The utopia 365 Premier League Team of the Noughties

Every man and his dog (by which we mean man, woman, sports writer, fan, etc) seems to have had a say on this over the last couple of weeks - so here, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the utopia 365 definitive statement of the best players (mostly) to stake a claim to being in our Premier League Team of the Noughties.

(And I am so glad that it's 2010 tomorrow - the phrase "Noughties" is horrid, isn't it!?!? - what now, the 10's? Much better!)

This is not a contest of the best out and out players to have played at anytime in the 00's. The rules are:

1. Must be (or have been) a Premier League player
2. Must have played a substantial amount of their career in the 00’s
3. Must have been consistent and influential over more than one or two individual seasons
4. Should ideally polarise opinion, causing hysterical and un-rational debate and slanging matches whenever two or more people get together!

Excluded players:

There are three main reasons for a player not appearing who might have been expected to:

1. They were really more 90's than 00's, i.e. Shearer, Stam, Keane, e.t.c.
2. We (or rather I) don't like them. i.e. Terry (Ashley Cole just about has to be made a sub for pure ability, even if he does make my blood cold)
3. They are good enough but considered to have been too injury prone too often - i.e. King, Woodgate and Kewell

Here is the team (managed by Arsene Wenger)...

Team:

1. Given (GK)

2. G. Neville (RB)
3. Riise (LB)
5. R. Ferdinand (CB)
6. Hypia (CB)

4. Gerrard (CM)
7. Beckham (RM)
8. Viera (CM)
11. Giggs (LM)

9. Henry (FW)
10. Bergkamp (FW)


Subs:

12. Jaaskelainen (GK)
13. Campbell (CB)
14. A. Cole (LB)
15. Scholes (CM)
16. Pires (LW/RW)
17. Ronaldo (FW)
18. Rooney (FW)
19. Van Nistelrooy (FW)

Manager:

Arsene Wenger

Amusing Apple icon choices

I don't know if Apple choose these icons, or if they are automated, but I did found this quite amusing when browsing the App store.

I won't spell it out - see if you can spot the obvious.

Personally I am amazed this happened. However, once you see the App you can understand it... I'm still not sure about using it as a main App icon though in the store knowing the viewing audiences though.



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Northview Computing rebrands as Pure IT

Southampton-based IT company Northview Computing have re-branded themselves (with a little utopian helping hand or two) as Pure IT.

The new website is now available at www.pureitgroup.co.uk

Pure IT offer complete IT solutions for businesses, schools and charities throughout Hampshire. You can even get a free 30 min IT session with them.

Gold's Gym iPhone App

We're pleased to announce that the Gold's Gym iPhone App has been released into the App store.

Commissioned by Equinox Apps, utopia 365 provided the coding for the App (and a few other bits and bobs).

The App features our own in-app updating engine (newly updated), an RSS reader/Blog parse, image libraries, GPS Gym lookups / find my nearest Gym and Gym class scheduling via external sources... basically there are some clever technologies being used under the hood.

The not-so subtle advice from the utopia 365 public services and sanity commission regarding the usage of Internet Explorer as a viable browser

Subtle enough advice do you think?

[Click pic for full-sized version]

PS. Yes, I know the screenshot shows it running in Safari and not IE - but that is simply to demonstrate without having to go through the hassle of getting Parallels booted up on my MacBook - thank you!

MyChristmas makes tiny appearance on Apple iPhone Advert

We know there are lots and lots of Apps in the iTunes store, and there are many, many Christmas/Holiday Apps (just search for Christmas in the iTunes Store) so it's hard to get recognised or even noticed.

Well Apple have just released their lovely 12 Apps of Christmas advert and whilst MyChristmas is not directly featured it's been spotted that we at least are in the advert - even if it is an old icon. We like that. Thanks :0)

Watch the video:

utopia 365 Christmas 2009 Working Hours (updated)

A very Happy Christmas to all of our Customers and Friends.

We may or may not be around at certain times over Christmas, and we may or may not be able to respond to you as quickly as we normally like to - so don't expect an instance response to your emails. By all means feel free to continue to chuck anything our way over Christmas and we will of course be back with you ASAP in the new year, at the very latest.

The official statement of when we won't be available is:

- Tuesday 22nd December 2009
- Wednesday 23rd December 2009
- Thursday 24th December 2009
- Friday 25th December 2009
- Saturday 26th December 2009
- Sunday 27th December 2009
- Monday 28th December 2009
- Thursday 31st December 2009
- Friday 1st January 2010
- Saturday 2nd January 2010
- Sunday 3rd January 2010
- Monday 4th January 2010

It's been a long year. It's been a good year, and 2010 is looking even better and we're keen to take a little time-out and refresh the old batteries.

We'd appreciate it if you can please respect these dates wherever possible (short of some kind of total catastrophe - and by that we mean 'literally' a catastrophe, not a minor hiccup!) and allow us to enjoy our Christmas, as we're sure you are hoping to do yourselves - then we'll all be back raring to go!

Have a good one!

iChoose v3

The (somewhat) radical update to iChoose is coming soon. iChoose 3 will be available shortly on the iPhone App Store for free to new & existing iChoose lovers.

You'll notice an improved design and the introduction of music and speech - it's classic iChoose as you know it, but with some "attitude"! You'll either LOVE it or hate it... iChoose 3 will now act as our base for future updates - we plan on adding some additional decision makers, such as to-do lists (done the iChoose way) in the new year. Anything else you want added then let us know and we'll give it a think through....

Great Mac software at a great price!

It certainly is Christmas when you can get a deal like this for such a silly amount of money.

Hurry though as this is time-limited, and you can find out why by reading their FAQs. For anyone that knows about these deals then you know it's for real. For a newcomer then rest-assured you are getting top-quality, legit Mac software at a knock-down price.

Check them all out and grab the deal for yourself.

It's nearly Christmas... [UPDATED]

Ho Ho Ho!

Well as Andy posted a few days ago our little MyChristmas App was updated and submitted to Apple for review.

The latest version is a free upgrade to existing users so if you want to jump in and grab [MyChristmas 1.1 now then feel free] UPDATE - it's now live!

We're loving version 2 and finding ourselves getting all festive.

To get a feel for the new features in version 2 then take a look at the video.



What's in version 2 I hear you say.... well...

- Multiple Sleeps to Christmas which also allow you to take/use a picture of a loved one on the countdown.

- A Christmas Carol eBook (themed)

- Carols for singing (inc. Wiki lookups on the history etc.)

- Various Christmas music tracks (updated)

- Games which include Solitaire and a couple of Christmas themed match games (updated)

- A Christmas Candle (great for carolling)

- A Christmas fireplace (New and great to keep toys warm)

- A Snow Globe

- Christmas Sounds (updated)

- Mistletoe

- Musical Christmas bells which can be touched or rang using accelerometer.

- New Years Fireworks (updated), Song and words

- The ability to send and receive traditional Christmas Greetings Cards on the iPhone (New)


More will be added on the Talee Talee website soon.
Enjoy.