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Re: Thesis Ups Its Game With New Design Options

Nico — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:59:40 -0000

From a designer perspective:

Using Thesis allows for easy customization and, even when hiring a designer, helps keeps costs down. It's solid and well coded. But for some sites it's not enough. It can actually get on the way, and make coding harder. For a complex site with very specific requirements, I'd always start from scratch.

It's all about needs. Sometimes using a framework theme such as Thesis is a good idea, but it's not the ultimate solution. A good web designer should help you choose what's best for you.

Re: Nokia 5800 ‘The Tube’ Launch Event

Nico — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:14:43 -0000

I can't believe only one person commented about Mark's intervew. It was painful to watch, not because of the lenght (I'm good with it) but because he's just reciting marketing BS.

Re: 3UK launches advertising on it’s mobile broadband dashboard

Nico — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:59:08 -0000

Is that Mac or PC? The app for Mac was rubbish (at least a few months ago). I ended up installing a 3rd party app. If it had had ads too it would have felt a bit like an insult.

Re: Separated at birth #2 - Mark Blevis vs. Imagination Movers guitarist

Nico — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:56:54 -0000

Oh come on, that has got to be Mark in the video!! At least a twin!

Re: MySpace is broken

Nico — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:44:30 -0000

Myspace now thinks I'm in Canada, even though I created my account years before I even knew any canadians. Go figure.

Re: I’ve been hired by…

Nico — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:06:37 -0000

Congrats!! :D

Re: What was your first computer?

Nico — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:39:55 -0000

My first one was a C64 I shared with my brother (and technically my sister too, but she never used it). And now I have a C64 emulator on my phone :)

Oddly, the first computer I had that was mine alone was my Powerbook, only a few years ago...

Re: 33 minutes

Nico — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:08:54 -0000

Yes, I should have been be sleeping (especially since I stayed in because I had to be up early today...), but it was all good since I almost finished some client work and I got to give you a hand. You're very welcome!! :D

Re: Pixie 3.0

Nico — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:20:34 -0000

Congrats!! :)

Re: Unlimited monthly air travel for $599 from JetBlue

Nico — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:23:45 -0000

"I wonder how long it’ll take the likes of RyanAir or Easyjet here in the UK to introduce something similar?"

You're kidding, right? They're good (well, RyanAir at least, I never flew Easyjet) if you're traveling with no luggage and no expectation. They don't care about the customer, they only care about charging outrageous fees for anything more than basic service. *IF* they do something like this, there'll be a million hidden fees.

When I flew JetBlue, on the other hand, I found myself thinking "Wow, I love this airline" (and not only because they offered free wifi on their terminal...). Then I turned my head and I saw this. 'nuff said :)

Re: Nokia’s N97 & The 5800: The trouble with 16:9

Nico — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:47:29 -0000

Uh... actually, no. Focal lenght is the right term. It means exactly "how wide the angle of the lens is" (at least for a fixed sensor size). Here's something from good ole' photo.net:

http://photo.net/learn/fov/

Re: Nokia’s N97 & The 5800: The trouble with 16:9

Nico — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:29:30 -0000

That's why I said "for a fixed sensor size". The correct term is indeed "field of view", but focal lenght is more commonly used as a measure of the view angle of a lens.

But yeah, what Ben said :)

Re: Exclusive: The search for the N…

Nico — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:02:15 -0000

Oooh I want a sticker too!

Re: Buy a Domain for Email or at Least a Gmail Account

Nico — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:06:29 -0000

This is exactly what I did recently. I got a domain name specially for email and I'm forwarding it to my Gmail. It was mostly so I could get an easier to remember address, but also if Gmail ever goes down (hey, you never know...) I'm covered.

Re: New Site Design Launched

Nico — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:09:43 -0000

Thanks! To be fair though, I have to mention that the design is a customization of an existing theme.

Oh, and you forgot to mention. The banner image was taken by C.C Chapman too. Another person you met via social networking!

