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When the Android SDK was first released, I didn’t pay much attention to it. But then came time for me to to choose my final year project for Uni. My original choice was snagged by someone else, so I had to make a quick decision, the deadline for choosing the project was the next day.
I had been thinking, before Uni started again, about how it would be a good idea for me to write my own apps for Android, after all, the apps could be written in Java which was something I knew. The app I had in mind was an IRC client for the phone. (Yes, I am an IRC addict :/).
So, sitting in the Uni computer room, I decided I would make an IRC app for Android as a final year project.
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I’ve decided to add some audio files to my Gallery. The Video Gallery is gonna be renamed to Media Gallery, and will have a section dedicated to audio files I found/recorded in various places. You’ll be able to listen to the files before deciding to download anything, the download links will be available in the download section. I’ll add some stuff soon. I will also allow comments in the gallery, so you can leave your opinions. 
To protect myself from any legal problems 
, I have to post this as well:
IMPORTANT INFO:
The files I share will be done under the assumption that no copyright is held to them, or that the license they were released under allows the redistribution of these files. For most of the files, I don’t have any source, if you believe you are the copyright/license holder, please inform me and I will give credit to you. I will not knowingly post files that hold copyright.
NO BREACH OF COPYRIGHT LAW(S) ARE INTENDED.
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I have exam tomorrow on Probability, part of the Probability and Matrices course. I don’t understand any of it 
. Gonna fail this so badly
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All this time I was using the A Small Orange Tiny Package which gave me 75MB space. When I joined, I thought that would be enough for a simple blog, but my gallery used up an odd 65MB of that space (shocking innit 
). So I sent an email to the kind people at ASO, who upgraded my package to Medium the next day.
Now I have 1GB space and 25GB bandwidth, which is more then I’ll probably ever need 
. Anyway, I’ll be uploading some more stuff soon, since I might as well use what I’m gonna be paying for.
If anyone is looking for hosting, I seriously recommend ASO, their service is great, and their support services is even better. Any issue I’ve had, they’ve sorted it out very quickly, and their support ticket response times are amazing.
Proud to be 
Also, you may have noticed my downloads area, gonna upload some more stuff soon.
Found a cool site that lets you download music licensed under Creative Commons License (no drm included ) Click Here.
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I cant believe how many problems IE6 is causing on this site. It ignores half of the stylesheet, doesn’t display transparent pngs, in my download area, shows the sidebar text in a massive size and makes the whole site look ugly when you open the site with it. :mad:
It isn’t a problem with my site, it validates 100% according to the checks I did, and the css is valid as well. The retarded IE developers ignore half the standards and make a load of crap:mad:. But it seems now they’ve got off their lazy backsides and started fixing it. Most of the site works with IE7, but still, some of the text shows up massive.
No problems at all with Firefox or Opera *me hugs them both* 
I wanna stop caring about how the site looks with IE6, but a lot of visitors to here use it .
(I just recently found out how to put images in my posts hehehehe)
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This is a pretty slick show . I watched the first two episodes after I was recommended to watch it by a friend, and I have to say, I’m might watch this as well as Prison Break now .
Update:
I watched all the way up to Episode 12 which is the latest so far. The plot is really great, and its getting really interesting, what with the killer escaping and Peter thinking he’s gonna blow up 
. I’m hooked on it, and gonna watch this regularly now .
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….in the US. Right now, its Season 2 Episode 14. In the UK, they started showing Season 2 on Channel 5 which shows ads every 10 mins :mad:. Obviously I’m not gonna sit through that crap, so I’m watching it via “other” means.
Anyway, its getting pretty intense right now, they have a major new ally and they plan to go for the big fish now . If you don’t watch Prison Break, you dunno what you’re missing.
On a side note, my blog is now updated to Wordpress 2.1. Some plugins need to be updated to work, but so far, nothing borked at the front end (not that I’ve noticed). If you do see something not working, send me an email via my Contact Page.
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I’ve been testing out Ubuntu on an old laptop I managed to get hold off. So far, the main problem has been getting a decent window manager set up, since the laptop spec is too slow to work with the default Gnome. Another problem has been wifi and static ip. I hate using dhcp (dynamic ip), but using wpa supplicant I managed to get static ip working.
Using Network Manager Gnome was recommended, but since I needed to put in the keyring password everytime I booted, and the method to bypass this wouldn’t work with auto login, I had to find an alternative to be able to log in to my home network, i.e wpa supplicant.
Next few things I need to get done is: setup fluxbox, an alternative window manager for low end systems, install some “killer” apps, and start learning Linux properly.
I’ve wanted to learn Linux for a long time, but using it on my windows laptop is a big NO, since I don’t like dual booting, even when I used Vista, dual booting was hassle, and it becomes annoying having to reboot to get back to Windows, and not being able to access my files properly unless I use an unstable and risky Linux NTFS driver, or format my HD using FAT32 
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Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at his keynote. If you haven’t read about it already, head over to the iPhone site and check out the demo. Feature packed and looks SLICK!!!!
Engadet has the first photos (or so they say so 
), yo can see it here: Engadet Gallery.
This seriously looked like next hot thing, and imo, blows the MS Zune miles away.
You might also be able to catch the keynote later at this link. Make sure you watch it!!!!
Funnily enough, Linksys also has a product called iPhone that was launched before Apple. 
Update: Looks like Cisco (Linksys’ parent company) is gonna sue Apple for using their trademark.
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I got tired of uploading and downloading files to test changes to my site, so I installed Wordpress on my laptop. If you wanna do the same for testing, this site has a excellent and easy to follow tutorial.
If you haven’t bothered to watch the Bill Gate’s keynote at CES ‘07 (Consumer Electronics Show), you can find recorded streams at the links below. He made some very interesting announcements:
100K Stream | 220K Stream | 500K Stream
You can keep up to date with the latest CES news at the Neowin Events Blog.
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On Boxing Day, I went to Central London to do some shopping. While I was there, I popped into HMV to buy some games. I choose FEAR and Half Life 2, both for a reasonable price. I got home, removed the plastic covering, and I find out that the HL2 game still has the security tag on it (no I didnt steal the game from the shop). I was really fucking pissed off, I decide to buy a game, and suddenly I can’t play it because of a fuck up by retarded employees. I couldn’t be bothered to wait till the next day to get an exchange, so I broke the case slightly and took the tag out. Luckily, the CD had just a minor scratch on it, and I managed to install it without problems.
Right now, I’m playing FEAR, it is a wicked game . I’ve been taking some videos of it, and I’ll put them up after a while.
Some pics of the case and tag (the red thing):
