Posts by Steve 16

German lodges todger in 13 steel rings

Die Welt

Shouldn't that be DeWalt?

Would make for some novel marketing material.

WTF happened to Pac-Man?

Pacman simulator

One of my kids shared this gem with me at the weekend.

Place your index finger just inside the entrance to your ear canal and wiggle it up and down.

Waka Waka Waka Waka....

Samsung slaps swift patch over phone-wiping Galaxy S III vuln

Short term solution

Apparently, as short term fix, you can install a third party dialler from Google Play, such as Dialer One.

If a dial string is detected on a web page, you will be asked to select which dialler app you wish to use, allowing you to intercept the rogue command.

Haven't tested this myself, but worth a try..

Google's Nexus 7 tabs 'can't perform' if flash RAM crammed

@Arachnoid

It’s a cloud computer, without all the cloud services to back it up. For eample, Google Music which allows you store up to 20,000 tracks online in not available in the UK.

Also, an increasing number of games are over a gigabyte so it’s pretty easy to fill up the memory.

The point that’s being made is that if you come to close to using all the “available” memory, performance suffers and the device requires a hard reset to recover.

Amazon: Time for a new Kindle Fire, this one's sold out

Appstore

Amazon have just launched their Android Appstore in the UK which may well be a precursor to the launch of the Fire 2 over here too!?

EA sues Zynga over ripping off Sims Social

Give Zynga a break

Come on, not all Zynga's games are plagiarised.

Take "Words With Friends" for example. A very popular and highly original concept.

Google Nexus 7 shipping cock-up enrages fandroids

Re: Fiasco? What did I do wrong then?

You made the fundamental mistake of ordering from an experienced etailer.

Some people will never learn!

Google Play - Ramdom shipping order

A major gripe apart from the device shipping from third party retailers before Google Play started shipping is that Google Play have been shipping pre-orders in seemingly random order.

For example, some Nexus 7’s ordered on launch day (27 June) over three weeks ago have not yet been shipped compared to units ordered as recently as earlier this week that have.

Not the end of the world, but I can’t imagine someone like Amazon processing orders this way.

HTC slaps Ice Cream Sandwich on 16 handsets

Not for Desire after all.

Headline says “..Desire to get upgrade...” which surprised me as HTC said it didn’t even have enough memory for Gingerbread.

Then came back down to earth as the article states it’s actually only the newer “S” and “HD” models.

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for him

A little late maybe?

Fantastic timing. Article published a day in advance of the event and the Jellyfish tank is expected to come in to stock in mid April.

Apprentice runner-up becomes Greggs bigshot

@ru

Surely, based on her experience at Greggs, Helen is the best placed candidate for filling roles!

No Gingerbread snack for Desire owners, says HTC

Don't hold your breath

A little confused at the Desire has 512MB ROM/576MB RAM and the Desire S, which runs Android 2.3 has 512MB ROM/512MB RAM.

I wouldn’t hold your breath for a resolution on this one though.

HTC don’t have a great track record of listening to customers. There was a huge outcry when it was discovered that the graphics on the TyTN II Windows Mobile phone grossly underperformed as they’d not bothered implementing hardware graphics acceleration available on the chipset and HTC basically told their customers to sod off. This was not an insurmountable issue, just one that HTC couldn’t be bothered to commit the necessary resource (and of course the associated cost) to resolve.

Three bumps up mobile broadband contract charge

Cake and eat it.

It’s the mobile operators, not the consumers, who want to lock people in to longer contacts for their own benefit, so it seems a bit rich when the operators can then move the goalposts mid-contract, even if it is catered for in the small print.

Everything Everywhere consummates merger

Nice for voice but not great for data.

Signed up on Wednesday via the T-Mobile web site and was up and running immediately once I responded to the confirmation text.

Yesterday morning, couldn’t get any sort of data connection in the morning on the train to London and although I had a strong HSDPA signal in Victoria late morning/early afternoon, could not connect to the Internet or retrieve emails - collegues had the same prioblem.

Another issue is that if I travel through an area with no T-Mobile signal, I swap to Orange 2G, but don't automagically switch back to T-Mobile should a viable signal become available and therefore have to manually disconnect and reconnect if I want 3G again - not seamless by any means.

Volkswagen boffins turn staircase into giant working piano keyboard

English?

Not wanting to be pedantic, but you could have linked to the Engish versions :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEKAwCoCKw