Today's a good day to post, as Amazon are offering the
fantastic World of Goo for free today, so if you stumble across this page by
accident, it's obviously more likely than being a follower, then do this, get
World of Goo for free.
Obviously the Amazon Appstore for Android is not
downloadable from Google's 'Play' store, you have to browse to Amazon (.co.uk
for me, .com for US etc.) and install it from there, easiest just to googe
"Amazon Appstore for Android". Oh you'll also have to allow the
installation of Applications from "Unknown Sources" (For Ice Cream
Sandwich it's under Settings-> Security -> Unknown Sources) before you
install it.
If you have an Amzaon account, just log in and start it, there
you go. The vast majority of what's on Play can be found here, often cheaper,
and they let you download a free app (one that is normally a paid for app)
every day. Sometimes the stuff is useless, but more often than not, something
really nice, it's got me hooked, looking daily at what's being offered for free.
My 'You can't win' paradigm still applies, I've
had my 'issues' with Amazon, there's a yet to be written up 59" Samsung
Plasma buying story that worked out in the end, but did require two rather
heated calls to their call centre, that showed up some rather remarkable inadequacies.
But that's for another time.
Obviously I plug my blog in comments on other sites,
"Yes, I'm hacked off, and I'll spend a few seconds telling all I can about
it!". There I receive some responses, and obviously not all are positive.
I was however quite struck by a few of them...
There were two of note on the Google Wallet thingy. One chap
said my response had a fair few howlers, whilst I was complaining about the quality
of e-mail that Google were sending me. However, though I think I said this sort
of thing at the end of the blog entry, it's worth repeating, that my e-mails
will by default have typos, because I am usually quite annoyed when having
these exchanges, and that I am not the one asking for someone's passport!
The other chap wanted to educate me on the use of apostrophes,
so I had a look and in the 1000+ words I had blurted out in frustration. It
turned out that I had made one singular mistake of that nature. Did make me
wonder, what a grammar Nazi, finds a single occurrence, and then posts a
message about it? How odd.
Last but not least, that Humax Box, someone was really
upset, either an employee, or a fanboi, but a Humax Foxsat HDR fanboi?
Seriously? Grief.
The points are worth mentioning, because I found them so
amusing. The remote control being sluggish, apparently removing the extra protective
packing film on the inner panel (it's part covered by a front flap) solves that
problem. Err no it does not, and anyway, my multi-remote will even work through
glass (infra-red, so it should!). The Humax remote is, in a word, rubbish.
Never a software update I complained? Because it's a mature product
came the answer (with the added argument that it's old and that their new Freeview
box is the current device, but I want Freesat, NOT Freeview, Duh?)?! A small
part of this argument tis valid, yes it has simply never crashed (though the remote
locks up once a month, open, remove batteries, put back in, and it's fine), but
it's slow, really slow, and that recording cutting problem.... more on that
later, in short 'padding' fixed it, but now the recordings are huge, and there
are other issues....
Worst still I hooked up my Sky HD box up in another room,
and it did an update, amazing, whole new looking UI, and now it doesn't crash,
but does default to a radio chancel when turned off, but £10 a month for
recording… nah.
I also noticed that TalkTalk are now giving a Huawei set-top
box rather than the Humax one that I heard they were going to provide, or did
provide, not sure what happened there. I have a Huawei wireless router modem
from TalkTalk, and it needs a resetting every few days.. oh well maybe their
satellite box is better?
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