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Nov
17

So I went into the app store and had a quick look at the free apps, guess what I saw? Yeah title gave it away. I am on the app as you are reading! It’s very basic does what it says on the tin, typing to so easy on re iPhone with speedy auto correct for widethumbed typos! See there it goes again!

It has a built in image uploaded so I can snap pictures from the phones camera and put the
straight on this blog, I’ll show you at the botttom!

What may not seem a lot on your screens it’s a bloody load in typing on this 5 inch screen (rob correct me if I’m wrong) my thumbs are sore from the speedy typing I can even touch type on this to a certain extent!

Nov
16

Everyone knows about it by now. The old and the new versions, the pile of firmware updates and of course the unlocking and jailbreaking!

I have the first generation iPhone with the 2.1 firmware installed on it. But Vodafone do not have the iPhone on any of their contracts right? seeing as though i already have a Vodafone contract at £17 a month I really didnt want to pay any more and start with a whole new number and all that.

As a gift my iPhone was brought for me because of the drop in price now the 3G had come out. Rushing to my local O2 and car phone warehouse shops I picked one up.

When i got mine it was in the days of the 1.1.4 firmware when Zibri’s unlock and jailbreak was most popular. I had some fun with my phone, did repeated hacks on it, Skinned it changed the ring tones everything!

Then the 3G was announced with 2.0 firmware and the App store. I had to have in on that! As soon as the jailbreak was out for windows i jumped in. Winpwn-ed it, Created an itunes store account and tried out some apps.

Surfing youtube for interesting videos on the iPhone i came across a hack which enabled cracked applications. Without divludging into to much detail Ill leave it there.

Ive gotta say its the best phone i have used, Its easy to use, user Friendly and the community of hackers and modders is outstanding!

Below are some Screenies of my phone with skins and apps

Nov
15

Probably not the best know of punk rock bands but they are one of the best!

A funny looking photo i must say

A funny looking photo i must say

Wiki quote:

“Lagwagon is an American punk rock band originally based in Goleta, located just outside Santa Barbara, California. Their name is derived from the band’s old tour van, which can been seen on the reverse of the Trashed album. The band has 10 releases through Fat Wreck Chords: seven studio albums, one EP, one live album and a collection of B-sides”

Of course everyone has they music tastes. As well as this music kicking ass their lyrics are not just the same generic Pop Idol crap you hear nowadays. Its hard to explain the point i am getting across here but…go listen to them and you’ll see what I am on about.

Thanks to my older brother i have been able to get hold of all of they’re music, I acquired the more recent albums they have released, But when it came to be searching for their first and second released albums I was stuck, couldn’t find it anywhere. Not in shops not on the Internet…Then one day after networking a DVD drive on a laptop around my network (why not?) I searched my CD rack to test some stuff out, I found “MP3 Back up 1/3/2003 No2″ Lowe behold the two Lagwagon albums were on that disk! I was over the moon!

Nov
15

With my current lack of…oh whats the word? MONEY. I haven’t been able to preorder or purchase Left for dead on the PC. £10 is all i have. As well as my PC being out of a Graphics card (Cooked it) I am reduced to the Intel based on board graphics processor, which in all fairness does what it is meant to do I shall not knock it!

But with the technological wonder that is the Xbox 360 and the Microsoft Market Place I have been able to download the acclaimed Left 4 dead(mo) Get it? Left 4 deadmo? Demo? Dead? aah you suck!

At a whopping 1.2 gig for a game demo I was very pleased with what I has been waiting 2 hours for! (cheap ass Internet connection)

For those of whom do not know: Left 4 Dead is a new zombie survival horror game from the game developer Valve (the guys who brought you Half Life 1,2 Portal and Team Fortress) With the amazing Source physics engine running the game with Valves superb HDR and fancy image rendering software Left 4 Dead will be an amazing game

The demo involves you trying to escape from hoards of zombies in all shapes and sizes through 2 levels. You are given a choice of 2 weapons at the start which soon get replaced by more loud, faster and heavier weapons.

The AI of the zombies and the 3 other characters you play with is outstanding, for example if you close a door behind you the zombies will smash their way through, Or if you close one they will smash through the one at the other end of the corridor (happened to me in the bathroom) Not to mention when you stray away from you companions. The game realises this and sends in the stray Hunter zombie to pick you off. Very clever indeed

To bring this quick mini talk about the Left 4 Dead demo, Witches. Zombified girls or women who are super fast, super agile and super Strong. You can tell them a mile away. The music goes quiet, you hear a girl sobbing into her hands, your team mates tell you to turn off your flashlight. You creep up to her to take her out…and BOOM! she goes screaming and clawing away at you before you can blink, Ive tried throwing bombs, Molotov cocktails at her even sending in another team mate to do my dirty work. She is a tough bitch to take down ill tell you that!

Ugly Bitch aint she?!

Ugly Bitch ain't she?!

For those who are still unsure of Left 4 Dead. Think resident evil, 28 days later, Dawn of the dead and Half life 2 all mixed into one brain munching experience. By far the first demo which has left me saying “I want this game NOAW!”

www.l4d.com/

www.left4dead411.com/

Campbell

Nov
15

A student living in the South East of England, does the daily drive to school, does coursework, homework and exams. Sitting in front of the computer for the best part of the week, playing the xbox and fixing more than my fair share of computer problems with computers around the house. Or even those in Spain (That one time)

I have a handful of freinds loyal and true, those local and those across the globe made with the glory of VOIP and XBL. I’ll meet you guys in real life some day!

I like music as much as the next guy, can’t play and instrument hope to some day. Genres: Heavy, power and death metal with the occasion of Punk rock and Thrash. More posts to come on the bands and facts…

I think you’ve heard enough about me for now!

Nov
15

Hello, this is my first blog entry. I am still deciding on what exactly the blog will entail…because of who I am  it will be either about gadgets, gaming or films. Perhaps the odd satrical joke here and there about current events!