Here’s Johnny!!!!

After being out in the wilderness for forty days and nights, I have returned to the fold.  Blogging will resume as normal. IE Spurts of extreme activity followed by long gaps of nothing.   
However there is a light at the end of the tunnel.  I’ve recently purchased a spanky new macbook, which will help facilitate the blogging process.  So hang in there. In the works are articles about my experience as a new apple user, and of course there’ll be the usual dross, such as reports of famous crusty plonker Jeff Minter ranting about no one liking his new game Space Giraffe. Awww. 
So strap yourself in and get ready for some sporadic and mediocre journalism.I know I’m excited too! 
Big Red 

Unlock your iPhone at your peril!!

Be afraid, be very afraid.  The usually jovial  apple, has issues a dire warning to consumers not to unlock their iPhones, as this may result in permanent inoperability. Gasp!

Besides destroying it, unlocking the iPhone also has the effect of allowing the user to subscribe to non authorised telecom networks.  Even more exciting, unlocked phones can have additional homegrown functionality such as the extra wallpapers and ringtones.

Apple intends to update the software regularly, and these updates will might kill the deregulated phone.  You’ve been warned, your unlocked iPhone is nothing but a ticking timebomb in your pocket. 

Kah- Blooie!

iPhone – £1259 before making a call – The backlash has begun.

It’s only been on the streets for a couple of days, and already the Iphone is getting the british Tabloid treatment.  Like Paris Hilton, it’s being photographed in all the right places, but no one is taking it seriously.

According to the ever reliable free morning newspaper, “The Metro” the cost of an iPhone is a staggering £1259.  Their calculations are based on a a £259 handset, the £55 a month for 18 months contract.  Of course there is a £35 contract, but that doesn’t make good reading.

I’m strangely ambivalent to the iPhone, so I won’t be breaking open the piggybank yet.  Sign me up for an iPod Touch though, I am completely sold on it.  Just don’t tell the girlfriend,  I’m pretending to be broke…