cftopper.com

iPhone Joy

Dan returned from his holiday to the states with trip to the states with a very special package for me - a little Chrismas pressie for me, from me.  am now the proud owner of a shiny new iPhone.

I've spent the last maybe, 5 hours playing with my new iPhone. I've unlocked it (with Dans help - thanks), used every feature in the phone, downloaded shit-loads of applications and browsed about 30 websites. And the verdict - I love it!

I'm impressively thin. The build-quality is great. The user interface is amazing.

GMail works great. Digg works great. YouTube works great. RSS feeds from Feeddemon work great.

Setting up itunes was simple. iTunes used to be such a piece of shit but it's now pretty good. It also seems that itunes no longers insists on copying all your music to it's own itunes folder, which is all good.

One annoying thing is that it didn't pick up my contains on the sim card. So I will have to use the software with my old phone to sync with Outlook and then sync from Outlook back to the iphone - I'll do that tomorrow evening.

Overall, it's just awesome. Normally I absolutely detest Apple Fanboyism but in all fairness, apple have made a great product here.

Happy as.
Tags: Rant
Posted by Topper at 03:04AM Permalink Comments [1] - Leave a comment

Team Fortress 2 Multiplayer Name Change

It really hacks me off when we were playing Team Fortress 2 in AREA51 that you have to use your Steam Community name in the game.

Like our gaming cafe of choice AREA51, many places run the Steam Cafe License Program (paying through the nose for the annual subscription it mind you - it aint cheap!!) which doesnt allow the locking of accounts to a Steam Community Profile.

I tried going to Console and typing name A51-Topper but that didnt work. Hat tip to Sam Kidd  for figuring it out.

All you need to do is :

  • Open the console
  • Type : setinfo name A51-Topper

Cant wait for Tuesday now that we'll know who we're killing! We'll keep seeing "A51-Topper headshot A51-Sarge (aka A51-Chuck).

BTW, if you dont already know, Tuesday is the weekly gaming LAN night at AREA51, kicking off at 7pm and lasting till late. FREE cinema passes to be given away and everybody is welcome.

We play Day Of Defeat : Source, Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike. We've also been known to scrap it out in Age of Empires 2 (The Daddy RTS) and Battlefield 2!

 Hat Tip: Chuck.

Tags: Gaming
Posted by Topper at 12:07PM Permalink Comments [2] - Leave a comment

About Topper's Personal Blog

Personal blog of Peter Coppinger aka Topper. Just my thoughts and musings.
RSS Feed for Topper's Personal Blog

    I'm speaking at CF-United Europe!

    CFDevCon I'm going to be speaking at CFDevCon08! It's my second time speaking in front of more than 10 people so please lend your support.

    The topic is:
    Introducting TeamworkCMS and Site Engine - Building better websites in half the time or something like that..

    My Blogs

    Digging

    Archive

    Tags