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BeetleSpider

Nature’s accumulated too many costs recently, so it’s consolidating many of its species in an attempt to rein in expenditure.  First up is this BeetleSpider, with the legs and spinnerets of a spider,...

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Desperate Struggle

Update 16:41: Re-uploaded the photo as I’d stripped the EXIF data by accident. This is less a super-amazing photo I’m proud of, and more just here for the duckling factor. Can you argue with that?...

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Torchure for Android

Ever found yourself in need of a torch, but only had your phone handy?  Look no further! Torchure (for Android) is a pretty simple application.  It turns the screen white and, as default, whacks up the...

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Torchure 1.1 Released

My first Android Market update!  Hope this goes well. This update includes: A new colour! You can change the screen to red, to help preserve night vision. This makes the torch less effective, mind. To...

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Torchure 1.1.1 Released

I’ve uploaded a minor bugfix release for Torchure to the Android Market, which fixes the buggy systems preference not taking effect. Don’t remind me of the irony……

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Team orders in F1? They’re here to stay–get over it!

Just wanted to quickly chime in on the whole Ferrari one-two fiasco. I basically agree with what David Coulthard kept saying on the BBC’s extended coverage–no matter what fans or press may shout, you...

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Making Ringtones Loop on Android

Update 2012-01-06: ICS appears to have a bug where the end of the file is chopped off, so ringtones do not loop properly. If I find or hear a solution I’ll update again! Update 2010-11-09: Added...

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I’ve Been Expecting You…

I’m finally getting around to sorting out many of the photos I’ve taken over the last year, partly thanks to getting a new laptop, but probably mostly because I’m motivating myself to do so! This guy...

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Bid for Freedom

Here’s just a couple of the many toads that have recently hatched near Huntersdale at Royal Holloway, rescued from a dark, dry basement down a set of stairs much too steep for them to climb back up!

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Finding Froggy

This is for all the people who wasted their lives on Sonic Adventure trying to find Big the Cat’s best friend, Froggy.  Here he is. For the curious this is yet another of the amphibians to get...

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Descent

Time for my obligatory seagull picture. Here you can see a couple of seagulls going in for the kill — on some bread. Would they have it any other way? I’ve increased the contrast and played around with...

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Searchlight: An Android LED torch powered by the Search button

In case there aren’t enough of them out there, I’ve decided to chip in my own effort on the Android LED torch scene. In a sort of sequel to my first Android app Torchure, I have just released...

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Searchlight 1.1 released

Searchlight, my application for lighting up your world (or at least a few metres in front of you) using your Android device’s LED has been updated to 1.1. This update brings better behaviour on HTC...

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I’m Helping with a Monster Hunter Portable 3rd English Fan Translation!

Recently I’ve been helping out Team Maverick One translate Monster Hunter Portable 3rd to English!  It’s a fan translation with the aim of making the game playable in regions it was never officially...

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Searchlight 1.3 is out!

It’s been 8 months since the previous release (and I know I skipped even mentioning the previous release here!), but it’s worth it as I’ve tackled a rather serious bug that would cause the wakelock to...

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Searchlight 1.5

Looks like I forgot to write about this when I released it in February, but Searchlight 1.5 is out! The big thing this update adds is a widget that can be added to your launcher or to your lock screen...

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Searchlight 1.6

I’ve released another update to Searchlight! This one contains some experimental code for devices that use the CyanogenMod SysFS interface to toggle their light. Naturally, given it’s experimental, it...

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Fixing Gran Turismo 5’s slow loading times

Just this morning Gran Turismo 5 just out of nowhere started loading really slowly. I fixed this by signing out of PSN. It’s not ideal if you want to play online, but it’s worked for me. It should be...

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A fix for VirtualBox causing Windows host to think it’s on a public network

Have a look at Brokenwire.NET’s article on the subject. I’ll briefly mirror the instructions here: Open regedit. Search (Ctrl+F) for VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter.  Keep searching until you’re...

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Larger tab close buttons in Firefox

I’m using a Windows 8 tablet (the Linx 10 if you’re curious) and found that the close buttons in Firefox were a bit small and difficult to press. I’ve fixed this by adding the following to my...

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