Archive for September, 2013
Review – Samsung S4 Mini Duos
TL;DR The S4 mini is a fantastic piece of kit. The size is right, the screen is vibrant, the battery lasts, it works fine as a phone. The *only* thing I might ask for as an improvement would be a higher resolution screen. Dual SIM is very nice too. Background 2 years is too long […]
Filed under: review, technology | 3 Comments
Tags: android, dual SIM, Duos, mini, review, s4, Samsung
Now that OpenELEC 3.2 is out the dev team are moving to 3.3 (which will eventually become stable as 3.4). The dev team have asked me to wait until things are more stable (for around 4 weeks) before doing more builds from the master branch. The dev team have also made a decision to remove […]
Filed under: Raspberry Pi | 10 Comments
Tags: build, dev, openelec, Raspberry Pi, RPi
Yesterday I wrote about how Google Wallet is even worse than PayPal. A quick reminder: When I buy stuff on PayPal I don’t have to pretend to have a billing address in a different country. They’re quite happy for me to use my UK issued card for payments to US suppliers. I don’t recall ever […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble | Leave a Comment
Tags: dicks, fail, fraud, geolocation, google, LTE, Nexus 7, payments, paypal, Play, resolution, store, wallet
I spent Saturday manning the @BrightonPi stand at Brighton Mini Maker Faire showing off various projects with Gareth James. It was great fun, and I really enjoyed talking to people about the potential of the Raspberry Pi. There were a few questions that got asked a lot… hence this post. The projects I was showing off […]
Filed under: making, Raspberry Pi | Leave a Comment
Tags: BMMF, Brighton, ladder board, maker faire, MAME, Raspberry Pi, RPi, Targ, wifi
I’ve seen a ton of bad news stories about PayPal over the last few years – here are just the top three from my payments tag on pinboard.in. I’ve even run afoul of their over sensitive fraud detection myself in the last couple of months (whilst trying to buy Club Penguin subscriptions for my kids whilst […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble | 2 Comments
Tags: fail, fraud, geolocation, google, LTE, Nexus 7, payments, paypal, Play, resolution, store
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