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Thursday 25 November 2010

Pembrokeshire news, weather, business listings and local information

Pembrokeshire news, weather, business listings and local information: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Glass globe doorknob is a whole-room fisheye for the other side of the door

Glass globe doorknob is a whole-room fisheye for the other side of the door: "

Hideyuki Nakayama's glass globe doorknob refracts the scene on the other side of the door in its depths, giving you a preview of what's going on in the next room before you turn the knob.

A Room in the Glass Globe by Hideyuki Nakayama

(via Make!)

Worst. Doorknob. Ever. - Boing Boing

Wednesday 3 November 2010

App Brings Flash Support to iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

App Brings Flash Support to iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch: "Steve Jobs has successfully prevented Adobe Flash from getting on the iPhone for years, but a new iOS app promises to bring Flash video to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch -- without upsetting the CEO."

How legalising drugs would deal with the local baron

......The illegality of drugs also explains the all too many murders, assaults and drive-by shootings which gangs resort to as they seek to maintain their local monopolies.

The idea of cannabis being a regulated substance available, perhaps through Boots, would appal the gangsters.

The moral issue is not so much that of people using potentially harmful substances — that applies as much to alcohol as anything else and no one advocates its prohibition. The issue is one of personal freedom.

How can anyone bray about personal freedom while declaring that one drug, alcohol, cannot be banned, but cannabis must? It is fundamental to personal liberty that we are free to go to hell in a handcart if we choose and in our own way.

Deny that, and your logic drives you to say that the Government should lay down laws and penalties about, for example, those who choose the path to obesity. That has become a peril to health at least comparable to the smoking of either tobacco or cannabis.

And think of this: cannabis could be taxed if its sale was legalised and regulated. How much that would yield is impossible to say. It does not alter the argument in principle, but it would excite the interest of the Treasury.

Making cannabis legal would save police time, police priorities, the courts’ time and it would raise money. It is a commonsense and ‘liberal’ solution. All the same, don’t hold your breath.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1326030/How-legalising-drugs-deal-local-baron.html#comments#ixzz14FKRGQG3

Council spends millions on car perks for staff while telling others to 'save polar bears'

Council spends millions on car perks for staff while telling others to 'save polar bears': "A council has been spending millions of pounds a year on car allowances for
staff while encouraging residents to get on their bicycles or use the bus to 'stop
polar bears crying'."

Audit Commission spent £5,000 on lavish dinner after abolition announced

Audit Commission spent £5,000 on lavish dinner after abolition announced: "The Audit Commission continued to spend thousands of pounds on lavish
entertaining even after its abolition was announced as part of cost-cutting
measures."

Legalise marijuana measure loses in California

Legalise marijuana measure loses in California: "

Warned of dangers and legal chaos, California voters yesterday rejected a measure that would have made their state the first in the US to legalize the use and sale of marijuana.

Monday 1 November 2010

Record HD Video On Your Jailbroken iPhone 3GS [Iphone 3gs]

Record HD Video On Your Jailbroken iPhone 3GS [Iphone 3gs]: "

An iPhone tinkerer named Mike has successfully enabled dormant 720p video recording functionality on his iPhone 3GS. You can too if you follow the seven steps detailed over at Redmond Pie. [Redmond Pie] More »

iPhone DST bug causing alarms to fail across Europe (updated)

iPhone DST bug causing alarms to fail across Europe (updated): "

An iPhone bug already seen when Australia switched between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time a few weeks ago has now hit Europe. Twitter just lit up with reports of recurring iPhone alarms going off an hour later than usual. So even though the iOS clock changed correctly over the weekend, the alarm did not. Thing is, according to a ZDNet Australia report from more than three weeks ago, Apple acknowledged the bug with a promise to fix it with a software update. So why wasn't it rolled out in time to avoid this mess in Europe? Let's see if Apple fixes it before North America makes the switch on November 7th, otherwise, you've been warned.

Update: Deleting and re-adding the alarms will NOT fix the issue. We've now tested a number of scenarios under iOS 4.1 on European iPhone 4 and 3GS devices for ourselves. The bug (demoed on video after the break by Roman) appears when using a repeating alarm for anything other than 'every day.' So for example, your alarm will go off an hour late if it's set for 'weekdays,' or 'weekends,' or every 'Monday.' The following alarms are not affected by the bug:

An alarm that doesn't repeat (repeat set to 'never')

An alarm set to repeat 'every day'

You can test yourself by creating a repeating alarm (but not every day) to go off one minute in the future and 59 minutes in the past.

Update 2: Some US readers are now waking up to alarms reportedly going off an hour early.

[Thanks, David O. and Matthieu Di B.]

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