Update Conference 2011 gets the thumbs up!
On Monday, I attended the Update Conference 2011 in the Brighton Dome Theatre and it was a fantastic experience it was! Great venue and a good mix of talks and entrainment with live music acts (including the host himself singing on stage to open the event and a Kinect hack sample mixer). The majority of the talks were very design driven, focusing on the user experience and interface from web and mobile technologies.
Between the various sessions, 5 min mini-talks (TechBeats) were taking place in another area focusing on smaller and more specific subjects such as Typography for the web detailing the differences when compared to choosing fonts for printed works and the mobile phone industry in Africa which was an eye opener for me (more people in Africa have access to mobile Internet then clean water).
The organisers also booked the Brighton Museum for an after party which allowed us to view the exhibits while live music acts and DJs were playing their sets.
All in all, it was definitely worth the ticket price and I look forward to Update Conference 2012.
(I will post more on some of the individual talks a bit later).
Fixing my iPad 1 after updating to iOS5
After upgrading my iPad Gen1 to iOS5, I found it be extremely sluggish when typing and apps (especially Safari) were crashing constantly. I originally thought it was it was like when the iPhone 3G got the iOS4 upgrade which basically made it almost unusable and frustrating sluggish.
However, after a quick search, I found a thread in the Apple forums where a couple of people have replied with a ‘fix’ for this:
Hope it works out for everyone else.
