I would just like to announce… you guessed it, another android app i made (in a very loose sense of the word), using AppsGeyser. It’s just a simple app that takes you to the Computer Exchange (CEX) website. CEX is a technology store that buys and sells games and gadgets.
If you want to download the app, click click here or scan the QR code below
Now you may know how much i support open source and indie programs and such. So let me tell you about something else i use. There’s a gaming platform (like Steam) for Linux (and Winblows). It’s free to download of course, and you are able to download some free and buyable games (is buyable a word?). There are quite a few games available for it, some of which i have (mainly free ones of course). My desura profile is micolps3.
Also, you may have also heard of a set of indie games called the Humble Indie Bundle. It’s a set of multi platform games where you get to choose how much you pay for them. You can pay anything from 5c to probably infinity. The average is about $5.30 if I remember right. I paid about $7.50. There’s some really brilliant and weird games included. I’d tell you, but I want you to find out for yourself.
I believe the website for that is Humble Indie Bundle.
On a not very related side note, I did a cool thing with my android phone. I changed the pixels per inch of the screen and increased the resolution of it, so I can fit more on. I could make it a lot more detailed, but at higher resolutions, the status bar goes dodgy. But it’s at a nice decent resolution now. Naturally your phone would need to be rooted for that.
So that’s enough nonsense for today. Oh, and happy new year. Toodles
I have just created my first Android app using a website called http://www.appsgeyser.com/. It simply puts a mobile website into an app form. That’s what i used to create an app that links someone to this blog. I am now researching into submitting it to the Android market.
So if you want to keep up to date without opening the quite frankly not very good Android browser (unless you have a custom ROM), then get the app.
If you want to download it now, get a barcode scanning app and scan this bad boy:
Or direct download here
So for the past couple of months, I’ve had a girlfriend. I’ve mentioned her before. The past few days she’s been in England (from Ireland) staying with me. She left yesterday. It was the best few days i’ve had in a long time. I know she’s my soul mate. We’re just similar in so many ways. We’re perfect for each other.
So she got here from Dublin on Friday (it’s Wednesday as I write this), we stayed in a hotel for a couple of nights, then went to mine and stayed there for a couple of night. I know what you’re thinking. I did want her to stay at mine the whole time, but my dad wouldn’t like that. Yeah i live with my dad unfortunately.
The hotel was average. Nothing special. There was no hot water and the clock had stopped. But we managed. She bought a relatively cheap but decent 10 inch Android tablet. See, perfect. She also hates Microsoft and Apple, just like me. Oh, on a side note, I’m sitting here in a snuggie. That is all.
I did take my PS3 to the hotel with me, but i forgot to bring a video cable, so i bought a HDMI cable from i think Argos for £5, and that didn’t work, so we had no PS3 games while we was there. Although we played a bit when we got to mine. We also watched Wall-E, Tron and Tron Legacy. And played Tony Hawk 2 and Fur Fighters on Dreamcast. And Black Ops on PS3 with my best friend Andrea and her daughter Sharon. With Tracey of course (Tracey was on the winning team).
When we went to buy Tracey’s tablet (and my HDMI cable), we went into Currys and there was an alarm going off. Turns out there was a guy trying to steal something and they’d caught him and were holding him down. Welcome to Birmingham Tracey 😀
We also watched a weird movie online. It was really weird. I won’t tell you about it. Just find an hour and a half and watch it.
Oh yeah we also had a lot of amazing sex. Especially the first night. Damn she’s one horny chick. anyway I’m hoping to go over to Dublin next month or the month after. I just want to make sure i have enough money to pay for everything i need. I don’t want her paying for anything i want. I hate when people buy things for me. I like to buy my own things.
Someone i love dearly has recently backstabbed me. That is technology. More specifically, my android phone that i love so much, my beautiful Google Nexus S, has recently had trouble charging. I’ve tried several leads and they all don’t seem to work too good. However, the normal wall charger seems to work fine, although that’s no use when i’m at work. So i took it back to where i got it, the Carphone Warehouse. The hot foreign blonde girl took it into the back for a few minutes, came back and said they need to send it off to the manufacturer. Which would take about 4 weeks. Yep, 4 WEEKS. What the fuck takes them 4 weeks?!
Anyways, i’ve had to resort to using my other android phone, my HTC Hero, which i use a bit anyway, and my even older phone, the Nokia N95. Not touch screen. Retro. I’ve also been having trouble with the Hero. The screen isn’t very good anymore. And when it’s a touch screen phone, that ins’t good. especially when you try to use the touch screen keyboard. The main problem seems to be the L on the keyboard, i can’t directly touch it. I have to touch the K and slide over to the L. Also, occasionally it randomly types letters or clicks things or zooms in/out of web pages. However, i have found a solution to the typing problem. A bluetooth keyboard. It never used to work but does now for some reason. Maybe they integrated into android 2.3.5 or they just put it into the custom rom i use. Good old Cyanogenmod.
Naturally my increased usage in my Nokia means i have to take a charger to work. It doesn’t charge over USB, luckily i have an old charger that plugs into the USB into a computer and the other end into the normal charging hole. That works fine.
One more thing that has failed me recently, in fact it;s failed a LOT of people, is Dead Island on PS3. I play it, it saves at checkpoints, i stop playing and play the next day or whatever, then when i go back, i’m back many missions earlier. and i played it for several hours one day, going through several missions, hoping there were like more major checkpoints it saves at, but no, i’m still back loads of missions. So i’m not playing it again until there’s an update.
And you all know about the PS3 backup that failed to restore properly (or back up properly), assuming you read that post. So yeah, technology hates me. AFTER ALL I’VE DONE FOR IT! ALL I’VE EVER DONE IS LOVE YOU!
I’m going to eat ice cream and watch The Notebook while i cry
Ok, so for those of you that haven’t read my profile, here are a few things about me.
I… am Michael. Shocking right? I’m 26, I live in Birmingham, England. i do have the accent. I have a girlfriend. Her name is Tracey, she’s 31, from Ireland. I’ll tell you more about her in another post.
I currently work part time in a call centre in Birmingham city centre. It pays decent, but i want to work somewhere i actually enjoy. It’s not a bad place, but the work is quite repetitive.
I’m a geek. I like lots of computer and technology related things. You know i’m a geek when i’m the person people go to when they have problems with their computer. I’m also a linux user. I’m against Apple and Microsoft and i only use them when i have to. Like at work. I prefer to use free, open source software as opposed to buying stuff. No point if you can get it for free, right?
I’m also a gamer. Not just modern games. But old ones. I have some pretty old games consoles, the oldest is an Amiga 500. I also have an Amiga 1200, a Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast. And dome more modern ones like PS3, PSP… that’s all 😀
I also have 2 Android phones. a HTC Hero and a Google Nexus S. I also have an Android tablet, An Asus Transformer. With the dock. It’s awesome. They all are. Except the Hero.
anyway that’s enough geekiness from me. Have any questions, ask. Follow my blog. All that shiznit. I don’t remember if i told you my youtube account. I think so, but just in case i didn’t it’s http://www.youtube.com/user/micol19 and my Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/micol25.
That’s enough blabbering from me, see ya next time.
I’m currently typing this on my android phone. it doesn’t seem to work very well with it so i should remember to go on it on my computer when i get home.
ok well I’m out of things to say now. when I’m on a computer I’ll use better grammar and punctuation. i just cant be bothered on mobile. next time i’ll tell you more about myself. also i have a youtube account on youtube.com/user/micol19 (i think).
Have fun and no rioting!
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