http://www.slaterjohn.com The Latest News and Reviews from slaterjohn.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/OhnIJ_cbxmg/ios-development-blog-b-73.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/tod-slater-john-promo.png-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I haven't updated here in quite some time, over a year in fact. The reason is, well, i got lazy and couldn't update through lack of time or motivation. All this has changed now with the launch of my new blog.</p> <p>I've decided to enter the realms of teaching others how to develop iPhone, iPod and iPad apps for free with really basic tutorials to get your started.</p> <p>Already there has been a massive response and plenty of encouragement from beginners and professionals which is always a great sign. I'll be focusing my efforts on that site mostly so i would suggest subscribing over there.</p> <p>Maybe one day i'll get around to updating website again, until then enjoy iOSing.</p> <p>Check It Out! <a href="http://www.iosing.com">iOS Development Tutorials</a></p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/ios-development-blog-b-73.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/OhnIJ_cbxmg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/ios-development-blog-b-73.html 15 Nov 2011 23:02:16 http://www.slaterjohn.com/ios-development-blog-b-73.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/k4Mo7XmyMHM/iphone-development-my-experience-b-72.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/754-iphone-apps-tips-post.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p><strong><em>The iPhone has been somewhat of an interest to me for some time, i often read stories about developers getting millions of downloads and making big bucks. So in February i decided i wanted to learn something new, this is what i've learnt.</em></strong></p> <p>You read about developers making big money from iPhone apps but to people on the outside it seems very unbelievable that someone can make a living from just one iPhone app, i know i did, but after giving it a go for a few months my views have changed, massively.</p> <p><div class="post_img"><img src="/images/5ug-iphone-dev-graph1.png-w-752.jpg" alt="Unit Sales Graph From Free iPhone Applications" /></div></p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/iphone-development-my-experience-b-72.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/k4Mo7XmyMHM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/iphone-development-my-experience-b-72.html 27 Sep 2010 11:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/iphone-development-my-experience-b-72.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/5A6jegjU_Sk/v-festival-are-big-bullies-b-70.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/79d-v-festival-bullies.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p><strong><em>In March 2010 i received an email from V Festival who didn't want me to carry on development of an iPhone app i had been working on, in these emails legal action was mentioned in an effort to scare me, this is my story.</strong></em></p> <p>I personally don't think it is an unfair assumption to believe that most big corporations use questionable methods to make the little people, who threaten their profits, go away. Methods that i'm sure everyone back in reality would see as bullying, a way of throwing around their "big boy" name to make you stop what you're doing.</p> <p>You would have to do something rather special to get yourself into a position where a big company would want to stop you from doing something they thought could damage them financially, something quite sizeable to even be noticed by these people.</p> <p>Apparently i've managed to get myself into a real pickle of a situation with Virgin Media because of an iPhone app i created called iFestApp something that, at the time, seemed innocent enough but apparently threatened a few pennies in V Festivals pocket.</p> <p>So let me tell a little story about a nice young developer who just wanted to share his love for a music festival with like-minded people through the "geeky" means of iPhone App Development.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-are-big-bullies-b-70.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/5A6jegjU_Sk" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-are-big-bullies-b-70.html 23 Apr 2010 15:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-are-big-bullies-b-70.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/TCiLGAmTKZE/facebook-sucks-so-do-you-b-69.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/h9y-facefook-logo.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p><strong><em>Of late i have become increasingly tired with Facebook, the increasing use of Farm Ville by people and daily horror scopes is becoming a bore, the most annoying thing is that Facebook is going to stick around for a while, maybe it's primary use wont.</em></strong></p> <p>So to be fair to some of people on Facebook who don't use FarmVille and use the service for keeping in touch with old friends is great, that is what Facebook is about, and you are using it like a normal person so you can be exempt from this rant.</p> <p>As for the rest of you, well you can go fuck yourself you self indulged pieces of shit with nothing better to do than grow a fake farm in a fake world with fake people, i care nothing for you and you drag down the rest of Facebook you big bunch of bastards.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/facebook-sucks-so-do-you-b-69.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/TCiLGAmTKZE" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/facebook-sucks-so-do-you-b-69.html 21 Apr 2010 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/facebook-sucks-so-do-you-b-69.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/bfY64jIQf3k/ifestival-ifestapp-out-now-download-it-b-68.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/96m-ifest-bigbanner.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>My third and final blog post about the iFestApp is here, the one i was looking forward to, the one i wasn't expecting after the hassle i've had over the last few weeks.</p> <p>I'm happy to announce that the iFestival App for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available for download in the iTunes App Store on your iPhone, iPod or Computer. The app brings V Festival to your pocket with lineup details, artists information, artist galleries, news and Twitter feeds from fans, artists, iFestApp and V Festival.</p> <p>The app of course is unofficial but that doesn't make it any less useful for anyone attending the festival at Weston Park and Hyland Park in August of this year.</p> <p>Please download, rate and review and also send your feedback to iFestApp at <a href="mailto:hello@ifestapp.com" title="hello@ifestapp.com">hello@ifestapp.com</a></p> <p>Don't forget to join iFestApp on <a href="http://bit.ly/ifestfb" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ifestapp" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> to find out all the latest news and announcements and also keep your apps up to date for the latest information.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ifestapp.com/?p=download" title="Download Now!">Download Now!</a></p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/ifestival-ifestapp-out-now-download-it-b-68.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/bfY64jIQf3k" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/ifestival-ifestapp-out-now-download-it-b-68.html 10 Apr 2010 11:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/ifestival-ifestapp-out-now-download-it-b-68.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/COpXCuhgZvc/ifestival-app-for-iphone-amp-ipod-touch-website-b-67.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/96m-ifest-bigbanner.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Just a quick post on daylight savings Sunday (a new holiday i made up) to tell you about the super swanky website for the upcoming iFestival App (iFestApp) for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The iFest app is an unofficial V Festival application for people who want information on their phone about V Festival and everything going on at V.