Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Android 2.1 on Acer Liquid

Acer Liquid E is due out about now, which is basically the Acer Liquid with Android 2.1 (instead of the 1.6 Donut).

The clever pixies o the net have leaked the new ROM early.

You can easily install by simply installing the above bin using the Acer Flashing Tool. That's it, there is no step 2. Changes re Donut are incremental - everything is just nicer.
  • nicer keyborard
  • nicer transitions
  • nicer browsing
  • mutliple google accounts
Full instruction on how to do this including a YouTube video (and how to ROOT your phone - if your so inclined) at unlockr

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Aer Lingus Flight Information - expected delays are coming up as on time

Aer Lingus - Flight Arrivals/Departures.

If you don't have a volcano-based airline delay story, your simply not cool. Aer Lingus aren't helping though. Their site consistently says outgoing (non-cancelled) flights are on time. Particularly for outgoing US flights. But US Flights are experiencing long delays - due to re-routing round the ash-cloud and extra maintenance. So you can see this with a flight that is coming from US say with a 2 hour delay. It's next outgoing Irish flght will say ontime, despite the fact that it will arrive 2 hours later meaning zero turnaround time. This happened to me on Monday. I checked their site today at various points and it happened again, and checking the current outgoing US flight EI124 - it's again 2 hours late, but the site says that tomorrows Irish departure EI125 is ontime - so expect it to happen tomorrow again.

So the bottom line is their flight information is only useful for cancelled flights.