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HTC pulls a 180, now says Gingerbread is coming to Desire — Engadget

Posted on June 16, 2011 9:41 am by dubster

HTC pulls a 180, now says Gingerbread is coming to Desire — Engadget.

Gingerbread Launch

So, here’s the tally: as of June 14th, there’s just “not enough memory” in the Desire for Gingerbread to run properly. As of the 15th, however, there is. We won’t pretend to understand what changed so drastically in the past 24 hours, but what is clear is that the aforesaid handset maker is listening to its most demanding of users.

Update: Turns out that HTC’s engineers will “cut select apps” to enable the Gingerbread update.

ps: my first post using the “Press This” widget! What a fantastic piece of kit 🙂

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HTC Desire won’t get OS update :(

Posted on June 15, 2011 6:13 pm by dubster

HTC Desire

Thanks to the Android News RSS feed I’ve added, just found out that my HTC Desire (non HD) won’t be getting the Gingerbread update we’ve all been waiting for *sobs*

Apparently not down to lack of power, but lack of onboard memory! Figures as that’s always been a low point of the Desire imho. Damn thing was always slowing up cos ram got low, until I discovered Advanced Task Killer any way. A ‘factory reset’ helped enormously once it was really crappy.

Still gutted I won’t get the update though, stuck with this phone for another year yet, unless a HD appears locally at a fair price anyway.

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Drinking with the yanks

Posted on June 15, 2011 9:57 am by dubster

Had a couple of ex team mates from Johnson City at work this week, so went out for a beer with em after work yesterday. Maidstone seemed like an obvious choice, but actually there’s no decent pubs open during the day! Ended up in bloody Wetherspoons, which is nice enough & good range of beers, etc, But they’re so damn prolific these days, Ted’s been in 5 different wetherspoons all over the UK since landing a week ago 🙁

However, was great to have a drink n catch up with the guys, chat about cars, life, work, and anything else that came to mind. Walked them back to Zizzi’s before heading to meet Cheryl in Tunbridge Wells. Ended up going for an indian in The Spice restaurant, which was bloomin lovely again. Def our fave indian in TW, though Masala in the Pantiles looks & feels nicer, the food’s not quite as good as The Spice.

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Mum’s gone to Yorkshire

Posted on June 14, 2011 11:56 am by dubster

Cheryl’s Mum heads home today, after a week in sunny Sussex. Been a great visit as usual, some good old country walks and a lotta good eating too 🙂

Friendly Beasts on the Sussex border path

Above are a lovely Donkey & Horse we met on our travels, very friendly, wandered across the field to say halloo & get a nose rub. Bless em, we gave em a bit of grass for their efforts.

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Added an About Me page

Posted on June 14, 2011 9:20 am by dubster

Obvious next step really, just gotta add some photo’s n more info really, without too much dross this time!

So far liking this whole WordPress thing, smooth, clean and easy, wish I’d got on the boat many moons ago tbh.

Seriously need a fine looking, feature-packed theme though, it looks far too standard for my tastes atm 🙁

=== edit 16th June ===
Happy with the theme now, Mantra was one of the first I DL’d but felt a bit dull. Now I’ve added a natty background, fettled with the fonts, links & colours I’m rather happy with the outcome.

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Apparently this android app doesn’t resize images!

Posted on June 13, 2011 11:09 am by dubster

Took ages to upload the image (prev post), so figure it didn’t resize locally. Not very useful, maybe there’s a setting to fix it…

== edit ==
Seems WP has resized it to suit, giving a good size image at only 72kb!
Would be better still if the app resized & uploaded the thumbnail, but will have to look into that further. All seems good though. Does seem to automatically insert thumb & link to the large image though, which is rather natty 🙂

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Had a great country walk on Saturday…

Posted on June 13, 2011 11:06 am by dubster

Starting at home, Cheryl, Sheila and me wandered along to the sussex border path & followed that & lanes through to Cousley Wood. Paused for lunch at the beautiful Old Vine pub, then rejoined the path & headed home again. Was about 7 miles in all, and only got caught in a small shower.

Jay & Cheryl, Sussex Border Path

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WordPress Installed and Running!

Posted on June 12, 2011 6:26 pm by dubster

Took a while and a lotta manual fettling (fantastico refused to help) but got it sussed 🙂
Also installed WordPress for Android, using it now so will soon know if it works *grin*

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