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After talking to the in-store staff at the T-Mobile store in Maidstone, Kent, UK, I am now the owner of a G1 looking at a total cost of £360 ($580) which is about the price I would expect to pay for an unlocked G1 You may wonder why yesterday I was looking

After getting interested in Android after Mike Jennings talk, weeks of coding on AndAppStore.com, reading up on APIs, watching and getting involved with discussions on the Android developers and discussion mailing lists, and following various Android comm…

The New York times is reporting a security flaw in the G1, and to me it’s confirmation that Google left opening up the source to public far too late by doing it the day before users could go out and buy hardware with it installed.

If you want to have your application listed in Androids Marketplace the first thing you have to do is pay them $25.

If you’ve taken an interest in Googles Android platform before you’ll be familiar with phrases such as “Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices” from when the Android and Open Handset Alliance initiative was started,…

I’ve recently been subscribed to the development and discussion mailing lists for Googles Android platform due to working on AndAppStore.com and recently an email posting caught my eye because it reminded me of a scam that I thought had long since passed.

The folks over at AndroidGuys have been kind enough to publish an interview with me which covers some plans for AndAppStore and how I’d like to see the Android ecosystem develop.

(Declaration of interest; I’m involved in AndAppStore.com which allows Android Applications developers to list Android applications and users to download them) Imagine this; You have a product you want to make available worldwide, but you need the help of…

[For those that are interested there are some photos of unboxing the PlayTV here ] The PlayTV arrived today, and what can I say….. it’s nice, but it’s got quite a big design problem; it has no aerial out socket.

After listening to Mike Jennings excellent intro to Android presentation at the London Dev Day I floated an idea which seemed to have some traction so I thought I’d expand it out for those that are interested.

For those of you wondering how things have been progressing with the Crest Nicholson house my wife and I bought a few months ago, well here’s a quick update; We’ve just been asked for a 6 month snagging list, we’ve identified over 40 problems and we’re st…

If you’re in the US you can now configure a Windows version or Linux version of Dells mini-notebook (named the Inspiron mini 9).

I’m currently involved in a few projects which offer web based services to the many on the street, and I’m always interested in finding more efficient and cost effective methods of powering these sites, so recently I’ve been looking at Amazons EC2.

(Note : If you’re just looking for a place to pre-order PlayTV for the PS3 in the UK you can get it from Amazon UK) Like many people I don’t live my life around the TV I record shows to watch when I have some free time, so it was with great interest I saw…

Before you ask, no, I’m not selling the information, just picking up on a piece in the Mail on Sunday which reports that bank data (including signatures and mothers maiden names) has been discovered on a hard drive sold on eBay for 35 quid.

Those people who have shown interest in Dells mini-notebook project thats been labelled the Dell E, (or Dell Inspiron 910, or Mini Inspiron, or a host of others) should probably be looking at the Dell Latitute E4200, because it’s remarkably close to the r…

[Note: I’m not a qualified legal professional, these are the observations of a layman and should not be considered legal advice] One of the reasons there has been a break in posts in my blog is that I’ve recently been involved in a court case which I’ve s…

Saying a country needs a recession may seem like a strange idea, but the more people I talk to the more I come to the conclusion that a recession will do the UK a big favour.

Recently one of the darlings of Web 2.0 called Twitter has been suffering from growing pains which many attribute to issues coping with it’s own popularity.

It’s now widely accepted that the economy is undergoing a serious contraction, and so consumers are about to far more picky about what they buy and who they buy it from, so if you’re running a business and you don’t believe the customer is king then you’re

This is just a warning to anyone out there thinking of purchasing a newly built house; Get a full structural survey!!!!

If, like me, you are on Threes cellular broadband package and you have a monthly allowance which you sometimes use up, you will have found that the only thing three will offer you is increasing your tariff and your allowance, which will only take effect a…

In the last few weeks the area I live in has received an “upgrade” to Threes’ Turbo broadband service from it’s normal 3G service.

This one is a bit of a post for the techies, so if you’re more interested in the business side of my blog you may want to skip this post.

I’ve recently been looking at Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS3 for web development, but they’re so blatantly ripping off customers here in the UK that I’m going to be looking elsewhere.

I’ve heard a few people are looking for a solution to using a cellular modem for their small or home office.

For the last couple of months I have been using a cellular broadband system instead of a standard ADSL line and I’ve got to say that I think describing as broadband is probably stretching the truth a little.

After Orange coming up with a sensible solution to the “fun” of not existing in experian and equifaxes databases due to moving to a newly built house, they’ve unfortunately shown how not to treat a customer, and here is their special recipe.

I’ve recently moved into the second house to be finished in a new development and found out that due to a local transmitter the Vodafone signal is so poor that it’s barely usable, so I decided to switch to the Orange network (which has good signal strengt…

It’s rare that anything in UK politics actually surprises me, but you would have thought after the bungles in Afghanistan and Iraq the UK government would think twice about blindly following US policy, but, alas, the UK governments endorsement of the US’s…

Everyone knows that in advertising there is a certain amount of creativity, and that there are bounds to what most companies would consider responsible advertising, but I’ve come across a company which seems to be willing to set the borders of responsible…

A password breaking program called John the ripper has been modified to use the CPUShare pay-per-MIP parallel processing network as a test.

I’ve recently been having an Email conversation with some the guys who wrote the technical specification RFC3920 about the language used and it’s left me wondering how many more times I will see the same mistake made.

The struts guys were pretty swift in releasing a fix to the problem I blogged about before, so if you’re using Struts 2 you really should to 2.0.9.

In the programming world two of the most widely understood types of problems are cross site scripting (sometimes called XSS), and user command injection (e.g.

No matter how good you think a CD key generation scheme is there will always be legitimate users who encounter problems.

Sony have been selling the PS3 for some months now as a network enabled home entertainment device, yet it seems to be lacking at least one piece of functionality which is available on Apple TVs that has also been available on Sonys’ own PSP for over a yea…

I’ve finally made the choice between OpenSuSE or Vista as my preferred OS for the next few years, and the decision went to Vista, and to my surprise it only took a couple of hours to decide.

I’ve used machines running Linux for well over a decade for various things, and a few times I’ve tried to use it as my the operating system for my desktop, but I’ve always reverted back to Windows because of usability and hardware compatibility issues.

One of the major contributors to spam emails are computers which are called bots (or zombies).

After a few days Wii-ing (I couldn’t resist it), I thought I’d pass on some thoughts for those wondering if the new console lives up to the hype… well…. for hard core gamers it’s not the thing to have as your main console.

If your remote doesn’t appear to work after a system update, turn the Wii off for 1 minute then on again at the wall socket.

I’m one of those people who’ve been using Java long enough to have written it off as not being able to present a good graphical front end, that was until I saw this post at Java Lobby (The video in the post is available directly from YouTube, be aware, it…

Some of you may be wondering what I do for a day job.

Adobes Acrobat reader is, in my opinion, an over-hyped bloated piece of resource hungry software.

I’ve been trying out Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 (like many IT people who’ve joined the free beta), and found a couple of interesting things about it’s partition management and it’s effect on some of the disk utilities I’ve trusted to help me with Wind…

There is no doubt that open source software saves people money.

SpikeSource popped up on my radar after seeing an article on The Register.

I want to make it clear that I’m not a spammer, I hate spam, and would like to find a way to banish it from the net for everyone, but black lists are just not going to make it happen, and here’s why….

There is a hidden service menu on Sky+ units which gives you access to engineer functions.