Well, the semester’s finally ended and I can safely say 14 weeks is much too long a time to be concentrating on university work. My brain is literally full of computer science right now, and what do I have to show for it?

A partially implemented iPhone game:

I’m a sucker for good UI design and Tweetie 2 for iPhone is no exception. The specific UI feature that impressed me the most is their list refresh mechanism. Exciting right?

In my opinion, Flash is the worst thing to happen to the internet since IE. It eats up CPU, causes crashes and makes it far too easy for banner ads to annoy the hell out of you. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just stop your browser loading them in an unobtrusive and elegant manner?

Well yes it would, and that is exactly what ClickToFlash aims to do.

Okay, so I lied, it’s actually the top 4 films but ‘Top 5′ is such a better title. Also, since we’re on the subject of clarification, I guess this is only the top 4 films out of the 44 films I actually managed to watch this year. There could easily be a better film out there that I didn’t manage to catch.

So, ordered roughly from least good to most good, here they are:

Finished tweaking XBMC on the Xbox the other day, and here is the finished result.

If you have huge library of movies and TV shows stored on a computer somewhere, you can set up a network share and XBMC will automatically gather thumbnails and other meta data from the internet.

XBMC can also give you access to BBC iPlayer, ITV Catchup, YouTube and various other online video sources.

For people living in areas of the UK where FreeView is unavailable and you don’t want to or can’t get a satellite dish installed, XBMC can also let you watch FreeView through your internet connection. If you plan on doing this, an unlimited internet connection is recommended. Obviously at this point I’m going to suggest Be Unlimited.