent an extra £100 for this on their iPad. This contract they’re locked into will now be redundant with this feature. Naturally it won’t be free, but I expect it would still be a lot less than £20-30. You will need your phone operator’s blessing for this, but I expect that it won’t cost more than £10 a month, and it will get your laptop online too. People simply aren’t using their mobile bandwidth allowances, so aren’t upgrading them. By letting people use their allowances, people will be upgrading them, and everyone is making more money.

I’m not entirely sure what is going to happen with iPhone 5, they will change their antenna from the problems of last year, maybe upgrade the camera. I would love to see a new lock screen with some sort of widget system in place, so while your phone is locked, you can see your last texts/missed-calls and all that, but that also provides a risk in the respect that someone can take a peek at your phone and see that saucy message from Nancy from Hollyoaks. I would love for that to be up to developers to do what they want with, so the whole thing is optional and people can display, say, the weather, an RSS feed, Tweets and Facebook feeds, or scores from a video game. Whatever people think up really.

I think we might also see an ‘iPad Mini‘, a 7" version made for the ebook reader market.

I would like to see more usage of Ping and Game centre too, but I’m not entirely sure how.
They’ll be plenty more devices that’ll be able to connect to Apple products, such as car radios, TVs and…ermm… kettles.

Blackberry Playbook.

Blackberry is entering the world of Tablet computing. For some reason that is obscure to me, people like Blackberry. I’m not going to get into a flame war about Blackberry, but RIM seem to know how to market their products well. Pretty much every celeb out there has one, and they speak high praise of them. They were designed to be cheap for big companies to buy en-mass and handle communications, but they’ve sponsored MTV and managed to get it to be a device that every teenager in the country wants. RIM, the makers of Blackberry, have bought the Swedish design firm ‘The Astonishing Tribe’, so are hoping with sleek design and integration with their phones, it’ll become a product people lust after. I’ll be honest, the Playbook looks good, and if it’s at the right price, it could end up in school satchels and handed around conformance rooms alike.

I think their design is going to take a change of direction design wise, it’s currently to clonky for my liking, I would like to see it to be more smooth and slick, and more usage of touch screen.

Android

Android is going to make a few changes, they’ve got a new version coming out called Honeycomb that is designed for tablets, and so we’ll see a whole range of android tablets coming out. From the relatively cheap random Chinese markets, to the more established brands such as Motorola. It will continue to develop into something that non-geeks will love. The likes of HTC and Sony will come out with versions that have their own skins, making it all smooth and sleek, and seamless with social networks.

HP / Palm.

The HP Topaz: Looking good.

I think this is the hidden gem of the year; I’ve always loved their operating system, WebOS, and this year we’re going to see loads of phones and tablets making use of this amazing operating system. Palm never, in my opinion, backed up the amazing software with any good Hardware, but I can’t imagine HP will let their investment go on the side. They’re doing a big launch on the 9th of Feb, and we’ll see some real ‘wow’ technology.

Nintendo

Nintendo are going to launch the ‘3DS’, the world’s first true 3D video games console. It’ll be a big hit and sale out straight away. Continuing with Nintendo’s desire for innovation, they’ll be a huge range of ‘Augmented Reality’ games. You would be able to hold up a card to the camera and through the screen the card will turn into a monster. This is such huge potential for card manufactures; imagine playing Top Trumps or Pokémon style cards where creatures pop up and fight. I generally find that Nintendo consoles don’t last with me, I get ‘wow’d by the new technology but bored of the games and sale it on, and this will be no different… still want one though.

I think at E3 this year, they’ll hint towards a High Def version of the Wii, but we won’t see anything for it until at least the middle of next year. They’ve got something coming out that’ll allow games to react to your pulse, and that’ll be their next big move, however, I think it’ll be a gimmick.

Microsoft 360, Windows Mobile 7, Windows 8.

We’ll see more kinect stuff and more merging of Windows Mobile 7 and Xbox. Maybe even seeing Xbox Live bought more to the desktop. I think we’ll also see a tablet version of Windows Mobile 7. Cloud Computing will be the big thing for Microsoft, aiming to get as little information on your computer and more on the internet in general… to the point where you can go to any computer, put in your details, and it’ll be like that is your main home computer, where ever you are. Even expanding this to their mobiles.

Sony: PSP2.

This year we’ll see the start of the new playstation portable, apparently as powerful as a playstation 3. I’ve heard a lot of rumours that this will have a phone built in, and I really hope it doesn’t. If it does, it means contracts and high prices. I think games will be bought via the Internet, which will be a big problem for retail stores. Although video games in general are moving towards digital purchasing, such as that with movies and music, it’ll be a shame for people buying presents; sometimes something physical is nice and exciting.

