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At Christmas I finally joined the next gen gaming crowd, by getting a Playstation 3.
Over the last few years my gaming has been largely PC-based, although I did get a Nintendo Wii when they were released, so this console’s been interesting to play around with properly.   The advantage of coming to the console fairly [...]

With the release of the new version of Ubuntu last Thursday, as usual I was quick to upgrade.  I’m always an early adopter of these things, probably helped by the fact that its free
As is normal, a new release of Ubuntu always captures a lot of attention, and with this release, it was [...]

Well, everyone else is talking about it, so I thought I’d copy and paste (seems appropriate ) a forum post I made elsewhere and tweak it a bit.
In short, confirmed new features include, 3.2Megapixel camera, cut/copy/paste, compass, some “find my phone” Mobile Me thingy, MMS, video recording and a bunch of other stuff [...]

When I first got my Blackberry, one of the first orders of business was to get a Twitter client installed.
The obvious choice was Twitterberry. It had a nice GUI interface, and was easy to download and use. However, since then a couple of new clients have arrived on the market. SocialScope is [...]

Now this is something I’m really keen to try out.   Its a theme for Wordpress that effectively causes it to become like Twitter.  Only with the advantage that you can restrict it to registered users only.   It looks pretty cool.

Well, I took the plunge over the weekend and upgraded my laptop to the new Ubuntu 9.04.
Fortunately all seems to have gone smoothly. All the main stuff was working happily on reboot, even my wifi. I’m not sure what’s actually been changed in this release, so I’ll need to go through it more [...]

Well, as the counter on the right shows, the release of Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope is happening any time now.
As always, I’m excited to see what the new distribution has to offer over the previous version, however this time I find this tinged with caution, as previously my main installation was on the second [...]

Last night, I was browsing through the App Store, and I noticed something really interesting. Namely Star Trek Countdown 1-4.
Star Trek Countdown is the official movie prequel series, released by IDW, and what a company called (I think) IVerse Media have done, is port them into an iPhone/iPod Touch friendly format.
This is interesting for [...]

Last week, Blackberry released their new App World to the public. Free to download from their website it brings their version of the Apple Appstore to Blackberry handsets.
Of course, third party apps on the Blackberry aren’t a new thing.  Unlike the iPhone, which is reliant on Apple’s Appstore Blackberry developers have long enjoyed the [...]

Hmmm, ranty blog post time.
So Apple have finally got around to sorting out the features (copy-and-paste/MMS) that other phones have had for years.   Looking forward to adverts and fanboys proclaiming this as the 3rd coming of the iPhone and acting like they invented these features.
Yes I’m bitter.  Why?  Because the iPod Touch users are getting [...]