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Re: Dear Apple: deleting your users’ apps without notification is rude and arrogant

nickayre — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:10:10 -0000

You tried comparing this to skype being deleted or photoshop being replaced. But this app was supplied by Apple in the first place, annoyingly it was forced onto your phone. Therefore its a feature of the operating system, they are removing a feature, this feature happened to be an app.

Re: First Person WW2

nickayre — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:17:45 -0000

Did any one feel at 1:36 when he killed the three guys at the tank he killed them in the wrong order. Video game instincts kicked in. Guy on the left then the guy in black finally the guy on top.

Re: Canon 5D Mark III finally announced

nickayre — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:23:52 -0000

Yes, when you look at other options such as the red epic you're looking at 9 grand or 20 grand with all the parts to make is usable then other options it just goes higher and higher from there. The 5D puts out nearly cinema quality video for a very small fraction of the price than we were used for getting cinema like quality.

Re: See what an NBN fibre installation really looks like

nickayre — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:12:45 -0000

The NBN box is not a router, it just supplies 4 ethernet ports where you can have 4 different connections but you need to either put a router or connect one computer directly.

Re: Engadget Distro's first special edition traces the origins of the iPhone 4S

nickayre — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:59:56 -0000

I'd like to note, the people that are reading this magazine at the moment are the same people that read Engadget few times or more a week. We don't need 9 pages on a review of a product that has been around longer enough that we have watched all the videos, read all the comments and probably event personally tried it. I read the pages leading up to the 4s review (which I liked) but I didn't bother reading the rest. This is the first issue of distro I have read but if they are all just rewriting top stories from around the web, it's not even going to get off the ground, having the same problem that magazines of today have, the stories are old but the time it gets to the readers hands. The whole point of sites like engadget is that you are able to quickly send out news before any other type of medium. Like I said, I haven't read any of the other issues of distro but the only way the magazine is going to be interesting is maybe rounding up gadgets from the week or month, (i don't know how often you create issues) and talking about why they are interesting and what they mean for future other editorials, if you want to include information about devices you either should put a link or it needs to be a section of the magazine not in the spotlight.

Re: Top 5 reasons to jailbreak your iPad or iPad 2

nickayre — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:56:38 -0000

I have been jailbreaking my iphone and ipad since my 3g, I wouldn't even know what you would have to do to brick it. If you stuff anything you just restore. Pretty sure bricking of idevices was during the early days.

Re: This is why we need a FTTH NBN [Video]

nickayre — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:53:06 -0000

It's good that they have a proper idea of what people want to do with the NBN, I think the key thing to take away from that video is that they know people will want to use lots of data it's not just about having a fat pipe.

Re: Seagate starts shipping pencil-thin $99 GoFlex Slim hard drive

nickayre — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:33:23 -0000

Did you read "40MB/sec when attached to a USB 3.0 system" USB 3.0 system being the keywords

Re: Tsunami Victim: Dog Rescued After 3 Weeks Adrift [VIDEO]

nickayre — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:02:44 -0000

I just did, wikipedia and two of the dictionary sites said it's pieces of rock or stone.

Re: 112 Electric cars were sold in Australia in 2010

nickayre — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:09:42 -0000

I fell in love with the Tesla when I found out it has a range of over 400km. Evo electric would be pretty cool as well, well a lot of cars would be cool in an electric version. The Mercedes sls electric is amazing, tad heavy tho.

Re: 112 Electric cars were sold in Australia in 2010

nickayre — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:26:58 -0000

I want the Tesla

Re: The software update merry-go round. When can I get off?

nickayre — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:34:27 -0000

If and issue does arise with an update, what's the procedure to correct it? Do you roll back the machines? Is that possible?

Re: Review: Coles Online. Is it time you bought groceries online ?

nickayre — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:52:34 -0000

Generally they lower prices in store to get you to actually to come into the store. Once your in they assume (and assume correctly) that you will buy other things by looking around. This is why Woolworth's sell 30 pack coke at a loss because they factor in the other things you will buy while you are in the store.