Movies

X-men: The First Class - OH BOY

I’ve said this from the beginning, Will Smith to play Barack Obama in his life’s movie.  I’m looking forward to the new X-MEN film, about the early years of how they all started out, and the merging of Marvel brands. I think we’ll see the announcement of a new Iron Man movie. They are doing a Thor movie too, and The Avengers (which will merge quite a few well known Marvel superheroes).

Video Games

I’m extremely looking forward towards Portal 2, more so than any game in years and years. I’m going to be getting the Playstation 3 version as that comes with the Mac/Windows one too. Awesomeness.

Kindle Colour

Just a guess.

Vimeo

Me

Forests in films: DULL.

I can’t relate to films based in forests. I find them dull, Generally they’re walking around and it’s tree after tree after tree. There is no change in scenery, except maybe a tent or a tavern or something like that. The more forest scenes, the more boring it is. There are a few exceptions, Jurassic park was mostly forest based but that was OK because they’re dinosaurs.

And I liked that “The Forth Kind” film, but why would aliens come down to kidnap people in a remote town? I guess if they didn’t want everyone knowing that they’re about, then it would be a good idea to pick some outback remote village in the middle of a forest, but then again, why don’t they kidnap some people in a place with even less chance of someone dobbing them in? They could kidnap some people in a tribe in a remote part of Africa as much as they like and nobody would blab about their existence. Or maybe they want people to blab, so wouldn’t it be best if they kidnap people from the middle of New York?

Lord of the rings was the dullest films I’ve ever seen. The first one I went too at the pictures with my friends because we were all like “FUCK YEAH, ORKS”, the second one I went to at the pictures ‘cus this time they promised me a huge battle with orks and monsters, but I feel asleep at the ‘walking through a forest’ bit. So that’s a total of 6 hours of my life wasted watching people walk through a forest. I wasn’t prepared to take the risk with the third one. They might as well filmed the whole thing in Trent Park ‘cus it all looked the same to me. Every now and then they were in fields, which are basically forests with even less hiding space.

The Blair Witch Project, from what I remember, was another boring forest film, the only exciting bit was when they were in a house.

I watched that ‘Avatar’ film the other day, that had a lot of forest bits, but that’s OK because it’s fake forest with neon everywhere. It felt a lot like one of those paintings you see at places like Camden where the paint a planet or some wolves where when you hold it under a black-light. I really like them, but I know people who like art don’t like them, they’re considered on par with Comic Sans and Auto tune. I think if Lord of the Rings had more neon lights, and space ships, I would enjoy it quite a bit more.

I don’t see why people live in places like this, little houses in the middle of nowhere, what do they do when they run out of fags or fancy a mullar light at 3 in the morning? I was in Waltham forest about 6 months ago and we were driving through a forest. Out of nowhere there was a house that someone lived in. If I lived there I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere ‘cus I don’t drive and no buses or trains are near by. It must cost them a fortune to get a cab home after a few drinks. Plus, in the films I’ve seen, they would be a prime candidate for aliens, ghosts or axe murders; It’s just asking for trouble.

My friend was saying that I’m talking rubbish about there being nowhere to hide in a forest, he cited the tail of Robbin Hood, but I disagree. In a forest, if you get a mile square of room, and then get the same mile square in an urban place, there would be plenty more places to hide in an urban setting…. here is a transcript of the conversation.

…. Rosie is in the pink, and I’m in the blue. Tone is a mate she’s copy’n'pasting from.

It’s Christmas time, and it’s time for another assault of smelly stuff adverts on the telly. They all claim to be the vogue of design, an epicentre of luxury. They remind plebs like you and me that we can inspire to be more than what we are. They generally have the latest heartthrob, such as “That bloke from lost” or “That guy who plays football” looking all ‘raw’ and ‘gritty’. They’re doing something typical that everyone does, such as being on a secluded beech when oh-gee-oh-gosh, there is someone attractive of their desired sex. Naturally this object of affection wouldn’t fancy them in they pong a bit, so they spray on the sprtiz and ‘get the girl’. It’s pure dullard central. I think they expect us to put on a bit of spritz and then pull the female lead of “That show that was on telly a few years ago”.

Davidoff Cool Water.

