I guess you have all heard of the iPhone (no, not the Linksys one, the one made by Apple) and the iTV being rebranded to Apple TV. Or if you haven’t you must be living under a rock. Anyways, I just wanted to say, that I will be making posts on them, with my thoughts (obviously 
), however, I couldn’t make them yesterday as I was busy studying for the Biology exam I had today. It went quite well, but I have a Chemistry one tomorrow, and a Physics exam on Friday. I hate exams packed together like this, especially so soon after Christmas. I hate revising during the Christmas holiday.
I did, however, somehow, manage to follow most of the news, and I had the #mwsf2007 IRC channel in the background. A quick note about it, I did feel a bit dissapointed, with the fact that a 2 hour long Keynote, only covered 2 products. It didn’t even touch Leopard (which I was really hoping) — I know this is no WWDC, but still. I was surprised at there not being any actual Mac announcements, as in no computer updates/bumps. Shame.
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I wish you all a happy new year. As we roll into 2007 in the next few hours, in Europe that is, I hope that you all have fun during this next year, and I hope to see a lot of new technological advances. I didn’t make one oif those prediction lists for 2007, but there are a few things I wish to see from various big name companies, *cough* Apple *cough*.
This past week has been quite busy for me, as I have been away on a Medical Conference at Nottingham University. However, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, or Happy Hannukah, or whatever religion you are following. I do have free time off school, but with my presents, studying for my exams in January and lack of news during this time, there probably won’t be many posts.
I know it’s later than the actual end date of the contest, so sorry! But James you have won the contest. Please send me an email to contest [at] theminiblog [dot] co [dott] uk with your choice of prize. Would you like the £15 iTMS voucher or the £10 by paypal. Make sure to include an email that I can reply to with your details and confirmation. Enjoy your prize!
Sorry I haven’t posted, but WordPress went a bit janky on me and decided to show a MySQL Error every time I tried to post. That, coupled with a lot of schoolwork, meant that I wasn’t able to post. Sorry, I know I haven’t been in the best schedule lately, but I’ll try my best. The error is sorted out now, but it was all down to a stupid quote that I accidentally put in the database, leading wordpress to not recognise the table. I do have plenty of goodies and lots of topics to post on, as well as some MacHeist invites.
On a side not, to those who subscribe via RSS, and don’t visit the site often, the contest is still open, and anyone is free to participate. £10 cash (via paypal / equal money in USD) or a £15 iTunes Music Store voucher is up for grabs. Click here for full details. Contest ends December 2nd.
I got back from Hungary at around midnight of Sunday. I would have posted news on Monday and yesterday, as it was awfully busy in the tech world, but my copy of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter arrived in the posted. So I ended playing it pretty much all day. It is a fantastic game, but more on that in a separate post.
So while I was looking through my emails, I remembered that I had been given a free ticket to MacExpo which starts tomorrow. As it so happens, the rest of the family are going to London for shopping, so I’m going as well, but to MacExpo. I will be taking lots and lots of photos, and I will try to blog about most of them. This week will be really bust for me! My camera isn’t back from repair yet, so I’ll be taking pictures with my K800i phone. It has a superb camera, though it often shows up quite a lot of noise. I’m going to try to set up my Flickr account so that I can send photos from my phone to it, which it then should post onto my blog. Hopefully it all goes well.
Other than that I have not much else to say, I have got a lot of news lined up, which I will try to all post today.
I know, I know. Though I was recently on holiday, we’re going back to Hungary to see the relatives and whatnot. It’ll only be for a week, and I’ll try to post as much as possible when I get back. Until then, I hope todays news will tide you over.
I originally had a small blog on blogger just as a hobby, but over the past 1 and a half years it has really progressed. I’m getting much more readers now, and people are actually commenting on my posts. The domain theminiblog.co.uk was bought around mid-September of last year, and I wanted to do a contest to celebrate, but I forgot about it. So here is the contest, albeit a bit late.
The winner receives either a £15 iTunes Music Store Certificate (UK only!), or a £10 via PayPal. It may not be much, but as a 16 year old student, it’s the best I can do. To apply, all you have to do is leave a comment in the comments of this post, with your thoughts about the blog. You don’t need to write much at all, but make sure you use a real email in the form (will not be displayed) and tell me where you are from, so that if you win I can contact you appropriately. The rules are:
- Only one entry per person; a person found to have multiple entries will be banned from this contest and all future contests.
- Contest is open to international participants as well, but those outside of the UK will have to opt for the £10 by paypal.
- The winner will be randomly drawn on December 2nd, so you have more than a month to apply.
- This contest excludes familial relatives to me (Balazs) and those who know me personally. Sorry!
If you don’t have a paypal account, and would like the £10, don’t worry, it is very easy to set up an account, and very safe! That’s about it, and good luck to all.
As many of you may have noticed, the site was unaccessible for a few days. This is due to my hosting provider, which had a driver failure on one of their main servers. Fortunately all was rescued, and a few things were sorted out, but we are back up now. You may have also seen a wordpress MySQL error, which was generated because the MySQL databeses hadn’t been restored. I’ll get round to posting things later on in the day (UK time).
As you may have noticed I am back into my regular posting habbit. I have been back in the UK for a couple of weeks, but I have just started my A-levels and they are a lot of work. I am taking 4 subjects (out of a maximum of 5), which are Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Maths. Not the easiest ones, but I am finding them really interesting. It is a lot of work, more than I did at GCSE, which means there may be fewer posts per day, or days where I won’t post at all. I’m going to do my best to stay on top of all my work, I don’t want to get behind. I’m aiming for 4 A’s (at AS and A2). I have some good articles lined up for today so get ready!