</p> <p>Signup to the newsletter and get told when the application is available to buy or follow <a href="http://twitter.com/ifestapp" title="@iFestApp">@iFestApp</a> on Twitter or fan-it-up at <a href="http://bit.ly/ifestfb" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>.</p> <p><a style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;" title="iFestApp The Unofficial iPhone/iPod V Festival Application" href="http://ifestapp.com">Go Now!</a></p> <p>Stay Tuned!</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/ifestival-app-for-iphone-amp-ipod-touch-website-b-67.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/COpXCuhgZvc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/ifestival-app-for-iphone-amp-ipod-touch-website-b-67.html 29 Mar 2010 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/ifestival-app-for-iphone-amp-ipod-touch-website-b-67.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/_7H8GR-s6Mw/ifestapp--unofficial-v-festival-iphoneipod-app-b-66.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/567-vfest10.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I have had some queries via e-mail and Twitter about the iPhone app currently under development, i thought i would provide some further information to keep you guys updated.<br /><br />The application will officially be called iFestApp (Festival App) and will be on sale for 59p in the iTunes app store when complete. The app will provide information on artists playing at V Festival, the stages they play on and links to their Twitter/Facebook/Websites, it will also provide the latest news and rumours about V Festival along with Twitter updates split into 3 categories, Official V Festival tweets, Artist Tweets and your tweets.<br /><br />The application is being worked on and development updates can be found on Twitter at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ifestapp" title="@iFestApp">@iFestApp</a> and you can signup for updates via e-mail on the <a href="http://www.ifestapp.com" title="iFestApp">iFestApp</a> website.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/ifestapp--unofficial-v-festival-iphoneipod-app-b-66.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/_7H8GR-s6Mw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/ifestapp--unofficial-v-festival-iphoneipod-app-b-66.html 10 Mar 2010 21:36:40 http://www.slaterjohn.com/ifestapp--unofficial-v-festival-iphoneipod-app-b-66.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/6wiW3pNmzSo/v-festival-2010--lineup-b-65.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/z5i-vfest2010-lineup.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Well the V Festival 2010 lineup has been started off, Virgin Media have announced the first set of bands destined to play the awesome festival in summer 2010 including the headlining bands.</p> <p>The bands so far are&hellip;</p> <h1>Virgin Media Stage</h1> <h2>Hyland Saturday/Weston Sunday</h2> <ul> <li>Kings Of Leon</li> <li>Stereophonics</li> <li>Paul Weller</li> <li>Editors</li> <li>The Courteeners</li> <li>Passion Pit</li> </ul> <h2>Weston Saturday/Hyland Sunday</h2> <ul> <li>Kasabian</li> <li>Faithless</li> <li>The Kooks</li> <li>Paolo Nutini</li> <li>Madness</li> <li>Skunk Anansie</li> <li>Pixie Lott</li> </ul> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2010--lineup-b-65.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/6wiW3pNmzSo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2010--lineup-b-65.html 01 Mar 2010 20:23:20 http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2010--lineup-b-65.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/dGM3akvppvc/the-iphone-app-b-63.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/2fm-iphone-app-siteban.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I have always been a fan of the iPhone and have always made it a goal of mine to one day develop an iPhone application. Well today i can announce that i have completed my very first iPhone application and it has been submitted to the iPhone App Store for review and will hopefully appear soon.</p> <p>It has been suggested for quite some time that i shouldn't jump into full-on iPhone development because i do not know Objective C, in the slightest, so a web app has been my starting goal.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE: The app got kinda rejected. So scrap that idea.</strong></p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-iphone-app-b-63.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/dGM3akvppvc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-iphone-app-b-63.html 07 Feb 2010 14:16:21 http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-iphone-app-b-63.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/1kAW95dpa84/get-me-something-free-b-62.html <br /> <p>I'm trying to win something for free, something you can all help with. Please listen to the playlist below <a href="http://www.we7.com/#/user/view-playlist!playlistId=1017430&amp;play=true">or Click Here To Play</a> it's FREE!</p> <ul> <li>Thieves In The Night - Hot Chip</li> <li>Human - The Killers</li> <li>Mr. Brightside - The Killers</li> <li>Umbrella Beach (Album Version) - The Killers</li> <li>Over And Over - Hot Chip</li> </ul> <p> <div id="we7widget" name="we7widget"><a href="http://www.we7.com/user/view-playlist?playlistId=1017430" target="_blank">Listen Now</a></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.we7.com/scripts/widget.js"></script> </p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/get-me-something-free-b-62.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/1kAW95dpa84" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/get-me-something-free-b-62.html 01 Feb 2010 12:29:40 http://www.slaterjohn.com/get-me-something-free-b-62.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/96P54tBRzRQ/v-festival-2010--prediction-b-61.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/567-vfest10.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I thought it would be super-chill of me to go ahead and just make some straight-up educated guesses to who will be playing V Festival 2010 at Weston Park and Highland Park. That way when the time comes (March) and the bands are announced i can look like some sort of mystic type, like mystic meg.</p> <h2>Possible Headliners</h2> <p>So i have a few guesses to who will be headlining V festival in 2010 so i thought i would just explain them a little better, i may not agree with them, but it's a guess not an opinion.</p> <h3>Muse</h3> <p>They have luckily had one of the most over-rated albums of 2009 and there new material is of questionable awesomeness.</p> <h3>Kasabian</h3> <p>They had a major release last year and were not luckily enough to get invited to V Festival so my guess is this year they may pull it out of the bag.</p> <h3>Kings Of Leon</h3> <p>They had a great year last year with songs like "Use Somebody" and "Sex On Fire" and both songs were lucky enough to be played constantly on the radio and then when they appeared to be going away they were reinserted into the UK charts again.</p> <p>I'm sure you will agree the bands are much headliner material, i could name 3 bands i would love to headline but like i say, i'm using my education to guess and not my opinions.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2010--prediction-b-61.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/96P54tBRzRQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2010--prediction-b-61.html 09 Jan 2010 15:57:08 http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2010--prediction-b-61.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/GMrHexKJTqc/tunespro-not-legal-b-60.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/0vz-tunespro-banner.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I'm not dead, just haven't posted anything for a while because, well, i've had nothing to say. However i thought i needed to post about something that was brought to my attention last week regarding TunesPro, apparently the service is not as legal as i thought it first was.