Student Blogs

One Free Panda

Paul — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:30:27 +0000

Yesterday while killing time in Tesco before going to the cinema with Matt and Al, I spotted the following bundle of Kung Fu Panda with a free Panda! Awesome!

Another week of ‘Pending Contract’

Matt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:55:54 +0000

Well, Subnet Calc is still in Apple’s pipeline under the status of ‘Pending Contract’. This means that Apple havn’t accepted my free applications contract yet - over 2 weeks since I submitted it. I’m not the only developer to run into this kind of problem and I really hope it gets resolved soon. The contracts department at Apple say it’s the finance department which need to sort out this phase, so I guess I’m just going to have to wait and see really.

So, come on Apple, please accept me!

Easy Virtue

Katharine — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:11:51 +0000

This was a very sad story really but it was also very funny! Colin Firth was genius as a grumpy and sarcastic man. Kris Marshall was as funny as ever as a butler, and Ben Barnes was just simply cute! All in all, I found it very enjoyable, Mum wasnt so impressed make your own minds up as to what you think!

Nokia 6600 Slide iSync Plugin

Paul — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:35:06 +0000

Here is an iSync plugin I have written for the Nokia 6600 Slide phone. (download)

To install:

Unzip to your desktop
Open up finder and go to your Home Folder -> Library
If the folder PhonePlugins (no space) doesn’t exist, create it
Copy Nokia-6600-Slide.phoneplugin to the PhonePlugins folder
Restart iSync then add a device

Please note that this works for my purposes, its is provided for free under the GPL v3 Licence without support. Also please note the following statement:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

It’s Christmas at Starbucks

Paul — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:23:44 +0000

Today is the first day of Starbucks Christmas which is quite early but it does mean extra drinks on the menu and that everything has gone red!

I managed to buy the first Christmas Thermos cup in Coventry - and I think you’ll agree, its awesome.

iPhone Application Status

Matt — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:11:09 +0000

I’ve finally submitted my application to the App Store today :-D. It’s called Subnet Calc and there’s only one application on the App Store which does a similar sort of thing. So I’m hoping that it gets accepted!

You can follow the progress of it at http://blog.galloway.me.uk/iphone-apps/subnet-calc/ - I’ll be moving over to a dedicated section of my site at some point, but for now, it’s hosted on this blog.

So when my app is out - please download it and try it out!

Here’s the latest screenshot:

iPhone Developer Program

Matt — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:25:17 +0000

I finally decided to pay my cash and join the iPhone developer program. It’s a fair amount of cash, but I thought that I’d take the plunge and thought that it might give me more of a push to actually create applications for the iPhone. Also, it means I can compile applications and put them onto my iPod Touch!

So I’ve managed to get my current development application up and running on my iPod. It’s called ipCalc and it’s designed for network admins who constantly use the command line tool, ipcalc, to find various bits of information about the subnet they’re working on. The maths behind the code is pretty straightforward, but hard enough that it gave me some design issues to overcome. But it’s now looking pretty good and I’ve been cleaning up the code with the aim to (hopefully) submit it to the iTunes App Store. It would be absolutely awesome to get something on the App Store!

High School Musical 3

Katharine — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:35:30 +0000

Saw 1 and laughed a lot, missed 2 but thought I would see this, and it is much better than 1. I actually really enjoyed it. I think the advantage with a Disney kiddie thing is that you are warned that it is going to be excessively cheesy so you go in prepared. It really didnt dissapoint there, but there is some fantastic dancing and some very good songs. Zach Efron in particular was fantastic, there were two songs in particular that are worth seeing, first in a scrap yard then a solo at the school. Really was suprisingly entertaining. However, I really dont think that means people will magically like it. If you have no inclination to see it cos its a musical aimed at young girls then dont see it, cos that is exactly what it is. However, within that category I am going to give it

Ghost Town

Katharine — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:31:36 +0000

At the beginning this had some really funny moments. I was quite impressed with Ricky Gervais in a leading role like this as I wasnt really expecting him to be able to pull it off. The script though was I think perfect for him as the guy didnt have to be standard rom com material. It gets really quite cheesy towards the end, which really is a shame as at the beginning he really is ten times as entertaining. All in all I think it was ok but not super duper.

Quantum of Solace

Katharine — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:53:09 +0000

I have had the debate of who would win in a fight between Bourne and Bond for years. Before Casino Royale I would have said Bourne hands down, after Casino Royale I would have said it was a fair fight, now I would say Bourne would be destroyed. I love Daniel Craig’s Bond, he is so much more driven, he still has the charm and swagger but he has something else. In this we are back to Bond in more ways than with Casino Royale, mostly in relation to the women. The opening sequence is fantastic and exciting and the action just doesn’t stop. It is fantastic from start to finish. My only complaint was with MI6 where they had endless touch screen and voice activated stuff and it just doesnt seem to fit the new Bond. Other than that brilliant.