I'm off on holiday with my Mrs to Tunisia for a week on Sunday. Have been looking forward to it for a good 2 months so it will be nice to have a break by the pool.

I got my Nexus One back from being repaired and it is well stocked up with audio books and music for the trip. Will be interesting to see how the battery fares when listening to audio books through earphones for a prolonged amount of time, good job I got a spare really haha. By the way, sny Nexus One users who would find a spare battery useful can still buy them over at the HTC accessories store. That's the one I have and it had come in handy on many occasions.

Whilst we're on the subject of Android, download the VR Tunnel live wallpaper. It is awesome, make sure you keep the accelerometer option on for 3D craziness. Also, the new Google Voice Actions for Android 2.2 are pretty cool, though the sending emails/texts, setting alarms, music and 'note to self' functionality seems to be missing from the UK version at the moment :(. Is it that hard to add our accents in??

Get Extended Controls too, should be a native app in my opinion.

Squarespace released an update for HTML Snippets which means I now have Twitter and Facebook share links at the top of each post on this blog - yey! :) If you're reading and you want to share it, give em a click!

Things will probably be pretty quiet on my Twitter whilst I'm away because roaming charges are a wopping £6 a megabyte... so unless the hotel has decent wifi, see you on the other side ;)

Happy Friday,

-Ben

Evening all, some stuff for thee.

Astdroid

Astdroid, the Kickstarter project I posted about before, got its funding together and is going ahead. Danny and I emailed the TWiT network and got it mentioned on This Week in Google which was awesome. You can follow his progress here.

Nexus One

My Nexus One broke :( The power button became really unresponsive to the point where I could barely use it so its off getting repaired at the moment. Kudos to HTC's repair people, was a 5 minute phone call and they picked it up the next day. Getting major withdrawal now though, this sucks.

Android App Inventor

I got access to Android App Inventor today, but alas I have no phone to try it out with... can't wait though. Shouldn't think it will replace real Android development though.

Inception

Go and see Inception. One of the best films I have ever seen, Children of Men is still number one though ;)

That's all I can think of for now, I leave you with some funnies.

-Ben

Happy New Year to you all,

As I’m sure you’ve all seen, Google is now selling the gorgeous Nexus One android phone with its stunning AMOLED screen and 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

Needless to say - I desperately want one - but how much will it cost in total to get one shipped to the UK? On the Google site they say taxes will apply but they don’t say how much, so here is a calculator I made in Google Docs that should give you a pretty accurate total price based on Google Finance’s exchange rate at the time you visited this page:

£420 (at time of writing) isn’t bad for an unlocked Smartphone with those specs considering the iPhone 3GS is around the £800 mark.

Now all you have to do is decide what network to go with, I’m looking at Orange and O2 currently, let me know what you decide if you buy one in the comments,

-Ben

Hey readers and Twitter followers and people who read my blog on Facebook but never comment (I know you're there :P I have statisticals!)

I have some sad news - I am turning my job hunt to Games Testing and Q&A :(
I still of course want to program and design, but finding a job in the industry is proving near impossible for a graduate with no experience and I have applied to loads of companies that haven't even replied! So, here's my new plan:

• Get into Q&A
• Earn some money
• Work on projects in my spare time and get more stuff out there + bumlick
• Get into programming/design
• Earn money++

Super depressing but my pockets are very, very empty.

In other news I've sold lots of stuff on eBay recently to try and make some cash. Got lots of stuff yet to go on but I have learned 2 things about eBay - 1.Its all in the shipping fee and 2.The eBay Turbo Lister is a terrible piece of software, but its still a lot faster than listing things directly on eBay.

Those of you who are android users, I've just started using Touchpal as my replacement on-screen keyboard for when I'm walking or whatever and it is really, really good. Switch it to the mode pictured below and you will love it :D - if you're reading on your phone click here to get it on the market and here for the English language pack.

BTW if you're a FriendFeed user my blog now supports "PubSubHubbub" so it means as soon as I post it will appear instantaneously (whoa spelt that right first time :P) in your FriendFeed and other sites when they support it (Google Reader soon apparently).

Still loving SquareSpace, especially their stats and search engine management systems. Apparently if you do a search for "screaming narwhal carla" (see You Fight Like A Dairy Farmer) on Google I'm the 2nd result!! Lmao, that is awesome, hi Monkey Island speculators!

Have a good tenth of August,
Much love,

-Ben