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Category Archives:Hardware
Monday, June 14th, 2010

Windows Phone 7 has been quietly bubbling away in the background for the past few weeks with Android’s Froyo update and iPhone 4 laying waste to any big news about the platform. But I’ve been keeping my eye on what’s been going on, and have been interested to hear on a few developments that have [...]

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Thursday, June 10th, 2010

So, 24 hours in to the iPad experience, what do I make of it? In short – brilliant. There’s nothing quite like the iPad for doing some activities and working in certain ways. We all know how I feel about the iPhone – worthless piece of junk that it is. For me, the iPad offers [...]

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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Well the iPad finally arrived the other day (I say arrived – I cancelled the Apple order and drove to the local Currys and bought one in the shop), and no good gadget is complete without an unboxing set of photos. These were done in quite a rush (I wanted to get it open!) but [...]

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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

So you may have seen TweetMeme went a little Joggler-crazy last week, with a grand total of 6 turning up in our office (although not all at the same time). This is because Dom turned up one day, said they were on offer for £50, showed us all the software and hardware hacks, and we [...]

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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

I’ve been playing around with getting started building Android (I’d like to get 2.0 working on my Joggler). To build Android under Linux, you need the sun-java5-jdk package. This is due to a conflict in the @Override command, which means you can’t use the Java 6 JDK for this task. Unfortunately the sun-java5-jdk package isn’t [...]

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