After some considerable research on the iPhone tariffs, mac forums and UK carriers I have concluded which deal is best for my circumstances.

I am currently on the O2 Simplicity SIM (1month rolling) for £20, which includes 300 mins, unlimited texts and unlimited data. Picture messages are charged at 20p each. And 0845 calls are charged at 35p per minute.

This plan works for me but was only meant to be an interim solution until the new iPhone 4 was launched. However, with many providers (including O2 and Vodafone) putting caps on data allowance of 500mb and 1GB respectively you may end up paying extra for your data use each month. For example, I consider myself a heavy data user by streaming radio, using maps and surfing over 3G, often pegging over 1GB per month – not that it matters while I’m on a ‘unlimited data’ package.

So basically get one of these Simplicity deals before O2 replace them – I’d advise before 24th June 2010. O2 are offering my current Simplicity ‘iPhone’ SIM for £5 off each month if you sign for 12 months. So that’s 300mins, unlimited texts, unlimited data, all for £15 per month.

What more, if you’re new to O2 Simplicity, currently get £25 from Quidco. This changes from promotion to promotion – when I signed to Simplicity, O2 paid £70 Quidco for the pleasure.

Now the new iPhone uses MicroSIMs, it looks like O2 will swap your current SIM over (maybe for a fee), or alternativly you can cut your current one with a pair of sharp scissors or scalpel.

One more thing – once you sign to this you still need the new iPhone 4 – that’s the bad news – it’s £499.00 for the 16GB or £599 for the 32GB.

Now you have to just have to decide if it’s black or white??

‘The demos here show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Not all browsers offer this support. But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards — and the amazing things they enable web designers to do.’

Have a look around for yourself here

How amazing are these sand shapers?! Our beach is not going to know what’s hit it this summer. Now I just need some warm weather! I bought mine from Jellyrivers for about £22

10% off til June 15th with “WISPWINE”

Fast Tube by Casper

***** UPDATE ******
With the weather at 16° yesterday, we had lunch at the beach and just had try out the Willyspheres!

So my iPhone was out of contract as of last November, after having it for 18 months and paying £35 a month. Now I’m looking forward to upgrading to the new iPhone later this year.

After looking at the O2 website I see you can actually ‘upgrade’ your tariff to  the Simplicity SIM only deal with no renewed contract. This give you the same monthly minutes, same unlimited data and for £10 a month less. Not only that, but if you decided you don’t need those 600 minutes you can go for the even cheaper £20 a month (300 minutes/unlimited data) option. As mentioned above – the deal is contract-less and leaves you ready for an upgrade to the new iPhone later in the year.

Whats really annoying is that O2 are not automatically doing this for their existing customers – only the ones that notice the cheaper alternative. The experience has left a bad taste in my wallet and my loyalty to the brand is out the window. Spread the word and save some money.

Our beloved British plug has had a rethink thanks to the South Korean student Min-Kyu Choi.

Personally I love the UK’s current bulky plug and plug sockets, they are safe, stable, constructed well and far superior to the flimsy US or European counterparts.

But not content with the bulky plug and inspired by Apple’s ultra-thin MacBook Air, Min-Kyu Choi designed the innovative Folding Plug and has just won the top prize in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards.

It’s certainly not a replacement to the British plug but a perfect companion for your mobile needs – well done Min-Kyu Choi.

“The Sandpit” by Sam O’Hare is a wonderful time lapse photography stream using the titlt shift effect overlaid. Simple and beautiful.

Check it out on Vimeo.

Via CR Blog

Very simple and funny – for free!

Who’d like to see the same principle working for Boots or Virgin Megastore perhaps?

How amazing is this wall? Change It! designed by Amirko aka Amirkhan Abdurakhmanov is a big wall of turn-triangles. Each of these triangles has different colours on them – white – black – and a colour palette shade. Where can I install one of these….

Do you ever get annoyed that your music in your iTunes library has an old broken link? Well this little AppleScript will search your iTunes library and delete any of the alias’ that don’t have a music file attached to it.

Nice and simple.

1 – Open Apple Script Editor (start typing AppleScript into spotlight)

2 – Copy and paste the below code into your new window and click Run

3 – Save the script for using again in the future

tell application “iTunes”

set thePlaylist to library playlist 1
set musicFiles to the file tracks of thePlaylist

repeat with mf in musicFiles
--the name of mf as string
set hasLoc to ""
if (the location of mf as string ¬
is equal to "missing value") then
try
set comment of mf to the comment of mf & ""
on error number errNum
delete mf
end try

end if
end repeat
end tell

Looking forward to seeing the new BBC site designs after reading the design team’s approach to the project. Bronwyn van der Merwe, head of design and UE at BBC Future Media and Technology explains in a nice, simple way how they came up with the global visual language for the BBC website.

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