Archive for April, 2007

Well Done Sky You Idiots

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Sky Anytime coming to a Sky+ box near you…  but your recordings may be deleted.
Okay so Sky TV are rolling out their Sky Anytime upgrade to Sky+ and HD boxes.  Sky have a hidden partition on the boxes just waiting for this service to go live.  Basically it will download programmes onto your box on […]

O2 versus T-Mobile

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

If you read my O2 XDA Mini s Review the other day you would know I signed up to an O2 contract package.  £35 per month I get 600 minutes of talktime to any phone plus 500 text messages (which I would never use).  However the big downside was that internet data charges was £5 […]

Amazon in German??

Monday, April 16th, 2007

I just went through the process of cancelling my DVD rental service with www.amazon.co.uk and they have a strange oddity on the website.
Cancelling produced an important message however the message was in German!!  What the heck? 
Ihr DVD-Verleihkonto wird mit dem nächsten Zahlungsfälligkeitsdatum geschlossen:date: 19 April 2007. Bis dahin können Sie weiterhin Filme ausleihen. Um weitere […]

Text Message Spam

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Gah!
My Mum started receiving sexual text message spam this morning on her mobile phone.  They included images.  3 arrived. So I phoned vodafone to see if they could help and they said she gets charged £1.50 for receiving each one.  She only put £5 of credit on yesterday so most of that is now depleted.  […]

O2 XDA Mini S Phone/PDA

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

My brain dropped a clanger yesterday and decided it wanted a combined phone and PDA instead of seperates.  Even more of a clanger was that it decided it wanted to move to a contract phone.
So I duly took my clanged brain to the O2 store and had a look at what they had to offer.  […]

Wordpress Mobile Dashboard

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Well I never, it seems that Wordpress has answered my prayers and implemented a mobile dashboard viewable from a pocket pc/pda.
It has an easy to use layout and i am impressed. Thankyou Wordpress, I can now blog by mobile with ease.

PS3 - HDMI Against Component, Resolutions and Confusion

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Lets start off by noting that I initially purchased the HDMI cable for outputting high definition on the PS3. My HDMI connection has been one of woes and pains from the start. The PS3 has an issue when using HDMI on some sets. I do not know the full technical details but […]