Look, it’s the raw and gritty one from Lost, there he is minding his own business bowling down a harbour. Oh wow, someone is spraying water about at the people, but no, I’m not going to get pissed off that I’ve been soaked by some guy working on a shipping yard splashing water all over me, fuck the fact that my wallet and phone are ruined, I’m going to laugh and bowl a bit more. Oh man, suddenly there is that tart I used to work with, I think, I’m not entirely sure because her character was called “Generic Fit Girl”. She’s soaking wet too, I would launch a complaint against the shipping yard, and they’re all soaking! Sure, it’s a hot day, it would be nice to be cooled down by some water Oh, I just got the point of it, ‘cool water’, it’s a hot day, they’re being splashed down with cool water, that’s the name of the product, how symbolic.

Suddenly he is standing by the edge of a cliff hear the sea, which is no good for a harbour dock, in fact, when launching a boat, it’s generally best for the boat to be at sea level before launching it. Those things are quite heavy; you couldn’t get them up or down a waterfall while keeping the boat’s contents intact. I think we’re all agreed that a terrible place for a shipping yard would be at the top of a cliff.

He strips off his shirt, wouldn’t want it to get wet…. Oh. And dives into the ocean. Don’t worry about the trousers though; they were 3 pairs for £30 from George. I don’t know about you, but I would think twice by diving off a cliff, how does he know there aren’t any shallow rocks? That would cause serious injury. There is even a sign up there saying “Please do not dive off the cliff”, because this remote cliff (well, remote minus great big shipping port) is well known for people who want to jump off into the sea. He’s obviously so cool and edgy that he ignores signs about jumping off cliffs. It’s a local spot for cliff jumpers and suicidals. If you look at when he jumps, you’ll see there is no sort of easily accessible shoreline near the cliff. How is he supposed to get back? I do hope the camera crew will give him a lift.

He’s got the attention of the women on the dock, you can tell by the way the camera turns to her and she looks. I would be thinking, should I have just seen this obviously suicidal man jump off a cliff, “Oh blimey, that man has just jumped off a cliff! I had better go get help!” But it looks like she is thinking differently; she is thinking, “Wow, that man must have a big penis, he just jumped off a cliff!”

So he butterfly stroke swims to shore… the least efficient swimming stroke there is, because now there is a shore for him to go to. He’s back into “Sexy walk” mode, bowling off the beech and cue the product shot.

Chanel No.5

This is a fantastic advert by Chanel; I think it’s the fifth one they made because they call it “No.5”. It stars the very glamorous Nicole Kidman, who has made some amazing films, such as, *checks IMDb*, well, she’s done some very good films. Apparently she used to go out with Tom Cruise.

Anyway, back to the advert, it starts off with a very gritty man who looks like he could do with a shower, but it’s a sexy sort of need-of-shower type, rather than the “I can’t be fucked to shower today” type. There he is, looking over the streets of Paris. Suddenly we’re at the premier of a film and Nicole is in a hurry, she’s wearing an impractically large dress and runs out the cab for the last few minutes. I think we’re in New York’s ‘Time Square’ all of a sudden, that well known place in the heart of Paris. She’s all shocked that the paparazzi are about taking photos; at a premier. They all have cameras from the 1950s despite there being the bright yellow cabs made famous by New York; in Paris.

Apparently she does a runner ‘cus now there are news reports about “That one who played that girl in The Others”. She jumps in a cab again and there is some bloke there, the gritty bloke from before, he’s thinking, “Fuck me, some bint is trying to get into my cab! Look at the fucking dress she’s wearing, there’s no way that is going to fit. Holy shit, it’s Nicole Kidman! I was just watching Bewitched last night on Men4Movies”. She tells the taxi driver “Yo’ Holm, To Bail-Air !”, and he floors it. Personally, I would have stayed in the original car she was in; she doesn’t have a purse on her so maybe she expects Mr Gritty to pay for the fair home.

Then they’re sitting on some rooftop with the Chanel logo in lights, we’re deffo still in New York, or maybe Boston, it just looks like Paris because it’s so dirty. He’s trying to make small talk so she exclaims, “I’m a dancer! I love to dance!” It’s true; most people who are something love to do the things they do. I think we’re back to Moulin Rouge Paris thing, maybe. I’m confused by the geography involved. They dance and there are fireworks, apparently a whirlwind romance has taken place, they must at the “Taking a poo with the door open” stage of their relationship by now.

