iPhone 4 Aerial Problem
Last week we looked at the Apple iPhone 4 against its predecessor, the 3GS. Since then Apple have announced that they will be supplying a case to improve the 4's aerial's effectiveness. Apparently other phones have the aerial inside, but Apple put it in a band outside – something that was apparently bound to fail! Whilst Apple aren’t perfect, it’s very unlike them to make what appears to be an elementary mistake. As the case makes the iPhone 4 more bulky, it’s not ideal.
Until an new version of the iPhone 4 is launched, if you need a new phone there is the iPhone 3GS and other smartphone choices like HTC’s Desire and Legend, Samsung’s Galaxy S, Sony’s X10, Nokia phones and of course Blackberry. Personally I’ll wait for iPhone4 v2.
What’s in a name?
Heard of the little Polynesian island of Tuvalu . It’s the place behind all those .tv domain names like www.five.tv. Apparently the Tuvalu government receives a quarterly payment of US$1 million from the Verisign group.
Now it’s the Columbians' turn. “.co” will become generally available from tomorrow, 20 July. In addition to .co, the following sub-formats will be available:
- com.co – commercial
- org.co – organizations
- edu.co – educational
- gov.co – government
- net.co – network infrastructure
- mil.co – military
- nom.co – private person
There's plenty of registration companies. Just do a Google search. At around £20 - £30 per annum for each domain, what's stopping you? Well be cautious - cheap is rarely cheerful. Always worth checking out reviews of the registration company you are thinking of using!
[Postscript: I've just registered camwells.co which I'll link straight through to the master Camwells website. This means you don't need to have new domains with the same ISP (internet service provider) as your main website is hosted. Indeed a spread of ISPs is useful for contingency purposes, and to keep track of how ISPs compare as they develop what they offer (or not) over the years.]
HTML5 & Flash
I have had enormous trouble today with Adobe Flash crashing when trying to listen to and watch music videos. No wonder Apple have decided not to support Flash on the iPad. Now it’s down to websites to adopt technology that doesn’t rely on Flash.
Along comes HTML5 that promises to transform dull websites into juicy web apps without the need for plug-ins like Flash. It is estimated that HTML5 will reach W3C (world wide web consortium) "Recommendation" status by late 2010, for general release. In the meantime browsers can incorporate the draft standard. Bring it on!
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