#“Could Bond Traders use Twitter?”
I've spent the past week with a column in Tweetdeck tracking #bailout and it makes for rivetting reading. On the one hand you have the official blather about "steady as she goes", "everything is stabilised now" "Spain won't need a bailout". And on the other hand you have the aggregate of thousands of average people all saying the opposite. The trick is figuring out whether that aggregate is the wisdom of crowds or the same type of mass hysteria that created the bubble in the first place. »
#“Streaming Videos to your Android Phone”
Big hat-tip to @micflan for pointing me in the right direction on this recently. I had tried and failed several times previously.
I did a post a few months back about getting streaming media working on both old Nokia N770s and iPhone from an Easy Peasy based EeePC netbook running MediaTomb. The idea was that it could be the ultimate in-car media center. The one massive annoyance was that I couldn't get it working on Android due to it having only one crappy non-functional UPnP client. »
#“Starting important downloads when out and about”
See the full gallery on Posterous Imagine you are on the road for a few days, you are checking your tweets and suddenly you see the new version of Ubuntu or CentOS has been released. You know that when you get back to base, you'll have to wait ages for it to download. If only there was a way around it.
If you have an Android phone, you can now sort that problem out with Transdroid. »
#“Dear Posterous, please fix media upload from Chrome”
It's been broken for nearly two weeks now. No other site has this problem. Works fine from Firefox on the same PC.
Thanks
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#“Sony Ericsson LiveView = Calculator Watch 2.0”
via androidcommunity.com But I sooooooooooooooooooo want one. I particularly like the exercise app integration. And there is an SDK for hackers to do their own apps. Thrilled to see Ericsson get back in the innovation game. Next they might even release a phone with Android 2.2 on it.
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#“I need Boxee for Families”
I've been a Boxee fanatic since I first discovered it as a replacement for our old XBoxes+XBMC which can't handle H.264 video. The app gets better and better and I'm thrilled they have launched a standalone box. Quick aside: Any chance they'd sell the Boxee remote for us PC owners? I bloody hate the generic MCE one we have. Living 2km from an Irish town centre as we do, video streaming is not an option after 7pm. »
#“Virtual hurling with the xbox kinect”
via youtube.com Holy cow, this is brilliant. Thrilled to see Microsoft starting to be part of the hacker culture again. Go Diarmuid!
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#“I had to buy Cracking Contraptions today”
I was in Waterstones in Cork with my 7 y/o daughter today and I spotted Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions Manual. I squealed with glee when I saw it. Done in the style of a Haynes manual with obligatory tea stain and repaired ripped cover, it is a work of utter awesomeness. As a past owner of 3, yes 3, desperately unreliable Citroens (BX, AX and Xantia), I am intimatelyfamiliarwith the inside of a Haynes manual. »
#“Wantsies - Angry Birds on the Advent Vega Android Tablet”
via youtube.com This is just the standard Angry Birds, auto-scaled. Initial reports on the Vega are good. Narrow viewing angle on the screen seems to be the main complaint (and no access to the Marketplace). See lots more views on Modaco: http://android.modaco.com/content/advent-vega-vega-modaco-com/323871/got-your...
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