Revolve Picture Frames

On the run up to Christmas I was a bit stuck for a friend’s present. Thankfully an article in a PC magazine lead me the Revolve website. There they recycle everyday items into new, funky (and just a touchy geeky) products.

In this case I bought a photo frame made from an old circuit board.

Anyway, it was a week before Christmas and there wasn’t anything on their website about Christmas deliveries, so I called them. I was immediately answered (no menus to wade through or hold music) by a very polite lady who told me that it was already the last day I could order in time. However, she asked me what I was ordering so she could start wrapping it ready. I told her and then ordered from the website – the frame came just a few days later in plenty of time for Christmas.

The photo frame is excellent and at a really good price. They’re obviously a small outfit, but one that I think should get more attention.

I’m after a clipboard for that ultimate geek look…

Summary of Revolve Photo Frame

A brilliant idea – it looks great and it cleanly recycles old circuit boards. A definite gift for the geek in your life!

Reviewed by David Artiss on 29th December 2008.

I’ve recently been reviewing some of my expenditure and this includes my home phone company. BT, strangely enough, was pretty competitive so I didn’t see the need to change. However, I could see a benefit in changing my current calling plan. Right now I’m on their free evenings and weekends package. This is a free option but you have to sign up on contract to get it – basically tying you to BT for a year to be able to get it.

What I’d like to do is change to their Unlimited package – I have to pay more but get free calls during the day too.

On their website I appeared unable to do this and it didn’t tell me anywhere why. So I emailed them. And they were pretty swift with their reply – same day. However, the reply did surprise me – I can’t change until my contract time is up. That’s right, they don’t want me to pay them more money until my year contract has expired.

Now, I can understand this when reducing your package, but when increasing it? Paying BT more money? Weird. I guess I’ll just have to stick it out.

It’s been released! And I’ve upgraded!

It wasn’t hassle free, but that’s mainly due to my host, as the Automatic Upgrade plugin I used kept timing out.

After the upgrade, launching the site gave me… a blank screen. I did the correct thing of deactivating all my plugins and the site came back on again, so it was a process of elimination after that.

The fault was with PHP Speedy – I’ve emailed the author.

I also took the opportunity to deactivate some plugins that I don’t intend to “take with me” when I move hosts in the New Year. This includes the Automatic Upgrade plugin as WordPress 2.7 introduces this feature natively.

WP 2.7 mainly revolves around a complete re-write and design of the admin option. And very good it looks too – but I’ve not had a chance to have a “proper” play.

One thing I must remember to do though… when the Twitter and Akismet plugins are switched off the site doesn’t display properly. I need to look at that for future.