Rui Carmo- Headset Presenter - an original idea, even if Windows-only.
- The utterly amazing PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor hack. I always wanted to be able to tidy my desktop by tilting everything into the Trash...
- So, you can finally use that "Visual Radio" icon on your new trendy Nokia - if you live in Finland, of course.
- Doom 3 benchmarks for Macs. I've been meaning to order my copy for a while now, but Amazon UK didn't have it available...
- mySQL Administrator is available for Mac OS X (via Melo)
- One of the worst phones ever actually helps Motorola outsell Samsung. Tanj!.
- Mobiletracker has an interesting table of mobile phone market share, compiled partly from the Gartner data I'm reproducing here:
Units Q4'04 Share Q4'04 Units Q4'03 Share Q4'03
(millions) (percent) (millions) (percent)
Nokia 64.4 33 54.6 34.7
Motorola 31.7 16.3 22.3 14.1
Samsung 23.9 12.2 15.5 9.9
LG 13.3 6.8 8.7 5.5
Siemens 12.6 6.4 14.9 9.5
Sony Ericsson 12.3 6.3 8.0 5.1
Others 37 19 33.3 21.2
Total 195.3 100 157.3 100
Units Q3'04 Share Q3'04
(millions) (percent)
Nokia 51.7 30.9
Samsung 23.0 13.8
Motorola 22.4 13.4
Siemens 12.8 7.6
LG 11.1 6.7
Sony Ericsson 10.7 6.4
Others 35.4 21.2
Total 167.1 100
And finally, our moment of Zen: Being a chicken really sucks (the second runner-up was The Two Towers in leetspeak, also via BoingBoing).