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    October 27

    The $129 Service Pack

    Interesting review of the latest update of OSX compared to Windows Vista and the previous update to OSX.
     
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    October 18

    Vodafone 0 : Rob 1

    OK so I called Vodafone last week to ask for my annual phone upgrade, which i've been doing for years and years.  As you'll see on my previous blog entry, it wasn't a successful call, and I went away very annoyed, and posted off a cancellation letter.
     
    Immediately they receive it, the phone rings, and its a pleasant apologetic man desperate to keep my business.
     
    Heres my new deal, compared to the previous offer...
    • Handset price : Free (was £110)
    • Contract length : 12 months (was 18)
    • Monthly payment : £25 (was 30)
    • 150 minutes + 500 texts per day (same).

    To say that I'm feeling pleased with myself would be a gross understatement.  However, it is really pathetic that I had to send a cancellation letter to get any proper customer care out of them.

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    October 12

    Vodafone & the Mobile Phone market

    I had a Sony Ericcson T68i, and then a T610i, and then a K750i and then a K800i.  Each, at the time, was cutting edge.  Each was also FREE under a 12 month contract costing about 25-30 pounds a month.
     
    Everybody knows that technology gets better and cheaper as time goes on.
     
    So why Did Vodafone yesterday try to force me into an 18 months AND ask me to pay for the phone?  I bet ANY money its not cost them any more than the previous phones did.  Its all a racket.  I had a thoroughly unpleasant conversation with their 'promotions' department - I certainly didn't feel like they cared about me.
     
    The cancellation letter is in the post.
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    October 07

    IE7 v Firefox

    A few months ago, despite repeated attempts, I couldn't get Java to work with Firefox, so I gave up and uninstalled it.  I only used IE7 on my desktop machine for the past couple of months.
     
    Last week I re-installed FireFox, persevered, and managed to fix the Java problem.
     
    Why?  Because IE7 is slow and clunky and doesn't handle RSS feeds as well as FireFox does.  In fact nothing handles RSS feeds as well as Firefox does!  Having RSS feeds as cascading bookmark folders just makes sense to me.  I have about 15 or so feeds that I like to check each day, and in Firefox i can do it in seconds.  The other killer for IE7 is the ker-click sound it makes when its loading a page.  Except if its a page with multiple parts, it ker-clicks lots of times, as the page slowly draws itself into life.
     
    I'll try the next version of IE, but for now, FireFox still wins.
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