Extra-Life.org

I have signed up to help ‘Children’s miracle network hospitals’ make a difference to sick children all over the world. For my location this is done in partnership with the NHS. On the 15th October from 9am I will be participating in a 24hr gaming marathon. I would be very grateful if you can help me in this task by donating/sponsoring [...]

Eight – Browser Start Page

Eight was created by flatmo1 from deviantART, it is a very stylish home page replacement inspired by Windows 8 screenshots. It can be customised to any webpage you want with an easy to modify source page to change the panels to desired web pages. I have this currently running on Chrome on my mac and makes [...]

Walkman on the Xperia Play

Thomassafca over at XDA and of SE-NSE has given a nice little mod for all those using Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play handset. Replace that horrid music icon from  your device to the loverly music icon featured in the walkman based handsets. View here   Now all that is needed is a generic rom or replacement for [...]

GiffGaff Mobile

Get your GiffGaff SIM cards here   Having recently left O2 UK and over 10 years of being a contract phone user I have taken the step away and become a PrePay user. The main reason I went with giffgaff was the excellent value they give you with their goodybags! Their £10 goodybag is great [...]

Dear BT/Virgin…

… Please can you get this to my house sometime in the near future! 26 Terabits/s Fibre - (BBC News) “Already a 100 terabits per second experiment has been demonstrated,”  

Android 2.3.3 Rooted .img file available

The guys at XDA have done it again. You can now update to Sony Ericsson’s latest software for the Xperia Play (2.3.3) and still be rooted. Please check here You will need to update to the genuine software from Sony Ericsson via Flast Tool, then by fastboot flash the rooted .img file. This software update [...]

T-Mobile did it better than the Royals…

How to root a bootloader unlocked Xperia Play on OSX

I have been meaning to post this for a while, as things work a little differently on OS X to the usual tutorials given. Here is the variation I had to use on OS X. Bin4ry over at XDA-developers sorted out the root of the Xperia Arc and Play (over a week ago now) and has [...]

PSN update from Sony

Sony have issued an update on the ongoing issue with PSN after the attack on their network. The European Playstation blog gives a little more detail and a FAQ page. So it would seem those hackers who only want to hurt Sony and not any of its users have well not only hurt the users [...]

Sony Ericsson Bootloader Unlock Via OSX

After promising to offer the tools to unlock the bootloader of new Xperia devices, Sony Ericsson finally released a page on their developer site to do just that. You need to have a ‘Generic/SIM free’ handset to do this, obviously Sony Ericsson didn’t want to fall out with networks who customise and lock their handsets down. When [...]