Author: Carrie

  • Alpine’s in-car iPod adapter: brilliant! And rubbish!

    Hooking up an iPod to your car stereo is a wonderful thing, but if you don’t have a proper connection you’re stuck with a mess of cassette adapters and cigarette lighter chargers (or worse, iTrips). So hurrah for Alpine, makers of really nice-sounding car stereos, who have an iPod connector that gets rid of the…

  • If you’re buying a PC this Christmas, buy a Mac

    As you’d expect, from time to time people ask me for advice on what machine to buy. Usually the answer is a question – what do you want to use it for? – and based on the response I’ll suggest a PC or a Mac, a desktop or a notebook. There’s no such thing as…

  • The truth about the Apple iPhone

    While Apple is keeping its cards close to its chest, we can exclusively reveal the details of the new iPhone thanks to a source who’d rather talk to me than to, y’know, the people who normally get the inside scoop on Apple stuff. * It will be white, or black, or another colour. * It…

  • Things that shouldn’t bug me

    People Who Capitalise Every Single Word In Their Message Board Posts Or Blog Comments. And people Who Only capitalise the Odd Word, Apparently at random and use Line breaks For No good Rea son.

  • Off sick

    Thanks to a heavy cold that meant virtually no sleep last night, I’m utterly incapable of functioning today. So I’m taking a sickie. Colds are rubbish. You’re not ill enough to get any sympathy but you’re not well enough to do anything vaguely intelligent.

  • IE7’s out

    And you can get it here. Er… …that’s it.

  • Apple: nice products, arsey attitude

    Here’s a good example of why I’m unlikely to join the ranks of Apple fanboys, despite my love of Apple products: Apple ships virus-infected iPods, and instead of saying “shite, sorry” takes a dig at Microsoft. As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even…

  • Unintentionally amusing Google ads

    David sent me a screengrab of the Unofficial Apple Weblog, which covered the story about an Apple store design potentially annoying Muslims. This Google ad appeared on the page: [photopress:googleadm.png,full,pp_image] eBay’s buying some weird keywords, it seems.

  • The scariest monster in virtual worlds is… the taxman. Aieeee!

    Making tidy profits by selling the Magic Sword of Gnarklabarsh in virtual worlds? The taxman would like a word. Users of online worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft transact millions of dollars worth of virtual goods and services every day, and these virtual economies are beginning to draw the attention of real-world…

  • Heh heh heh

    From the Popbitch messageboard: Catholic Truth, an organisation seeking to out gay priests, will “lead to innocent clergymen being fingered” said a spokesman for the National Secular Society.