She has to leave him, because Nicole Kidman wouldn’t be seen dead with Mr Gritty, and she’s back at the premier for her movie. Personally, I think that’s quite rude. She already did a runner, and now expects everyone to turn up again and do it all over. She’s walking up the red carpet and turns around to see Mr Gritty, who happens to be on a rooftop, on the other side of the city. I’m pretty sure it’s all New York and not Paris now, maybe the Moulin Rouge place relocated? The press all surround her, there must be a good 500 of them this time, their 1950s cameras are all flashing away and it zooms in on her necklace with the ‘No.5’ logo in diamonds. Nobody has seemed to realise that this necklace is actually on backwards so the pendant is on her back and not her chest. I think this is so we don’t get a zoom in on her knockers, which is weird because her shoulders stick out more.

That “I’m not going to be the person you expect me to be anymore” advert.

I had to ask friends what the product was on this advert, because I couldn’t work it out. If I didn’t have the video open elsewhere I still wouldn’t be able to tell you. I was told Martin Scorsese directed it. Looking at his IMDb page, he made quite a few films that I have no desire of watching.

So, we have this bloke, I think he might be a footballer, this time he deffo is in New York, running through a subway after some girl. I’ve seen other movies of blokes chasing girls through dark alleys; I’m not sure why Chanel would like to associate with them. But no, don’t worry, he’s not one of ‘those’, he’s in a film. Actually, the whole thing is in a press conference. They’re shining the film in his face using a projector, this way you can see the film and the man being interviewed. This can do terrible damage to the eyes; please don’t try to recreate this at home. He’s now in some sort of hotel room with some very unhappy looking women, I think the whole press conference was in his head, this is a great advert for mental illness. He leans in to kiss her and is thinking about some other women or I think it’s another women. Might be the same, but she’s not having any of that she walks off, and despite it being first thing in the morning, is wearing a lovely dress. Maybe they’ve been out all night? I don’t know about you, but most mornings people are lucky to find me with clean pants and a t-shirt, or hoody if it’s cold.

He then says the attempted-to-be ‘iconic’ “I’m not going to be the man you expect me to be”, or something like that to the press. I’m not entirely sure who he is, he might be a footballer, he looks like a footballer. Or maybe a tennis player? The sides of the conference room fall down and he does a runner.

So, the Christmas message is if you spritz on this smelly stuff, it’s great for telling your misses to get stuffed for not letting you cheat on her. Damn straight.

Anyway, back to the food, this was the first time I’ve tried real crab before, or at least, in recent memory. It tastes, oddly enough, of Crab Sticks, but the texture is slightly hairy. The dark meat has more flavour and more of a pate type texture. I wasn’t in love with it, texture wise, but the taste was right up there. I was expecting almost a prawn/lobster type taste, and although it wasn’t too far off, it wasn’t the same.
If you know someone who likes a bit of crab, this is a nice one to show off a crab’s crabbiness.

What You Need, enough to make for two.

• White crab meat and/or a ‘dressed crab’.
• Some pasta, I used Fusilli, but I think something like a linguini would work well too.
• A glass of white wine.
• Garlic, Chilli, Ginger and Parsley.
• Some Single Cream
• A drop of olive oil.

What you need to do.

• First up, boil the kettle for the pasta
• While that’s going, chop up the chilli, garlic, parsley and grate the ginger. Keep the seeds if you want a bit more heat; it’s the white coating on the seeds that are the ‘hot’ bit. I found the parsley very stalky, so chop this one up fine. I found the best way to do that, was to roll it up and do a rough-chop on it.
• Heat up some oil in a frying pan and add the chilli and ginger, then a few minutes later, add the garlic.
• By now, the kettle will be boiled, so boil up some pasta according to the packet, don’t forget to add salt and oil to the water, it stops it sticking and flavours it better.
• Add a big glug of white wine and let it reduce down to basically nothing.
• Add the crab, cream and parsley, let it simmer and reduce.
• I found it needed more ‘oomph’ to it, so I added juice from ¼ of a lemon, some salt, and some more wine, so I added that and let it reduce.
• Pasta should be done, taste a piece and if it’s the way you like it, drain it and add to the crabby creamy goodness.
• Serve and enjoy =)

Frozen white crab meat and pasta.

A nice bottle of plonk.

Chop the chili and garlic, great the ginger.

'Dressed Crab' - The mix of white and brown meat works well.

Fry up the Garlic, Ginger and Chilli.

Pasta ! Tip Top Tip: Fill up about 2/3 of your bowl to get the right amount.

Add the crab: It looks rank, but won't end up like that =)

Add the cream and wine, let it reduce.

Plonk in the Parsley: chop it up finer than this though.

That's more like it, give it a taste, add some salt or whatever you think it needs.

