GraemeDonaldson - Slashdot User

Comment More detail... (Score 4, Informative) 286

by GraemeDonaldson on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @08:02AM (#33793300) Attached to: Skype Officially Available For Android

If you're in the US, only WiFi for you (presumably doesn't apply if you have a Verizon device with their bundled version)

If you're in China or Japan, no Skype for you!

Android 2.1+ required

Minimum screen res of 320x480 required

Also, it's 9MB, there's a link to the .apk for those of us with metered data plans: com.skype.raider.apk.

Comment Re:Can a nettop that can run media centre software (Score 2, Informative) 213

by GraemeDonaldson on Friday May 28, 2010 @07:34AM (#32374596) Attached to: XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support

Yes, Zotac ION boards do it exceptionally well according to pretty much every review I've read. I'm going to build a HTPC based on one of these.

Comment Re:If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose. (Score 2, Informative) 597

by GraemeDonaldson on Friday October 16, 2009 @05:40AM (#29766997) Attached to: Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters

Card counting is used when playing blackjack and similar games, it has nothing to do with poker.

Comment Re:Mom might have been right.... (Score 1) 403

by GraemeDonaldson on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @01:30AM (#18685855) Attached to: 1080p, Human Vision, and Reality

whooooooosh!

AOL Digs Up Yard for Spam Gold 230

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 16, 2006 @05:02AM from the online-treasure-map dept.

Registered Coward v2 writes "AOL is planning to dig in a MA couple's yard looking for buried gold and platinum owned by a spammer they successfully sued for spamming AOL. AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company suspects are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke's parents on two acres in Medfield, Massachusetts. The family said it will fight in court to oppose AOL's plans."

Microsoft to Support ODF via Plug-In 269

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 06, 2006 @08:10AM from the that's-nice-news dept.

Apache4857 writes "It appears that Microsoft has finally caved. BetaNews is reporting that Microsoft is sponsoring an open source project to enable conversion between Open XML in Office 2007 and OpenDocument formats. The project, hosted on Sourceforge.net, made its initial release today. The Word 2007 conversion utility is expected to ship ship by the end of 2006, and similarly conversion utilities for Excel and PowerPoint are expected early next year." See the announcement in Brian Jones' blog (Jones is the Microsoft program manager responsible for Office file formats).

Slashdot Top Deals