#“And yea verily did the Paid Apps magically appear on the Honourable Conor’s Android Phone” I'm assuming they are tildes and not minus signs. Perfect timing for the arrival of the full version of Angry Birds next week. »
#“Give me your seed” via techcrunch.com Top class. »
#“Last night’s Apprentice UK reminded me of these” I had the Dilbert "Utilize Synergy" strip pinned to my cubicle from the mid 90s to 2001. That strip sat alongside the classic Wally "I leveraged synergy across all technology platforms" and the all-time-great "Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams". Here we are 10 years later and the type of people who apply to be on The Apprentice in the UK and Ireland still think words like "Fusion" "Synergy" and "Apollo" are something other than laughable. »
#“About….Bloody……Time…: Android - More Countries, More sellers, More buyers” Since we launched Android and Android Market, we have seen the population of Android users and devices expand into many countries. This widespread adoption has brought with it growing interest in Android Markets support for the buying and selling of paid applications in these additional countries. via android-developers.blogspot.com Yay, Ireland is in the list. No more messing with UK SIMs. »
#“Any Thoughts on this as a Half-Marathon Playlist?” Playlist Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun (00:00) The Prodigy - Stand Up (00:00) The Datsuns - Sittin' Pretty (00:00) AC/DC - Thunderstruck (00:00) Jace Everett - Bad Things (00:00) Muse - Uprising (00:00) Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle (00:00) The Black Keys - Your Touch (00:00) House of Pain - Jump Around (00:00) OK Go - This Too Shall Pass (00:00) The Blues Brothers - Gimme Some Lovin' (00:00) The Killers - Somebody Told Me (00:00) Guns N' Roses - Paradise City (00:00) U2 - no Title (00:00) Pixies - Here Comes Your Man (00:00) The Dickies - Banana Splits (00:00) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Taste of Cindy (00:00) Black Sabbath - Paranoid (00:00) The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You (00:00) AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie (00:00) Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Cherry Bomb (00:00) Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock N' Roll (00:00) Rory Gallagher - Bullfrog Blues (00:00) The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog (00:00) Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Crimson & Clover (00:00) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Six Barrel Shotgun (00:00) Blur - Girls & Boys (00:00) Blur - Parklife (00:00) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll. »
#“Incredible: A Kick-Ass Android Phone for \u00a399 PAYG!” via youtube.com Paul O'Brien from http://www.modaco.com has a useful unboxing video of the Orange San Francisco (aka ZTE Blade). But the incredible thing is what you are getting for 99 on Pay As You Go with Orange UK. * Capacitive Touch Screen * Android 2.1 (Soon 2.2 Froyo) * 512MB RAM * HSDPA 3G * MicroSD Slot * FM Radio * 3. »
#“Paid Apps in Android Market in Ireland, Sorta.” Just spotted from @Popple3 via @jkeyes that he can see paid apps on his Irish Android phone (Meteor). I also just got a mail from Google telling me that lots more countries will be rolled out in the coming weeks. Someone finally banged the appropriate heads together.But it looks like the Irish thing may be network specific for the moment. I ain't got diddly on my Vodafone SIM despite a few reboots so I'm stuck using my 3UK SIM trick to install Paid Apps. »
#“N8 Contest - Nokia Can’t Even Get That Right” Welcome to the 2010 Calling All Innovators North America developer contest, presented by Nokia and AT&T. Were challenging developers to create new applications and games for the new Nokia N8 and future Nokia devices for consumers in the U.S. and Canada. With $10 million in cash, devices, and marketing prizes up for grabs, now is the time for you to take advantage of Ovi Stores global reach which gives you access to the worlds largest community of app-purchasing mobile consumers. »
#“Google Buzz Team Nearly Gets It Right” The single most important feature missing from Buzz since the day it launched is the ability to hide all the Twitter/Friendfeed/Flickr/Reader/Whatever auto-imports that everyone was doing. When you strip away all of that time-delayed crap you could get to the heart of the service. They have just announced that you can now mute per source per person. For which they should be applauded. 7 months later. »
#“Accessing Amazon RDS Instances from your Desktop” Whilst we are huge fans of the Amazon RDS database service (particularly the Multi-AZ setup), one thing that can be a problem is accessing your databases from the desktop. The standard trick of running an SSH tunnel to your EC2 instance doesn't work here. After much searching I found the following on an AWS discussion forum and it works perfectly: ssh-add YourKey.pem ssh -l <username> -L 33060:<ec2_rfc_ip>:3306 -N <ext_hostname> Then connect your local MySQL client to localhost, port 33060 <username> is the login user on the EC2 instance from where you normally access the RDS MySQL DB. »