[tech junkie]

Underground App Store Courts the Jailbroken

Underground App Store Courts the Jailbroken: "PainMeds writes 'Apple's stepped-up and controversial rejections are helping to foster competition in the app store marketplace. According to an article by Wired, developers aren't taking AppStore rejection lying down, but are turning to the hacking community's repository system for the iPhone to launch an app store of their own. The 4-month-old Cydia store is yielding notably higher sales for a few application developers than Apple's AppStore, an...

Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits

All I ask is why ? Just because they can ? Surely they could do something more useful with the 47th most powerful super-computer in the world ? Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits: "Joshua writes 'Researchers from Japan have calculated Pi to over 2.5 trillion decimals using the T2K Open Supercomputer (which is currently ranked 47th in the world according to a June, 2009 report from Top500.org). This new number more than doubles the previous record of about 1.2 trillion decimals set in 2...

There is nothing more addictive

[Rating:8/10] You have got to play Trials HD on Xbox 360. It is available for a heft 1200 points as an arcade download on Xbox Live. I'm not even sure what it is about the game that I can't stop playing it. There is nothing deep about it at all. Finish the track as quickly as possible whilst making as few mistakes as possible. If you mess it up try again. And again. And again. When you finally get it right you see the times that your friends have achieved for the track, so it's b...

My ISP is not my Big Brother

Today I was involved in some heated debate around whether or not your ISP should be threatening you with service termination on receiving one or even multiple complaints from various "watchdog" organisations out there. Are you kidding ? ISP's are not the information super-highway police. Never have been and never should be ! Law enforcement should be left to the relevant law enforcement agencies. I'm not agreeing with the act of piracy, I'm merely of the opinion that ISP's are the w...

Vodacom will screw you.

I just don't understand it. The iPhone 3GS has been available for weeks from Vodacom, but it seems that other operators still "have no stock". My contract is with Nashua Mobile and they are telling me that Vodacom are wanting to keep the phone exclusively for their customers at first before they release them to the other service providers. Can they be any more obtuse ?!? Vodacom will still get the business at the end of the day, so why are they withholding stock ? Come on Vodacom pull up you...