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Various articles about mobile technology
May 8, 2013
I’m a huge movie buff and enjoy films in all genres, regardless of when they were made. Particularly when watching older movies, I have every so often wondered how old the actors were back then. For example: How old was Dustin Hoffman when playing a young student in The Graduate from 1967, and how old […]
Posted in Random Tech, For Fun | Tagged Actors' ages, Age, Back then, Films, How Old Were the Actors, Movies, Oldest actors in the world, Still alive, Trivia
![Hitler reacts to the iPhone 5 launch [Humor]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/nokia-lumia-920-100x100.jpg)
September 16, 2012
There’s an Internet meme that is based on a pinnacle scene from the German film Downfall (2004). The movie is about the final 10 days of Hitler in his underground bunker and in this particular scene the Nazi dictator rants about the failures of his army. There are hundreds of often hilarious parody videos using […]
Posted in Random Tech, For Fun, Videos | Tagged Hitler meme, Hitler reacts to iPhone, Nokia, Nokia Lumia 920, iPhone 5
July 15, 2012
Most people walk around with a camera capable of shooting decent video these days. Unlike static photos, videos captured in portrait mode can’t be turned the right way later on. I guess we’re all guilty of having shot vertical videos at some point and this YouTube clip deals with Vertical Video Syndrome in an entertaining […]
Posted in Random Tech, For Fun, Videos | Tagged PSA, Star Wars, VVS, Vertical Video Syndrome, Vertical Videos, YouTube
May 22, 2012
TechCredo has been idle for a while again now, but I want to write a few words about the 8-bit versions of the Radiohead albums OK Computer (1997) and Kid A (2000). The bitpop interpretations are created by YouTube user QuintonSung and they are both available on YouTube and as downloads. The entire albums have […]
Posted in Random Tech, For Fun | Tagged 8-bit, Bitpop, Chiptune, Kid A, OK Computer, Quinton Sung, QuintonSung, Radiohead, Super Mario
March 30, 2011
Surround any link to an Android app in the Google Play Store/Web Market with “qr” “/qr” in brackets and this plugin will create a clickable QR code for that app. AppBrain links are supported as well. You can also just supply the name of the app, but the first two methods are recommended. The appearance […]
Posted in Random Tech | Tagged Android Market, Android Market QR Codes WP Plugin, Android apps, AppBrain, Generator, Google Play, Market links, Play Store, QR codes, QR codes WordPress plugin, WP, WordPress plugin
March 13, 2011
Apple’s commercials for its mobile devices are usually full of buzzwords, exaggerations and people looking possessed and/or born-again. I personally think they’re a bit creepy. Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien decided to make his own version of the iPad 2 launch video – a more honest one, if you will. I have also […]
Posted in Random Tech, Anti Apple | Tagged Anti Apple, Apple, Conan O'Brien, JLE, Parody, Promo videos, Promos, Spoofs, Travesty, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4
February 19, 2011
Have you ever wondered why the screen on your 32-inch TV is way more than 10 times bigger than the display on your 3.2-inch phone? Or why the screen on your 3.7-inch smartphone is over twice as big as your old 2.4-inch dumbphone? The answer is most likely no, but here’s an explanation anyway. This […]
Posted in Random Tech, Guides and tutorials | Tagged Displays, Explanation, Inches, Measured, Measurement, Screen comparisons, Screen sizes, Touchscreen sizes
February 17, 2011
I already discussed this in my Motorola Atrix post in early January, but I’m so excited about the possibilities of these recently announced systems-on-chips (SoC) and how they in due course will change the way we use computers. I don’t think many people realize it now — a better way of putting it is perhaps […]
Posted in Android, Random Tech, Guides and tutorials | Tagged ARM Cortex A9, Computer chips, Convergence, Docks, Future of computing, GPUs, Mobile chips, Mobile processors, Nvidia, Power VR, Project Kar-El, Qualcomm, Series 6 Rogue, Snapdragon, SoC, Stark, System-on-chip, TI, TI OMAP 5, Tegra, Tegra 3, Texas Instruments
February 7, 2011
Motorola has turned Apple’s classic 1984 big brother ad against them with these promos for the world’s first Honeycomb tablet – the Xoom. Motorola’s message is obvious: now there’s a more powerful alternative to the iPad, and Apple has almost become the Big Brother of the dystopian George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, that Apple showed […]
Posted in Android, Anti Apple, Videos | Tagged 1984, Ads, Apple, Big Brother, Commercials, George Orwell, Honeycomb tablet, Motorola, Motorola Xoom, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Promo, Tablets, Videos, iDevice, iPad
February 2, 2011
These two concept devices appeared during or shortly after CES in early January 2011, and are somewhat old news by now, but I wanted to share them nonetheless. Many promising concept devices never materialize, because financiers couldn’t be found, the projects weren’t deemed commercially viable, or because the designs were too far ahead of current […]
Posted in Android, Random Tech, Videos | Tagged Android, Concept devices, Concepts, Flip Phone, Kristian Ulrich Larsen, Razer Switchblade, Videos
January 23, 2011
In a March 2010 New York Times interview, Andy Rubin, the Godfather of Android, indirectly compared Apple with North Korea. As we all know, North Korea is a communist dictatorship without freedom of speech and with an oppressed population. Here are 6 reasons Rubin was spot on — an explanation why Apple indeed is similar […]
Posted in Random Tech, Anti Apple | Tagged Andy Rubin, Anti Apple, Apple, Dictatorship, New York Times, North Korea, Walled Garden, iOS
January 3, 2011
Imagine you’re sitting in the corner of a small room in an abandoned cottage in the outskirts of a desert village. You have taken shelter in an attempt to recuperate, catch your breath. Just moments ago, you ran away in desperation because you were about to die. Bullets came from nowhere — you miraculously managed […]
Posted in Random Tech, Games + Emu | Tagged 3D games, BC2, Bad Company 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Computers, Dice, Games, Gaming, James Cameron, Multiplayer games, PC, Reviews, Squad Deathmatch
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