Wed, July 28, 2010 at 19:09 
I really am liking it. This is probably spawned from owning an iPhone 4 which has a HD video camera built in and I wsa keen to upload the videos of the family etc. Vimeo seems just so clean, un cluttered and easy to use. Very friendly and generally a joy and experience to use.
Sample Video
May I suggest you check it out and get an account it is free.
Alternatively find me here
Tue, June 29, 2010 at 22:12 A very thought provoking talk by Brian Coxat TED 2010
Sat, June 19, 2010 at 19:11 
In an effort to be thrifty I decided to recycle my iPhone and use the proceeds to finance the new iPhone 4, all in advance of the launch of the new phone.
I did my homework, I watched the decreasing prices for recycled iPhone's and took the plunge.
The company in question that I used to recycle the phone was (as suggested by Matt, thanks) Fonebak. They kindly sent me an envelope and labels and I dutifully wiped the iPhone of data and apps.
I added some postal insurance and popped it in the post.
Oh and the SIM was removed and popped into a.... hmm... well..... it must be a 5 year old Sony Ericsson K800i.
All good I hear you say. Well yes and no. I hope I get the cheque for the amount I struck at, as the phone was immaculate. But the biggest problem is life without an iPhone.
Call me an addict but I am sitting at a desk or lying in bed or sitting at the sofa and I find myself reaching out for the iPhone. Sad I know.
But I want to see what the latest news is, see what people I follow on Twitter are saying. Look at GIST for a complete social media mashup. Even check how my fantasy World Cup 2010 team are doing. Even simple things like checking the weather I cannot do. Let alone do testing of our app ParentHelper.
Arrrrrrgghhhh. I cannot believe how integrated the iPhone has become to my life.
So I am now counting down the days until June 24, checking daily online to see if the 4 UK mobile networks revise their costs or data caps.
On that note, scum buckets. On one hand they givith us a nice phone, on the otherhand they take away functionality and value that we had for the same price in the previous contract. What the hell are they thinking. I wonder if O2 will see a huge wave of iPhone customers leaving them over the next 6-12 months.
If data usage is going to get higher why put road blocks in the way. Surely they want to encourage us to use the data networks. Surely capping the data usage means stifling of great apps and innovation. By putting caps in place it is surely discouraging us to use lots of data intensive apps over the month which defeats the use of the smart phone. Or are they hoping we will all make expensive mistakes.
How about showing us the investment you are putting into your network for high speed data transfer first and then perhaps I might be willing to pay for that privilege and the data.
So I have a trouble some 6 days before having the chance to lay my hands on a new phone. Choices to make though is O2 or Vodafone? Black or White?
What do you think?
Meanwhile we are testing ParentHelper ready for iOS4 release.
Catch you soon.
Working Hard on ParentHelper
So here it is. I have been working with some friends to create a new app for the Apple iPhone platform.
Tricky, as there are, as Steve Jobs says hundreds of thousands of apps on the iTunes app store. Some of them brilliant, some are silly and funny, some of them get deleted within 5 minutes of being installed. And thats where we wanted to make a difference. We wanted to create an app with longevity.
So there is the problem, how do we write an app and stand out? We tried looking for niche market,which is very dificult considering the range of apps that exist. So we went back to grass roots and looked at what was common to all three of us and what we would all be passionate about.
We came up with some basic concepts for ParentHelper. What crystallised it for us was we watched a TV programme on British TV on Channel 4 called Dispatches. The programme highlighted that a disturbing amount of children were moving onto secondary school without the skills for basic arithmetic.
A quiz that the teachers gave kids and teachers was put onto the channel 4 website for us to try and see what results we got. They were disturbing both in the programme and for the adults that I knew in our local neighbourhood, who all took it that night and posted their results on Facebook.
Even I will freely admit that I had forgotten how to do long multiplication manually on a piece of paper, because I don't do it, I use a computer or a calculator and we seem to be accepting that as the norm and thus expecting our kids to think that is the norm. So the miss out the basic structure of how to do things on a piece of paper and understand what is really going on.
So we decided that our app should be a step by step interactive guide on how to do the arithmetic so that parents could help teach their children.
ParentHelper was born.
It has taken us a while to develop and get through the Apple review process. But we are there now a version that works and works with iOS4 and the iPhone 4 platform.
We have loads of ideas of extra functionality we want to see in the app.
Big thanks go to Matt over at matthewtakhar.co.uk and Andrew D for all the hard work.
We are hoping for great things not least because of the subject matter.
Anyway now back to playing Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies