April 9, 2010 by Screenbeard
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
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This might be my next phone…
In about June or July my iPhone contract expires. Looking at the new 4.0 software that won’t run on my 3G phone, and knowing that the next model will be out about then with (hopefully) the newer faster processor and better battery life, I’ll probably be looking to upgrade. The problem is despite loving my iPhone, and what is to come, I abhor that what my iPhone can run is subject to the whims of Apple, and I hate that I’m tied to iTunes in any way.
So this is my wish for all the makers of Android handsets and iPhone/iPad competitors:
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Tags: google, iPhone, itunes, technology
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March 25, 2009 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
Wolfenstein, busting out of your iPhoneWhen I was 13 I was around at my mate’s place as often as I could be just to play Wolfenstein 3D on his better-than-mine system. He had colour graphics and a sound card, while my Commodore 64 only had enough grunt for side-scrolling platformers and breakout clones and my IBM clone could barely muster monochrome. Wolfenstein was the pinnacle of gaming. It was just like you were there, with your little gun waving in front of you and meals left on the floor. And B.J. Blazkowicz’s face peering out at you to remind you to keep away from big men with chain-guns. I couldn’t play it enough.
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Tags: AppStore, awesome, commodore 64, First-person shooter, iPhone, Video Games, Wolfenstein
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December 14, 2008 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
Good Design in WordPress 2.7The latest WordPress update, 2.7, manages to get WIN all over my keyboard. It fair shoots out of the screen and all over the place with its sexy sexy curves and simple lines. I want to give it a hug.
The 2.6 update was pretty good. It was good enough that 2.5 is all but erased completely from my mind. 2.7 however, looks gorgeous, plays nice with all my extensions and adds a couple of neat features that make me want to go home with it, and I barely even know it.
Awesome Feature Number 1 is automatic site software upgrades. Untested as I write this, the idea of its existence is enough to make me “ghee” with joy. Found under “Tools > Upgrade” on the new left-hand menu, it offers simple upgrades to the latest software that bypasses the old “upload each new file/directory” that some have been subjected to, and even cuts out the middle man web-hosts who have been offering something similar for a while.
Awesome Feature Number 2 is plugin searching and installation RIGHT FROM THE FRIGGIN ADMIN PAGE! This makes plugins so easy to install that it practically guarantees broken WordPress installations across the world as people just install new plugins ’cause they can! No more tossing up if it’s worth it to upload and install something new. Why waste a second thinking about it when you can just press “install” and see? In minutes of upgrading my site tonight I had a working iPhone version of my site, and (hopefully) some integration with my FriendFeed account. That is the “killer feature” of WordPress right there my friends, found under “Plugins > Add New”. It makes me so happy I could cry.
So go and update it today. It’ll be the last painful upgrade you do.
Tags: FriendFeed, iPhone, Plug-in, wordpress
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September 21, 2008 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
My mate Andrew thought my last post was a bit technical for him, and fair enough — it was something of limited value to some of my readers. So this post is for him.
Andrew asked how he could create a ringtone for his new iPhone. He knew it was possible, but it’s really not straight forward (in Australia at least, elsewhere iTunes has this functionality built in). So I’ve whipped up this little tutorial for him to remind him how to do it.
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Tags: iPhone, itunes, Ringtone, tutorial
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