PreCentral reports that some devs managed to run a video recording software on Palm’s new flagship Pre. The software currently only supports 320 x 480 as resolution with 30fps.
But as the Pre supports up to 720×480 there is hope that we will soon seen DVD like recordings just from the Pre. The video format seems currently only badly formatted, that is why people recommend using VLC to play it.
Six years after their last EP “Antipop Consortium vs. Matthew Ship” the british alternative Hip-Hop group Antipop Consortium releases a new album: Fluorescent Black.
After breaking up for doing solo projects in 2003, they reunited in 2007 and said in an August 2007 interview that they reunited with the intention of touring and releasing a new record. The time has come.
» Go here to pre-listen the new album.
October 13th will be the day many people have been waiting for. The official iPhone competitor by Palm will be released in Germany. The Pre will be exclusively available from O2 Germany.
According to their latest information the Palm Pre will also be available without subscription for about 480€ (=700US$). There is currently no information about upcoming special Palm Pre O2 tariffs.
In Great Britain and Ireland the Pre will be released on october 16th.
In contrast to T-Mobile’s german iPhone tariffs, O2 Germany is gonna allow VoIP applications like Sipgate or Skype (via german Heise.de News).
Monopoly – a game that almost everybody knows – has been revived and redesigned for the virtual sphere as “Monopoly City Streets” (MCS). As many other news services have already written thousands of pages about it, we’re not gonna repeat it here. To summarize: it seems this game is fun for many millions around the globe.
Sadly although the makers have already taken actions against issues and problems by upgrading hardware and by resetting the whole game to enable everybody to start anew, there are aswell technical as social issues unsolved all over.
I for example have today bought an 8 million street and built some little houses on it. See here how you can become the leader of the game with an 8 million street. And no, I was not cheating. I enjoyed playing with real competition until this happened:
So how often does this happen? I wrote an error report, but how many other people do that? The most logical consequence would have been to sell the street immediately to get the cash transferred for real…
32 years ago. On September 12th, 1977 Steve Biko was tortured to death in a Police Office. Steve Biko was a non-violent Anti-Apartheid activist. On his 1980 album “Melt”, English musician Peter Gabriel dedicated this song to Biko: