tyrion

tyrion responded to the thread Scheduled community meetings

December 10, 2007 at 5:47 pm

"Saturday or Sunday are easier, I could stay up till 2/3 here on a Friday or Saturday night which wouldn't be too late for ye..."

tyrion responded to the thread Scheduled community meetings

December 7, 2007 at 5:05 am

"19:00-21:00 GMT?"

tyrion commented on 2 items

Commented on Sorapot Modern Teapot

November 21, 2007 at 6:34 am

"If the heat is dissipated to the metal handle will it be hard/hot to hold?"

Commented on Nokia N95

November 21, 2007 at 5:43 am

"I may be biased tword Symbian, but this Device looks very nice. One of the things I like most about it is third party application support (which the iPhone utterly fails at currently). You can hook up your Slingbox setup, or use ControlFreak to manage WinAmp over bluetooth, or use WirelessIRC for IRC+Twitter on the go. more

tyrion updated iRex iLiad

November 21, 2007 at 6:30 am

Agreed: "Can run open-source and third-party applications"

Chose iRex iLiad over Sony Reader PRS-500

Chose iRex iLiad over Bookeen Cybook Gen3

tyrion updated 2 products

Updated Nokia N95

November 21, 2007 at 5:28 am

Disagreed: "No support for 3G networks"

Disagreed: "Lackluster alphanumeric keypad (non-QWERTY)"

Disagreed: "Poor standby battery life (~1 day before requiring charge)"

Agreed: "Expensive (~$700)"

Agreed: "Great multimedia capabilities"

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Updated Nokia N810

November 21, 2007 at 5:27 am

Chose Nokia N810 over HTC Advantage 7501

Chose Nokia N810 over Nokia N800

Agreed: "Adds a full QWERTY sliding keyboard"

tyrion updated iRex iLiad

November 20, 2007 at 6:10 pm

Agreed: "Able to browse the web"

Agreed: "Built on Linux"

tyrion commented on Amazon Kindle

November 20, 2007 at 5:34 pm

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"This seems to be a very interesting concept that has one minor and one major failing. Minor failing: EVDO only. I'm not sure if offering EVDO only is the best option, it effectively means that you must use cell signals to use this device (from what I can see). Why can't I use my home Wi-Fi connection? In a rural area it may be easier to hook a $50 Wi-Fi router up to a cable/ADSL (or, god forbid, dial-up) modem than go hunting for a EVDO signal. After all, we read books most at home so it makes sense to have Wi-Fi on this thing. Second problem with EVDO is that you alienate all of us over here in Europe (or at least the parts I frequent). But from what I can see this is tied to contracts anyway, so that's out the door in any case. Major Failing: Closed platform What about the E-Books I already own? Any digital playback device should allow you to play back a file, regardless of it's source. And what's the point in having a device that can only browser Wikipedia (maybe edit / comment) and Amazon's site? The entire point of a device that has the potential of accessing the internet is to give it just that... access to the internet. All of it. It has the potential to browse, comment and contribute to something like ProductWiki here, why not let people use if for that? I think these guys are potentially scared of getting sued for allowing dubious content on this device (so they cut Wi-Fi and any other sync), and perhaps the cell companies wont allow them to use the device to browse the web untethered on their networks. If both of these are true they may have shot themselves in the foot by being too nice. On a positive note, there are a few things I like. The QWERTY keyboard is very appealing. I might not get a device with a QWERTY keyboard over a touch screen device, but I know many people who would. Having an e-book reader with newspaper and magazine subscription support is superb, these are media which should be taking full advantage of readers like this, and now they can. However, if we're paying for magazines and newspapers we should not be charged for blogs and E-mail. RIM do not charge per E-Mail (your carrier may charge for data transfer, but it seems like there is some deal here for a lifetime data plan or something). And 10 cents to receive e-mail? What on earth? That makes no sense, forward the E-mail as a text to your mobile. So, to summarise: Needs Wi-Fi (and UTMS if they want to branch outside North America) Needs to open up to third party applications (full web browser) Great to see Magazine and Newspaper subscriptions Nice to have a device with a QWERTY keyboard " more

tyrion updated 2 products

Updated Amazon Kindle

November 20, 2007 at 4:58 pm

Agreed: "No internet browser"

Agreed: "Can't share books with friends"

Agreed: "Limited to buying from the Kindle store"

Disagreed: "plain ugly"

Disagreed: "QWERTY keyboard is overkill"

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Updated iRex iLiad

November 20, 2007 at 4:56 pm

Chose iRex iLiad over Amazon Kindle

tyrion updated 2 products

Updated Eva Solo Smiley Bowl

October 23, 2007 at 12:26 pm

Agreed: "Sleek design"

Agreed: "Has a place to put the discarded parts"

Updated Nokia N810

October 23, 2007 at 12:11 pm

Added a link http://www.lugradio.org/episodes/86

tyrion updated 3 products

Updated Nokia N810

October 22, 2007 at 6:23 pm

Edited the description

Updated the features

Updated SanDisk Sansa e260 4GB

October 22, 2007 at 6:12 pm

New pro/con: Will run Rockbox

Updated Rockbox

October 22, 2007 at 6:11 pm

Edited the description

Changed category from to

Added a link http://forums.rockbox.org/

Added a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox

Added a link http://www.misticriver.net/forumdisplay.php?s=67fc39d3a616cfd61452acabee89b643&f=125

