Posted on Mon 17 January 2011 in geek • Tagged with codecs, google, h264, open, standards, video, web
A lot of 'net comment has been generated in the last few days following Google's announcement that they will be dropping support for H.264 in future versions of their Chromium browser. They expound on their decision here.
In making this move they join the ranks of Mozilla in supporting …
Posted on Mon 10 January 2011 in geek • Tagged with chrome, chromium, facebook, privacy, twitter
Did you know every time you see a Facebook/Twitter/Social Media-de-jour button on a web-page it's reporting your visiting patterns to home base? If you thought Ad tracking was a worrying invasion of your privacy then just consider how much info Facebook has on you along with your browsing …
Posted on Fri 07 January 2011 in general • Tagged with android, custom roms, htc, htc hero, rooting
I went to the pub last night with some of the ex-Transitive crew who have migrated south. It was a fun night of over the top geekery of the kind you only really get when people like to discuss processor architectures and the pros and cons of various language standards …
Posted on Thu 06 January 2011 in geek • Tagged with data recovery, python, scripts
Posted on Tue 04 January 2011 in geek • Tagged with call of duty, cod, cod:bo, games, ps3, review
As is becoming traditional I got the latest instalment of the Call of Duty franchise, Black ops, as one of my Christmas presents. What follows is some brief comments having finished the single player campaign last night. I don't think I've been overly hammering it but I reckon it took …
