It has been a [relative] while since I last typed out a blog post – I count ToN as a ‘segment’ or ‘feature,’ rather than blog – and as it is my aim to have something new on my site daily, I thought I may as well get into the habit of blogging weekly.

The site redesign is well under way; I have pretty much finalised the look I will be going with, and have the coding of a new WordPress template to begin (you know, the hard bit). Under the new site format, this category (‘Blog’) will become the ‘It’s Personal’ section/segment/feature, and will be where I post the more traditional blog posts; personal views, thoughts and observations on anything and everything, not just limited to tech and gaming.

It may not have escaped the one or two regular visitors (Google Analytics is an amazing tool) to the ‘It’s just stuff, you know’ section, that it ran for a few days and then just stopped. It hasn’t gone away but, predictably, I came to the conclusion that there isn’t that much interesting and/or funny stuff on the Internet that could fuel that section for a long time, so it will be a weekly post from now on. Expect the next one sometime over the weekend.

On to non-website-status-report matters.

My brief iPhone experiment has come to an end. I attempted to modify Woocash’s Windows Phone 7 Theme for iPhone to work on my 3G, running iOS 4. The modification was due to the fact that Woocash’s theme used a few programs that didn’t quite work properly under iOS 4, and that his theme was Polish; that being his native language. So I attempted to make it work, and had some degree of success, but it did slow the phone down considerably. Given that iOS 4 had already brought it to a near standstill, it was impractical to keep running the theme. I took a quick screen shot of my modified springboard screen before I took the theme off of my phone;

It is worth noting, in case it isn’t obvious from the screen shot, that my intention was not to have my iPhone be indistinguishable from Windows Phone 7, but rather take the cool interface and apply it my phone. I wasn’t interested in fooling people, hence the Safari icon instead of Internet Explorer.

I briefly played with iPhoDroid, purely for the novelty factor. It was a brilliantly simple experience to install Android on my iPhone, but the experience of using it wasn’t so smooth. Touch input seemed to be a little laggy, Wi_Fi was extremely slow to find available networks, and a number of other factors that made it an unrealistic option to run as my phone’s main OS. Still, I never expected it to be perfect, and iPhoDroid is a brilliant piece of software engineering by Sergio McFly.

Well, I’ve rambled on for nearly five hundred words of nothing particularly important, but, hey, this is a blog post!

Look out for the weekly pick in It’s Just Stuff, You Know? this weekend, and check back for Monday’s Thoughts on News. Have a good weekend.