Its been a LONG time.. December 23, 2011

Hey!

Its been a pretty long time since I did my last post back in April!

I’ve been meaning to post, but I thought I lost my viewers interest so I wasn’t motivated to write any posts.

Looking forward to making a few posts each month from now on.

I’ll probably be posting more videos on this blog than actual posts to make things interesting for you, and easier for me.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks for visiting my blog again. Please promote my blog so I can actually be bothered to write posts!

- xMr F.

Google Video is Closing Down! April 18, 2011

We all know that Google bought YouTube a few years back, but do you remember ”Google Video”?

It was Google’s basic implementation of what we are used to today – aka YouTube.

Google feels that its time to retire the old website, including all the videos. The site will close down on April 29th 2011 (my birthday) but videos will be available through May. If you have uploaded videos to Google Video, you should start to download the ones you want to keep now!

Videos that arent downloaded by the end of May will be deleted and you’ll never see them again!.. unless you time travel xD

I for one used to love Google video and hate YouTube – yes its true. YouTube seemed like a crappy video site. But I found that most of the content I was searching for was on it. I quickly made an account and its the site I used from then on.

What do you think about this? Do you care? Did you even use Google Video?

- xMr Fun

Valentines, Pancake and Red Nose Day 2011 February 7, 2011

Hey!

Second post in one week? Thats aweshum!

This year, we’ll see many holidays celebrated all around the world, just like year! There are loads, but today I will just cover 3 that are coming up really soon. You can read about the full year’s events by clicking here.

Today I thought I would talk about 3 days that are celebrated widely here in the UK. Valentines Day, Pancake Day, and Red Nose Day.

The first one is St. Valentines day. I’m not sure if this is celebrated in the USA, but I’m sure someone will help me here

Tradionally, Valentines Day is a day that you open up to one person you so love. You do this by giving them a flower, or a token of your love for them. If sucessful, Valentines Day can mark the day you first told your lover you love them

Valentines Day is celebrated on February 14th!

Edit: Valentines Day is celebrated around the world, but it may be called different names

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Pancake Day is another occasion celebrated in the UK. It is always celebrated on Tuesday, because another day for Pancake day is “Shrove Tuesday” -  the last day before Lent. On Pancake day (as we’ll call it), you eat Pancakes! Making and eating Pancakes was considered a last feast with ingredients such as sugar, fat and eggs, whose consumption was traditionally restricted during the fasting associated with Lent.

Pancake Day (Shrove Tueday) is on Tuesday 8th March!

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The final event is Red Nose Day. Red Nose Day isn’t really a total event. Its a fund raiser by an organisation called ”Comic Relief”. Helping people who need money, by using some comic in the process

I can safely say that this event is exclusivly celebrated in the UK. It comes once every 2 years and on Red Nose Day, TV is full of fund raising programmes. Actually, only one channel will promote it the most because its their fund raiser – The BBC.

Tradionally, RND is ‘celebrated’ by wearing a rubber/foam red nose on your real nose. The nose is meant to be comical and it costs £1.00 per nose. Thats $1.50 for you Americans!

The money raised from selling the noses goes towards the charities!

Red Nose Day 2011 will be on Friday 18th March!

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I hope you enjoyed learning about the 3 events that seem ages away, but are just around the corner!

- xMrFun

P.S: I’ve updated the imagine page and added a new page!

Did this site take longer to load? February 4, 2011

Hey!

So i’m testing some new backgrounds on the site and the one you should be seeing right now is a high res image.

Its quite a large image, and I was wondering if the site took longer to load because of this.

So, did it take longer than usual to load this site? How much longer?

- xMrF

Review: iPhone 4 on Verizon January 19, 2011

Hey!

For four years now, the iPhone has stayed exclusive to AT&T in the USA. It was only on o2 here in the UK, but it has slowly come over to the networks here. Now its on all networks here in the UK.

Ever since the iPhone 2g (first generation) launched, people wanted it to make an appearance on ‘america’s most popular network’ – Verizon Wireless. It became a myth. It was the internets biggest rumour, which seemed like it would never come true.

On Tuesday 11th January 2011, Verizon held a press conference announcing the iPhone 4 on their network! Hoorah! AT&T are not the only ones with iPhone now

The move gives iPhone users in the US a choice of carriers for the first time.

