Jerrah http://www.jerrah.com Jeremy Caldwell's infrequent blog. Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:51:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Transformers under attack! http://www.jerrah.com/2012/03/29/transformers-under-attack/ http://www.jerrah.com/2012/03/29/transformers-under-attack/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:51:25 +0000 Jeremy http://www.jerrah.com/?p=521 Hasbro the creator of the popular Transformer toy line has had their request to halt sales of the Asus Transformer Prime rejected with the judge stating that it was unlikely for the two products to be confused.

I’m quite a fan of the Transformer but I was disappointed to read that Asus has only shipped 80,000 to retailers worldwide compared to the three million iPad 3‘s that were sold between 16-19 March 2012. Given the Prime has been suggested to be the flagship Android tablet it is clear to see who is winning the hearts and wallets of consumers!

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No comment from me yet  but I saw the preview on youtube. I found the comments interesting!

Sherlock Holmes at 0:06

meets prince of Persia at 0:31

meets clash of the titans at 0:49

meets Conan the barbarian at 1:10

meets weird aliens at 1:09

WTH ! lol

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]]> http://www.jerrah.com/2012/03/11/john-carter/feed/ 0 Asus Transformer (original) eats icecream sandwich http://www.jerrah.com/2012/02/28/asus-terminator-original-eats-icecream-sandwich/ http://www.jerrah.com/2012/02/28/asus-terminator-original-eats-icecream-sandwich/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:42:19 +0000 Jeremy http://www.jerrah.com/?p=513 Continue reading →]]> My first post of 2012, and hopefully there will be many more. Much to my surprise my Android tablet updated to Icecream Sandwich this morning from Honeycomb. “An update has been downloaded, would you like to install it?” No advance notice of what exactly the update would do but upon reboot I have a slightly flashier Android experience. No bugs or issues to date and ICS hasn’t left a bad taste in my mouth.

As far as I know the Asus Transformer is the first tablet released on Honeycomb to have the update to ICS – but I have no doubt I’m possibly wrong. (Other than the Prime obviously – but it was always on the cards that it would be running ICS)

Other than being a bit smoother and more friendly on the eye, I haven’t noticed any stand out new features.

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Physically, the 10.1 is a great feeling device in the hand. Thinner and lighter than you expect it to be, with a gorgeous screen and all the requisite hardware checkboxes filled. I’m not sure how I feel about the 16:9 frame, though. No, scratch that, I’m pretty sure I don’t like it.

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In order to prevent this from happening you have to take a copy of the installation DMG from the package contents prior to installation. Looks like I’ll be downloading another copy of Lion shortly.

In addition Lion seems to create a 650mb partition called Recovery HD but this doesn’t appear to include the installation media which requires another download from the Apple servers. Not very friendly for people who don’t have easy access to the internet like myself.

Given the Recovery partition doesn’t include the installation media I have to wonder why it needs to be as large as it is – surely on base Macbook Air this is significant for a partition that contains very little!

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Sent from a work colleague. Unsure of source.

]]> http://www.jerrah.com/2011/07/21/lucky/feed/ 0 Caught out in the rain without a hard top http://www.jerrah.com/2011/07/18/caught-out-in-the-rain-without-a-hard-top/ http://www.jerrah.com/2011/07/18/caught-out-in-the-rain-without-a-hard-top/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:46:20 +0000 Jeremy http://www.jerrah.com/?p=502 Stayed overnight at friends place to help celebrate his housewarming and to help with the wiring on his car. Success all around except I didn’t have my hard top on and it rained overnight. Soft top works but it feels like an umbrella compared to a solid roof!

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Inside J702T

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Hopefully will provide a stronger spark and the Toyota COP units are much cheaper to replace than the expensive Mazda coilpack.

Mx5 Ignitor

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