Making Android a useful life tool

I’ve been using Android for about three months now after getting my HTC Tattoo and for the first two and a half months it basically involved trying to make it do what I want. It isn’t the greatest mobile phone in the world but it is small and has all the functionality I need from a phone.

 

Give me iPlayer back on my Android phone

The first thing I did when I got my new HTC Tattoo earlier this year was open the browser and visit the BBC iPlayer site – it was great – I could watch iPlayer videos without a problem. Then I discovered BeebPlayer which made the whole process easier and much more user friendly than trying to navigate a full browser site on a mobile phone.

 

Is embarrassing parents TG video viral?

Not long ago in my first Top Gear series 15 preview post I included a video of some very embarrassing parents shouting about Top Gear as they passed the presenter in their car on the motorway. The Top Gear presenters were driving cars turned into caravans – something we’ll see in the new series – starting June 27th.

 

A device for every purpose and then some

To fully understand this post you’ll need to appreciate that I’m a geek and so have the normal geek armoury hanging off my shoulder more or less everywhere I go. Within that I have a camera, two mobile phones (one for calls one for internet), a NDS, a book, a notebook, a netbook, a video camera, an audio recording device and a few other bits and pieces. That’s the reason I have [...]