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Doctor Who, Creature from the Pit

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Another Tom Baker DVD added to my collection. Certainly not the best story, but ok I guess. A shame really as the episodes on either side were really good.

Never mind. One step closer to a full set I suppose.

Hello Einstein

Posted by on in Tech

Einstein running on Android. So far I haven’t been able to do much with it as it’s so slow, but I’ll keep at it and see how I get on with it.

Running iziBasic and ViziBasic under StyleTap

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So today is my last day of using the StyleTap trial. I knew that I’d have to get the last bit of testing done today to see if I could use iziBasic and ViziBasic on the emulator. The short answer? You can. In fact, in some ways they work better, especially in terms of being able to zoom the screen, which is very handy when you’re not using a stylus.

So I ran a ‘generate code and compile’, from Vizibasic, and that worked fine, and a compile from iziBasic and that worked too. All systems go then. Looks like I’ll be buying StyleTap after all!

Tasker makes Android completely awesome

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I’ve been messing around with Tasker for a few days now, and I have to say that it is one very good reason to move completely to Android. Tasker is so flexible and modular that it can do pretty much anything in terms of automating an Android device.

If there was a Tasker like app for iOS it would be a massive seller, but of course it doesn’t fit with the whole sandbox approach from Apple. Big big shame.

I found myself seriously considering a move to Android away from the iPhone on my next contract renewal, and if Apple don’t pull something stupendous out of the bag with the iPhone 5 I might just do it.

I’ll post some of my Tasker automations soon too, then you’ll see what I mean.

Remembering Mick

Posted by on in People

One year ago today the world lost an amazing musician. Mick Karn. He was too young, much too young.

Mick’s music was an inspiration to so many, me included. His music lives on and I’ll be listening to a few of his albums later this week and posting some thoughts on them. If you don’t know Mick Karn’s music then stay tuned as you’re going to find some amazing music to listen to soon.

I can’t believe it was a year ago he passed away.

Einstein on Android

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I only discovered today that there’s a relatively stable port of Einstein the Newton emulator, available for Android 2.2, so I’m going to try and get it running on my newly rooted San Francisco which could be very cool indeed!

RJC1000 doesn’t work on Lion

Posted by on in Creative Process, Tech

That’s pretty much all I can say about that really. I was thinking about making my own scenes and remembered RJDJ’s RJC1000 application for the mac. I’d tinkered around with it before but not to any serious degree, so I thought I’d give it a try again, but it won’t load properly in Lion, so I may have to try running it on Leopard on my old mac mini.

Not ideal, but I can’t see RJDJ updating it any time soon as they’re too busy with loads of other stuff. Not that I’m complaining you understand.

New RJDJ scenes

Posted by on in Listening, Tech

I tried out a couple of new RJDJ scenes today. I hadn’t noticed them before. They are:

  • I site & hide
  • Norra Vinter

The first one I wasn’t too impressed with as it was more of a thing to promote the artist, which is fine, but not for me really. The other one is a bit more interesting, but I haven’t had enough time to get into it properly as yet. Once I’ve spent a little more time with it I’ll write a bit more about  it. Even so, it’s nice to find some more scenes to play with.

I should really get on with writing one of my own shouldn’t I.