First up, let’s get something straight – I love Apple. I own an iPhone, I bought a MacMini when I began Uni and I love my old white MacBook, but I can’t figure out what Apple have done with their latest offering, the iPad.
I love my iPhone. It does all that you expect from a phone plus loads more. I am the type of person that has an app for everything. Some call me an Apple Tart, or Mac Tart; I can never remember. The reason that the iPhone is such an incredible device is because it does so much with for such a small payload. I can make calls, send and receive emails, check my Google-synchronised calendar, browse the web and of course, play games. I don’t care that I can’t view Flash movies, I don’t want a full OS and I’m not particularly worried about expandability because after all…it’s a mobile phone.
If I buy a ‘tablet’ with a 10-inch screen, I expect to get not what I pay for, but functionality for what I have to carry around. Let me put things into perspective.
Netbooks (which I must admit; I thought would never catch on!) are about the same size and similar in weight, but have a fully-fledged OS with plenty of expandability options. I don’t want what is essentially a large iPhone, restricted to apps that are approved by Apple. I want something that I can use Photoshop on. Yes, the iPhone is too small because it’s a phone, but I’d expect something with a 10-inch screen to be able to perform tasks a bit better than a glorified phone. I think the iPad is just an iPhone for poor-sighted people. I’d like to save Microsoft Word documents on it once in a while, run background apps, install Cyberduck or maybe even run an Apache webserver.
I know my MacMini isn’t built for expandability; I had to take the thing apart with wallpaper scrapers when I upgraded the hard drive, but that is because the MacMini is simple and cheap, but even so, if I really wanted to, I could upgrade the hard drive, the RAM and the processor, albeit a bit difficult. I know I shouldn’t expect the iPhone to be upgradeable, but a tablet ‘computer’? Come on – think of the future Apple!
It’s nearly impossible to scratch the glass on the iPhone and the iPad uses even better stuff, but still; do you want to be worrying constantly about the condition of your tablet? Laptops solved this problem 20-odd years ago with this clever folding screen/keyboard thing. Why reinvent the wheel? Tablets have never caught on before and based on the iPad, I hope they don’t now.
There has been a recent trend in many companies following in Apples footsteps like every mobile phone nowadays that wants to be the iPhone and every MP3 player that wants to be an iPod and I can only hope that other companies move away from Apples ideas and start coming up with their own unique ideas!
As far as I can see, there is nothing new and amazing that the iPad can do that the iPhone can’t already. Give me a iPad-sized device with a fully-fledged copy of Mac OS X and I’ll be laughing…
Like most of my fellow men, I have never understood girls. they are an alien species to me and don’t work in a logical way. Sure there are many upsides to being with a woman, but my God – are they hard to make sense of!
If you’ve ever been to America, you’ll know what an entirely different kettle of fish it is with the guys and girls over there. A guy swoons over to a girl with that unmistakable American swagger and asks “Do you want to go out and grab a drink sometime?” and she replies “Yes”! I mean, what the hell? Why and how does that even work? If a guy walked up to a girl here and said the same word-for-word then he would be met with a cold, suspicious stare before running from said girl who is now screaming “rapist!” and drawing her pepper spray and taser gun.
For people like myself, who are not arrogant, immature jocks who wear their cocks on their foreheads just to gain the respect of their sociopathic mates, it takes a lot to go up to a girl and talk to her. I am not looking for a lipstick-smothered, denim skirt-wearing, chisel-off-the-makeup-the-morning-after girls who spend the night slagging off not only men, but their friends, co-workers, family, boyfriends and whoever dares to walk in the door of the pub because they suck. Instead, I am after a respectable, nice, smart, intelligent and funny girl (who isn’t – right!) who would be happy and committed to a long-term relationship. For me, walking up to a stranger that I like is like walking the plank. It’s a short walk and you know it’s going to end badly.
English girls expect too much from the good guys. I’m forever hearing “Why can’t I find a decent guy?” or “Boys are mean…” and other slanderings of a similar nature. The only ones they listen to is the jocks and the only ones they date are the jocks and you can see where this is all going…
Well girlies, I’m going to tell you now – shut up; the problem is your end.
There are plenty of good guys out there with more than 3 brain cells and some without brain cells in their testicles at all! I pride myself in being able to use most of my brain cells at once, rather than lining them up in single file, but that’s a different gripe. I know quite a number of single guys who deserve a nice girlfriend and I know some guys with girlfriends they don’t deserve; and let me tell you – NOTHING makes me angrier!
Guys – if you have a great girl, FFS respect it and don’t let her go to waste like the never-been-used condom in your wallet (because you like to do it your way!) because if you’re depriving someone like me of a relationship.
So to summaise:
Girls – Don’t ever complain about guys not being good enough – you’re just not looking in the right places…
Guys – If you have a girlfriend and you’re not treating her like the centre of your world every day, then SOD OFF!
Building a website is easy, right? Well only if you do it right. Here, I am going to look at the pitfalls of creating a website when you do things in the wrong order.
There are 3 main steps you need to take to make any website:
- Decide on a site structure – what pages are needed and how ll the pages are glued together
- Create some content – this makes the site worthwhile!
- Create a design – to make the site look lovely
There are, of course, many ways in which you can order these steps. I have covered the most common below:
The worst one imaginable:
Please, if you are reading this – never, never, NEVER, EVER do this! If you do this, consider making a living designing website templates to sell!
The one where the client messes things up:
All web developers know how clients ruin a website. They have ideas that they saw on someone else’s website that they want you to copy, they don’t like what you’ve done and they don’t know what they DO want, but this is possibly the worst scenario to be in, although sometimes they want a design before they decide what structure they want…
The one which most people do:
I see a lot of web developers favouring this approach. This is because most love to get stuck in with either an awesome design or the coding. Just don’t!
…and finally, the correct way:
Many failings and mistakes have let me to this conclusion, and the reason behind writing this post, so that the rest of you can avoid making similar mistakes.
So in conclusion, below is a flow diagram to get you thinking about the order in which certain things need to be done:
I hope this has helped – comments appreciated…
