Posts by Adrian Wills

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  • Hard News: Media 7,

    Congratulations! Awesome work, would love to see it... but being a Mac user without Freeview do I stand a chance? But yeah good woek, have been enjoying everything PublicAddress so I'm sure it'll be great.

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Spammer until proven innocent,

    On a completely different but desperate note... who is this!!!!!???

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/blogs/hitlist/2007/11/14/get-your-thinking-caps-on/

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Spammer until proven innocent,

    It's probably worth telling people who don't know (as i'm not sure it's widespread knowledge) that if you own a domain name, you can have Google host your emails via here:

    https://www.google.com/a/

    There's relatively straight forward instructions to setting it up with whomever your domain is through and it means you can setup up to 100 different email addresses at that domain as you please - each one has a massive inbox and google are still the BEST at filtering spam. i still check my spam inbox everynow and then on my gmail - the number of which is always around the (4XXX) mark but never miss an email and perhaps get one spam email a month, if i'm unlucky.

    I've been running my domain through them for 4 months now and have no complaints. Sure it's big brother, but until littler brothers figure out what the hell they're doin, i'm happy!

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Geeky Thursday again,

    "Why don't they bring out one with a radio?
    I know you're all thinking radio is crap, but it would be nice to tune in for the news and weather at the least."

    For $80 you can buy a thing for generation 4 iPods and onward that gives you a radio (even comes with a new pair of the same standard headphones) that works really well, it plugs into the bottom and has a remote halfway up the cable for attaching to the outside of (in my case my snowboard) jacket. Really handy and a bargain in my opinion.

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Geeky Thursday again,

    Yeah I worked for the CD & DVD Store too. Contrary to what head office often recommended we played our own (good and 'store playable') stuff to try open customers ears to other stuff that was out there they wouldn't have otherwise known about. If we had an extra dollar for every copy of:
    a) The Garden State Soundtrack
    b) Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
    c) anything by Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings or
    d) Ryan Adams - Love is Hell (hard to believe how few people know about ol' Ryan)...
    we sold then we'd have all retired early.
    Apart from the occasional sneaky new bFM gem, the internet and music stores are where I look for my new music.

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Geeky Thursday again,

    Big Apple fan that I am, I'm a little disappointed as the new touch is a bit of a sideways step... the beauty of the ipod has always been the simplicity of the necessary - it played music simply and easily at first, then it displayed pictures simply and easily, then you could watch video on it simply and easily... and that's all good and well but once you start adding internet capability via wifi, controlled via a touch screen, whilst still able to do all the previous things it could - but now in a much flasher fashion, it just seems that the idea of simple, easy and necessary are being shunted back for [all-be-it beautiful] design and features. It does still play music right?

    I really just want to listen to it when I'm walking around... and whilst all those features are great, 16GB capacity? Come on!

    I'll be upgrading to the 160GB classic no doubt but seems a shame it hasn't had much more refinement other a few little fringe benefits... has the traditional ipod come to a screaming half in growth? I really hope not.

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Speaker: Transformers: Less than meets…,

    A few people have made this point here and I have to back them up just to defend this film a little...

    We're talking about a movie of alien robots travelling to earth in search ofsome monumental piece of their life blood, and characters who are related because one of their distant relatives discovered it years ago but of course the government got a hold of it and covered it up... It's hardly the recipe for the next Cannes winning "Little Miss Sunshine"-esque film.

    Movies like this, and this one in particular, are about putting something that you've only otherwised imagined up on the big screen. This film hadn't been made yet because CGI just hadn't got there yet but I think it looked pretty flawless in terms of mixing that which is created, with that which was real. They're about action, which this has plenty of, and most importantly this one, was about making some cars and planes (and what ever else) stand up and talk in between the battle of good vs. evil.

    To expect or knock a film like this for it's script is just a waste of time. I'd love an epic blockbuster that has a script and plot that I'm generally interested in and compelled to watch but I'm not sure I can think of one that I ever have. I'm not a "fanboy" (whatever the hell that actually even means) but I loved Transformers, have been excited at the possibility of a movie and was not disappointed. And on a more personal note, although I don't expect everyone to agree, Shia LeBouf was and is a funny guy.

    But that's just my thought.

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: New Dataz,

    For my own curiosity if nothing else... can someone clarify - have they now changed it so that:

    charts = sales over the counter + digital sales OR
    charts = wholesales [still - grrrr] + digital sales...

    Having once worked in a music store for three years not too long ago, it was somewhat farcical when you saw an album/single in the, what I would refer to as the hype-charts because of high [whole]sales only to gather dust on the bargain table eg: almost-any-country-ending-in-idol winner - especially NZ, nearly any of the 'collection-of-hits' compilations that were released (excepting perhaps the Now series)... oh and anything by the Feelers [sorry but...]

    It would be nice to be able to look at a chart - of any musical type really - and know that the song at the top IS the most popular song in the country. Instead it meant that:
    a) that record company has an excellent sales rep - some of them are good bastards.
    b) there's a new guy doing the buying for a music store. or
    c) people are buying a little too much into someone else being called 'The Greatest/Best/Biggest/Whateverest Band In The World' eg: Coldplay - come on, it was only their third album and it sure it wasn't bad but seriously?!

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: TVNZ on Demand actually…,

    Is it fair to say that the Television industry need to realise that TV is no longer the box in the corner for entertainment. It's more just something else to do - now we have consoles and computers that we can occupy our time with in much the same way, we have shelves at stores full of dvd's we can buy or hire, devices we can carry around and watch movies on, not to mention the people who actually have (as I'm sure they're still out there) hobbies that they participate in on their spare time.

    It's not the crutch of entertainment that it used to be for the majority of people any more is it? Don't get me wrong, it still is for plenty I'm sure but not in the way it used to be...

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: TVNZ on Demand actually…,

    No the ads aren't DRM protected. They want anyone and everyone to see the ads but only the paying punters to see the shows... What a preposterous idea!

    Parnell, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

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