[Dez]

(Original post by ch0llima)
[snip]

Basically, yeah, you're right. It all comes down to how well the servers are administrated, and how rights are granted. Generally, a user with access to the deployment machine or mail server should not be granted automatic rights to the credit card database, say, so if there are no internal locks in place to prevent that sort of traversal then you're in a big pile of donkey manure.

I mean that's basically padlocking the building and leaving the safe open, basically just a complete waste of time. But it's perfectly do-able to prevent any external access to the credit card DB except from the front-facing app, and in fact I think that level of security is considered a legal requirement for such systems.

[Tathrim]

So looking forward to be going to see The Blanks (Ted's Band from Scrubs) on Saturday in Preston!! ...

.....Except I still not received the tickets. I've phoned Seetickets, and they told me to leave it until Thursday when they will request a duplication for the box office.

Gig organisers, why U no send tickets!!

[wizard710]

(Original post by Tathrim)
So looking forward to be going to see The Blanks (Ted's Band from Scrubs) on Saturday in Preston!! ...

.....Except I still not received the tickets. I've phoned Seetickets, and they told me to leave it until Thursday when they will request a duplication for the box office.

Gig organisers, why U no send tickets!!

MMy mates are seeing them when they play at Warwick

[Gofre]

(Original post by Nick Longjohnson)
Excellent write up bro. Would you consider WP7 intuitive? I'm thinking of getting this for my father, but he's absolutely crap with technology. There's no way I'm getting him an Android (the amount of hacking and modding I've done to mine would make his brain bleed if I tried to explain it).

Thanks. I think that's a good way of describing it, everything feels quite well thought out once you get used to it. The main learning curve is likely to be if he uses any sort of social networking, because the phone has an all-encompassing "people list" rather than separate places for your phonebook, Facebook friends, etc. But once you get all the information in, it's a nice way of keeping all of your means of contacting people unified, as well as being able to create groups (I have two at the moment, family and university mates, for example) then pin those groups to the home screen for easy access. The fact that there's only two pages for the home screen, the main page and the applications page, also simplifies things and makes it easier to stay organised. It's definitely an easy OS to pick up from what I can tell.

Another discovery: Mango has the best virtualised keyboard of any Mobile OS I've used, hands down.

(Original post by Kenny_uk)
Must... have.... more ... pictures?
Please? :P

We recently had microsoft's windows phone camp at our university, wasn't too bad, no new information though

Not exactly sure what you'd want pictures of, so I've just taken a couple of quick ones. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see [= Again, excuse the poor camera quality, lighting is pretty terrible here and there's issues with my iPhone's camera XD



The lock screen. Lots of information there for quick glances, including how many messages and emails you have (I assume voicemail and missed calls will also show up). Music info and songs as standard, no album artwork like iOS gives you but I'm not really all that bothered.



The password input slides up as you slide to unlock, which is a nice little feature (I don't know how android does it, but with iOS you used to have to slide to unlock then wait to the keys to come up afterwards).



The home screen. As I said before, customisation options are very far and few between, consisting entirely of which tiles you use, what colour you'd like them to be (From a choice of only 11 colours) and whether you'd like a white or black "theme" (The obvious change is the background, although I think it recolours other things like the keyboard). Again, not a problem if you like the interface, and there are apps in the app store claiming they can create custom tiles which you can assign functions to, but anyone who likes to tweak their android devices to their heart's content will end up pulling their hair out. On a final note, the blank space is where my girlfriend's tile lives. I've deleted it because I don't think she's want me showing off her mug to anonymous strangers, but I can confirm that individual people's tiles actively update with any profile changes they make or whether you have new texts/calls/emails from them, which is nice.



Using either button on the volume rocker drops down the music and the mute controls, which is handy because I've discovered another minor gripe- the Nokia Music app sits on a screen displaying the Nokia logo for 2 or 3 seconds before taking you into the app (If you choose it from the home screen/app list, it can be avoided by accessing the app through multitasking). I highly doubt this is a loading screen because it has no problems bringing everything else straight up and a music player's hardly the most demanding of processes, so hopefully they'll cut out the shameless plug of their brand in a future update.



Aaand finally the back of the device, just in case you haven't seen it XD I haven't had a chance to test out the camera yet, it's a relatively sunny day though so I'll get some pics on my way up to lectures and some low-light ones at the poker tournament I'm playing in tonight. I've heard mixed reviews so far, which I'm sincerely hoping are being overblown just as the sharp corners were.