<br /><br />I have contacted the marketing people who sent me the e-mail regarding TunesPro and after a few e-mails to check the legality of the service i stopped getting a reply. After this and other evidence i found on other websites i have come to my own conclusion that the service isn't legal.<br /><br />This theory is backed up with other evidence i have found online that suggests TunesPro does not pay royalties to the record labels, which explains how charging 19 cent a song is doable.<br /><br />So i think from this evidence it is fair to say that buying anything from TunesPro is as good as piracy, if not worse because you are paying to steal. If you really like the music that much, support the artists by buying from iTunes or streaming for free on We7.<br /><br />Anyone who has purchased from TunesPro as a result of my article i can only apologies.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/tunespro-not-legal-b-60.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/GMrHexKJTqc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/tunespro-not-legal-b-60.html 23 Dec 2009 12:22:19 http://www.slaterjohn.com/tunespro-not-legal-b-60.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/V-WLM-hunC8/sorry-i-broke-the-comments-b-59.html <br /> <p>Oh my. It appears that i broke comments a while back, which explains the lack of comments. This has been fixed, sorry to all those who tried to enter into the competition for a free $5 gift card for TunesPro. You can still enter.</p> <p>To apologise for breaking the site here is a video of Baby chasing a laser-pointer. Silly child.</p> <p> <object width="760" height="540"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/K_wr5xG6qH4&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K_wr5xG6qH4&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="760" height="540"></embed></object> </p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/sorry-i-broke-the-comments-b-59.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/V-WLM-hunC8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/sorry-i-broke-the-comments-b-59.html 02 Dec 2009 21:23:01 http://www.slaterjohn.com/sorry-i-broke-the-comments-b-59.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/Vuk7-nP7Gq4/tunespro-19cent-per-track-b-58.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/0vz-tunespro-banner.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>As many of you may see i like to write about music on this website, without music the world would be pretty boring and i love to share my musical taste with random members of the public, kind of like how i stand on street corners shouting band names and songs at passing cars.</p> <p>In this post i'm going to review a website which is quite new to me called <a href="http://www.tunespro.com" title="TunesPro">TunesPro</a>, it's like iTunes but much cheaper, in fact much much cheaper, like more than 50% cheaper than iTunes, it may as well be free it's just that cheap.</p> <p>So <a href="http://www.tunespro.com" title="TunesPro">TunesPro</a> sell music through their website, the music you download is 100% DRM free which means you can put it on your iPod, Zune (Pfft) or other MP3 player and it will work a treat. The site has over 5.5 million tracks to download from all of your favourite artists from past and present.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/tunespro-19cent-per-track-b-58.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/Vuk7-nP7Gq4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/tunespro-19cent-per-track-b-58.html 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/tunespro-19cent-per-track-b-58.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/4Sc3OM7Za6c/twitter-social-customer-services-and-brand-protection-b-57.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/o9b-twitter-banner.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I wouldn't say i was the only person on the internet who has a problem and tweets about it in the hope that venting the anger will speed up the resolution, it never does. This type of action is something i find interesting because lately tweeting about your problems can help resolve them quickly.</p> <p>This article is about how Twitter can be the tool that saves your brand as a company, it is also an article about how Twitter can help you solve problems faster, and lastly it's a post about the damage Twitter can have on your brand.</p> <p>The inspiration for this article comes from my experience with companies on Twitter and personally the majority of companies i have had contact with have been very helpful and their help has restored hope in their brand, for others it has not been quite a picnic.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/twitter-social-customer-services-and-brand-protection-b-57.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/4Sc3OM7Za6c" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/twitter-social-customer-services-and-brand-protection-b-57.html 19 Oct 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/twitter-social-customer-services-and-brand-protection-b-57.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/HFcRIUrqyRU/best-of-youtube-october-b-56.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/yw1-best-of-youtube-pixie-lott.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>It's October and it's time for another edition of "Best Of: YouTube" again, so get ready for some laughter, some inspiration and just plain awesomeness.</p> <p>I have collected my favourite videos from YouTube from the last month and put them together in one big'ol blog post to share with the world.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/best-of-youtube-october-b-56.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/HFcRIUrqyRU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/best-of-youtube-october-b-56.html 16 Oct 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/best-of-youtube-october-b-56.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/jAuZ44k4oec/we7--my-ideas-b-55.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/282-we7-ideas.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I was introduced to <a href="http://www.we7.com" title="we7">we7</a> earlier this year and has since become one of my frequently visited websites because it offers free streaming music from its website with no need for additional software.</p> <p>Since using we7 I have seen little change in the way of features and some of the features we7 doesn't have annoys me a little, however it is a great service so who could stay mad for long.</p> <p>we7 is very similar to <a href="http://www.spotify.com" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> in that it offers free streaming music supported by advertisements, the difference is that we7 works through your browser and Spotify requires a download in order to work, this is why we7 is better because you can be anywhere and listen to your music, including work or college.</p> <p>With over 1 million tracks to stream for free including some unreleased albums we7 is massive and just last week we7 was the most visited music website on the internet according to official statistics of internet usage, a rather big milestone for legal free streaming websites.</p> <p>I thought it would be a great idea to post some of my ideas for improving we7 in the hope that someone over at we7 would see the post and hopefully work on some of the features, features that i think would really improve the service for everyone.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/we7--my-ideas-b-55.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/jAuZ44k4oec" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/we7--my-ideas-b-55.html 12 Oct 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/we7--my-ideas-b-55.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/TWGKrFljjOc/the-killers--live-from-the-royal-albert-hall--dvd-trailer-b-54.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/a31-the-killers-live-at-royal-albert-hall-dvd-trailer.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Just a quicky-update with a video of the new DVD from The Killers titled Live From The Royal Albert Hall. The trailer has now officially been released and it can be viewed below. Enjoy.