Blog Title: David Carrington » A personal weblog

How to calibrate/fix the compass in Android/G1

Every time I go to demonstrate the fantastic Street View mode in Google Maps on my new G1 handset, I find that it never knows which way it should be facing. This was also true when using the Wikitude application (which is also very cool). So - how to fix this? I’ve found a method read more..

Where’ve I been?

Playing around with Twitter ideas as a Windows Mobile application. Creating dabr, an open source mobile website as an interface to Twitter. Buying an 18 month contract for 5Gb of mobile internet (with USB dongle) for half price from Three UK. Playing too many online games, which I’ve quit! But still playing Spore a bit. Spending all my weekends read more..

Google Gears Mobile Location API

I’ve had a quick chance to check out Google’s new location tracking API in Google Gears for Windows Mobile phones. At first glance I say this is an absolutely awesome new feature. My first point of call is to find out if any social networking sites (e.g. Brightkite) are interested in using this to create a read more..

My third HTC phone

I’ve just ordered an HTC Diamond, with delivery expected on Thursday. This will be my third HTC handset. It has the speed advantage of the first (HTC BlueAngel) and the size / style advantage of the second (HTC Touch). Combined together it makes one awesome phone! What to do with the old phones? The HTC BlueAngel functions read more..

I love mobile data

Over the last few days, I’ve been interested in various methods that I might get my hands on a new HTC Diamond phone. Each option has it’s ups and downs, but ultimately leaves me spending £150-400 for a phone that only does a fraction more than my existing HTC Touch (counting features that I’d actually read more..

Orange new feature: Usage since your last bill

I fairly despise the Orange website for a number of reasons: loading screens, endless “sorry, an error occurred but we’re aware of it” links, and now a fairly useless new feature: usage since your last bill. With all the talk of “Unlimited” features (texts and now data too), what I really want is the website to read more..

New 500Mb data plan on Orange

Orange have seen the light! they’ve updated a bunch of their pay monthly plans to include 500Mb of data transfer. This is great for me and other Orange customers, as the existing bundles were terrible (£5/month for unlimited off peak, £8/month for 30Mb anytime). Special thanks goes to Krystal at SMS Text News for letting people read more..

UK government data for mashups

BBC News had an article on the UK government opening up a bunch of data for developers to play with the other day. I think it’s a real flaw in what’s most likely their article/linking policy that the actual link to the data is hidden on the right under the “Related Internet Links” section: Show read more..

Here be dragons

I’ve been playing Rohan quite a bit lately. I started the year by playing RF Online quite a lot, but switched (with many others) in order to avoid the unstable servers at the time. Waking up to test the game at it’s exact release time of 4am in the UK was a bit much, but read more..

Discussed today 23rd June 2008

A 728-ton stabilising ball The Phoenix lander has “convinced” scientists of ice on Mars - still not actually confirmed. A film about a guy that always responds “yes”, with Jim Carrey: Yes Man Pityriasis rosea - an oval shaped rash 401? 301? 501? - HTTP status codes Real time shadows in Blender Site Identification Button in Firefox on various SSL sites Skype read more..