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Dan

Dan has written 391 posts for Is there food?

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

It’s always nice to be surprised. Maybe I should rephrase that: it’s always nice to be surprised by a film. These days there’s an awful lot of tired generic crap out there. Cinema with no soul, no bite, no passion. Every now and then you get low budget little movies that pop up and blow [...]

Predators

Predators is, in a nutshell, a 106 minute love letter to John McTiernan’s ’87 original. That’s a good thing and a bad thing.

links for 2010-07-01

A Ridiculous Attachment? Three iPhone 4s, three different faults. That's where I stand now. Reception issues, "No Sim" errors, and now the yellow screen blotches. Do I go back for a fourth kicking? Is three strikes enough? …

links for 2010-06-24

The iPhone 4 Experience (or "A Worm in my Apple") I get up at 3am, drive through the quiet streets into Leicester town centre to park up and head to the Apple Store. There's a queue of about 12 people. I join the queue. That good old queueing spirit …

links for 2010-06-13

How to get your Android phone to send SMS notifications to your iPad Not sure how many people fit into the Android + iPad demographic, but I thought I'd post this in the hope that someone thinks its useful, or neat. It's also a good example of what's possible on Andro …

links for 2010-06-03

iPhone 3GS to Nexus One: Day 11 – "What next?" A few things have happened in the last 6 days. Some good, some bad. Let's do the bad first. I tried to buy an app from Android's Market (note: not market place, not app store, just market). And I co …

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