Re: Will iOS4.3’s Wi-Fi hotspot kill the 3G iPad ?

nickayre — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:59:48 -0000

Not for me. Reason being is because my iphone is jsilbroken and I can already create a wi-fi hotspot. Both my iPad and phone are with telstra. On my phone I get 500mb and on my iPad I get 3gig for 30 dollars and because it's prepaid I don't have to pay it every month. (though I do because usually I'll have a gig left and it will expire otherwise)

I guess it all comes down to the data. How much you have of it on your phone. I guess another issue I think of is that I use my iPad on the train ride to Sydney which is about an hour twenty. I assume that would really hurt my iPhone battery and a full day in Sydney normally hurts my iPhone's battery to begin with.

Like with everything it's depended on the users situation and how they use their product.

Re: Motorola ATRIX promo video. Beware, you will want this.

nickayre — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:15:21 -0000

So very cool. Tho I would find it hard to buy it. 1. Because I am not 100% sure it's ready and I think something like this will need at least 2nd gen. 2. I would find it hard to move away from IOS as I have spent so much money on the app store.

Re: Hands-on: Ford Rally Simulator

nickayre — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:15:30 -0000

Looks like the same device they had the at the Sydney Int Motor Show, but instead of a rally game they had some thing advertising the Ford Ranger which was kinda lame. When it crashed it took some where around 2 hours to reload.

Re: USB 3.0 for Mac review and benchmarks (with a LaCie 2big USB 3.0)

nickayre — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:18:35 -0000

Last time I checked they were reviewing the drive, not the controller card.

Re: Steve Jobs on Xserve: Hardly Anyone Was Buying Them

nickayre — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:26:21 -0000

The thing about them is that they were too expensive compared to Dell and HP and because they don't have many benefits over running Linux on a Dell there is no point. Only good for managing a bunch of macs which can easily be done using a Mac mini or if needed a Mac pro.

Re: Sony introduce first consumer Video-SLR

nickayre — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:38:57 -0000

This camera kinda seems like a video camera interring the dlsr market. Only kinda tho, mainly because of that 7fps 14mp still mode. Besides that, this camera looks really nice. I would like to see what kind of IO it has. I don't think audio in is a problem now a days but video out in the form of those little round screw connectors would be a plus. RGB connectors I think they are.

EDIT: no the plugs are called BNC connectors.

Re: VidCon 2010 is YouTube-only

nickayre — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:43:14 -0000

The event was run by the vlog brothers well at least thought of by them and apparent it was all organized from idea to the actual day in 6 months. I assume the vlog brothers knew other youtubers and just asked them if they wanted to be apart of it. From what I saw in videos, it didn't seem like much. It was just youtubers going up on stage and doing a bit and the rest was just a fan fest. Personally I only heard of it few weeks ago because shaycarl and Charles from ctfxc mentioned it but I think even at the time they didn't know much about it. Even the on stage projection and things didn't seem very professional. I think next year will be very different and yes there will be a next year because I assume they cashed in from this.

Re: Epic Hero is Epic

nickayre — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:07:43 -0000

Combination is epic but I think it's more amazing that the train actually stopped.

Re: Leaving the toilet seat cover down

nickayre — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:12:24 -0000

I never put the cover down unless a guest is over or something but it's very rare ill ever drop my iphone.

But my question to you is, has the toilet cover being down ever saved anything? Even tho you said you never take anything near it, has anything ever hit the top of toilet cover?

Re: Microsoft Office 2010 site launches

nickayre — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:49:01 -0000

The ribbon interface is popular? I hate it.

Re: Google Chrome OS announced, not released, take a breath.

nickayre — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:03:14 -0000

I have been thinking about this and I don't think this is just another OS like windows, OS X and ubuntu. But for the same reason no time soon are we going to stop using windows or os x. It's going to be google chrome running by it's self with some kind of widget desktop and I don't think it's success is going to be wether google can pull it off, it's wether 1. if we are ready for this 2. Is the internet ready for this and 3. Are web Apps ready for this. My answer to these 3 points are no, but if you asked me if we were ready for the iphone before it was shown off I would of said no. Because I had never used a phone like that. I had never installed apps on a phone. Never had a phone that was powerful enough to do anything like that. Now this could be the same case for google's OS, most people have never used the internet in the way google is suggesting and I think because of this web apps will become more rich and I think a platform like adobe air may come into play on this OS and as for the internet well in australia I don't think we are going anywhere any time soon. I know I know about ruddys plan and the new cable but.... I dunno that could be the deciding factor about how well it will do in aus.

OK im going to stop writing now. I think ill write my own blog post about this. Maybe the first post for my blog.