Category: Media

  • The Facebook movie is just the start

    Nevermind The Social Network; what if other websites were films? You know the jokes before I make ’em: Shit my dad says Fictionalised biography of a man whose dad doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Starring Prince Harry.

  • Downgrade your iPhone 3G and make it fast again

    After all my whingeing about the catastrophic effect iOS 4 has on the iPhone 3G’s performance, I’ve become quite adept at downgrading it: I tried 4.0 and downgraded, then 4.0.1, and had to downgrade that. There are a few how-tos out there but I felt that some were too complex and that there were a…

  • Viral hits don’t sell shit [update: or maybe they do]

    Everybody loves the Old Spice viral campaign. It’s fresh, it’s funny, and it isn’t selling any more Old Spice. In fact, sales have fallen. Oops. While there is little doubt about the viral hit’s  popularity – the official version has racked up 12.2 million impressions on YouTube - sales of Red Zone After Hours Body Wash have…

  • Maybe Steve Jobs should start a blog

    Me, on the iPhone 4 Antennagate: Apple has arguably the most loyal fans of any firm, and if it had addressed their concerns earlier and got them on its side, this supposed scandal would have remained a minor kerfuffle. Look how quickly and how widely fake Jobs emails – “it’s just a phone” – spread.…

  • Fixing iPhone signal strength? There’s no app for that

    Apple’s holding a press conference to talk about the iPhone 4, presumably to address the ever-worsening signal strength PR mess. I think it’s been blown out of all proportion, but that’s partly Apple’s fault: Instead of putting their hands up and saying “hey, it’s possible to bridge the antennas at one particular point and that…

  • Can Microsoft make a must-have tablet?

    Microsoft is “hardcore” about Windows Slates, consumer-focused tablet computers. Me: The danger here is that Microsoft approaches Windows slate devices from the wrong direction. If Microsoft asks “how can we stuff Windows into an iPad-style device?” rather than “how can we make the most awesome tablet computer ever made, a machine so mind-meltingly incredible that…

  • Not all comments are welcome at the Daily Mail

    I tried to comment on a Daily Mail article earlier. It’s a report about the inquest into the death of a young woman from a heart attack, and the report goes into quite a lot of detail because – and here is the “public interest” bit – she was sexually aroused and watching pornography when…

  • Apple’s App Store is two today

    It’s easy to mock Apple – and I do – but the App Store’s had an enormous effect on software. So when I say app-y birthday, I mean it. Being able to pick up apps for a few quid here, a few pence there encourages us to experiment, to forget our favourites when something brighter…

  • Don’t upgrade your iPhone 3G to iOS 4

    Or at least, don’t do it if you like using your phone. It’s not just me: we asked Techradar readers for their experiences and it seems that the iPhone 3G and the initial release of iOS 4.0 go together like strawberries and Beelzebub. Maybe all those new goodies in the OS – the folders, the…

  • How to fix the UK economy: tax Apple fans

    You know it makes sense. The public coffers are empty, and that means we need to make sacrifices. The school leaving age will be reduced to six. Hospitals will no longer treat you unless you’re spurting blood or other fluids. Benefits will be slashed, the unemployed will be forced to eat one another and Wales…