Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

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back to the future - iphone 3G downgraded

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The story so far...

In a previous post (poor performance of iphone 3G under OS4.0), I described how the latest iphone OS4.0 software upgrade effectively killed my iphone 3G.

To cut to the chase, I have now reloaded the previous OS (3.1.3) into the phone, and things are working nicely again.

poor performance from iphone 3G under OS4.0

Just uploaded the OS4.0 upgrade today to my iphone 3G.

Turns out to be a bad move. The new OS is extremely sluggish on the 3G platform.

tomtom satnav app: killed
With the tomtom satnav app - the response time from keypress to activity is way too long. (and in case you were wondering, yes, I upgraded the tomtom app to the 4.0-compatible version)

car stereo: killed
The sluggishness introduced by the new OS has also caused issues with the car stereo - an Alpine unit which connects directly to the iphone and controls it via the unit's control panel.

I am now looking for a way to downgrade this software back to the 3.x version that I was running previously.

Wikis are so last-century

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Many organizations these days use wikis to allow people to collaborate on projects, and documentation. Problem is, the out-of-the-box wiki works, just, for assembling pages of unrelated items, like an encylopedia. For anything more structured however, it falls well short.

No flash!

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In the animated movie "the Incredibles" there is a wonderful scene where Edna (clothing designer for the superheroes) explains to Mr Incredible all of the reasons why he shouldn’t have a cape on his next super-suit. At the end, she sums it all up nicely: No Cape!

Is your website sleepy?

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Your website shouldn't just sit around - it needs to do something!

In the past couple of years, the web has changed. Today, we don't think about websites as being collections of "pages" any more - we look at websites as collections of content. That content can be articles, blog posts, events, audio, video - just about anything.

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