<br /><br /> <object width="760" height="540"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gIZV3sHrdz8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gIZV3sHrdz8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="760" height="540"></embed></object> </p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-killers--live-from-the-royal-albert-hall--dvd-trailer-b-54.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/TWGKrFljjOc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-killers--live-from-the-royal-albert-hall--dvd-trailer-b-54.html 09 Oct 2009 21:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-killers--live-from-the-royal-albert-hall--dvd-trailer-b-54.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/JRDopwuySlk/ping-for-iphone--free-iphone-to-iphone-messaging-b-53.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/nqa-iphone-ping.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>A new application has been brought to my attention for the iPhone and i think it is quite brilliant, not because of its many features, but because its sole feature and sole purpose of free iPhone to iPhone communication.</p> <p>The application is called "Ping" and it allows free "text messaging" between iPhones using the push notification feature in iPhone 3.0, so if you sent massive amounts of text messages and want to save some of your allowance for non-iPhone users then this application is perfect.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/ping-for-iphone--free-iphone-to-iphone-messaging-b-53.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/JRDopwuySlk" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/ping-for-iphone--free-iphone-to-iphone-messaging-b-53.html 07 Oct 2009 13:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/ping-for-iphone--free-iphone-to-iphone-messaging-b-53.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/0k-b92GdxIw/the-future-of-itunes--part-2-b-49.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/d5k-iTunes-social-part2.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Recently i made a post about the features that Apple could implement into the next iTunes to make listening and purchasing music a more social experience. I talked about social networking features and public features that would allow your music tastes to be shared with the world or just your friends, i did not however talk about iTunes features that would affect you in the physical world.</p> <p>In this article i will discuss some features that i believe would make iTunes a more enjoyable feature in a real world social environment. Once again this are only a suggestion and ideas and are not features that have in anyway been rumoured or created already.</p> <p>iTunes is a massive product and has millions of users and the iTunes experience is quite enjoyable for home users, but once you leave the home you leave behind your library and your taste in music. So if you go out to a bar, club, party or restaurant you listen to what the DJ wants to play, which is not always what you enjoy.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-future-of-itunes--part-2-b-49.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/0k-b92GdxIw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-future-of-itunes--part-2-b-49.html 05 Oct 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-future-of-itunes--part-2-b-49.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/TyZnF77Jmoo/google-wave-ideas-b-52.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/o6y-google-wave.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>In this post i discuss the new Google product Wave and share some ideas for how i think Google Wave will change the internet as we know it.</p> <p>Google is clearly the king of the internet and i think it is safe to say that no matter where you go online you cannot hide from the empire of Google. They have their fingers so many pies like statistics, blogs, advertising, publishing and then they have a full hand in the search pie.</p> <p>As Google have grown by sticking their fingers in more and more pies they are trying new things and most notably lately is their move into the conversation tool, called Google Wave.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/google-wave-ideas-b-52.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/TyZnF77Jmoo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/google-wave-ideas-b-52.html 02 Oct 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/google-wave-ideas-b-52.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/_hASuj7CP4U/why-servage-suck-ass-b-51.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/8zn-servage-suck.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I have been considering a review of my current hosting package for quite some time because i find that their service is often highly reliable but with some problems i have been having lately i didn't want my opinion to be skewed.</p> <p>It has been a few month since then and i have decided that it is probably better for me to review them so that the same people don't get stung by the same problems that i did, time and time again.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-servage-suck-ass-b-51.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/_hASuj7CP4U" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-servage-suck-ass-b-51.html 30 Sep 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-servage-suck-ass-b-51.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/ub0hyqYtko4/the-future-of-itunes-b-48.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/aui-iTunes-social-part1.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>When iTunes 8.0 was released last year (September 2008) i wrote a blog post about the future of iTunes and how iTunes would incorporate social networking features into its software to help people discover new music which would inevitably increase iTunes sales.</p> <p>Since then iTunes 9.0 has been released and it didn't really implement anything new into the software, the software is still the same old iTunes with a nicer interface and couple of new features and i honestly don't believe these small changes deserve a full new version release, instead it should have been called iTunes 8.5 at the most.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-future-of-itunes-b-48.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/ub0hyqYtko4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-future-of-itunes-b-48.html 28 Sep 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-future-of-itunes-b-48.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/7CfOu-EW6-o/6-must-have-firefox-addons-for-designers-amp-developers-b-50.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/6qs-firefox-addons-banner.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Web Designers of world i have decided to make a post about great Firefox tools to help speed up your work flow. These are add-ons and plugins that typically help me with designing and coding so i thought i would share them with the world.</p> <p>The tools i have suggested are tools to speed up debugging, general designing and then uploading.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/6-must-have-firefox-addons-for-designers-amp-developers-b-50.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/7CfOu-EW6-o" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/6-must-have-firefox-addons-for-designers-amp-developers-b-50.html 26 Sep 2009 16:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/6-must-have-firefox-addons-for-designers-amp-developers-b-50.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/eGqHuRw264c/lily-allen-on-piracy--its-not-alright-b-46.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/uvg-its-not-alight-lily-allen.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Recently Lily Allen made a splash in the online media when she started a blog where she posted a letter regarding music piracy and how it affected smaller artists, she then went on to post replies she got from other artists.