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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 [more]
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Fancy a free book? Publishing firm Simon & Schuster is giving away a free ebook version of Loser’s Town, a Hollywood-set thriller by Daniel Depp. I’ve no idea what it’s like but it’s free, it’s a PDF so it should work on anything, and all you need to do is provide an email address, so [more]
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Over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun John Walker has been publishing a list of do’s and don’ts for video games. Many of them made me laugh. Here’s the first bit. And here’s the second. Do: let me carry more than two guns. Just when did we all decide that we weren’t okay with that element of [more]
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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 [more]
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Don’t worry. Taking my cue from Richard Cobbett – who didn’t blog about his iPad on the grounds that there were probably enough reviews of that particular device kicking around already – I’m not going to go on about it other than to ask for one little feature. User accounts. The iPad is a great [more]
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Anandtech has looked at this stuff in incredible detail. The fact of the matter is that either the most sensitive region of the antenna should have an insulative coating, or everyone should use a case. For a company that uses style heavily as a selling point, the latter isn’t an option. And the former would [more]
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This man is right. In the pre-Twitter/Facebook days, the “share” buttons across the web were simple static links. There were links above and below articles allowing the user to email, bookmark, or share an article across a variety of social networks, but they were static in that they were simple images with no realtime information baked [more]
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Business Insider is amused: it’s found video of Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer dismissing the iPhone back in 2007. INTERVIEWER: … The Zune was getting some traction. Then Steve Jobs goes to MacWorld and he pulls out this iPhone. What was your reaction when you saw that? STEVE BALLMER: 500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? [more]
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It’s overhyped, costs a bloody fortune, probably isn’t as shatterproof as Apple would have you believe and appears to have been rushed out of the factory (some of the first units have yellowed screens, antennas shorting out and so on), but if you don’t want to buy one then for God’s sake don’t play with [more]
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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 [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.
