Blog of Ian Parr

I think the recent spat of patent infringment claims (Nokia -> Apple -> HTC) is a real indication of Apples concern about the challenges to the iPhone and forthcoming iPad.
Popular opinion is that Apple is trying to get at Google through HTC, perhaps perceived as a softer target. Part of me agrees with this but [...]

Got one of these weather stations for my birthday earlier this week:

Bought from Maplin (code N96FY) its known as the USB wireless weather forecaster. I believe its also sold by others under different names such the watson W8681 (or W-8681) but they all seem to be manufactured by Chinese company Fine Offset Electronics with a [...]

Simple way to find out is to:
1. enter the Android marketplace on your phone
2. select the MENU key
3. select My Downloads
You’ll get a (perhaps long) list of applications and their publishers.
If you find a rogue application you can touch and hold the application in question from the list and then select ‘uninstall’

Just reposting the link to an old set of instructions I wrote for upgrading the Operating system on the Akai S3200XL sampler.
Available here
I still have some version 2.0 EPROMs availble – if anyone is interested, drop me a line.
The process allows you to upgrade your Akai sampler from 1.* versions to version 2.0. This emables [...]

Bought a couple of these from PCWorld for £139.97 each – pretty cheap for a 2TB unit – in fact, its cheaper than buying the bare internal drive unit alone.
Bit of a job to open the unit up but inside its fitted with the WD20EADS model. This is a single 2TB unit with 32MB cache, [...]