</p> <p>The letter raised some interesting points from the perspective of the artists which is a new perspective because normally you only hear from the ISPs and record labels. The main point the letter makes is that piracy is not alright (probably why the blog got its name) and it only damages the music industry making it hard for smaller artists to make it big.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/lily-allen-on-piracy--its-not-alright-b-46.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/eGqHuRw264c" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/lily-allen-on-piracy--its-not-alright-b-46.html 25 Sep 2009 17:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/lily-allen-on-piracy--its-not-alright-b-46.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/wSxOUdL2uUQ/-v-festival-2009--videos--ft-the-wombats-amp-razorlight-b-47.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/t07-v-festival-videos2-banner.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Earlier this month i made a new blog post about my V Festival videos on YouTube and promised i would post the rest as and when i got round to editing them and uploading them.</p> <p>I never did get the time to edit the videos so i decided to simply stick a label on the front and upload to YouTube. These videos are of Razorlight, The Wombats and some random trip i went on while recording, the videos are also a little incomplete because i think i MAY have started recording half way through the song.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/-v-festival-2009--videos--ft-the-wombats-amp-razorlight-b-47.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/wSxOUdL2uUQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/-v-festival-2009--videos--ft-the-wombats-amp-razorlight-b-47.html 24 Sep 2009 18:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/-v-festival-2009--videos--ft-the-wombats-amp-razorlight-b-47.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/-uVJ2HjMiec/best-of-youtube-september-b-45.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/xd7xo4n81253707012.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>In June i did a post like this where i find my favourite YouTube videos and share them with my beautiful readers. Well it has been a few months since i did that one and i thought i would share some more videos with you because i'm a really nice guy.</p> <p>This selection of videos is slightly bigger than the last lot of videos simply because i have been on YouTube a lot more and also decided to include some of my very own videos. Hopefully i can watch enough YouTube to make one of these posts every month, but i wouldn't hold you breath because everyone knows you cannot hold your breathe for a full month, retard.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/best-of-youtube-september-b-45.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/-uVJ2HjMiec" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/best-of-youtube-september-b-45.html 24 Sep 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/best-of-youtube-september-b-45.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/_lrScvO6ytk/the-killers--live-from-the-royal-albert-hall-dvd-announced-b-44.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/m26l71181253561887.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I'm sure many people already know that i'm a massive fan of The Killers and if you don't then you better know, and know fast. You may also know that V Festival 2009 was the best weekend of my life, mainly thanks to The Killers, once again if you don't know, know fast.</p> <p>Well my calendar has been pretty bare until 2010 when The Killers are expected to release their next studio album of covers. Well that all changed today when The Killers announced to fans that their Live DVD from the Royal Albert Hall will go on sale November 9th 2009 with an appropriately name "The Killers - Live From The Royal Albert Hall"</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Added pre-order links and DVD cover after break (click read more)</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-killers--live-from-the-royal-albert-hall-dvd-announced-b-44.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/_lrScvO6ytk" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-killers--live-from-the-royal-albert-hall-dvd-announced-b-44.html 23 Sep 2009 15:45:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-killers--live-from-the-royal-albert-hall-dvd-announced-b-44.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/81u1JjrfCc8/week-1-search-engine-optimisation-b-43.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/0liu45a01253470670.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>With any blog successful blog it is all about finding your audience and keeping them on board, however one problem a lot of blogs have is that the audience simply doesn't find them.</p> <p>This is a problem i have had previously with this blog and it is what forced me into taking serious action to increase the readability of my posts, the feedback and lastly increase traffic to the blog.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/week-1-search-engine-optimisation-b-43.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/81u1JjrfCc8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/week-1-search-engine-optimisation-b-43.html 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/week-1-search-engine-optimisation-b-43.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/Whe7Uff5nbg/jennifers-body-looks-amazing-b-41.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/2gwm21ve1253400197.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>So i came across this film a few months ago on the Apple website simply because i saw Megan Fox's face and had to press play and it turns out to be the same film that the shots of Megan Fox half naked swimming in a lake came from, so obviously i'm going to pay money to see this film.</p> <p>The UK release date of Jennifer's Body is November 6th so i know it's a little soon to be talking about but all those lovely American folk can see it now, which obviously means it's going to be on The Pirate Bay before UK release.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/jennifers-body-looks-amazing-b-41.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/Whe7Uff5nbg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/jennifers-body-looks-amazing-b-41.html 21 Sep 2009 14:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/jennifers-body-looks-amazing-b-41.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/wb1zkWK6ULY/twitter-nerd-pickup-lines-b-39.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/n92jw51c1252758213.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Let's face it, Twitter is full of geeks and has been for some time, only recently has it gone really mainstream in the UK. So it was no wonder that the day of my return to Twitter i got dragged into a new topic/trend called <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23nerdpickuplines" title="#nerdpickuplines">#nerdpickuplines</a> which basically consists of people posting outrageously nerdy one-liners that other geeks can use to try and bed a lady. Luckily it wasn't taken to seriously which is why i joined in, i love a chance to post comical and borderline offensive comments and if i could poke fun at Nerds (who give Geeks a bad name) it would only sweeten the deal.</p> <p>I decided i would post a chill-ass blog post with some of my favourites, the list is in no order, i was simply going through to find some of the ones that made me chuckle.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/twitter-nerd-pickup-lines-b-39.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/wb1zkWK6ULY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/twitter-nerd-pickup-lines-b-39.html 20 Sep 2009 15:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/twitter-nerd-pickup-lines-b-39.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/tht2Ru2ydeQ/new-blog-design-again-b-42.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/sq0ydt891253406008.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Just thought i would post a quick update to let everyone know where the website stands at the minute because it has undergone some changes again over the last 48 hours.