But the phone will not run properly on the new 4G network, so it will become CMDA. This data change, also has made Apple redesign the iPhone 4 on verizon.

Verizon iPhone 4 features different antenna design similar to one which was leaked recently. You can clearly see the difference between Verizon iPhone and AT&T iPhone antenna design in the image above. You can see that AT&T iPhone 4 has antenna breaks at the top whereas in Verizon iPhone 4 they are on the left side.

The Verizon iPhone will be available to pre order in the first week of February, and available to buy from Verizon stores from February 10th!

This is big news for you guys in the USA. Are you switching to VZN?

- xMrFun

What’s Up? (The sky ofcourse..) January 13, 2011

Hey!

Sorry for the lack of posts. Just got busy with stuff and I couldn’t think of anything to post about anyway!

Hopefully I will post more often, with cool news and more, so stay tuned!

- xMrFun

Review: Should you ‘connect’ with “Kinect”? November 11, 2010

Microsoft’s entry into the motion sensing industry has come to the UK!

On Monday 8th November, Kinect was launched.

What is Kinect?

Kinect is just one peice of technology costing about £129.99 . The best thing is that you only need to buy the camera to play the games. You get ‘Kinect Adventures’ with the camera, so that gets you started quickly.

How does it work?

Kinect is a motion sensor device that tracks your body’s movements. No controller needed. The Kinect sensor contains an RGB camera and a depth sensor to track your movement. It measures the positioning of 48 key joints in your anatomy and by tracking the movements of these joints, it can work out exactly what position your body is in. What’s more, it sees in 3D by overlaying the input from the RGB camera with the depth sensor.

N.B: Get your friends ‘Kinected’ back here please?

Review : PlayStation Move October 5, 2010

Sony’s entry into the motion sensing game industry has hit the market. On September 17th the PlayStation Move was launched.

What is the PlayStation Move?

The PlayStation Move is actually a combination of devices: The PlayStation Move motion controller ($49.99), The PlayStation Move navigation controller ($29.99), and the PlayStation Eye ($39.99).  The motion controller and the Eye are required for all Move games.  Interestingly, the Dual Shock 3 can be used in place of the navigation controller for gamers who’d like to save a couple bucks.

What does it do?

The PlayStation Eye tracks the “dynamic color changing sphere” of the motion controller with an extremely high degree of precision.  During the E3 Move presentation, Sony’s Peter Dille made repeated mention of the system’s “unrivaled 1 to 1 tracking.”

The motion controller itself features the traditional four Dual Shock buttons (circle, square, triangle, x), a trigger (the T-Button), and vibration feedback.  Sony considers the control precision afforded by the buttons to be Move’s major advantage over Kinect.

The navigation controller (or dual shock) works more or less just like Nintendo’s Nunchuck, albeit with the added bonus of not being physically attatched to the motion controller.  The navigation controller sports both an analog stick and digital directional pad, as well as L1 and L2 triggers, just as on the Dual Shock 3.

Is it worth it?

If you’ve experieced button bashing excitment before, then PlayStation Move is for you. You’ll love getting in to the game. Its great for shooters and racing titles. If you’re a casual gamer, then PSM is not for you. Take it easy.

- xMr F .

N.B: ”Move” your friends back here. Please?

Got my GSCE Exam Results! August 25, 2010

Yesterday was the day when the whole of Britain (and other countries I guess) got their GSCE Examination results of 2010.

Remember I told you I was sitting some exams a while back? Yeahhh… these results are for those.

I did pretty good. Did not fail COMPLETELY, but I did alright.

I got good grades in English which is what I wanted. I want to become something in English in the future – so I’m happy about that!

Maths? I did quite good and quite bad. I have to resit this next year. I dont like Maths at all! I mean, why do they have to mix the alphabet into it?

Science – I did well in these. About the same as english.

Overall, I’m thankful that I got good grades and did my best. And I got through to college. In America you’d call me ”a freshman”. Here we call it …”first years” LOL.

Updates coming soon

Did you get your results for any exams you sat? How did you do?

- xMr Fun

N.B: What do you think of the new header?