YouTube search results additional filters

While using YouTube I thought of a very useful feature they should include, filter results by your language. When I do searches I get a lot of results in Russian and other languages which I obviously don't want, so having an option to filter out results I am not interested in would be useful. I think they could also have another additional filter to filter out results with swearing.

LG 42UB820V TV Manual

I cannot believe LG have released a new TV without any manual, I have just spent ages looking for the manual online, but cannot find it anywhere. The TV is quite recent and appears on LG's web site and the box does not contain a manual, but when you try to search their support for any documentation the model cannot be found. Someone at LG needs to pull their finger out and sort the support web site out.

Apple Yosemite Spotlight

Currently I have Mavericks installed on my iMac and last weekend considered updating to Yosemite, but thought I might leave it a couple of weeks. While out shopping I was in a shop that sold Apple products so I thought I would have a quick look at Yosemite. My first impression was not good, firstly the close button in the windows did not look central, when clicking on a program sometimes it opened the right click menu and I was not convinced with the flatter look. 

I did not spend much time looking at it, but the main change I did not like was spotlight, I could not move the dialog can could not get rid of the explanation of it. I looked at the possible settings, but could not find anything. 

I have decided to wait until Apple sort these issues out, I did think what would Steve Jobs think about it, especially the off centre icon seeing how much of a perfectionist he was.

How many people write Wikipedia pages?

A couple of years ago someone I worked with mention that most of Wikepedia entries were written by a few hundred people, I have since heard the bulk of entries are written by 1400 writers. However I find this very hard to believe seeing as there are over 33 billion pages on Wikepedia, that would mean if there was just 1400 people they would have each written over 23 million pages each, even if you said they wrote 20% that is still 4.7 million pages, so I find it very hard to believe there is a relatively small group of people busy writing the bulk of wikipedia.

How much big internet companies make

Here is a list of internet companies and their revenue and market value.

Company	Revenue ($bn)	Market Value ($bn)
Amazon	74.5	150
Google	15.7	378.5
Yahoo	4.7	36.9
eBay	6.6	62.8
YouTube	5.6	21.3
Facebook	7.9	161.4
LinkedIn	1.5	19.1
Twitter	0.2	20.1

These values show how much in turnover the company makes and the market value of the company, it would be useful to know the profit value to make a more realistic comparison with the companies. I was surprised how little revenue Twitter makes, I am not sure how popular it is in Asia and Europe.

Apples Keynote Speech - Some Issues

I started watching Apples Keynotes speech and there seemed to be an issue with the sound and a women talking in the background in another language, I thought I would come back to it later when someone at Apple had sorted it out. When I later tried to access the Keynote speech from my iPad it closed Safari!!! I kept trying but could not get it to work, I imagine it was due to the amount of people trying to view the web site.

So I have not watched much of it and have only heard about what was said from blogs and tweets. The Apple watch looks better than I had expected, but still a bit chunky. The iPhone 6 is a bit disappointing with the camera sticking out, which I can imagine will scratch coffee tables. Will have to see it in the flesh before giving proper judgement.

Useless Windows Error Message

The other day I was working and tried to look up some help from an application and received the following error message below.

It looks like the latest version of Windows does not contain the ability to open the help file, but instead of giving a useful information to how the problem can be resolved (link did not help) it asks the question 'Was this helpful?'.

Once again this made me think what is going on at Microsoft that allows their software to pass the QA testing with messages like the one above.

Email scam from Broad Oak toiletries

I received an email a few days ago regarding an invoice from Broad Oak Toiletries. The email was very plain, but looked like a normal email. The email was from a person called Sue Mockridge and included an attached. At first I thought the person had just sent it to the wrong person and I considered forwarding it on to our accounts department, then I briefly thought about opening the invoice, but thank God I did not. After looking on the net I found out it was a malicious scam and deleted the email.

My advice to anyone is that if you receive an email you are not expecting with an attachment do not open it, that must be rule one. Best thing to do is use Google and check if anyone else has reported it, if not still do not open it, do a bit of research into the company it came from and even contact the company before opening it.

TV Guide app data usage very high

Recently I had a look at my mobile data usage on my Nexus 4 phone and was surprised to see in the last month the TV Guide app had used 100MB, this was surprising as I hardly use this app, the app size is only 2.2 MB so what else was using the data, I thought this was very strange and quickly removed the app from my phone. Think it would be nice for companies like this to tell users what they are doing that means high data usage when you are not actually using the app.

New iPlayer volume control on Samsung TV

Updated BBC iPlayer on our Samsung TV this week and although overall it looks like an improvement they have removed the volume control. The previous volume control was not very good, but removing it means you need to exit iPlayer to adjust the control then go back in. It also means you cannot mute the volume. Think they need to fix this major bug.

Updating iMac to Mavericks and Parallels Desktop 8

Last week I decided to make the jump and update my iMac to Mavericks. After using Microsoft Windows for years, I was a little nervous about such a major update. The download was about 5GB, which took about 40 minutes to download, then it needed to install. My main concern about the update was that I use Parallels Desktop 8 to run a Windows XP VM machine and that after the update there might be some issues with this. After the update I was surprised how little had changed and that everything just worked fine, including Parallels Desktop. Just wanted to write a quick blog entry to say that I had no issues with this update.