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Blara··on Flappy Bird MMO
it's back
Blara··on Why You Can't Build a Smartphone
I miss that keyboard, I really do prefer physical keyboards to software ones.
Blara··on Google makes Quickoffice for Android and iOS free for all
To edit old g-docs files, it's not possible with quickoffice yet (I assume they will switch to one app that can edit all formats instead)
Blara··on Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
I'm not sure that is a fair comparison, Movies have a very strict number of people who can see the movie the first weekend (seats in movie theaters and not opening around the world, though the highest movie in the list was harry potter which I think had "world premier"). Where games have no limit on how many can buy it the first day, which is especially true since digital download has become so popular.
Blara··on Anonymous Person Posts $500,000 Bond To Free Texas Teen
Thanks, had to click 3 links before the OP story gave some insight into what had happened.
Blara··on Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet
And TV:s, fridges, computers... They manufacture more than just phones you know.
Blara··on At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom
except for those people who need glasses to see
Blara··on Flat-UI repository is available again
Maybe someone should do something like that to show how ridiculous DMCA can be
Blara··on What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
what's wrong with that? An egg weighs around 50-60 grams... Unless you count XL/L eggs
Blara··on Microsoft Surface Pro Review
I'll see if I can find that setting on my laptop as well :) thanks
Blara··on Microsoft Surface Pro Review
It's better to take a surface + external monitor than a desktop + external monitor though
Blara··on Microsoft Surface Pro Review
I don't like the way that lenovo puts their "Fn" key where the (left) "Ctrl" key should be, other than that it looks nice
Blara··on Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
Worked for me, it's called: Latin capital letter a: A (0x41)
Blara··on 64 GB Surface Pro will only have 23 GB free
A full version of Windows 8 Pro and backup partition of the same (which, from what I understand, you can put on an external drive and have an extra ~20GB)
Blara··on Google made €50 million copyright offer, French publishers want €100 million
We have the same in Sweden, and the tax is on all storage media (HDDs, DVDs, USB-sticks etc)
Blara··on Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in 'solid' Q4 2012
Not really, I think that WP will have a bigger userbase than RIM and I think that a better to compare against Android. I also assume that "phoneapps" will work on desktop/tablet windows 8 as well... But again, this is just my thoughts.
Blara··on Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in 'solid' Q4 2012
There are plenty of .NET developers so I don't think that will be an issue.
Blara··on Google Maps for iOS
There is on the android version, there's an option "Make available offline" you just draw out a square of what part of the world you want offline. Not sure if it's available on the iOS version though.
Blara··on Google Maps for iOS
Unless you want to have the phone attached to the bike, I haven't found any good mounts for my galaxy nexus, but there's plenty of mounts for iPhone. I've considered a switch just because of that.
Blara··on An iOS user migrates to Android
Maybe link to the original instead of linking to daringfireball that only contains a link to the twitter feed (or what you younglings call it) http://storify.com/joestump/an-ios-user-migrates-to-android ...
Blara··on 25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in less than 6 hours
When was this? I know older windows versions stored passwords in plain text... I can't remember when they switched to hashed passwords but I think it was around XP or Vista
Blara··on How Apple Avoids Paying Billions in Taxes
A better headline would be "How insert multinational coprp avoids paying billions in taxes" I'm no apple fan, but this is the norm for most (all maybe?) big corps.
Blara··on Samsung Galaxy S3 outsells iPhone 5 in UK, say new figures
How to compare? how many of phone X was sold in its first week and how many of phone Y was sold in its first week. Pretty simple. I'm not sure what the article has for numbers as I go by what I want when I buy a phone (or anything really) and not how many have been sold...
Blara··on German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show up with typewriters
Isn't that the way you should hold meetings/workshops anyway? even before the era of social networking?
Blara··on USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigged from a HTML page
Works on GN stock 4.1 too
Blara··on Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design
are there any numbers on how many people have returned their samsung/iPhone because they thought it was the other one? I've heard this argument time and time again but have yet to see any numbers on it.
Blara··on Updated iOS 6 devices don't connect to WIFI
nope, but a better fallback would probably be: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549
Blara··on What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?
There are GPS modules you can attach to your bike, if nothing else it could at least get the police interested if you say "My bike was stolen, it has a GPS and right now it is here"
Blara··on US sanctions lock Iranian gamers out of World of Warcraft
I think you forgot the Iran Iraq war. Not sure who started it but it was a war.
Blara··on Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News
And you know this for a fact how?
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