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I didn't like it much either. Runs horribly on the 3G.

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/blog/information/free-iphone-4-case-for-death-grip-sufferers/ Seems like a decent offer, £2.50 inc. P&P for an iPhone 4 case.

Never tired it. The iPad version of Movies Now was on one of Gizmodo's Apps of the Week lists recently and it sounded cool so I picked up the iPhone version.

eBay bought RedLaser at the end of June. RedLaser was last updated on the 30th March. It's exactly the same as it was back then. The reviewer is obviously a complete and utter dolt.

National Rail Urbanspoon RedLaser Tapatalk (there's a free Read Only version to try) MoviesNow DC Comics Marvel Comics Dropbox LandFormer Oddy Smog Can definitely recommend that lot.

There's an Oyster Card vending machine. Make sure you have the right change (£5 I think?), pop the money in, out comes your card, top it up and you're off! Personally I love the City. I'm off down there again next weekend to visit some mates and just generally chill out. Best times I've had down there have just been hopping off at random tube stops that none of us have been to before (well, not that random really, tend to stay away from ones that might be in dodgy areas and go for the ones in posh areas instead) and wandering around. There's usually something interesting going on. Depends on the mood really though, different areas of the city are very different. In a Camden mood at the moment, but that might have changed by Friday.

It's an iPhone, the signal's always been dodgy on em :p Order these and use em to test the signal; http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/free-pay-as-you-go-sim-cards/ http://freesim.orange.co.uk/ https://www.three.co.uk/Pay_As_You_Go/Free_SIM/Order_a_free_SIM http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/pay-as-you-go/hub/vodafone/ Might need to get O2 to unlock your iPhone first though; https://www.o2.co.uk/apps/help/help?qid=1&q1=2&route=unlocking&case=Handset%20Unlocking%20Form

Nah, not seen a golden wrench yet. Play on the same server most of the time though so it's unlikely. Looking forward to the novelty wearing off now. Play Engie a lot so it's kinda irritating at the moment, most games I put up a dispenser at the start and then every single other Engineer on my team proceeds to steal metal out of it because they're all desperately trying to build their own sentries, all in a cluster. Round starts, we have a level one dispenser built and about a trillion level one sentries (which sucks, big time). I've taken to abusing admin privileges and burning/drugging/freezing the fools, they get the message quick (or they leave, either one).

I just did, so I guess that's a yes (unless iPhone 4 is different to the 3G). Heck, install the right program and you can download everything over 3G if you feel like it.

We helped Hitler in to power because he hated Communism, hated the Russians and was capable of uniting Germany. Without him the Red Revolution would have spread in to central Europe (and maybe beyond). It all went wrong because Hitler knew he was being used, Germany was supposed to be the sacrificial lamb in an upcoming war between Britain with her allies against Russia. We'd have been allied with Hitler's Germany and the majority of the war would have been fought on German soil with majority German blood being spilled. What I'm getting at there is that we wouldn't have stopped Hitler even knowing what we know now. Communist revolutions in central Europe would have been far too damaging to British power. At most we'd have massively cut the funding we gave him to build his armed forces. That's the thing about our actions in the world, we won't lift a finger to stop even the most destructive of wars if the cons outweigh the pros. As Communism itself being evil, that's a rather silly notion. Communist revolution tends to be born out of great oppression and tyranny. The people have to become so fed up with being treated like dirt that they are willing to throw away their lives to bring down the establishment and take the power themselves. While the Revolution breeds evil acts it isn't in itself evil. OK, ninja edit. That is just plain wrong. I'm assuming you're referring to Stalin's Russia there? Don't tar an entire movement with the acts of a paranoid Dictator. Stalin did what he did because he believed it to be the only way to keep Russia strong enough to see off any direct attack by the US. He was probably right. Communism itself doesn't remove people's freedom. Maybe read up on the birth of communist Russia and compare people's liberties before and after the revolution? I seriously doubt you'll find that the people were better off under the Tsars.

http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/ It's out

The Guardian is the one that's annoying me the most. If it's money that's the problem then I wouldn't even mind if they charged for the update, I've got more than my money's worth from that app anyway. Guess they're busy building the iPad app at the moment though...

Change the WiFi channel. Odds on it's interference from other wireless devices/the neighbours' wireless connections. Which channel is the right one is trial and error, all depends what the neighbours are running. Sounds odd. I'd probably go with buying a new router tbh, they ain't all that expensive and this sounds like one of those problems that'll probably never be solved.

I can't believe how long some apps are taking over updates though. When did iOS 4 get released to developers? April? The new APIs are a few hours work at most and yet very few got it done in time for launch and there's still rather a lot that haven't implemented it (and maybe never will). I guess it's the lack of financial incentive to add new features...

Happy Birthday for yesterday Raining!

Cheers guys Awesome topic title btw! Feel so, so crap today. Far too many shots last night

Q3 2012 is the expected release, so 3 years after Windows 7. Should be in public beta by the end of next year.

I just bought Day of Defeat: Source. My Source collection is now complete! Seems a bargain at £1.75. Not bothering with anything else though. Got a good 100GB+ of games on my account from previous sales that I've not downloaded yet. They may be bargains, but they aren't if I never play em.

Not quite. It's the networks' fault for having low signal zones

Not difficult what they're sold out everywhere :p Still, I get your point. Some people have been waiting a long time to see Apple fuck things up royally, so it's hardly surprising that those people are now milking it. Let them have their 5 minutes :p

Tis a joke, shouldn't really be over-analysed. Anyhow, given the number of issues they clearly didn't test it very thoroughly. Bad quality control in the yellow glue spots on some screens, lack of stress testing on the rear-panel glass, lack of rigorous testing for signal issues. It's either that or they knew about the problems and just decided to release it anyway. Either way at this rate there'll be a good few thousand people suing them stateside.

Never. Gets. Old.

The most interesting bit is the cloud stuff. They plan to have it tightly integrated with the cloud and with the marketplace, so you can log in to any Windows 8 PC and you'll get your Windows 8 user account with all of your files and all of your Marketplace applications (which I guess would download and run on-demand?). Also, the reset idea apparently is slightly different to that. It gives you a fresh Windows install and downloads all of your marketplace applications again, gives you a list of non-marketplace applications that were installed on your system and grabs all of your files from the cloud. Sounds incredibly useful for when things go wrong, potentially easier than troubleshooting most problems. Still, seems to be more of an early brainstorm than actual concrete features. Could be cut down from that quite a bit by the time it hits the market.

I'd be happy with £199, £249 is pushing it and £299 would be a flat 'no'. Still want to see what people make of it as a way to learn to play a real guitar first, once bitten twice shy after the drums thing.

Because the bumper mutes the signal a little, thus killing the point of running the antenna on the surface in the first place. Haha love it! There's no right or wrong way to hold the iPad, it fits you. The iPhone? Ohhh well that's a different story. You're doing it wrong.