</p> <h2>The Design</h2> <p>Last week i launched the new website and new design along side that, i thought the design would stay like that for a while because i quite liked it. I then decided on Friday that i didn't like the design anymore and thought i would add some pattern to the background, i have done this now with a wood effect. I then decided that i didn't really like the logo anymore, despite it being my logo since 2007 when the website launched, so this has now been revamped with a nice new font and slogan.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/new-blog-design-again-b-42.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/tht2Ru2ydeQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/new-blog-design-again-b-42.html 20 Sep 2009 0:20:11 http://www.slaterjohn.com/new-blog-design-again-b-42.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/3KBdbj5JSbo/the-best-of-unheard-music-b-38.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/113s60c91253212190.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I was never a massive music fan and very rarely listened to music outside of my comfort zone purely out of fear of being beat up by the local children. Obviously this was obscene because how would they get inside my house when i'm listening to the music, it's not theoretically possible. Over the last couple of years i have slowly expanded my music collection and included some new artists that i hadn't heard about and would normally never have given a chance.</p> <p>The problem is some of these artists are very good and not enough people know about them or the artists is too well known and considered to be popular music and you indie folk simply wont give them a chance, so hopefully this article will open your eyes a little and get you listening to some new music.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-best-of-unheard-music-b-38.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/3KBdbj5JSbo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-best-of-unheard-music-b-38.html 19 Sep 2009 15:30:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/the-best-of-unheard-music-b-38.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/JI0SC4smrIc/should-we-support-internet-explorer-6-b-37.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/2d13tahm1253211665.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Incase you didn't know already i'm a web designer (and developer) and something all web designers come across at least once during the design of a website is cross-browser compatibility and i'm sure you can ask any website designer what they think of IE6 (Internet Explorer 6 - keep up with the acronyms) and they would throw so many obscenities at you that you would most likely cry.</p> <p>It's no lie that web designers hates Internet Explorer especially Internet Explorer 6, simply because it has trouble rendering the simplest of things and when it does it normally renders them incorrectly. Below is my breakdown of common problems i face with the 3 versions of IE.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/should-we-support-internet-explorer-6-b-37.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/JI0SC4smrIc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/should-we-support-internet-explorer-6-b-37.html 18 Sep 2009 15:30:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/should-we-support-internet-explorer-6-b-37.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/Y37pr42tV9A/browse-for-the-better-with-firefox-b-36.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/czzt1bto1253187773.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>In the last couple of months Microsoft launched a new campaign to try and tempt Internet Explorer users to upgrade to the latest version of the browser, when you did Microsoft would give 8 meals to hungry americans and if you upgraded from Internet Explorer 6 they would double that to 16 meals.</p> <p>This obviously is a good cause because I certainly don't want any fat american to have their body start consuming the large amounts of food stores around the body, so I immediately i jumped onto the cause and used it as a good way to get people to upgrade from the dreaded Internet Explorer 6 browser, a web designers worse nightmare.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/browse-for-the-better-with-firefox-b-36.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/Y37pr42tV9A" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/browse-for-the-better-with-firefox-b-36.html 17 Sep 2009 11:48:18 http://www.slaterjohn.com/browse-for-the-better-with-firefox-b-36.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/BBb3EFijFV8/will-ferrell--top-8-b-35.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/xip8437b1253105451.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Over the last few months i've been in the Will Ferrell kind of mood and been watching a lot of his awesome films. So i decided to would post about my favourite Will Ferrell films and why because, lets face it, he is a very funny man.</p> <p>His career seemed to start out as quite a quiet one but since Anchorman he has blown up and at one stage he went through a stage of releasing several films a year, most of which went unnoticed until their DVD release. So without standing on roof tops crying out a long list of his releases and forcing people to go and watch them i decided i would blog about it.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/will-ferrell--top-8-b-35.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/BBb3EFijFV8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/will-ferrell--top-8-b-35.html 16 Sep 2009 12:55:31 http://www.slaterjohn.com/will-ferrell--top-8-b-35.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/b7R3XTW02qI/update-on-old-content-b-33.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/448mb2011252782778.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Over the last 2 weeks i made some changes to the blog's Content Management System, and by changes i mean i started again, so as a result the database was reconstructed and all the data from the old one was wiped. I decided to do this because a lot of the old stuff was&hellip;. well..&hellip; old and is kind of unrelated now.</p> <p>I did however keep some of the old content simply because it was a traffic driver and clearly someone somewhere found it remotely interesting. Everything else is gone.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/update-on-old-content-b-33.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/b7R3XTW02qI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/update-on-old-content-b-33.html 12 Sep 2009 19:13:42 http://www.slaterjohn.com/update-on-old-content-b-33.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/nvfU7rTa-ZM/v-festival-2009--videos--ft-lily-allen-the-killers-amp-keane-b-22.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/23h191y91252701720.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Over the last few weeks i have been posting my review of V Festival 2009, which just happened to be the best weekend of my life. I have also posted reams of pictures onto Facebook and some of the pictures on the site but i have yet to even discuss the video footage i captured while at the event.</p> <p>While at the event i captured some video from only a selection of bands i saw because i was saving the memory for The Killers, which also happened to be the band i got the least footage of (i was drunk and too busy screaming and dancing).</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009--videos--ft-lily-allen-the-killers-amp-keane-b-22.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/nvfU7rTa-ZM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009--videos--ft-lily-allen-the-killers-amp-keane-b-22.html 11 Sep 2009 20:42:43 http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009--videos--ft-lily-allen-the-killers-amp-keane-b-22.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/7GwcDlvN2Zo/a-whole-new-blogging-experience-b-20.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/6v0mfzz21252613731.