[Kenny_uk]

(Original post by Gofre)
Thanks. I think that's a good way of describing it, everything feels quite well thought out once you get used to it. The main learning curve is likely to be if he uses any sort of social networking, because the phone has an all-encompassing "people list" rather than separate places for your phonebook, Facebook friends, etc. But once you get all the information in, it's a nice way of keeping all of your means of contacting people unified, as well as being able to create groups (I have two at the moment, family and university mates, for example) then pin those groups to the home screen for easy access. The fact that there's only two pages for the home screen, the main page and the applications page, also simplifies things and makes it easier to stay organised. It's definitely an easy OS to pick up from what I can tell.

Another discovery: Mango has the best virtualised keyboard of any Mobile OS I've used, hands down.



Not exactly sure what you'd want pictures of, so I've just taken a couple of quick ones. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see [= Again, excuse the poor camera quality, lighting is pretty terrible here and there's issues with my iPhone's camera XD



The lock screen. Lots of information there for quick glances, including how many messages and emails you have (I assume voicemail and missed calls will also show up). Music info and songs as standard, no album artwork like iOS gives you but I'm not really all that bothered.



The password input slides up as you slide to unlock, which is a nice little feature (I don't know how android does it, but with iOS you used to have to slide to unlock then wait to the keys to come up afterwards).



The home screen. As I said before, customisation options are very far and few between, consisting entirely of which tiles you use, what colour you'd like them to be (From a choice of only 11 colours) and whether you'd like a white or black "theme" (The obvious change is the background, although I think it recolours other things like the keyboard). Again, not a problem if you like the interface, and there are apps in the app store claiming they can create custom tiles which you can assign functions to, but anyone who likes to tweak their android devices to their heart's content will end up pulling their hair out. On a final note, the blank space is where my girlfriend's tile lives. I've deleted it because I don't think she's want me showing off her mug to anonymous strangers, but I can confirm that individual people's tiles actively update with any profile changes they make or whether you have new texts/calls/emails from them, which is nice.



Using either button on the volume rocker drops down the music and the mute controls, which is handy because I've discovered another minor gripe- the Nokia Music app sits on a screen displaying the Nokia logo for 2 or 3 seconds before taking you into the app (If you choose it from the home screen/app list, it can be avoided by accessing the app through multitasking). I highly doubt this is a loading screen because it has no problems bringing everything else straight up and a music player's hardly the most demanding of processes, so hopefully they'll cut out the shameless plug of their brand in a future update.



Aaand finally the back of the device, just in case you haven't seen it XD I haven't had a chance to test out the camera yet, it's a relatively sunny day though so I'll get some pics on my way up to lectures and some low-light ones at the poker tournament I'm playing in tonight. I've heard mixed reviews so far, which I'm sincerely hoping are being overblown just as the sharp corners were.

They are exactly the sort I wanted I haven't had the chance to properly look at a windows phone, except for the developer models that microsoft brought to the uni.
Quite impressive tbh, What about locking the phone? does it have a code/pattern unlock or does it use a different method?

[Gofre]

(Original post by Kenny_uk)
They are exactly the sort I wanted I haven't had the chance to properly look at a windows phone, except for the developer models that microsoft brought to the uni.
Quite impressive tbh, What about locking the phone? does it have a code/pattern unlock or does it use a different method?

I know Phones4U have models you can use (There were also nokia reps in the store I visited to play with one), if you don't mind being pestered by staff every two minutes =P as for locking, it's just a numeric code. You can, however, make it as long as you want from what I can tell.

[IamBeowulf]

Is this laptop powerful enough if I want a laptop to use the internet and microsoft office?

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/lenovo-...away_lenovo299

[wizard710]

(Original post by Gofre)

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Thanks. I think that's a good way of describing it, everything feels quite well thought out once you get used to it. The main learning curve is likely to be if he uses any sort of social networking, because the phone has an all-encompassing "people list" rather than separate places for your phonebook, Facebook friends, etc. But once you get all the information in, it's a nice way of keeping all of your means of contacting people unified, as well as being able to create groups (I have two at the moment, family and university mates, for example) then pin those groups to the home screen for easy access. The fact that there's only two pages for the home screen, the main page and the applications page, also simplifies things and makes it easier to stay organised. It's definitely an easy OS to pick up from what I can tell.

