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My Apple Time Capsule packed up yesterday. One minute it was working fine; the next, it sounded like a washing machine full of hammers. The hard disk is gone, which is a pain – it had my iTunes library, three years of home movies and ten years of digital photos. I had a backup, of… [more]
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I’m writing about unlimited mobile phone data plans today. This is not, it’s safe to say, an industry famed for putting customers first. If the other operators decide to follow Three’s lead and get rid of their monthly data caps without small print or weasel words, I’ll eat my iPhone. I hope I don’t end… [more]
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Have you been following the launch of Google’s Chrome OS? I’m finding the whole thing a bit underwhelming: Most questions to which the answer could be “Chrome notebook” can also be answered “iPad” or “Android tablet”. What boots faster than a traditional PC (the answer to that one also includes “MacBook Air” and “Anything with… [more]
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I’ve just finished playing Vanquish, a truly demented Gears of War-style shooter. I think Eurogamer’s review is spot on. Sure, Halo: Reach gives you a jet pack. But Vanquish gives you the ability to slide 40 yards on your knees along concrete, ducking through the legs of a giant bipedal robot while firing rockets at… [more]
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This has lots of potential: Nokia Situations. Nokia Situations helps your device tie more into your life. You can manually define situations, like “In a meetingâ€, “Sleepingâ€, “Watching TVâ€, or “Playing with kids†and define how you want the device to act. With the application running in the background, your device automatically senses the situation… [more]
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Reviews of the various so-called iPad killers have been disappointing. I think I know why. manufacturers appear to be looking at the wrong things. They’re like musicians who think buying a Gibson Les Paul will turn them into Jimmy Page, or that being a big gobby pain in the arse makes them Bono. What makes… [more]
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Last week, I said that The Beatles on iTunes wasn’t a big deal. What kind of diddy hadn’t ripped the CDs or torrented the discography already? The kind of diddy that buys 450,000 Beatles albums and 2 million individual tracks, it seems. Oops. [more]
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About 200 years after it stopped mattering, The Beatles’ catalogue is finally available on iTunes. Do you remember where you were when Apple made its world changing, unforgettable Beatles announcement? I was right here, on this chair, in front of this computer, making this face: meh. [more]
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A few things I’ve written are online: first up, I’m doing Techradar’s weird tech section and I’ve got scary fembots, splattered bats and USB sticks as art. If we were asked to describe the last seven days in one word, we’d say “week” – but if we weren’t allowed that word, we’d say “roboty”, “batty”,… [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.
