iPhones suck. Right?
As I am sure many of you have noticed, I wrote an article a little while ago titled ‘iPods suck. Right?‘ where I basically just demanded that iPods are built better then people bitch and moan about and that in fact that are extremely hardy. I stand by this completely. Some of you may also have noticed that there was a very pleasing comment with a link to an article about an iPhone that had been run over by a truck, and while not in its best condition, still functioned.
I have decided to post a follow up to that, because I have some interesting new developments. Now, the reason I was driven to write this actually branched from an unfortunate accident, that involved the house of 3 of my close friends burning down, leaving them with next to nothing. The news report can be watched here, its quite the fire.
This was truely a tragic event, there is no denying it. I know I will be among the people to mourn this house, as I spent a good amount of time there on a regular basis. Thats apart from the point though.
While fleeing their house, they clearly did not have time to save many possessions, keeping in mind that two of the three residents own an iPhone. Thankfully one of them had her phone in her pocket when she left, however the other person was less lucky, as with the third resident and her iPod.
Eventually the next day the three of them were allowed into the very much destroyed house to try and find any possessions that somehow could have survived not only the inferno, but also the smoke and water damage. And believe me, there was very little. Despite this, as they were looking they heard the alarm of the iPhone going off, making it very easy to hunt down. The iPhone was found sitting on a blackened bed with absolutely nothing wrong with it, working completely normally, not even slightly melted… it just smelt bad. Not only that, but it was laying on the bed in the open beside an open laptop which got hot enough for the screen to buckle and melt. The laptop was a windows laptop. 
Yes, the iPhone survived, and no, we don’t know how. Oh but it does not stop there, oh my no. Not only was the iPhone recovered completely fine, the iPod was also. Complete with a fully charged battery. It baffles us how this happened, we have no clue, all we know is that Apple products get a much worse rap then they deserved.
An interesting journey to say the least
Three months.
It has just come to my attention that that is the amount of time since the last post here. It is true, I lost sight of Designkai to some extent in a haze of bizarre journeys and unexpected destinations. While I am well aware most readers don’t actually care about my life or my whereabouts I do still feel it necessary to apologize for the sudden disappearance, particularly so soon after promising a barrage of new articles (a couple of which had actually been written but I have since lost… I am still working on that). Having said that, I am unsure of my time allowances for Designkai in the future, they may not be what I would hope. This is for a few reasons; the most important of which is that I have finished school and been flung semi-nude and shivering into the adult world (reminiscent of the Ren & Stimpy into). Due to this my days of being something of an educated hobo with an income have ceased, instead I am now required to hold a job, a growingly difficult social life, other projects which will hopefully have an income source (unlike this one) and of course, tertiary study… an abyss to where I can see much of my time heading. Although less abyss…y. Abyssy? Abyssie? You know what I mean.
Yes that right, I am now a design student at university. To be more specific I am studying ‘Visual Communications’ an apparently huge part of which is studying communications which are not visual at all. Who would have thought. The upside of this study? Well now I can only assume my articles on this website will have more a more educated insight into design and the world it saturates, particularly from a professional standpoint.
So yes, I am aware that it has been relatively inactive around here and for that I apologize, but at the same time I thank the apparent consistent flow of users through the website. I will attempt to make an effort at bringing this back in a big way, but I really cannot make any promises at this stage because I am still unsure of upcoming workloads, otherwise Designkai will probably coast along as it has in the last 3 months.
New section
Just a quick news update, I have added a new section to the website; the ‘Downloads‘ section. Do have a look, currently all that is there is a free WordPress theme, but hopefully I will be getting more up soon. This new section is also causing minor issues with my design, leading me to contemplate a redesign and a new layout… just a maybe though.
A decent downtime?
As some of you -if not all of you- will notice, there has been very little activity on the website recently and for this I apologize. I was pretty busy for quite a while there as I was in my last year of high school (yes, I am only young) and my final exams were approaching a lot quicker then I had initially anticipated and indeed hoped. But now with that shit out of the way (I sat my final exam day before yesterday) I have the time to actually do some work on this website (and other projects). So, expect more. And more importantly, expect better. I had pretty good feedback from the articles I posted previously and I hope to only better the standard. This should be helped a lot by a few key factors;
- For starters, now that I have graduated high school, the next stop is university where I will be studying, you guessed it, graphic design (visual communication to be a little more specific).
- I now have the time to work on more design projects and templates which will be for both personal gain and profit.
- I should (if all goes well) be starting a job in January designing for a local magazine.
.Design Update
Ok, as I may or may not have mentioned, the previous design which lasted about a week was only intended to last that long. It was bland, boring, and pretty colourless. So over the last few days I have been working on this, and I am proud to say that it has been released. And yes, it has more fancy features;
- Firstly, the link when you click on the comment count from the front page of the website or a category page will not take you to the comments, as intended.
- Beneath every post is a ‘More’ section with features for readers to share the posts, as well as stay up to date with them. Please, if you feel an article is worthy of being shared, do so. It can be immeasurably beneficial to the development of a new website such as this.
- My comments are now blue, so it is easier to see my replies. This is a feature that was mainly put in for the sake of tutorials so that users can find my posts easier should they be looking for support with the tutorial that may already be covered in discussion.
.Again? Are you serious…
Welcome to v14 of Designkai.com!
To anyone who is a regular here, they will most likely be confused as v13 was only released a very short time ago and was only up for maybe… a fortnight or so. This was because the database was having apparently irreparable issues with content and comments so I decided I would take it down and re-content it from scratch. However, while it was down I began thinking (thats never a good thing). Anyone who has visited Designkai previous to this version will be aware that it also included a portfolio and blog for myself, and was essentially a website about myself and things I enjoyed talking about, which was more or less shit. In my mind, this was very unprofessional, so I decided to make a drastic change. For the first time, Designkai would no longer serve as a portfolio for me. Ever again. I decided I would split my portfolio into a separate website which is completely stand-alone as just a portfolio. This should be running soon.
However, during this drastic overhaul I figured it would be worthy to re-build the way Designkai handles and presents content. The new Designkai, as of now, will serve as more of a resource/article website for designers or people who like to read the ranting of a madman often bored. But don’t get my wrong, I don’t intend to keep it as just me writing, hint hint. So what will be the benefits of the new Designkai? Lets have a look shall we;
- More interesting articles – they will now have a point, they will now make a point and they will now hopefully fill a small void of information as well as provide an informative and hopefully useful view on the world, although generally restricted to the world that is the internet.
- More structure – yes, much more. The articles will be researched, thought out and drafted to hopefully avoid the general bullshit that previous versions of Designkai was oh-so-good at pumping out.
- And finally, more useful – I can only hope. My aim is to provide you with the information you were looking for, and if you weren’t looking for anything, provide you with an interesting read.