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tyrion updated 2 products

Updated Rockbox

October 22, 2007 at 5:20 pm

New pro/con: Doom

New pro/con: Custom UI (skinning)

New pro/con: Does not support DRM crippled music

New pro/con: Supports Recording (certain players) to multiple formats

New pro/con: May shorten battery life (iPod)

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Updated Nintendo DS Lite

October 22, 2007 at 4:38 pm

Tapped as "want it"

Disagreed: "More expensive than the regular DS"

tyrion responded to the thread Are you going to switch to Vista?

October 22, 2007 at 4:27 pm

"There isn't an very much in Vista which compels me to go out and buy it. ReadyBoost looks very cool but they dropped two of the the features I was closely watching, WinFS and the new shell (MSH or Monad).Most of what was upgraded in Vista is shiny stuff I'll turn off by default. I'm using more

tyrion updated Spore

October 22, 2007 at 3:40 pm

"Added demo and changed date"

Edited the description

tyrion responded to the thread predictions: What's the future of wireless?

October 22, 2007 at 1:35 pm

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"If you look at what the Freifunk guys are doing in German, and the way distributed networking is taking off (BitTorrent, Joost, &c.), I wouldn't be surprised if within a few years web browsing was much different. To give a rough outline, imagine if all web content was not only distributed but aware of its location. If I wanted to grab a copy of the NYtimes website I would grab it from the nearest source. Everything you download would be come a cache for everyone else. Instead of taking 15 hops around the globe to get a PDF I might be able to take two hops and get it from a PC/mobile/laptop in my town. This would certainly speed up content delivery for popular websites and would almost certainly render the Digg/Slashdot effect meaningless (as, like with BitTorrent, the more popular a file is, the easier it is to find).Another advantage of this system is that once the demand for fresh content declined all requests would route back to the server that originally hosted the content, so there would always be copy available and there would be very fast access when it was popular.There would of course need to be protection built into the system to prevent against man-in-the middle attacks and faked content. But if the P2P networks can solve this problem, I think it can be applied on a wider scale to web-browsing.One problem which I'm not sure how to solve is the issue of age. I remember hearing that the Wikipedia guys had a problem because their webservers were located in the US and their cache servers were in Europe (maybe it was the other way around). The reason they did this was to cut out the latency which appears when you send packets across the Atlantic. But having two copies of the same data meant it could become out of date. I can't remember how the issue was solved...If I (A) post this message now, someone (B, who is in, say Australia) logging into this server will see it. Now say you (C) update this page with your content after B has downloaded the page with my post. A little while later D (who is in B's town) wants to grab this page. He sees that it's going to take 5 seconds to grab the page from the original server, but there is a "fresh" copy only 0.01 seconds away (in B's cache). Now, does he make the decision to grab an "old" (say 30 seconds) copy or the fresh copy. If the fresh copy is grabbed, well, that's no different from now. If the old copy is grabbed, then D has missed out on the post you (C) made.I'm not sure how this can be solved, either we have stale content or dead webservers, neither is a good option. " more

tyrion updated iRex iLiad

October 22, 2007 at 12:43 pm

"Added opening paragraph"

Edited the description

tyrion updated Winamp

October 22, 2007 at 11:22 am

Agreed: "Extensive plugin support"

Agreed: "Not a computer resource hog like WMP"

tyrion sent a message to Erik

October 22, 2007 at 11:18 am

Edited a comment

"Not a problem, I played with one at FrOSCon this year, a company called Tarent brought along some Nokia 770's, some N800's, a couple of FIC Neo1973's (OpenMoko phones) and an iLiad. I played with all of them for hours and really liked them. The New1973 is still a bit rough around the edges (I crashed more

tyrion added tyrion Avatar 1.0

October 22, 2007 at 11:01 am

tyrion commented on Nokia N810 edited a comment

October 22, 2007 at 11:00 am

tyrion updated 3 products

Updated iRex iLiad

October 22, 2007 at 10:14 am

Tapped as "want it"

New pro/con: Superb feature set

New pro/con: Expensive

Edited the description

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Updated Nokia N800

October 22, 2007 at 9:59 am

Agreed: "You can use a phone as a modem with the N800 to connect to the Internet through a cellular network."

Updated Nokia N810

October 22, 2007 at 9:34 am

Tapped as "love it"

Agreed: "Included storage is lacking (2GB compared to Touch's 16GB)"

Disagreed: "No 3G network support"

Tapped as "want it"

Agreed: "Tons of flexibility and potential due to hardcore hacking community"

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tyrion commented on Nokia N810

October 22, 2007 at 9:33 am

"I don't think this needs GSM capabilities, like the HTC Advantage, I feel it is far too big to replace a typical mobile phone. And, if you're carrying a mobile phone with you anyway then why not tether the 3G capabilities to this device via Bluetooth and you have a 3G connection for the device (how more