Archive for September, 2007

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Halo 3 released

Halo3 has been finally released on the Xbox360. Halo and Halo2 were the best selling games so far on the Xbox platform, and Halo3 is expected to do the same!
Although I am not really a gamer, I have to say that Halo 3 is a nice piece of software. So far I have only tried [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Fun Stuff, Tech Stuff, Xbox360 by mike

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Herbert Grönemeyer at the Royal Albert Hall

Last Thursday I went to see Herbert Grönemeyer at the Royal Albert Hall here in London. I was kind of hoping that it would be a nice evening, and guess what: It was even better! It was certainly one of the best concerts that I have seen this year!
Grönemeyer clearly enjoyed playing at the Albert [...]

No Comments » - Posted in About Me, London, Music by mike

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Airbus 310 low pass at airshow

I found the following video on John Dvorak’s Blog, and kind of had to post it here.
One of the comments describes it as it’s best: “I know, it was a bit unsafe… but, Boy!!! Was it COOL? Yeah!”

WPvideo 1.10

TAP Airbus A310 Low pass turn Portugal Airshow 2007, Evora
Download!

No Comments » - Posted in Fun Stuff by mike

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

(Virtual) GPS on the iPhone

 
One of the features missing on the iPhone is GPS. I was used to have it on the Nokia N95, and although I didn’t use it very often, it came in handy a few times. Well, the iPhone has Assisted GPS since today. Well, sort of.
When checking for new application within the installer, I noticed [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Apple, Tech Stuff, iPhone by mike

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

FREE iPhone unlock tool available (updated)

It was only a matter of time, really. A few hours ago HaRRO, a member of the members (Daeken, Darkmen, guest184, gray, iZsh, pytey, roxfan, Sam, uns, Zappaz, and Zfhad) of the iPhone Dev Team have released an open source and FREE tool which allows you to set your iPhone free from the AT&T lock! [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Tech Stuff, iPhone by mike

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

London Underground: The Song

I found the below Flash movie recently..and funny enough, I kind of enjoyed it.
Beware the language.

London Underground: The Song (from the album Fitness to Practice), Amateur Transplants. Click here to buy the album.

No Comments » - Posted in Fun Stuff, London by mike

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

$200 iPhone price drop - And what happened then…

The announcement of the $200 price drop on the 8Gig iPhone did not only cause positive reactions. A lot of the early adopters weren’t too happy to see such a huge drop in Price after only two months.
What made it worse, was a comment from Steve Jobs in an interview:
“Q: What do you say [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Apple, Tech Stuff, iPhone by mike

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Plenty of new iPods

Looks like all of the different rumours were true. And my prediction weren’t really wrong either, but then again, I guess a lot of the stuff was kind of predictable, although it was a surprise that really nearly all of the different rumours were correct this time.
- iPod shuffle “Product red, and other new colours.
- [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Apple, Tech Stuff, iPhone by mike

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Tube strike - let the fun begin

I guess this week I will really enjoy even more the fact that I can walk to work and don’t have to rely on public transport. Since today, 18h00 Metronet, the company who maintains part of the London Underground network will be on strike for 72 hours.
As a consequence, only 3 of the 12 lines [...]

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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

The beat goes on

As a lot of you know by now, Apple has scheduled a “special event” this Wednesday. I am not going to repeat all of the rumours of what will be announced, but, jut for the fun of it, here is my prediction:
It will be the long awaited new iPod. Using the OSX and having the [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Apple, Music, Tech Stuff, iPhone by mike