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Well over the last few weeks i have been working on a brand new Content Management System for slater.john and today i'm happy to launch it, along with a brand new design.</p> <p>The reason behind the change is simply to make it easier for me to post, it was also a chance for me to refresh my PHP knowledge and implement new techniques that have been learnt over the last 2 years. The first noticeable thing is the lack of content, i decided that the majority of the content on the old website was sat their for no reason and it really did nothing, so i removed it. As a result i have a brand new website with a nice clean look, minimal content and more of a blog.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/a-whole-new-blogging-experience-b-20.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/7GwcDlvN2Zo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/a-whole-new-blogging-experience-b-20.html 10 Sep 2009 20:18:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/a-whole-new-blogging-experience-b-20.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/AmeVxy1mWos/v-festival-2009--weston-park--day-2-b-19.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/oy5z02jn1252610847.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Well day one was a very good start to V Festival with Keane playing us out with a selection of their amazing songs and epic dance moves that consisted mainly of marching on the spot, running up and down the stage and standing on the speakers, nevertheless it was a brilliant day.</p> <p>On Sunday we were faced with a brilliant lineup made up of some of the bigger names in the festival such as The Script, Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal, The Ting Tings, Razorlight, Calvin Harris and obviously The Killers headlining. So it was a difficult choice choosing which bands we went to see on the day, choices which seemed hard during the planning stage but on the day not so much.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009--weston-park--day-2-b-19.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/AmeVxy1mWos" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009--weston-park--day-2-b-19.html 10 Sep 2009 19:33:09 http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009--weston-park--day-2-b-19.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/sF9XGCni_5k/v-festival-2009--weston-park--day-1-b-18.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/jgj0tq221252608186.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Well it's been a week since V Festival 2009 kicked off so i thought i would post a list of the bands i ended up seeing and what i though of them.</p> <h2>Friday</h2> <p>Well the only thing that happened on Friday was were constructed a tent and carried too much food and beer across a field for about 1 mile. After that we started drinking (11am) and went into the arena for some looking around.</p> <p>In here we met a new friend (pictured above) who told us all about his wacky job securing V Festival and how his job consists of a 20 hour shift stood in the same place making sure people don't get over a 20ft fence and run towards an empty stage. Which also had security. Odd. The guy was awesome though and despite his gangster watch he looks rather sophisticated.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009--weston-park--day-1-b-18.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/sF9XGCni_5k" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009--weston-park--day-1-b-18.html 10 Sep 2009 19:00:25 http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009--weston-park--day-1-b-18.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/cDjWqmWjMZ8/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-3-2009-b-23.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/9ln01dsv1252753749.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>As some of you may remember back in October of 2008 my beloved iPhone went into be fixed, this was done by Carphone Warehouse under the 12 month warranty because the screen went all weird and the accelerometer went all funny. Some of you may also remember i wrote several posts about how Carphone Warehouse sucked balls, today i follow that post with more Carphone warehouse failings.</p> <p>So apparently something quite common with White iPhone 3Gs is cracking, these are small little hairline cracks in the areas where plastic is thin, typically around the speakers or headphone jack. My iPhone began to develop them around 4 months ago and it wasn't really a massive problem for me, however on Friday one of the cracks go worse, up to the point where the iPhone was almost in half.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-3-2009-b-23.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/cDjWqmWjMZ8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-3-2009-b-23.html 18 Aug 2009 9:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-3-2009-b-23.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/7Y_GZobJviU/micro-v-festival-2009--clashfinder-b-30.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/1dxldfqp1252762237.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Just a quick blog post before i go, i have created a V Festival 2009 clashfinder, it is basically a timetable that allows you to see when bands are on (estimated times) and see whether or not there is a clash between the bands you want to see.</p> <p>I used this clashfinder from eFestivals Forum for the times and sexed it up a little with my l33t photoshoping skills.</p> <p>I left out the B Live tent and Strongbow tent because, well, frankly i have heard of none of the bands and didn't want to spend too much time replicating something someone else made.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/micro-v-festival-2009--clashfinder-b-30.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/7Y_GZobJviU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/micro-v-festival-2009--clashfinder-b-30.html 14 Aug 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/micro-v-festival-2009--clashfinder-b-30.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/UWEXrIq2pao/v-festival-2009-b-29.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/5yu9ouri1252760623.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I thought i would take this time to update and let all (one) of you know that in less than 30 days V festival 2009 will commence with such legends as The Killers, Oasis, Snow Patrol and Keane - what's better is that I will be one of the thousands of people attending. It will be epic!</p> <p>I have already started planning who shall have the pleasure of looking down on me as a observe the smash-tastic music and with new bands being announced over the next few weeks approaching V Festival it just makes my life harder in the choosing of who i go to see.</p> <p>However with that said my focus will be on The Killers who are headlining Weston Park on Sunday, and furthermore the legends of British music Oasis who will be headlining my first day at Weston Park (Saturday). So despite a large portion of my day being me getting extremely drunk wandering for hours listening to random bands along my way, i certainly hope that my day/night ends with me listening to The Killers or Oasis.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009-b-29.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/UWEXrIq2pao" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009-b-29.html 28 Jul 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/v-festival-2009-b-29.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/5-KecFzXehg/best-of-youtube-june-b-24.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/0892b7kn1252755207.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Well its that time of year again where i post an update, i know its been a while but i have been away living life, not doing anything, but i have been alive, during my life, so therefore i've been living my life. god why do you question everything i do.