Another discovery: Mango has the best virtualised keyboard of any Mobile OS I've used, hands down.



Not exactly sure what you'd want pictures of, so I've just taken a couple of quick ones. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see [= Again, excuse the poor camera quality, lighting is pretty terrible here and there's issues with my iPhone's camera XD



The lock screen. Lots of information there for quick glances, including how many messages and emails you have (I assume voicemail and missed calls will also show up). Music info and songs as standard, no album artwork like iOS gives you but I'm not really all that bothered.



The password input slides up as you slide to unlock, which is a nice little feature (I don't know how android does it, but with iOS you used to have to slide to unlock then wait to the keys to come up afterwards).



The home screen. As I said before, customisation options are very far and few between, consisting entirely of which tiles you use, what colour you'd like them to be (From a choice of only 11 colours) and whether you'd like a white or black "theme" (The obvious change is the background, although I think it recolours other things like the keyboard). Again, not a problem if you like the interface, and there are apps in the app store claiming they can create custom tiles which you can assign functions to, but anyone who likes to tweak their android devices to their heart's content will end up pulling their hair out. On a final note, the blank space is where my girlfriend's tile lives. I've deleted it because I don't think she's want me showing off her mug to anonymous strangers, but I can confirm that individual people's tiles actively update with any profile changes they make or whether you have new texts/calls/emails from them, which is nice.



Using either button on the volume rocker drops down the music and the mute controls, which is handy because I've discovered another minor gripe- the Nokia Music app sits on a screen displaying the Nokia logo for 2 or 3 seconds before taking you into the app (If you choose it from the home screen/app list, it can be avoided by accessing the app through multitasking). I highly doubt this is a loading screen because it has no problems bringing everything else straight up and a music player's hardly the most demanding of processes, so hopefully they'll cut out the shameless plug of their brand in a future update.



Aaand finally the back of the device, just in case you haven't seen it XD I haven't had a chance to test out the camera yet, it's a relatively sunny day though so I'll get some pics on my way up to lectures and some low-light ones at the poker tournament I'm playing in tonight. I've heard mixed reviews so far, which I'm sincerely hoping are being overblown just as the sharp corners were.

I do love the smooth red colour

[Wednesday Bass]

Urgh. My laptops begun overheating lately. Last thing I need is the expense of a new laptop. But just in case, any recommendations <£300 for largely Office, some light coding and occasionally something like Worms/Super Meat Boy?

[Nick Longjohnson]

(Original post by Wednesday Bass)
Urgh. My laptops begun overheating lately. Last thing I need is the expense of a new laptop. But just in case, any recommendations <£300 for largely Office, some light coding and occasionally something like Worms/Super Meat Boy?

You could open it up, and clean out all the dust. That usually does it.

(Original post by Gofre)

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Thanks. I think that's a good way of describing it, everything feels quite well thought out once you get used to it. The main learning curve is likely to be if he uses any sort of social networking, because the phone has an all-encompassing "people list" rather than separate places for your phonebook, Facebook friends, etc. But once you get all the information in, it's a nice way of keeping all of your means of contacting people unified, as well as being able to create groups (I have two at the moment, family and university mates, for example) then pin those groups to the home screen for easy access. The fact that there's only two pages for the home screen, the main page and the applications page, also simplifies things and makes it easier to stay organised. It's definitely an easy OS to pick up from what I can tell.

Another discovery: Mango has the best virtualised keyboard of any Mobile OS I've used, hands down.



Not exactly sure what you'd want pictures of, so I've just taken a couple of quick ones. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see [= Again, excuse the poor camera quality, lighting is pretty terrible here and there's issues with my iPhone's camera XD



The lock screen. Lots of information there for quick glances, including how many messages and emails you have (I assume voicemail and missed calls will also show up). Music info and songs as standard, no album artwork like iOS gives you but I'm not really all that bothered.



The password input slides up as you slide to unlock, which is a nice little feature (I don't know how android does it, but with iOS you used to have to slide to unlock then wait to the keys to come up afterwards).



