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Nathan Massey replied on July 26, 2009 22:08 to the idea "Barclays should make a iPhone app." in Barclays:

It's quite annoying that Barclays feels it's a good idea to spend money on making a water slide game before making a app for their customer to manage their money.

Barclaycard Waterslide Extreme

Nathan Massey gave praise in Barclays on July 26, 2009 22:03:

New Barclays online banking website is fantastic!

The re-design of the Barclays online banking website is great. It has a much clearer layout and the general aesthetic is great.

It's good to see Barclays taking their online operations seriously, and investing time and money into making them better.

Now that the online banking website is sorted, it would be great if Barclays could now focus on improving their mobile banking website, and creating a dedicated iPhone application.

Nathan Massey replied on July 26, 2009 21:25 to the question "iPlayer Shows as RSS" in BBC:

I would also like to see individual RSS feeds for each show. It would make it easier to keep an eye on when my favorite shows are available.

Nathan Massey started following the problem "O2 charge customers to send calls to voicemail while abroad!" in O2.

Nathan Massey shared an idea in O2 on July 26, 2009 01:13:

O2 should reduce the price of their roaming data cost per MB.

I'm going on holiday this week, and to avoid building up a huge amount of email in inbox for when I get back, i've been looking into the costs of using my iPhone abroad, so I can keep check on it while i'm out of the country. Here's how the 5 UK operators in stack up in terms of how much it will cost you to download 1MB of data to your phone, when roaming in a Western European country.

3 Mobile = £1.25
T-Mobile = £1.50
O2 = £2.94
Orange = £2.94
Vodafone = £4.99

As you can see, 3 and T-Mobile are clearly the cheapest out of the five, and this is because they have reduced their prices in accordance with a new EU regulation that caps the wholesale price (the price your mobile provider pays the foreign provider) of mobile data at €1. The idea is that the operators pass the reduction in price onto consumers. 3 and T-Mobile have clearly done this, whereas the other operators clearly have kept that saving for themselves.

This is yet another thing to add to a long list of reasons I have to want to leave O2 when my contract expires.

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Nathan Massey marked one of Peter Stoner's replies in Traveline as useful. Peter Stoner replied to the idea "Traveline should add the all of it's UK data to Google Transit.".

Nathan Massey replied on July 24, 2009 11:18 to the question "How can I merge groups into one official company group, whether the group owners are willing or not?" in Facebook:

There isn't a process for merging groups at the moment, but there should be. There are many groups on Facebook for villages/towns in the UK, that act as a discussion group for the community.

Unfortunately there are usually a few groups for the same location, splitting people across different groups. It would be much better if we could merge these groups into one.

Maybe a system where the admins of both groups agree to a merge, and both admins become admins of the new merged group?

Nathan Massey started following the question "How can I merge groups into one official company group, whether the group owners are willing or not?" in Facebook.

Nathan Massey shared an idea in Ofcom on July 23, 2009 08:50:

Ofcom should make O2 offer a unlock code for iPhone customers who reach the end of their contract.

It's really annoying that once I get to the end of my contract with O2, that I won't be able to switch providers unless I get a brand new phone, because O2/Apple don't offer unlock codes for the iPhone (unlike every other provider/manufacturer).

If O2/Apple claim that this can't be done for technical reasons, then maybe Ofcom should look at stopping network locking altogether.

A comment on the question "Are O2 going to launch a Femtocell like Vodafone have done?" in O2:

I'm in the same position, the signal where I live is awful, as i've posted about here. My contract with O2 runs out just after Christmas, so if nothing is done about the signal, whether it's through a femtocell or otherwise, i'll be switching to Vodafone. – Nathan Massey, on July 23, 2009 08:43

Nathan Massey shared an idea in Barclays on July 22, 2009 12:38:

Barclays should send me a email or SMS message if I go overdrawn on my current account.

It would be useful to be notified by email or SMS if I go overdrawn on my current account. At the moment, you get a letter a few days after you go overdrawn. A email or SMS would cost Barclays much less to send, and would be much quicker, allowing customers to bring their accounts into good standing much sooner.

Nathan Massey reported a problem in Microsoft Corporation on July 21, 2009 14:31:

Please make Internet Explorer 8 support web standards by passing the Acid3 test.

I think the title says it all really. IE has long been lagging behind in supporting web standards, and making web designers job twice as difficult as it should be. Microsoft should strive to support web standards in IE8 in subsequent updates, making it pass the Acid3 test by the time development gets to IE9.

Nathan Massey shared an idea in Channel4.com on July 20, 2009 19:31:

Add a playlist/favorite feature to 4OD.

It would be cool if you had the ability to create a playlist of shows from the 4OD library. You could add a little link (under where it says '> PLAY IN POP-OUT') that says '> ADD TO PLAYLIST'. You would also have a playlist section in the right hand column of the site that shows all the item in your playlist, and has a play button at the top which starts playing the shows in the playlist from the beginning.

You should also be able to 'favorite' your shows, like you can on YouTube. This would make it easier to find your favorite episodes of a show in one place.

Nathan Massey shared an idea in Arriva Bus on July 20, 2009 13:57:

Arriva Bus should add their travel data to Google Transit.

Google Transit is a great way to visualise arrival/departure information and play a journey.

At the moment, the only UK operators who have signed up to Google Transit are,

Southeast UK - Traveline South East
East Midlands UK - Traveline East Midlands
London - Transit layer only

Although Arriva has a link to Google Transit on their homepage, they are not on Transit.

It would be great to have Arriva's bus services added to Transit.

Nathan Massey marked one of JP's replies in O2 as useful. JP replied to the question "How do I turn off ALL data services on my iPhone to avoid charges whilst abroad?".

Nathan Massey replied on July 20, 2009 13:49 to the question "How do I turn off ALL data services on my iPhone to avoid charges whilst abroad?" in O2:

Thanks!

Nathan Massey marked one of Anthony Heath's replies in BBC as useful. Anthony Heath replied to the problem "Could someone from the BBC please add a logo/image for the BBC iPlayer product on GS.".

Nathan Massey replied on July 20, 2009 13:46 to the problem "Could someone from the BBC please add a logo/image for the BBC iPlayer product on GS." in BBC:

Thanks for the snappy reply!

Nathan Massey reported a problem in BBC on July 20, 2009 13:37:

Could someone from the BBC please add a logo/image for the BBC iPlayer product on GS.

Could someone from the BBC add the iPlayer logo to the iPlayer product (http://getsatisfaction.com/bbc/products/bbc_bbc_iplayer) on here.