#“Google Says Hello to Jason Isaacs” Ah this is just lovely. As anyone who listens to Kermode and Mayo’s film reviews on BBC Radio 5 Live (mostly via podcast) knows, they say hello to Jason Isaacs almost every week. It has become a bit of a meme with people trying to do the same via ever more interesting ways, including the rolling credits on the spoof news on the Jay Leno show. »
#“Netflix UK/Ireland shoots itself in the foot already. No Lilyhammer for us.” For me, in my innocence, the arrival of Netflix over here represented far more than justanothersource of media at a good price. I hoped it was the beginning of the end for the nonsensical region-limiting of media based on pre-internet, pre-airplane, business models. All of the vested interests can fight all they like, but eventually every movie, song and TV show will be available in every format at the same time globally. »
#“Underground Lakes, Antarctic UFOs, Nazis on The Moon and The Mayans” It’s a funny old week when all of the above come together in your head isn’t it? Bear with me for a sec. As we all know, The Mayans predicted the world would end in 2012. This ties nicely into the long-awaited B-movie Iron Sky coming in April - “In 1945 the Nazis went to the Moon. In 2012 they’re coming back”. »
#“Twitter? Facebook? Pah, so over them. Anyone who’s anyone is on Weibo now” Go on, I dare ya. I’m conoroon Weibo too. »
#“Roku + Netflix + iPlayer now available in Ireland. Anyone using Roksbox or roConnect?” The Verge is reporting that the Roku LT and Roku 2 XS are now shipping in UK and Ireland. They both come with Netflix and BBC iPlayer support. (Oddly their UK site still says “Coming Soon” for the LT). The LT is particularly interesting as it is only 49despite the lack of wired Ethernet or 1080p.But both models suffer the major and strange limitation that they cannot stream your home content, even over UPNP. »
#“I will be deeply disappointed if House doesn’t die from Lupus in the final episode” In a statement just released to the media, Executive Producers David Shore, Katie Jacobs and Hugh Laurie have announced that this current 8th season of the hit Fox series HOUSE will in fact be its last. See for yourself after the jump. via Fox Cancels HOUSE | the TV addict. »
#“No I don’t want to install your stupid hamstrung iPad App, I want your web-site” I saw a tweet along those lines the other day (sorry can’t remember who) and it really struck a chord. These “please install our App” pop-ups are infuriating in general on both Android and iOS. Every single vbulletin site I have gone to recently has done it. Why the hell would I want a separate App for every damned site I visit? »
#“No more accidents :-) Android Transparent Screen App” This app gives you the opportunity to use your phone as usual, while being able to see the image of your camera transparently on the entire screen. Transparent Screen - Apps on Android Market. Installing now. »
#“If you develop on Twitter APIs in Ireland, you have to attend Dublin Teatime” I attended the first London Twitter Teatime back in October. It was an organisational disaster but an absolute must-not-miss. We were in a big room with not just some key Twitter technical people but also with many of the key third party developers in the UK including the DataSift and PeerIndex guys. The Q&A session was particularly good with no-one being too shy about asking the hard questions (cough Twitter Annotations). »
#“App Inventor early access to educators with current and pending courses” Are you teaching App Inventor in a course this Spring, or beginning a course soon? Then you are eligible to apply for early access to the experimental version of App Inventor at the MIT Center for Mobile Learning. Apply by filling out the form at: http://bit.ly/MitEarly via Early access to educators with current and pending courses! | App Inventor Edu. »