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I wrote a wee thing about tablets for Techradar, in which I suggest that for most people, buying a full-sized tablet is an unnecessary expense. You may be thinking that I’m having a Damascene conversion: when Apple didn’t make seven-inch tablets I said small tablets were rubbish, and now Apple does make a seven-ish-inch tablet… [more]
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There’s been a big scandal in the world of videogames writing, and the short version goes something like this: comedian Robert Florence wrote a column about writers and PRs being a wee bit too close together, legal threats were made, the column was edited and Florence quit. Then it all exploded. Stuart Campbell has a… [more]
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Update, 2013: I decided not do to any more of these, for anybody, because I realised I was being a silly arse. Reviewers should be paid for their reviews, not allowed to keep the things they review: otherwise you’re in the Scoring Free Stuff business, not the Telling The Truth business. For what it’s worth… [more]
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The supposed Jimmy Saville / Paul Merton TV show transcript is doing the rounds again. Here’s some news from 2000: Paul Merton is always a man to push the televisual boundaries of libel laws as far as they will stretch but the transcript went a lot further than anything you would have seen on the… [more]
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I went to see Richard Hawley play Glasgow’s Barrowland last night. I’m not a huge fan – I like a lot of what I’ve heard, but I haven’t heard a lot – but last night’s performance of Don’t Stare At The Sun was one of those rare goosebumps-on-goosebumps moments. Beautiful. Here’s the same song on… [more]
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An interesting piece from The Verge suggesting that Google Maps got the boot a year before Apple and Google’s contract was up: Apple apparently felt that the older Google Maps-powered Maps in iOS were falling behind Android — particularly since they didn’t have access to turn-by-turn navigation, which Google has shipped on Android phones for several… [more]
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I reviewed Apple’s iOS 6 this week, and one of the areas I focused on was the new Maps app (the Google one is gone, allegedly because Google were being dicks about their mapping API). It’s an important app, and I set out to see if I could break it. I used a quarter of… [more]
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I’ve written a review of iOS 6, the latest free upgrade for Apple’s iPhones, iPads and iPod touches. Is it good? Yes, but the newer your hardware the better it is. the older the kit the less of iOS 6 you actually get. Some of the big features – Siri, turn-by-turn navigation, panoramic photos and… [more]
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The iPhone 5’s out, but if you’re buying one can you save cash by going SIM-free? The answer’s yes, but the difference isn’t as big as you might expect. Take Orange: the 32GB iPhone 5 is £219, then £36 per month over two years. That’s £864, so the total cost of ownership over two years… [more]
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My friends at Techradar and Tap! have been up all night covering the iPhone 5 announcement – literally all night in the case of Tap! – so if you want to know about the latest iteration of the iPhone then have I got links for you. First up, Tap!’s very excellent iPhone guide [iTunes link], featuring… [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
