HTC Hero Android 2.1 update

The long-awaited Android 2.1 update to the Hero is after several delays finally been announced to come late this month. The update comes in two parts, the first part will come this week and will be automatically detected by the phone.

The second part should, according to HTC come late this month and will erase all data on your phone. Therefore recommend HTC that you make a backup of your phone before you start the update.

HTC has been under criticism for having allowed their users who had their latest models of mobile phones in the lurch, and the update has indeed been a long time coming. It was first announced in March, but was repeatedly delayed for unknown reasons.

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Blind man implements Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

With help from several friends have Canadian Jordan Verner completed The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, without being able to see a stick.

The idea was Jordan Verner himself, and he put a video out on YouTube with a series of clips where he played the game completely blind. The video was seen by another Zelda fan, Roy Williams, who contacted Verner and offered to help him through the game.

Williams would completely practical and some friends play the game through and record every little detail, every roll, every stroke and every hop, which was then written down, and Verner could then sit, thousands of miles away, and get his computer to read the instructions up.

This major project took almost two years and 100,000 characters on the computer.

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