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reckon it's not honeycomb, which is a little silly. Whatever it is, they're apparently stocking it.
Posts by Alex Walsh
530 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Oct 2007
HTC takes a flyer on tablets
Acer shows laptop lid look tablet
Pink Floyd guitarist pays McKinnon's health bills
D-Link Boxee Box DSM-380 media streamer
Monday 14th February 2011 11:35 GMT
plenty of alternatives but...
AC Ryan have just released their PlayOn!2 hardware, Asus Oplay! is pretty good at decoding and then there's obviously the WDLive box. The thing Boxee has over all of these is its frontend. It actually has a UI that a non techie can use, which is pretty much its USP.
Check out reviews for other media streamers and most of them are criticised (on here or on Trusted Reviews) for the UI.
I think the boxee meets a need personally (or otherwise I wouldn't have bought one). I came to it from XBMC on a soft modded Xbox. Unlike all the other streamers out there, you can more or less try before you buy by installing it on a home computer first. I also like the way I can have a separate profile for the kids, which doesn't show any of the inappropriate content to them.
It is probably a bit pricey for what it does atm, but the hardware looks fairly future proof IMHO.
Don’t Look Now hailed top Brit movie
Fort Wayne officials refuse to slap Harry Baals on public building
Creative Ziio 7in Android tablet
Republican reps push for mandatory gun ownership
Wednesday 2nd February 2011 15:51 GMT 
Hmmm
It makes sense I suppose since every time someone massacres a bunch of innocents in the USA, the gun lobby jump around saying the disaster could have been averted if more people had been carrying guns in the vicinity so they could have shot the bloke part way into his rampage.
Of course this ignores the chaos that half a dozen people pulling guns and firing wildly would have on what would already be a chaotic situation but there you go...
Samsung Android tablet sales smaller than thought
Chinese 'repurpose' Top Gun footage
HTC 7 Trophy smartphone
Who are the biggest electric car liars - the BBC, or Tesla Motors?
Bond 23 back on track for 2012
Huawei S7 7in Android tablet
Ion readies book scanner for e-book buffs
RIM reveals 4G PlayBook plans
Cowon iAudio X7 hard drive PMP
Garmin tells iPhone users where to go
Missile defence FAIL: US 'kill vehicle' space weapon flunks test
'Blitzer' railgun already 'tactically relevant', boasts maker
Asus Eee PC 1015PEM
Naked cemetery man was simply photographing orbs
T-Mobile tots up cost of £199 iPad 3G
Monday 13th December 2010 16:43 GMT
Whatever...
...its used for, it doesn't make sense saddling yourself with a 2 year contract on a device about to be replaced.
Personally, £429 for a wifi only device, £120 for a Mifi with 12gigs of data on 3 (expires after 12 months if not used, then a tenner a month on top ups), looks a better deal, even if the upfront cost is substantially higher.
Channel Five to air Walking Dead
Alan Sugar's 'cockup braindead in call centre clueless' BT row
Gran Turismo 5
Friday 3rd December 2010 14:31 GMT
Brave?
Try reading GamesRadars review (http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/gran-turismo-5/review/gran-turismo-5-review/a-20101125101232492010/g-20070711154452396099).
Or Stuart Campbells hilarious exposee of Eurogamers review (http://wosblog.podgamer.com/2010/11/24/the-unspoken-truth-about-gran-turismo-5/)
I purchased the original GT on the Playstation on import. GT5 is years late (supposed to be a launch game) and still not up to scratch. It's tarnished the image IMHO.
People's Republic says it will purge self of illicit software
Gear4 UnityRemote
Iran admits cyberattack hit nuke programme
Sharp Aquos LC-32LE210E 32in LCD TV
WTF is... up with e-book pricing?
Friday 26th November 2010 09:35 GMT
Its a problem
This is something I've written about a fair amount on my blog. The deep discounting of hardbacks means it's often cheaper to buy the hardback on release (for example the last Dan Brown was an eye-watering £4 cheaper in hardback than Kindle ebook on Amazon at launch)
I've read Stotts analysis and don't particularly agree with it, it doesn't tie up with my knowledge of the publishing industry. At the moment the vast majority of cost of production with an ebook has already been incurred with the hardcopy. The only other costs are minimal. I think the big issue is how they are allocating existing costs against the ebook- this is how they justify the moronic price that is stopping mass adoption.
Currently the publishers are stuffing the authors up with ebook royalties anyway and we know from an incredibly honest blog post that a NYT charting "dark fantasy writer's book can make an author....as much as $50,000.
And now the piracy fears has got going- volume 13 of the Wheel of Time has been out 3 weeks but the ebook delayed until the end of Jan to stop piracy.
Anyway, you can see my take on it all here:
http://www.iamcurrentlyreading.co.uk/2010/07/01/ebooks-ereaders-prices-going-forward-and-stuff/
Gamers demand CoD: Black Ops money back
Friday 26th November 2010 10:36 GMT
pffft
A turbo charged 2.0l petrol engined Mitsubishi Evo can out perform a 6l yank muscle car- straight comparisons are meaningless in terms of numbers.
If you read the almost endless Digital Foundry comparisons on Eurogamer.net, you'll see there are a tiny handful of multiformat games that run better on the PS3 than the Xbox 360. And that from a site that loves Sony (and even runs a paid for Sony sponsored site). Empirical evidence rather than hardware theory rules the day.
Sex abuse fax leak costs council £100k
Wednesday 24th November 2010 11:30 GMT
Awesome
In a time when councils are facing budget cuts of an unprecedented level, why not fine Herts CC £100,000, which no doubt will force them to make another couple of people redundant or cut some other service.
Tax payers in Herts contribute more per head in terms of council tax and business rates than any other authority. All of this goes in to a central pot which then gets allocated out...giving Herts CC one of the lowest allocations per head in the country. So it's unfair to start with.
Yes, Herts CC need to be punished for this cock up but how does a penalty which will no doubt directly affect the residents help? Criminal negligence sounds a better bet, go after the dept head as that's fairer on us residents!
Apple MacBook Air 11.6in sub-notebook
Tuesday 23rd November 2010 15:50 GMT
aside from..
...problems with internal components like logic boards etc that you see mac forums cluttered up with all the time?
Theres plenty of comments floating around about screen issues with the Air too.
Heck, there's even http://www.appledefects.com which documents the faults on all Apple machines.
My iMac lasted all of an hour before I boxed it up and took it back to John Lewis for replacement. The DVD drive didn't work.
Ten... sub-£50 budget MP3 players
Has CERN made the VATICAN ANTIMATTER BOMB for real?*
Friday 19th November 2010 09:56 GMT
Below 1k
Lewis, if the boffins at CERN can't get below 1 degree Kelvin, they need to have a chat with the boffins at the ultra low temperature physics dept at my old University- Lancaster. They've got into the micro Kelvin range:
http://www.physics.lancs.ac.uk/research/condmatt/ult/dilut.htm
Silly boffins, they should have popped along the road to Morecambe, it's even colder there.
Virgin demands ISPs end broadband speed 'con'
Thursday 18th November 2010 12:21 GMT
Oh I know that
but its still irritating that you can download a large file from dropbox in minutes but have to leave the machine running for hours to upload something similar. It's time the marketing swizz of download tunnel vision is looked at IMHO. I don't use P2P but there are legitimate consumer uses for reasonable upload speeds now days- you tube, picasa, online back ups etc, all at a speed that's incredibly sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
Whilst it's no doubt in the terms and conditions, it really is getting to be not fit for purpose in the rich content age.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
