Apple iWatch, who is wearing one?

Recently Apple launched the iWatch, I like Apple products and most of them if I had the money I would go out an purchase one. However, the iWatch is a product I cannot see me ever buying or wearing. Here are a few reasons why.

1. It looks too big on the whist. Some watches are meant to look big, but they must also be comfortable, but the iWatch looks too big.
2. I have a Smart phone, iPad and computer, do I really need something else going off with alerts? NO.
3. I see a watch as well as being functional it is also a piece of Jewellery, the iWatch does not come across as this.
4. I do not want something else to put on charge.
5. It's not cool.

With regards to the last one, I have not seen any popular celebs wearing one, or images of celebs wearing one from searching on Google. I would imagine if the iWatch was seen as cool, a lot of celebs would be showing them off by now.

I will start a list here of celebs, popstars and actors who seem to think the iWatch looks cools:

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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.