Archive for August, 2010
H264 video codec: Free forever
Well this changes the game in terms of HTML5 video codecs. MPEG-LA, the patent pool organisation for the H.264 codec, have said it will be royalty free for web videos, forever. This pretty much puts an end to the main complaint of Google and other open codec supporters that wanted OGG Theora/WebM/VP8 to be adopted […]
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Tags: codec, H.264, H264, html5, MPEG-LA, video
Over at Mobile Crunch
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Tags: Browser, iPhone, vs, vs Android, windows phone 7
Lifehacker’s top Android apps
Lifehacker have a list of their favourite Android apps here. There’s some good stuff in there, I can personally attest to the awesomeness of RockPlayer. It’s a flawless DivX/Xvid/MKV player for SD video (mileage will vary on HD content according to your device). It’s free on the Market, £10 to remove adverts. A small price to […]
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Tags: Android, divx, lifehacker, Market, mkv, rockplayer, top apps, xvid
I’ve held off posting this because frankly I thought it was bullshit when I heard about it. I have since tested though and my battery life does seem to have increased by at least a third, so I must at least recommend you try the following: 1) Turn your device ON and charge the device […]
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Tags: battery, HTC Desire, increase
Just seen this fantastic hack for GMail from Kevin Rose, creator of Digg: “#2: (Gmail only) Keep the spam out. If you’re giving your address to a potentially shady website, tack on +spam to the end, example: yourname+spam@gmail.com. You can then filter those emails into a spam folder you check periodically. (ProTip: the +spam is […]
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Tags: +spam, Gmail, Google, google mail, kevin rose, modifier, variable
As expected, the Z is just a Desire with a slide out keyboard and the HD is the European Evo 4G Engadget have some cool pictures of the Desire Z/Vision
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Tags: HTC Desire, htc desire hd, htc desire z
Disabling Facebook Places
Don’t want your friends checking your location in for all and sundry to see? Lifehacker will show you how to disable Facebook Places Once again, a social network decides that the default option for infringing my privacy should be “enabled”
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Tags: disable, facebook places
Google video chat for Linux
Well, I didn’t think this would happen, ever. Google have released a Linux package for video chat for Google Mail/Google Talk. Until recently webcams have been a massive pain in the back side for Linux users, it wasn’t until the release of the latest Ubuntu that it “just worked” for me personally.
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Tags: Gmail, Google, google talk, Linux, video chat
Orange UK Data network is down
Yes, mobile data is up and down like a yo-yo for Orange in the UK. The first report was that it was fixed at 1am Thursday morning but there are still plenty of people around the country reporting it’s not working.
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Tags: 3g, data, down, Orange, UK
Looks like everyone is going to pile on the social location based check-in apps then. Facebook are launching an update to the mobile site, and an iPhone app, allowing you to discover what’s nearby and where your friends have been, much in the vein of Foursquare. It seems that this isn’t a competitor to Foursquare though as […]
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Tags: facebook, facebook places, foursquare, Google, iPhone, places, yelp
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