</p> <p>So updates are hard, even more so when your opinions are far to racists or sexist for a blog and its hard to pad out "Irish Women Cannot Dance but They Sound Hot" into more words, basic the title basically says it all. So instead of the last hour i went on YouTube and just ripped other peoples content and posted below. And you know what, it was freakin' easy compared to writting reviews about stuff or just generally talking to myself in a textual manner. Yeah. You know what i mean cracker.</p> <p>So i will start off this new update with some of my favourite videos at the moment, you're gonna jizz in your pants at some of these you bloody bastard.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/best-of-youtube-june-b-24.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/5-KecFzXehg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/best-of-youtube-june-b-24.html 06 Jun 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/best-of-youtube-june-b-24.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/BzLEoTXt0lg/twitter-ecommerce--you-b-25.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/n92jw51c1252758213.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I recently wrote a forum post on the <a href="http://www.ekmcommunity.com" title="ekmCommunity">ekmCommunity</a> forum, a forum for <a href="http://www.ekmpowershop.com" title="ekmPowershop">ekmPowershop</a> customers, about the positives of Twitter in the e-commerce sector, a post which was inspired by a blog post i drafted about 4 months ago. The post is on a private forum which means it benefits no one other than the people inside that group, so i have decided to rewrite the blog post and adapt it to my new Twitter findings here.</p> <p>This post is about how you can utilise a fast growing community of internet users to hopefully increase your businesses profit. This is based around my research and knowledge of Twitter and obviously ecommerce and will hopefully provide information to help ecommerce website owners drive traffic to their site and increase sales.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/twitter-ecommerce--you-b-25.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/BzLEoTXt0lg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/twitter-ecommerce--you-b-25.html 02 Jun 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/twitter-ecommerce--you-b-25.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/2KqFVZE-SKg/itunes--social--part-1-b-31.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/84uku1bx1252763384.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I love iTunes because it's easily the best media player on the Mac when combined with QuickTime and iTunes is always running on my iMac because it is simple, has create playlist abilities and is super smooth. I'm also a massive fan of how music players incorporate social features, these music players are not mainstream enough like iTunes is and iTunes has the infrastructure for these features to easily be incorporated.</p> <p>In this blog post I talk about what iTunes is missing in terms of social features, these are only ideas and one can only hope that these features would be implemented in the near future, it would clearly make sense for these features to be incorporated because they would boost revenue via the iTunes store and boost iTunes' user-base massively.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/itunes--social--part-1-b-31.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/2KqFVZE-SKg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/itunes--social--part-1-b-31.html 20 Feb 2009 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/itunes--social--part-1-b-31.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/UxRL7L7Elxc/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-2-b-26.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/9ln01dsv1252753749.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Well it's been almost 1 week since i posted my disgust at The Carphone Warehouse for their poor customer service and repair package. Since then i have learnt new facts which only add to my annoyance.</p> <p>First let me start by saying I have my iPhone back and it works like a treat but apart from that i'm disappointed at The Carphone Warehouse for their piss-poor customer service.</p> <p>Sunday 2nd November 2008 - I gave them a call asking where my iPhone was and when i would have it back and they told me Wednesday which was 3 days overdue from the 14 days they promised me. Wednesday came along and i had heard nothing, but i waited for the length of the day to see if i got a text or phone as promised by the sales rep i called. No call ever came.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-2-b-26.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/UxRL7L7Elxc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-2-b-26.html 08 Nov 2008 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-2-b-26.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/KbX2D6VFI2Y/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-1-b-27.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/9ln01dsv1252753749.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Let me set the scene. Sunday 19th October 2008, i spent the prior Friday in Burnley on one of my regular night outs taking various pictures with the piss-poor 2Mpixel camera on the iPhone 3G. Saturday i awake with a somewhat bad hangover (not the worst hangover), i come to marvel at the pictures i took the night before. I find myself looking shocked as my iPhone flips the photos around in any direction. The cause. A broken accelerometer inside the iPhone meaning that it didn't know what direction it was facing.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-1-b-27.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/KbX2D6VFI2Y" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-1-b-27.html 02 Nov 2008 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/why-the-carphone-warehouse-suck-ass--part-1-b-27.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/HzjiF-j7Kfg/-iphone-3g-white-16gb--almost-mine-b-28.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/hr8kr5lp1252759615.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>I have been waiting far to long for white iPhones to come in stock in the UK and finally i get word from Carphone Warehouse that they are indeed expecting a "large" shipment on Monday ready for selling on Tuesday. I asked the sales guy whether they would get them in store by that time and he was unable to comment but simply said "not likely" but i'm assuming this is because of the bank holiday. The guy (who was very helpful) agreed to give me a call on Monday or Tuesday (whenever they are ready for selling) so i could buy one.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/-iphone-3g-white-16gb--almost-mine-b-28.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/HzjiF-j7Kfg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/-iphone-3g-white-16gb--almost-mine-b-28.html 22 Aug 2008 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/-iphone-3g-white-16gb--almost-mine-b-28.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~3/JkK2F3GGXTU/iphone-b-32.html <img src="http://www.slaterjohn.com//images/qshsomm01252769586.jpg-w-752.jpg" /> <br /> <p>Well this week has been the second most expensive week of the last year (the first expensive was the &pound;1,200 i spent on the iMAC). Yesterday i got the impulse to buy a new <a href="http://www.o2.co.uk" title="mobile phone">mobile phone</a>, this time none other than the magical iPhone, maybe i'm dumb, maybe i have more money than sense, others may say im a fan boy, to these people i say f**k you, f**k you and your fat f**king fingers. Still got a few stupid problems like not being able to receive voicemail and also my case is messing around with the touch screen, all will be fixed soon. Anyway that's my update, i bet you're glad you subscribed to the RSS feed now huh.</p> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slaterjohn.com/iphone-b-32.html" target="_blank">Read The Full Article...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slaterjohn-all/~4/JkK2F3GGXTU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.slaterjohn.com/iphone-b-32.html 02 Feb 2002 12:00:00 http://www.slaterjohn.com/iphone-b-32.html