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Joe 'F**king' Kinnear's first official press conference as manager of Newcastle United

The opening exchange is priceless. Be warned - Joe’s not afraid to use some very ‘colourful’ language.

Featuring a built-in 3MP camera, an SD card slot, built-in web browser (Opera?) and access to the ‘DSi Shop’ - an online store to download games, video and music to the console. It’s also a little bit thinner and the screens are a bit bigger (3.25in).

Due out in Japan next month, no word yet on availability in the UK. Good luck getting your hands on one in time for Christmas!

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:41:21

Evernote Launches API

After years storing various notes and clippings in xPad, Stickies and text files, I’ve started using Evernote to organise it all. It’s working out well and I’ve been very impressed by the quality of the UI and tight web synchronization. With the news today of the API launch we should see some interesting integration with more 3rd party apps too.

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:28:40

iPhone NDA dropped for released software

Refreshingly honest statement from Apple on their decision to drop the iPhone NDA for released apps.

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:07:59

Google, January 2001

Search through Google like it’s 2001. This site, first launched in October 2001, sadly doesn’t figure in the results, but a fun trip back in time nevertheless.

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:15:00

Wario Land on YouTube

Very clever ad by Nintendo - the level of detail is impressive. This site from HEMA is another example of this type of ‘fake’ site built in Flash.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:20:59

CrossOver Chromium

A Mac and Linux port of Google’s Chrome web browser. Uses Wine to run on Intel-based Macs.

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:44:29

History of the browser user-agent string

This will strike a chord with any developer who has had to parse a browser’s user-agent string into something meaningful. It’s now got the point where it’s become an irrelevance.

As an aside, the article contains a bit of trivia which I wasn’t aware of - the name ‘Mozilla’ is derived from ‘Mosaic Killer’ (Mosaic being the dominant [only] browser at the time). Mosaic were obviously none too chuffed, and the name was changed to Netscape…

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:37:00

“This decision raises questions about their ability and, indeed, about the sport’s very governance.”

— Jackie Stewart, three times F1 world champion, on the decision of the FIA stewards to deny Lewis Hamilton victory at last Sunday’s Belgian GP.