Example of accelerometers utility

Stroller linux.luser at myrealbox.com
Wed Dec 5 13:58:52 CET 2007


On 4 Dec 2007, at 09:58, Al Johnson wrote:
>  Monday 03 December 2007, Stroller wrote:
>> On 2 Dec 2007, at 15:42, Steven Le Roux wrote:
>>>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWc-j4Xs5_w
>>
>> I _love_ the ball-bearing inbox and the way that a message from your
>> g/f might have a different timbre from one from your bank. That feels
>> VERY innovative to me, and more than compensates for the stupid name
>> (Shroogle? WTF?) and the dull video.
>
> In a fair chunk of Scotland, including Glasgow where the code was  
> written,
> shoogle means shake. Giving the phone a shoogle to find out if you  
> had any
> messages would make perfect sense. I say this as an englishman who
> occasionally travels north of the border, so the details may be  
> wrong :-)

Ah! I'm enlightened! They should've had a sassy Glaswegian explaining  
this at the beginning of the video: "Gie' it a shoogle, ken!"

Stroller.





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