http://jonathandavies.org.uk Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:09:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tomorrow I set out on my holiday to Canada and more specifically Ottawa. The main goals for me in this holiday is that I: one, explore a bit more into photography - I've heard that there are some great areas around Ottawa, especially Parliament Hill to take photos. I'll be ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/07/10/travelling/ Even with the release of Firefox 3 I still remain an avid Safari user. Why? Because when I was using Firefox 2 I was bit two many times with it crashing on me over and over again and it using to much in the way of system resources. I didn't use ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/07/04/why-i-dont-use-firefox/ Apple as of late have starting working with lots more companies to bring a better experience to its users. They've worked with Google on integrating YouTube and Google Maps into the iPhone. Yahoo! have also helped integrate some of their widgets into the iPhone. There has also been an advent of ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/07/02/intergration/ When you go buy an iPod, do you buy it because it is great at what it does or because its an iPod? Its the same with computers; do you buy a Dell because they're reliable or because everyone you know has one? Brand matters. Consumers rarely care about what they buy ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/07/01/how-much-does-brand-matter-to-consumers/ You've got to love them. The day I get on holiday (over 9 weeks!) our home network starts to fail. We have a pretty complicated one which involves several wireless routers and bridges. It seems that the source of the problem is the BT Home Hub which is failing. Every so ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/06/29/internet-issues/ As with the last Apple Event its that time again for another quick round-up of my predictions for what we may, or may not see at Apple's World Wide Developer's conference. I'll be watching Engadget and Macrumors Live's coverage. And as soon as they open up the store for orders ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/06/09/last-minute-wwdc-predictions/ I've always "wanted" an iPhone, but have never really come up with a reason that is strong enough to over-through what is a very hefty price tag. In fact, over 18 months, with the cheapest contract, costs you £900. If you hadn't noticed. That's a lot of money for a ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/05/29/iphone-envy/ My previous blog post was about the use of technology in schools at the moment and I didn't really touch on how school's could improve learning in the digital age as much as I could have, I had a lot of thoughts, more than what warranted a simple update to ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/05/22/learning-in-the-digital-age/ Technology plays a large roll in my daily activities at school. For some lessons I write my notes on my MacBook Pro, I do a lot of video recording and editing for school events. In fact I am going to be editing a whole load of footage over the ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/05/13/technology-at-school/ I have never been very good at making targets, big nor small, I just never seem to be able to accomplish them - or at least as well as I'd like to. For instance, only spending a limited amount of time "browsing" the internet - a massive time waster, or reading ... http://jonathandavies.org.uk/2008/05/06/targets/