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Moneto

Girts Niedra — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:59:54 +0000

I am looking forward to see payment options appear worldwide if it picks up in the US.
http://www.moneto.me/

OnLive Desktop

Girts Niedra — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:11:43 +0000

I have blogged about the OnLive gaming before. It works really well provided you have unlimited traffic and good internet connection. Now they release another great streaming solution, http://lifehacker.com/5874348/onlive-desktop-streams-desktop-apps-to-your-ipad

Computer generated faces, cloud gaming and new wireless standards

Girts Niedra — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:10:13 +0000

If it works, will revolutionize the cloud gaming as well as wireless data reception as we know it. Mind-boggling, no other way to describe it.

Emotiv presentation from Tan Le

Girts Niedra — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:48:13 +0000

I hope this does indeed change the interface of the human – electronics communication.
If it does – bye keyboard, mouse, multi-touch, whatever – control the stuff with your thoughts (well brainwaves actually).

http://www.emotiv.com/

P.S.
F… I would like to live in US to order this gadget and try it out. Just to fell like a jedi you know

Handcent SMS

Girts Niedra — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:59:25 +0000

I’ve been using Handcent SMS and I think you might like it. Check it out from your Android phone: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.handcent.nextsms

Skynet – the early days

Girts Niedra — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:18:01 +0000

Today, they solve rubiks cubes and sudokus. Tomorrow they take over the world, see Skynet.

Seen @ http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/17/lego-robot-solves-any-rubiks-cube-in-less-than-12-seconds-video/

The future of augmented reality – googles

Girts Niedra — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:33:18 +0000

When I first used google sky map, and layar, you could see my jaw dropping.

But, if this concept evolves and we will have normal size goggles for augmenting the reality, you will hear it dropping (as it hits the floor)
http://gizmodo.com/5470535/transcend-ski-goggles-feature-cyborg-hud

P.S. Next step – implant, and modify the vision directly.

a use case for mobile e-mail

Girts Niedra — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:02:08 +0000

Never thought this day would come. Was under my home working desk, had to look-up a serial number of my wireless router. The number I had to type on my pc to get support for the router. What I chose as the solution was to pick up my HTC hero and send myself an e-mal
Hip-hip-hurray for MobileVikings always-on-connection!

P.S. yes, im a geek, there is no doubt.
P.P.S. just thought that i could have taken a photo as well. but the light conditions are not too excellent.

WordPress @ android

Girts Niedra — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:51:22 +0000

This is really cool – I am writing this from my HTC hero wpToGo is the app.
Note – there was an image intended also from the phone, well didn’t work out all that well…

I officially hate Mobistar

Girts Niedra — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:07:49 +0000

Yes – from now on an official Mobistar hater. Have been using their services for a while, and some things were annoying me time to time, especially the attitude towards clients (which is quite common in Belgian telecom companies). But this beats it all.

Bought a new phone, HTC Hero (btw really happy with it, report still to come). It has data access turned on by default which regularly (hourly) checks for new email/location info – that’s something I know for sure now. Was assuming that on Mobistar the GPRS costs 0.50 Eur / MB, as that was the amount usually used in the bills with some quantifier.
Well, that wouldn’t be a big problem. Actually is 0.50 Eur / session (limited to 1 hour and probably limited to some amount of data). So, since bought the Hero was online each hour because of the default features of the phone. My bill included 235 eur for the data services, which is 10.7 eur / MB. And there is an amount ready for this month (October), at 120 eur.

Note – I am not saying that it’s not entirely my fault. There is an option to view the current invoice amount online by a code #123#, which I only discovered while browsing Mobistars website after the bill.

The representative of Mobistar I called said – we could not have done anything better. Well I think they could have

* made the website for the tariff plan state something about the GPRS tariffs My15
* sent a warning SMS if my bill goes over 3 times the average invoice of last 3 months
* charged a price for a megabyte like the most do, at least from a point where a certain number of sessions is exceeded
* sent a warning SMS if I am online for 24 hours – that’s not very likely a wanted action

Our nice chat with the representative ended with me asking what do I have to do to leave the provider. And then I found out even more interesting news – as there is some kind of loyalty period, and if I exit during that period, there is a charge of 150Eur. And I have not taken a phone with my plan or anything like that (then it would be understandable).

Anyway, I have now switched to Mobile Vikings and so far very satisfied. They offer 1GB of data access on rate of 15eur per month.