Category: Technology

  • Stating the bleedin’ obvious about broadband

    I’ve just upgraded from 8MB to 16MB broadband, and as expected it makes absolutely sod-all difference to everyday web browsing. It’s good for video downloads and streaming, though, provided the site you’re getting them from is fast enough: 480p HD trailers from Quicktime are real-time, which is nice.

  • Apple at WWDC: meh

    Another year, another high-profile Steve Jobs keynote… is it just me or was it pretty dull? Yes, the Mac Pro is a beast of a machine, but it was hardly unexpected; meanwhile the Leopard demo was interesting but never made me go “woo!” Virtual desktops? Nice enough. Email stationery? Erm… Animated backdrops for video chat?…

  • AOL goes nuts

    …and releases the search history of 500,000 AOL users. Here’s what user 17556639 has been looking for: 17556639 how to kill your wife 17556639 how to kill your wife 17556639 wife killer 17556639 how to kill a wife 17556639 poop 17556639 dead people 17556639 pictures of dead people And so on. TechCrunch is, quite rightly,…

  • An interesting site for digital artists and snappers

    [photopress:photos.jpg,full,pp_image] Ever fancied the O RLY owl on an entire wall? No, me neither. But ImageKind could be interesting: as the Register puts it, it’s a kind of CafePress for wall art. You can upload your own images and turn them into big prints, and if you’ve got a bit of an ego or a…

  • When demos go tits-up

    Microsoft shows off Vista’s voice recognition technology. It doesn’t go entirely to plan. [Youtube. Via Digg]

  • Sony faces the music

    Following on from my comment (in the Microsoft’s Doing an Xbox post) about Apple’s competitors’ inability to get their shit together, it seems that Sony’s coming to similar conclusions: Sony President Ryoji Chubachi, who heads the electronics business, believes that TVs and portable music players are two products in which Sony must show it’s a…

  • Zune: Microsoft’s doing an Xbox

    More details on Zune are starting to appear, and while there’s still no hard information on what the device will actually do (although the message from Microsoft is that it ain’t a portable Xbox; it’s a caring, sharing media playback device) the big picture is starting to emerge. I’m particularly interested in this snippet from…

  • Splat’s entertainment

    As I mentioned last week, I’d been invited to see Sony blow up stuff as part of a new ad campaign – and because of the need for secrecy I wasn’t allowed to write about it. Which was annoying, as the Evening Times clearly benefitted from a leak and ran all the details on Friday.…

  • Microsoft Cock

    I’m indebted to No Rock ‘N’ Roll Fun for this fascinating fact about Microsoft’s iPod killer: Zune is apparently French-Canadian slang for penis. I’d make a joke involving the Zune and the Wii but I’m far too mature for such tomfoolery.

  • Game likes Wii (with photos)

    There’s only one single thing you need to know about the Wii: That it’s sheer, unadulterated, peerless and incalculable FUN – for kids of all ages… and we mean that right up to those grown-up kids with mortgages and half-pints of their own. [Via Digg]