Re: Who Am I Really

Nico — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:08:46 -0000

Happy birthday!!

Re: My Site Dressed in Thesis

Nico — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:06:49 -0000

Nice design! The sidebar is very clean and well organized. I wouldn't expect anything less from someone of the caliber of Chris Pearson.

Although I have to say, the last design was pretty nice too ;)

Re: What Nokia are You Using Now and Which are You Looking Forward To?

Nico — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:41:13 -0000

I'm on an N82 (and an N810). The N900 makes me go "oooh pretty!", and the N86 certainly looks good as a replacement for the N82.

But really, I have no reason to upgrade for the moment. My phone does pretty much everything I need. If Nokia would fix a few bugs it'd be perfect.

Re: Nokia Messaging, The End Of My/Your Woes?

Nico — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:35:17 -0000

I figured I'd give it another try after seeing this post. It still won't recognize my work email, and I don't see a way to set it up manually. And it insists on using my GPRS connection (and again I didn't see how to change that). I use 3 SIM cards regularly, and one doesn't even allow data. I'd like the option to check for emails manually over wlan.

Oh well, I guess I'll keep using Slick. Money well spent.

Re: Why the Ovi Store is still total bollocks

Nico — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:30:54 -0000

Today after a hard reset on my phone I finally got the Ovi Store client available to download. I figured I'd try it and see how many of my usual apps I could get through it. After all, Ovi has been working better lately — Ovi maps now works on all browsers and Ovi Sync magically started working again recently. Let's see:

Two worked fine (YouTube, Fring), seven weren't available (Slick, ProfiMail, Gmail, Opera Mini, Nokia Wireless Keyobard, Nokia Sports Tracker, Psiloc Traveller), and one I couldn't find via search even though I know for a fact it's on the store (Pixelpipe). Pretty much all these are very common S60 apps yet I couldn't find 70% of them, including two of Nokia's own apps.

Nope, the Ovi Store still sucks.

Re: Episode 37: First impressions of the Nokia N900 (Part 2)

Nico — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:17:50 -0000

Did you find the volume eventually? I would have tapped on the clock/battery/signal area, but that's because I've used the older tablets.

I can see there's no volume icon there on your video, though there seems to be one on the N900 website. Does the icon disappear when the volume is turned all the way down? That'd be a bad UI decision.

Re: Giffgaff announces more news on their pricing structure

Nico — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:16:19 -0000

You know what'd make me switch to a new operator? *Good* customer service. Even if it's only by email as Giffgaff is planing to do, I'd seriously consider switching if I every time I needed help I got it quickly and easily and without having to deal with a CSR who has no idea about what they're talking about.

I'd also like to not be raped with fees. I'm willing to pay a bit more for good service (the priority data access on the local cell idea is brilliant!), which is not the same as paying stupidly high fees for nothing.

I hope Giffgaff can do this. They'll have me as a customer if they do.

Re: Shopping at the OVI store…

Nico — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:02:09 -0000

Haha, priceless!

(Btw, I got an email from Ovi support once asking me for, among many other info, my passport number. Go figure...)

Re: Calling all Nokia & Symbian geniuses: Am I wrong?

Nico — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:43:17 -0000

I love my Nokia phone. I do lots of really cool things with it that really do make my life easier. I'd never buy an iPhone, because it can't do most of these things. However...

I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE.

I love my Nokia because I'm a rare breed of mobile user. I'm a geek. I like to tinker with the device and I don't have a problem navigating through menues and cryptic error messages. I know that different Nokia phones have different OS even if they look mostly the same. But most people don't.

I bought my mom a phone last week. If money had been no object, I would have gotten her an iPhone. It's a dream to use for someone who doesn't know what an OS is or care about it (instead I got her a low end Samsung - oh my god, whoever designed the UI on that thing deserves very, very bad things). That makes up for a high percentage of the mobile users.

The iPhone has many flaws, yes. But it was conceived with the user in mind, and it shows. And that's why people love it, and that's why marketing people love it.