Posts by Jon Pain

iPad Mini pics spied on Twitter

Sound Holes

Look at the speaker grill, mainly on the top picture. There is a slight reflection over it, and also compare it to that in the bigger iPad below.

It just doesn't look like actual holes to me, just an image on the case.

Anyone else see it?

Bond Blu-ray box set marks 50 years on film

I guess it also doesn't include never say never again as both of these films were not "Offical" Bond films

Sony Tablet P split-screen Android fondleslab

Not there yet

Whack a screen, speaker and mic on the outside and you've got yourself a phone akin to the Nokia 9110. Now I think that would be a winner.

But in the current form?

The X-Factor goes virtually mobile, expands voting

April Fools?

First reg april fool of the day?

Heathrow Express treats iPhones as tickets

iPhone Battery

I'm sorry inspector, my battery died. I do have a ticket, honest!

HTC Touch Pro 2

WM 6.5!

New TouchPro 2's from Vodafone come preinstalled with WinMo 6.5, and for all others there is an update on HTC's website.

With HTC's TouchFlow, it runs perfectly well, and is more responsive and easier to use than the iPhone!

Futurama back from dead again

The should now resurrect

Firefly, the brilliant Sci-Fi - Western from Joss Whedon!

iPhone users to walk and read at same time

@Tony Hoyle

No lag at all, and no, it doesn't take pictures. The background of the app acts like the viewfinder of the camera (which is real-time).

This is rubbish

You can type the subject & body of an email, but nothing else. You then have to go into mail to find the contact, and you can't read messages on it.

Good bit of engineering, but failed by Apple's idiotic SDK.

Google's email service goes down

I've got IMAP

but no webmail as yet.

Nike+ iPhone app uncovered

Violent hill?

I reckon this is a fake, from what I believe the Coldplay song is named "Violet Hill", not "Violent Hill". Seems to me that Nike would have the correct title for the song, and some Frenchman has knocked this together in Photoshop, and miss-spelt the name!

iPhone 3G to be in 'very short supply for weeks' - carrier

My iPhone 3G

Has Apparently been dispatched now from O2, Just waiting for Friday!

O2 starts 3G iPhone stampede - and runs away

Order Successful!

I the maintenance page for a couple of hours, and hit refresh every few minutes, however I have now successfully ordered my iPhone to be delivered on Friday, and taken the day off work to wait in for the courier! w00t!

Bournemouth floats UK's first 100Mbps sewer broadband network

Google

Does this not remind anybody of one of google's april fool hoaxes?

http://www.google.com/tisp/

BOFH: What GPS is for

@Jeremy

Under a High Voltage Electrode

Critics split over DDoS attacks on Scientology

The 4-Letter C Word

ooh, you used the dirty C word in that Article, They are the Church of Scientology, not the Cult of Scientology, They get angry about that, even though you are only quoting someone.

Heathrow 777 crash flattens servers

Crash Landing

Someone doesn't need to die for it to be a crash. The plane is basically a Write-Off.

If someone wrecks your car, but you're both still alive, then that wasn't a crash was it.

A successful landing is one where the plane is in the same condition it was when it took off, and it landed on the runway is was intended to.

A Crash, as in this case, Is where the plane is smashed up, can't be used again, and did not land where intended.

MoD sorts out 'turkey' helicopters for Xmas

Where are those helicopters?

I got a flight in a chinook a couple of months ago. I was in hampshire, with a group of scouts.

I'm not saying it was a bad experience, but why was that chopper at home, and not out with the boys (& girls) where its needed?

Skype confirms / denies job cuts

@Scott

Nice translation, although you got one bit wrong. Accounting?, more like the new receptionist/secretary (PH Wannabe)

Alba readying cut-price Blu-ray Disc player for Europe?

Alba?

I See alba - Think Jessica!

Lost HMRC discs pop up on eBay

@ Anonymous Coward (Excel - nah)

Actually, Excel can only hold 65536 x 256 (Well 2003 anyway)

419er fears unsolicited intergalactic email

Phone 'em

Has anybody tried phoning the number?

Also, bit of a giveaway as a Nigerian Scam, having a Nigerian Phone Number!

Facebook 'friend request' lands UK man in jail

Easily Possible

Facebook has a function to scan your email address book and send invites to EVERYONE in there. If he's like me, and never cleans up this address book, then his ex-wife's email address is still going to be in there, and facebook is going to send a request.

This is an easy accident to make, and there was no reason for the sentence!

Microsoft: New Live Search 'as good as Google'

Better than Google?

When will people start learning that they can't make a more popular search engine than Google, its like Sainsbury's saying "We have more products than Tescos, and more of each on the shelf at a time." People still don't like them, and are still going to use Tescos for a good long while.

US teacher fired for non-literal bible reading

Punishment: Stoning.

for most people, getting stoned isn't a punishment!

Kung fu monks battle Colombian karate assassins

You're Forgetting Someone

You forget Jack Bauer....

He can do *anything* in 24 hours. And he doesn't even need to pee or eat. (or so it seems)