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Got a call from the o2 shop 30 minutes ago telling me my iPhone 3G 16GB is ready to collect! Straight in the car and within minutes it’s in my sweaty palm (we’ll not that sweaty). Now it seems that the Apple servers can’t cope with the registration of 100 000’s of iPhones. I now have no phone until it registers. Is there no end to this debacle!

There’s going to be some serious questions asked after this day!

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Beggars, I knew it another company who can’t get it together to test an application before they put it live. Who makes an ajax application which you have to start from scratch if you get an error! They are now out of stock online, or so the site says. Bunch of muppets.

Guess i’m waiting for weeks now until they get their act together. Why did you choose o2 Apple?

I guess you have to wonder why 1.) Apple choose o2 and 2.) Why people are going to other providers. This happened at both the carphone warehouse and o2 when the original iphone went on sale in the uk. You’d just think that someone would have learnt. How did the site manage to be down all morning but still manage to process orders?

Tell you what, we’ll send a text message at 8am to everyone who has an iphone telling them we’ll give you a free upgrade! I wonder what will happen? Anyway, rant over! I wonder how much a vodafone contract is?

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Well it’s still down an hour later. Have o2 run out of supplies and don’t know how to break the news? My only hope is that noone was able to order and there’s still plentiful supply.

It has however been reported that Apple are miffed to say the least at the use of the iPhone on networks other that their exclusive provider with only 15% of iPhone sold actually being used on the o2 network. it seems a bit strange to me for them to limit the supply of these phones. The upgrade can only be done when signing up to a new contract with o2, so why limit them?

The only thing i do know is that i want my iphone! I’m currently running on a dodgy nokia 1100 while my current 2.5G iPhone is in for repair. Help i can’t function without it!

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I wake this morning to find the golden ticket text message in my inbox. o2 have released the upgrade for the iPhone 3G! Excellent i think, with the niggling doubt in the back of my mind. “They won’t be able to cope with the demand”. I sometimes hate being right all the time.

Many failed attempts and redirections to their ‘failback’ system has resulted in o2 pulling the plug on upgrades for now. We are only but greeted with a maintenance page. Come on o2, planning and testing!

We want our 3G iPhones now! I have a feeling i’m not going to make it into the first batch. A far cry from being the first in Leeds to get my hands on one!

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I’d be interested to see how this fairs against the likes of paypal. Whilst i have nothing against paypal, with the mighty google in the picture i can see them making more that just a little impact in the world of online payment processing. The advantages of the google system is that it will link in with your adword campaigns, giving you free payment processing for every £x’s of adword ‘tokens’. As opposed to the likes of worldpay and secpay which charge per transaction, this is effectively giving you a load of free adwords tokens. Nice!

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Google has just released Google Calendar. Finally! Check it out in all it's web 2.0 goodness.

Well it's happened. I think i felt a little sick whilst doing it but, i've installed XP on my Macbook Pro using Apple's Bootcamp

One thing which i'm reasured about is that Windows XP can't read HFS+ which means that it's not going to be doing any writing to my Mac OS X Partition. Nice.

I've been using this for a couple of days now and i have to say it's pretty fantastic. It was a good decision by Apple to move to Intel, i have to say. 

On first boot i noticed a bit of laggyness with the keyboard and trackpad. I'd hoped that i'd not been sent a duffer. It's working totally fine now so i recon it was probably something to do with spotlight indexing or something similar which needed to be setup by the os.  

A little feature which i'd not read about anywhere but which kept me guessing for a couple of mins was the 'sleep' led lighting when the screen is off. I know this to be a feature of the cinema display but for some reason when i saw it on the Macbook it indicated to me it was asleep. After some poking in the control panels trying to figure out why it was sleeping when i'd told it not to, i reaslised why it was doing it. When the screen goes off it will display the led constantly rather then pulsating as when asleep. Neat little feature to show your lappy is still on. Nice.

More to come as I find it… 

Well it's arrived. Unfortunately it's in Leeds and i'm in London. Grrr….

Ok, it’s no secret, i love Apple. I love everything about them. All the products they make are truly amazing. It’s great watching Microsoft playing catchup all the time. This time they have excelled themselves!

I saw the specs on the new Macbook Pro and decided i wanted one. Went on the search for a buyer for my 1.33 15″ Powerbook G4 and called Apple to order one. Now i’d heard many reports of the lead time on these and the many delays people were having in getting hold of them. Fair enough, i’m not that desperate we’ll just see what happens.

The story begins with a call to the UK Apple Store. Ended up through to a really helpful sales assistant called Maxime. Reeled off the spec I wanted to check it was available, turned out it was. I was asked if i wanted to make the order which resulted in my standard response… “I’ll just order it from the website”. “But i can do it cheaper!”. What? Am i missing something? The Apple Store telephone dept can do it cheaper than the Apple store Website! Ok, how much cheaper? We suffice it to say, it was a very tempting offer, which i happily obliged. This bad boy is on order.

Now I check out the status of my order on a regular basis, hoping my some long shot it would be shipped some time sooner than the estimated 21st April. I wasn’t holding out much hope but you never know. My order was placed 4 days ago and i’ve just received an email telling me that it’s shipped!!! Come ON!

Bring on the 2.0Ghz Core Duo, 100gb, 1gb ram!