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By the way any migrants from Kotaku you guys want to say Hi? http://board.pressxordie.com/topic/413-introduce-yourself/

Yeah for point 1 that's how I got the main bar black. Thing is I want the actual shade to be white/grey-ish. Also, no proper torch(flashlight) app. It's either or nothing. My old HTC app had the way to go through 3 brightness levels. edit: managed to make the Shade go grey. Woot. Anyword on the HTC keyboard just drop it in. I hate the Cyanogen one. as for skins, I've been looking at some of them. The ADW ones? The default one seems okay. Not even on PC have I been a fan of themes.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/7282/ You save...£537 WTF

I'm trying to find out how to take screen caps. I thought it was built into the ROM,but seems it's an App. Just I can't find this docap2 thing. Right a quick search on the market site netted me something else. Anywho: I liked HTC's black notification bar, I kind of managed to get that back to black, but it's also made the actual notifications black, which is a bit fucked up cos it's black text on black background. And the space with no notifications is semi-transparent. So yeah the notification bar is pretty fucked up, but it also has the Power Strip built in, which saves me putting a widget on the front (though the power strip here lacks the screen brightness button) I guess I'll replace this when I get a notification I can show. Also I've just noticed that apparently at some point I made the time go black too. Fuck. But I think I can find out how to change that. I've since found out that the keyboard I used to have is HTCs own and oh my how I miss it. My phone now tells the date, which is cool. Also you can dock stuff to the bottom bar, which also means some free home space. I've gone down from SenseUI's defualt 7 home screens, where I only used 5, down to 3. And I can add and remove more at any point which is cool. Winamp is my media player of choice, and while I used to have the lock screen option on, this now includes media controls in the lock screen by default, which is good cos Winamps lockscreen replacement was pretty clunky. No Track Title mind, but I can figure it out a couple seconds into a song. Also Seesmic seems to have stopped updating. I'm having to manually update it each time. The main reason for the change was becasue my phone used to crash n freeze, so as long as that stops (time will tell) then this is great. But yeah some of the things I've had to give up haven't been 100% as awesome n polished as HTC's ROM. Since it's semi-simple to hop between ROM's I might have a look at some more in future. Just Cyanogen mod is the main one, so it's like going with Ubuntu on first shot of Linux, then finding you like Mint.

Hah the article layout is now garbage on their new layout but part of the reason folks call it iPad friendly is cos they started it: http://gizmodo.com/#!5508793/preview-our-new-ipad+ready-site Though so few folks have an iPad I guess to be able to tell it runs like crap on touch screen devices. Also doesn't work so well on laptops from what I've heard due to the scroll wheel only navigation.

No the competition was only over the weekend. As far as everyone know the beta/demo runs up until the release of the game.

I mostly have Tea. I have a box of Early Grey n English Breakfast. And every now n then I'll steal a bag of my housemates Green Tea. We had some Redbush once which was nice. As for Coffee, I jsut drink instant. My dad is a hug coffee drinker n has Nescafe. Tastes like shit watered down n heated to 100 degrees. I have Kenco in the Red or Blue capped jars. Dunno what flavour that is. I think Classic and Smooth.

TTFN Kotaku/Gawker network.

Oh god... bashcraft. I'm going to be waking up to his articles blasted with huge images across the front page :/ As for it being foisted upon them, in the last change Crecente quite openly mentioned he was one of the main motivators in the tweaks and such the site got, so I wouldn't be surprised if he was involved in this one too. Don't forget he helms their second highest hitting blog and is the longest serving editor on the network.

Well it's not just speakup but all their "Forums" Also looking at the other sites I see Gizmodo has disabled comments on their announcement article, and all the sites now, not Just kotaku, use White background for text reading, despite Kotaku now finally gaining a faint yellow background.

Yeah I can see the non-stars, but only in articles. On Speakup it's Stars n promoted comments only still.

15:27 - linklonk([k]): I see kotaku went full herp-derp 15:36 - Win Laik Pya: it did.

Oh yeah I watched Moulin Rouge the other day since Jala started playing some of the OST over the stream. First time I've seen it, pretty good, very catchy n powerful. My only dislike is that a lot of it is shot in close-ups and there's only so much of Jim Broadbents up close face you can take.

Fish n Chip shops here don't just sell Fish n Chips btw. While popular, not everyone is a huge fan of fish. They do battered sausage, up north(primarily scotland) battered mars bar too, apple fritters, spam fritters, etc. And some expand to doing pizzas n other takeaway foods.

I'm mostly starting this for what I'm about to link, but yeah general chit chat on Android phones is welcome cos I doubt this one will generate much interest: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/06/sony-ericsson-xperia-play-finally-official-gets-full-launch-eve/

Yes there's Law & Order UK

So while I like the look of SenseUI and the weather/clock widget I'm getting pretty pissed off with it's recent habit of just pausing the entire loader (limiting me to the 6 most recently used Apps) So while I had been wary of doing it I'm now looking into sticking on a new ROM. CyagenMod seems to be the big one. Also I'm wondering if it'd be posisble to upgrade to 2.2 as well. At the moment I'm on a 2.1 HTC Wildfire. I'm gonna look into if theres a CyagenMod ROM for my phone. I think there is. (so no need to ask "is there even a version for your phone?") Any particular downsides. Like can I still get on the Android Market, what happens if Virgin decide to eventually do the OTA 2.2 update? Will that wipe my phone? Also how'd you back up a phone and should shit go wrong, reload it all back on? edIt: loked up, there is a Cyanogen version for my phone. 2.2 aswell. Also seems I've spelt cyanogen mod wrong throughout this post

They don't have Walls, never mind Cornetto. Asking for a Magnum is going to end up with substantially different results than in the UK.

It has the name on the image, but yeah I'm aware the US don't have Cornetto so Hot Hearts comment on the naming of the Simon PEgg/Edgar Wright Trilogy as "Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy" might not make sense. Anyway watch the films, they buy the respective cornetto in each. Strawberry (above) for Shaun, and Chocoate n nut (classic) for Hot Fuzz. The third film is meant to be Mint.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/deanbmmv/stats/TF2 Only a little bit. the person below me hasn't joined in this thread before now.

In one upgrade point my secondary weapon is gonna piss off alot of other tacticians n engineers on the opposite team If I hadn't accidentally spent a point on an engy upgrade I'd be there already.