Stir in the pasta to the sauce.

Look. At. That.... Lovely.

Crabtastic Creamy Pasta: DONE.

I’m on an Apple computer, so things might look a bit different to those of you in Windowsvile, but the menus and stuff are more or less the same. One of the problems with these is a quick Google on “Custom Ringtones iPhone” shows up loads of apps, and I’m sure a lot of them are great, but I’ve seen a few flooded with spyware and crap like that. Don’t get me started on that.

Ok, let’s get on with it. Setting up the ringtone.

• First up, each ringtone needs to be 40 seconds or less, any more and it won’t work. Find the first song you want to do, and find the start time and end time (a lot of time you’ll want the chorus, which means you don’t want to start from the beginning). Play the song and you’ll see the time on where to start and end at the top where it’s playing. For my first one, I’m going to do Dizzee Rascal’s song “Sirens”, for calls that I shouldn’t ignore. I want to start at 58 seconds into the song, and end at 1m17s.
• Right click on the song, and go to ‘Get Info’, then the tab ‘Options’, and enter the start and end time, then click OK. Just to make sure you’ve done it right, try playing the song again by double clicking on it, if everything went right, you’ll have the ringtone you want.
• Right click on the file and go to the ‘Create AAC’ option, this’ll make a copy of the song but only the timeframe that you set before. Right click on this, go to ‘Get info’ again, go to the ‘Summary’ tab, and you’ll see where the file is stored. Right click on this and you can go to “Show in finder” (or I think if you’re in windows, ‘show in explorer’).
• Now you want to rename the file, make sure you can see the extensions (the bit after the ‘.’, so in this case, it says ’03 Sirens.m4a’), Change it from a ‘m4a’ to an ‘m4r’. You’ll get a warning about changing the file type, click ‘ok’ on that. Now you want to copy this into iTune’s default Ringtones directory (in windows it’s “c:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Ringtones”… in OSX it’s “Macintosh HD/Users/[user name]/Music/iTunes/itunes Media/Ringtones”). Once you’ve copied it there, you can import it into itunes by just dragging the file we’ve created into it; Wallah ! It’s in the Ringtone’s section now in your library. Just now while testing it out, iTunes, or OSX, kept on moving the file back into the other place, don’t know why or how, but I found if I copy rather than move the file, it doesn’t do that.
• Now we want to bung this file back into iTunes, so click on File at the top, and ‘Add To Library’, and find the file.

Now let’s get that iPhone set up !.

• Now it’s a simple case of going to your Ringtones section in your library in iTunes, plugging in your iPhone (if you haven’t already) and dragging the ringtone onto your iPhone.
• You can assign each contact a different ringtone, go to your Contacts section on your iPhone, edit it, click on Ringtone and select the one you want =)
• To edit the default one for everybody, go into ‘Settings’, ‘sounds’, ‘ringtone’, select the one you want =)


(1) Pick the song you want.





(2) Get the start and end time for your ringtone (less than 40 secs)





(3) Right click on the file and go 'Get Info', set the times in the 'options' tab.





(4) Create ACC version





(5) In the summery tab of Get Info, you can right-click on path and 'Show In Finder/Explorer'





(6) Change the extention to .m4r instead of .m4a





(7) Move it to your iTune's Ringtone folder





(8) Add the ringtone into your iTunes libery, it'll appear in the Ringtones section.





(9) Copy it over to your iPhone





On your iphone - Go to Contacts





Click on the + next to where it says 'ringtone' on the contact you want to edit.





Select the ringtone you want.





All done !

* Yes, Debs, you’re on this list =P

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First times I’ve really played poker, but I really enjoyed it, and now I’m top of the league !



TOTAL WIN !

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When getting through to someone to enquire about how I can arrange the deal, the person who I speak to sounds like a drop-out from the most menial job you can possibly think off, with all the charm and charisma of an Harry Enfield character. Their staff are, probably, working under a “Self Employed” basis and, should they do actually make a ‘sale’, they’ll be let go under some excuse, in order for commission not to be paid.

Make no mistake, these people are scum who pray on the innocent, and hopefully, “Claims Team UK slash USA”, “Claims Team UK / USA” or whatever they’re calling themselves this week, will fall foul of Trades Descriptions.

And if you work for them, feel free to out all the shady business practices to the world, I have no doubt that you are better off on benefits than working for them.

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When you’ve got an invite box, like this…


Just copy and paste the following code into the URL bar (the bar where you type in website addresses)

javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

And by magic, it’ll select them all for you =)

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