Posts tagged 2010
This School Bus Goes 590km/h On Fiery Rocket Power
Aug 7th
What happens when you strap the jet engine from a Phantom fighter plane to the back of a yellow school bus? The awesomest fire-propelled death ride around. And yes, there is a video.
This work of brilliance and terror comes from the mind and shop of Paul Stender, whose Indy Boys Inc team constructed the entire vehicle (a standard issue bus wouldn’t have withstood the rocket) from scratch. But why, Paul? Why’d you do it?
Mr Stender, 43, said: “I built the bus for two reasons. The first is to entertain people because, come on, it’s a jet bus. The second, is More >
Opposition to can Aus $1.3bn school laptops program
Jul 29th
Opposition to can Aus $1.3bn school laptops programElection fun and games
By Drew Cullen • Get more from this author
Posted in Government, 29th July 2010 10:08 GMT
Australia’s general election is in full swing and disputes over tech funding and tech policy continue to intrude on today centre stage.
In today’s spat, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said he would scrap the government’s “wasteful” computers for schools initiative if the centre right Coalition wins.
Last year, the government agreed a second round of funding worth $91m (£52.5m, More >
Emmerdale shoves jam rags in innocent kiddies’ faces
Jul 28th
The Daily Mail has worked itself up into a right tizz over last Friday’s episode of ITV1 soap Emmerdale, in which a chalked shopping list was seen to contain the items “jam rags” and “pile cream”.
PA explains that the outrage was “visible during Friday’s episode as a drunk Shadrach Dingle stumbled into his nephew Marlon’s kitchen”.
Vivienne Pattison, director of campaigning group Mediawatch, was on hand to fulminate: “I think it’s vulgar and inappropriate. ‘Pile cream’ I can deal with. It was the use of ‘jam rag’ that got me. I can’t imagine a woman writing that. It’s really vulgar and unnecessary.”
ITV1 quickly More >
Vodafone iPhone 4 Pricing Revealed
Jul 27th
Vodafone have released their much anticipated pricing. Excerpt below
Vodafone releases iPhone PricingTuesday, July 27, 2010 in News
Everyone’s been waiting for our plan prices to be released, now we can let you all know. Hopefully it’s been worth the wait!
*Monthly credit can be used for Standard calls, video, TXT & PXT®, International voice, video, TXT & PXT®, Voicemail, Mobile Internet , Calls to 13, 18 numbers ** Unlimited standard national and international TXT, PXT® and video PXT® sent to personal mobile numbers ^ Standard voice calls to Vodafone and 3 in Australia
iPhone 4 features FaceTime, which makes the dream of video More >
Vodafone to release iPhone 4 details this Wednesday
Jul 26th
In a tweet from the official Vodafone twitter account @vodafone_au, Vodafone has confirmed they will be announcing details of their iPhone 4 plans on Wednesday. The new iPhone is expected to be released in Australia on Friday 30th July.
Twitterrific 3 isn’t that good.
Jun 25th
Today I downloaded Twitterrific 3 for iPhone and was left very disappointed. It is clearly a step backward, gone are easy to get to filters for replies, DM’s, favourites and my own tweets. Also gone is the ability to mark tweets within the app. Resizing for easy viewing is gone as is multiple account support on the ad-supported version. Whilst list support has appeared, popular things that are missing include: ability to add personal bit.ly api, ability to geo-tag tweets.
I had a short conversation with someone from the @Twitterrific twitter account, here it is.
Luckily @Twitterrific made this a new download More >
Surely SMH.com.au could have got a better picture
Jun 24th
2010/11 EPL Fixture out today
Jun 17th
The premier league has released the full draw for the 2010/11 EPL season today.
New fixtures releasedThe eagerly-awaited fixtures for the 2010/11 Barclays Premier League season have now been released.
Champions Chelsea begin the defence of their Barclays Premier League title at home to newly-promoted West Bromwich Albion managed by former Stamford Bridge favourite Roberto di Matteo.
Runners-up Manchester United also kick off against a promoted side as Newcastle United visit Old Trafford. Click here to see all the fixtures in chronological format or click here to see club by club fixtures.
It is a re-run of the opening-day fixture in 2008/09 when More >
