Hi Guys,

I'm with O2 (Ireland) for mobile phone service and am due an upgrade shortly. I understand that o2 will be handling the iPhone shortly also as this is the situation in the UK. While in the UK over Christmas I paid a visit to one of the o2 stores and played with the iPhone for quite a while.

I did not like it! I found the 'on screen' keyboard input very tricky, not that I have very large fingers, but I just could not get the hang of it even after 20 minutes. The store Rep asked me what I thought and I told him about the problem I was having. He said it takes a while to get used to the 'on screen' keyboard! I told him that it 'should just work!' like other Mac products! I think he was inclined to agree with me. We both came to the conclusion that the iPhone SHOULD have had a stylus built-in / included with the phone. I think this would have made life a lot easier all round AND possibly allowed for some future drawing software for the iPhone.

All in all I won't be going with the iPhone unless my fingers shrink to about a quarter of there size and I don't imagine this is on the cards.

I have been looking at various alternative offerings and quite like the Sony Ericsson P1i
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/p1i Its not based on Mobile Win 5 so thats good, it uses the Symbian OS. I particularly like the idea of the keyboard with its 'rocking' keys, although I would have to try it out before reaching a final decision. This keyboard should allow for fast text input, I find I use this means of communication more and more as it quick, short and too the point!. While not a 'full' qwerty keyboard it makes sense and I'm sure it would be possible to get used to it fairly quickly.

As for the rest of the Sony Ericsson P1i it seems to have it all and in a very neat package that fits the pocket, both the financial one and the trousers one especialy with the upgrade prices

Mike

Yes indeed a great combination and fantasic time saver. Just hope that
Poduim for MAC somes along soon

Mike

PS: Did you client do the business

I too was having this problem! Thanks Santiago for the advise.

Mike

Have a good one Ton, one never knows how many more WE can expect once we get past
the 55 mark

Cheers Guys, I'll get stuck into fixing over the weekend
and let you know how I get on.

Mike

I bought Parrells so I could run Windows
on the Mac and it required a copy of Windows
for installation so I brought a copy of this
also and loaded them, all works fine but not
good for certain Win programs as they need
the full power of the graphics card.

To get around this problem I then loaded Mac's
Boot Camp and this worked fine as I used the
same purchased version of Windows but now
the time has come to activate Windows for Boot
Camp and I'm stuck as I've already activated
it for Parrells.

Does another know of a way around this as I
don't feel like stumping up for another
version of Windows.

Any help will be appreciated.

Mike

Nice work! Yes indeed Dylan SU 3D Details is a great way to explain construction methods to Builders. One good 3D can eliminate so many headaches during the course of construction. Of course it helps the Designer also as we can quickly discover whether or not everything fits together properly.

While it is much slower than straight 2D drawings I find that one 3D model with multiple views can give the total picture. Straight 2D views can also be output from the 3D construction model with little effort should they be needed, normally the case for Planning Permissions (Permits).

I still remember the first awkward 3D construction detail I did for a Winder Staircase. The ope was 2300 mm and I worked the total construction off a central column of 8 x 100 mm blocks. The carpenter was delighted with the drawings, which included a Cutting List. I think he nearly constructed the stairs in the same time in took me to make the model Ah! but I can use it again, if I can find it

Mike

Thanks 3eighty, nice find and one to be Bookmarked

Mike

Nice effect Tom. I was a little confused with the 4th image. It took me a little while the 'read / see' the tree as a tree. I think in this situation more 'shadow' play is needed but I think its well worth pursuing and developing this technique.

Mike

That's great news John. Its one
of my favourites.

Mike

Happy Birthday Glenn

Nice one Jason, well done

Mike

@unknownuser said:

Craig,

Have you tried downloading the UFOs and reverse engineering them
They could hold all the answers

[insert X-Files theme here]

Stu

Ed. My guess is that its the island of Guernse.....near the island of Juerse

Yes Stu ...... spot on Here are the missing 'y' 'y'

Hi Guys,

UFOs, Yea, yea I can hear you saying,
I saw this guys, a Mr Boyer, interviewed
yesterday evening. I found him very
credible. Here is the BBC story,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe ... 591365.stm

One thing that he said stuck in my head !
It seems that lots of pilot friends of
his have seen 'stuff' up there but only
talk about it between themselves.

Boyer's hopes that this kind of thing
will come more out in the open now that
he has gone public.

I wonder if on my next flight the pilot
will casually announce 'Ladies and Gentlemen,
on your left you can now observe a bright
pink UFO passing us at 10,000 miles per
hour ...... eeeerrrr hick .... up'

Mike

Check this site out,

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/

As Maggy says its a jungle out there and registration
will only prove so much.

I remember from reading up on this stuff some time in
the past, that to make a design copyright 'solid', it
has to be published !

I imagine the Net would be a good place to do so and
this forum would be ideal. It at least proves that
you 'had' the design idea in your ownership at a
certain day.

Mike

PS: Here is a link that might help,
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/

Hi Guys,

I noticed a great little site by Joost at,
http://www.j-man.nl/

There are some very well produced models
available for free and I'm sure some of
you guys will find them useful.

Please be sure to sign in to Joost's guest
book and leave a note, it might encourage
him to produce more

Mike

PS: I've attached a very small pic of the
Hovercraft model I downloaded. Hope Kelly
thinks it okay to just have small pics here
as they are handy

Guys,

I will admit I was taken in for a while until I read the thing fully. The T-Shirts were the giveaway. Just goes to show the POWER of good presentation!

But on the other hand one never knows what's around the corner. Does anyone remember the April Fools on the old forum that was going to bring us BroadBand Connection via the Sewer Mains? Again it was convincing presentation. Well if you did, check this out http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7104011.stm

Mike

Yep I was right ..... hopefully he will come around

Mmmmm ..... Ross probably regrets the self op now as he is obviously having difficulty reading these posts

Mike