The home screen. As I said before, customisation options are very far and few between, consisting entirely of which tiles you use, what colour you'd like them to be (From a choice of only 11 colours) and whether you'd like a white or black "theme" (The obvious change is the background, although I think it recolours other things like the keyboard). Again, not a problem if you like the interface, and there are apps in the app store claiming they can create custom tiles which you can assign functions to, but anyone who likes to tweak their android devices to their heart's content will end up pulling their hair out. On a final note, the blank space is where my girlfriend's tile lives. I've deleted it because I don't think she's want me showing off her mug to anonymous strangers, but I can confirm that individual people's tiles actively update with any profile changes they make or whether you have new texts/calls/emails from them, which is nice.



Using either button on the volume rocker drops down the music and the mute controls, which is handy because I've discovered another minor gripe- the Nokia Music app sits on a screen displaying the Nokia logo for 2 or 3 seconds before taking you into the app (If you choose it from the home screen/app list, it can be avoided by accessing the app through multitasking). I highly doubt this is a loading screen because it has no problems bringing everything else straight up and a music player's hardly the most demanding of processes, so hopefully they'll cut out the shameless plug of their brand in a future update.



Aaand finally the back of the device, just in case you haven't seen it XD I haven't had a chance to test out the camera yet, it's a relatively sunny day though so I'll get some pics on my way up to lectures and some low-light ones at the poker tournament I'm playing in tonight. I've heard mixed reviews so far, which I'm sincerely hoping are being overblown just as the sharp corners were.

Thanks for the write up. It sure does look good. I want to get rid of my phone and pick one of those up now dammit . I've only played around with WP7 on a Samsung something-or-other (Microsoft has strict regulations for specs, so I dont think it should matter which phone it's on) and it was the smoothest experience ever, and I definitely preferred it to iOS.

TSR should start paying you to write reviews for tech on here!

[Kenny_uk]

I'm using an iphone 4, had it for just under a year, typically i chose to get a smartphone before microsoft releases some good stuff >.<

[Wednesday Bass]

(Original post by Nick Longjohnson)
You could open it up, and clean out all the dust. That usually does it.

Have done. Doesn't seem to have made a difference.

[G8D]

(Original post by Wednesday Bass)
Have done. Doesn't seem to have made a difference.

Anyone with answers to this quote me too.

This bitch is cooking most of the time unless I prop it up and only run Chrome.
I opened it up and dusted it to no avail.

[Mad Vlad]

(Original post by IamBeowulf)
Is this laptop powerful enough if I want a laptop to use the internet and microsoft office?

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/lenovo-...away_lenovo299

Easily.

[Nick Longjohnson]

(Original post by Wednesday Bass)
Have done. Doesn't seem to have made a difference.

(Original post by G8D)
Anyone with answers to this quote me too.

This bitch is cooking most of the time unless I prop it up and only run Chrome.
I opened it up and dusted it to no avail.

Maybe the heatsink has moved and the thermal compound cracked? You could try reapplying some thermal compound.

Otherwise I'm fresh out of ideas. My laptop is permanently on a cooling pad, and will stabilize at 80-something degrees when at constant 100% load.


Also, it's probably just original ****ty cooling for consumer grade laptops. I cleaned out my brother 5yo HP business laptop (those brick ones) the other day, and it idles at 40-something and never goes above 60.

[Dez]

(Original post by Nick Longjohnson)
You could open it up, and clean out all the dust. That usually does it.

Thanks for the write up. It sure does look good. I want to get rid of my phone and pick one of those up now dammit . I've only played around with WP7 on a Samsung something-or-other (Microsoft has strict regulations for specs, so I dont think it should matter which phone it's on) and it was the smoothest experience ever, and I definitely preferred it to iOS.

TSR should start paying you to write reviews for tech on here!

Well I could use a secretary...

[secretmessages]

YouTube adverts The banner ones that appear at the bottom of the video when it's playing. You can get rid of them, fine, but now apparently they reappear when you take your cursor out of the video frame? So I have to put up with either a huge banner or a mouse pointer obscuring the video I'm trying to watch in peace.

[mikeyd85]

(Original post by secretmessages)
YouTube adverts The banner ones that appear at the bottom of the video when it's playing. You can get rid of them, fine, but now apparently they reappear when you take your cursor out of the video frame? So I have to put up with either a huge banner or a mouse pointer obscuring the video I'm trying to watch in peace.

http://adblockplus.org/en/

Problem solved.

[Gofre]

(Original post by Dez)
Well I could use a secretary...

Haha I could do with the cash XD

[secretmessages]

(Original post by mikeyd85)
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Problem solved.

I don't like Adblock Slows everything down, I find.