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Sauntering down Oxford Street, Mauricio Reyes spotted Nokia’s secret Android plans.
Is this just a hapless Photoshop mistake – or a sign of things to come?!?!?!?!
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I’m a huge fan of Paul Battley’s iplayer-dl. In brief, it downloads videos from iPlayer by pretending to be an iPhone. The .MP4 files it grabs are suitable for playback on most mobile devices (480 x 272 and stereo audio). It also downloads radio programmes as .MP3 files.
I was having a bit …
I wander around the world in a perpetual state of confusion. Why is the world the way it is? Why do people make bad decisions? Why – when there are so many better alternatives – do people choose the worst of all possible worlds?
Rather than getting bogged down in philosophy, I refer …
So, I’ve hit my first snag with the Humm Duet Energy monitor. As I mentioned in my first post, the device doesn’t have any Internet connectivity. Instead it records everything onto an SD card.
In order to visualise the data, I have to manually upload the files to the Green Energy Options MyEnergy site. Rather than …
Feast your eyes on these beauties.
Amarillo Roll is a 3D game in the same style as Super Monkey Ball. You tip your phone to move the armadillo around the course. The graphics are stunning. Reminiscent of early Xbox games. The one thing the photos don’t do is convey the speed of gameplay – …
My new gaming addiction is Prime by 59Pixels.
The premise is very simple. There are blocks bouncing around the screen. You have a limited number of shots to remove a set number of them.
Each shot creates an explosion which, if it touches another block, causes that to explode.
This can cause a helpful chain reaction.
One of the …
I’m continually frustrated with Nokia. They make truly excellent hardware but akways seem to produce the most disappointing software. The N95 & the N810 are perfect examples of this. Powerful and innovative computers let down by shoddy software.
So, when I heard that some clever hackers had ported Google’s Android OS to the N810, I leapt …
I’ve been playing around with Linux on the Xbox for a while. I finally decided to stop piddling about with the stock drive and create a fully featured network server. I shall call this beast…. The xNAS!
While doing this, I found a lot of badly presented and conflicting information. This is my …
