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Site Newsletter – May 2010

May 3rd, 2010 by Chris | No Comments | Filed in Technology

Well the site has been going almost 5 months and what a great time we have had, thanks to the great support of the readers.

Since the site launched we have had 19,833 visits with an amazing 37,058 page views. I think for a new site in its infancy it seems to be going very well.

We are always looking for ways to make the site a better experience for you so if you have any problems, questions or just want a general moan you can contact us via our Contact Page. Also if you have an idea for an article let us know and it may just get published by one of our writers.

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Tags: Chris Lowthian, News Letter, Page Rank, Site Links, Twitter, Vidahost

Dismantling the Apple iPad 3G – Who would do such a thing?

May 2nd, 2010 by Chris | No Comments | Filed in Technology

technology Dismantling the Apple iPad 3G Who would do such a thing? As you will probably agree, the last thing you would want to do after un-boxing your brand new shiny Apple iPad 3G is start to dismantle it. Well the team over at ifixit have done just that, to let us see the inner workings of the new tablet by Apple.

It goes without saying that you will instantly loose your warranty if you are crazy enough to do this yourself so you should just look at the pretty pictures here instead.

The information here may come in handy in a years time when your iPad is out of warranty though so feel free to bookmark this page for future reference.

Below you can see a few images of the iPad 3G in its many pieces, along with a list of internal parts and changes between the iPad Wi-Fi and the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G.

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Tags: apple, Apple iPad, iPad, iPad 3G, iPad Dismantle, iPad Wi-Fi, iPad Wi-Fi + 3G

Android Now Running on Apple iPhones

May 2nd, 2010 by Chris | No Comments | Filed in Technology

technology Android Now Running on Apple iPhones Just the thought of having an iPhone to start with gets me all excited, in fact I have been saving for what seems forever and I still don’t have one. But that’s enough of me and my wish list.

But now the stakes are higher, due to some amazing programmer who has done something that some people thought was impossible. He has managed to install android on an Apple iPhone.

What makes this even better is the fact you can dual boot thanks to a Boot Loader called OpeniBoot. You simply turn on your iPhone and you get to choose which OS you want to load either iPhone or Android, now that is very clever!

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Tags: Android, apple, dual boot, google, hack, iphone, iPhone OS, kernel, Linux, OpeniBoot, OS, Software

Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 3G gets Jailbroken on Day of Release

May 1st, 2010 by Chris | No Comments | Filed in Technology

technology Apple iPad Wi Fi + 3G gets Jailbroken on Day of Release Well I won’t be buying an iPad myself as I think they are over priced for what they are (just a pretty eReader). OK maybe I would if the iPad supported flash and I waited a while for all the bugs to be sorted out. But anyway that’s not really what I wanted to talk about.

I wanted to talk about Jail Breaking the iPad, everyone thought I would be possible and it was. But now on the day of release of the Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 3G it too has been jail broken. It was done just as easy as the iPad base model (iPad Wi-Fi).

This probably won’t surprise allot of people but others were having doubts about the same hack working on the Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 3G model.

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Tags: apple, Apple iPad, iPad, iPad Jailbreak, iPad Wi-Fi, iPad Wi-Fi + 3G

Topup TV Engineers Menu

December 20th, 2009 by Chris | No Comments | Filed in Technology

technology Topup TV Engineers Menu

After purchasing a Topup TV Digital Recorder about 9 months ago, I have been researching my box a little and found out the Hard Drive is simply a normal Maxtor Hard Drive which you can find in most computers. The standard drive in the box was a 160gb drive so this got removed pretty quick and I replaced it with a 250gb Maxtor Hard Drive.

I have also discovered a Secret Engineers Menu. I take it this will be the same for all Topup TV boxes.

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Tags: Digital TV, DTR, Freeview, Topup TV