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 value and more than what I have been paying £30+ for with O2 for the past 3 years.

I will also now be trying to convince the rest of my family to move to giffgaff from their current networks. (*free giffgaff to giffgaff calls)

 

 

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 does keep all your data, I did however encounter an error with “Titanium back up” after restart. The application said it did not have root privileges, however it did work after a re-install.

Go and enjoy 2.3.3

T-Mobile did it better than the Royals…

Anyone want to go see Take That (Wembley, Friday 8th July)

Well the tickets for Take That have arrived, we can no longer get to London. Only one thing to do – eBay

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 posted a pretty solid guide for both devices (Play & Arc)

Although his guide is now updated with the commands for both Mac and Linux as well as the original windows, one bit of information missing for OS X is as follows.

in terminal then entering the command

fastboot-mac -i 0x0fce flash system YOURDOWNLOADEDFILE.img

you can not type the address manually like on windows, you have to drag and drop the .img file into terminal.

as -

matthewattwood$ /Developer/SDKs/Android\ SDK/tools/fastboot-mac -i 0x0fce flash system /Developer/SDKs/Android\ SDK/tools/play_modded.img
sending 'system' (236189 KB)... INFOUSB download speed was 9302222kB/s
OKAY
writing 'system'... INFOFlash of partition 'system' requested
INFOS1 partID 0x00000004, block 0x000002e4-0x00000ca7
INFOErasing block 0x00000300
INFOErasing block 0x00000400
INFOErasing block 0x00000500
INFOErasing block 0x00000600
INFOErasing block 0x00000700
INFOErasing block 0x00000800
INFOErasing block 0x00000900
INFOErasing block 0x00000a00
INFOErasing block 0x00000b00
INFOErasing block 0x00000c00
INFOErase operation complete, 0 bad blocks encountered
INFOFlashing...
INFOFlash operation complete
OKAY
matthew-attwoods-imac:~ matthewattwood$

When I added the location of the .img manually terminal stated it could not be opened/used. The drag and drop was the only method that would let me run the root image.

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 in disabling the system the users want to use but also have decided to take all your information, including name, address, billing and shipping address,  ID and password for PSN and Qriocity. Oh and one last thing your credit card data!

I’m sure all that information would have be taken to hurt Sony!  Guess a lot of CC providers are going to busy on the phones today with users wanting to change their details.

On a side note will Sony get PSN up and running before the xbox live record of 2 weeks outage in 2007? just a few days to go Sony!