Updated the Acer Liquid to Froyo

LCR (Liquid Community Rom) - is a community-based ROM for the Android Acer Liquid. When I first bought this phone for Xmas, it was running Android 1.6. Acer have been reasonably good at releasing new versions (not necessarily for the Liquid but it's phone successors (Liquid E, Liquid Steam)). The LCR team have been brilliant about taking them and porting them to the Acer Liquid and then tweaking them to extreme to fix bugs, optimise speed and battery-life.

I downloaded the LCF-F (Froyo) 1.0 release and it really is impressive for a 1.0. It's really fast and stable. Froyo is just nicer all-round and I now get flash support which just appears to work - I'm agog (go mixcloud!). This community-support idea for phones is not for everyone obviously (but 11,000 people have downloaded the ROM in 2 weeks, so it's not exactly unpopular). For me, it makes me look at phones the way I look at PC's - tinkerable, modifiable and improvable. I was happy with the phone I got this time last year, there were some wrinkles and bugs certainly. Over the last year it's done the opposite of most consumer products, it has actually got better! Not just a little better, a lot better.

LCR Community Rom - News  »  LCR-F 1.0 ! It's here !!!

Kindle 3

Have had my shiny new Kindle 3 for a couple of weeks now. It really is terrific. My main reason for buying it was traveling and books - both the bulk and the inevitable situation where you end up reading airport-trash.

An obvious question from people is why not an iPad. A couple of reasons:

• iPads are big and bulky - what? compared to a book they are. The kindle 3 is nice and light - like a novella.
  
• The e-ink display is fanatastic. I get eyestrain from LCD's.
• Lasts for a month on a Charge.
  
• Cheap @ £100 - this is in impulse buy territory.
  

Essentially there are different devices for different needs.

I can highly recommend it. You do need a little time to switch over from the learned response of reading a book (page-turning etc), but once you do it seems normal.

Actual 401 mail

Have received lots of spam 401 scams from the alleged President of Nigeria, but never one by actual mail.

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