Best Android Apps 2010

Best Android Apps 2010

I’m a big fan of Android. I got my first Android phone (an HTC Hero) just over a year ago and it ran the 1.5 (Cupcake) version of Android. I’m now on my second phone (Orange San Francisco aka zteZTE Blade). They’ve both been rooted and had custom ROMs installed. It’s incredible how far Android [...]

Zebra striping with CSS3

Zebra striping with CSS3

What is it? Zebra striping is when alternate rows in tabular data are shaded in different colours to make the table easier to read as shown in example below: To implement this, we need to be able to identify the alternate rows and use our stylesheet to format them differently from the other rows. There [...]

Augmenting reality

Augmented reality, or AR, apps work by annotating real world scenes with information gathered from the virtual world. Imagine wandering around a foreign city as a tourist and as you look up at a historic building, your view of it is enhanced by information scoured from the internet about the building’s designer, construction style, its [...]

High tea and Singapore slings at the Raffles Hotel

High tea and Singapore slings at the Raffles Hotel

Well it had to be done really. The promise of a decent cup of tea and some delicious cakes was too much, as well as the opportunity to try the Singapore Sling at the place where it was created, and we headed off to the Raffles Hotel for High Tea. On the way, we stopped [...]

Singapore

Singapore

Arriving in Singapore at 7pm, we were struck by the humidity (This is not good hair weather). By the time we had got to the hotel and checked in, there was just enough time for a quick wander before bedtime. The following morning, we had been booked on a sightseeing tour. This took us to [...]