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It’s a good question… How do you install a browser when you don’t have a browser? The news that Windows 7 won’t include Internet Explorer in Europe has caused an outbreak of head-scratching – especially among those of us whose routers need a browser window to configure our connections in the first place. [more]
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Me again: The new Google Quick Search Box (QSB) for Mac is designed to make things easier. Summon it with a quick key combination and you can use it to find and launch applications, track down elusive files, dig up contacts or search the web. It sounds very familiar, with good reason: apps such as… [more]
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Me on Techradar: We’re told that it costs between four and eight times more money to get a new customer than to retain an existing one, and that the way to make big piles of cash in the long term is to keep your customers sweet. So why is O2 waving its corporate arse at… [more]
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Another .net column has made its way online. This one’s about attention and the way that gadgets can remove you from the moment you’re filming, photographing or tweeting about. Photos and videos are hyperlinks to memories, icons that your brain double-clicks to bring back the full experience – the sights, sounds, smells and sensations of… [more]
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I mentioned the other week that I’d written a book and promised to share some of the things I’ve picked up about the writing process, submitting to agents and all that stuff. And then I didn’t. Sorry, it’s been one of those weeks. This is one of those posts for which the phrase “your mileage… [more]
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I thought I’d say something constructive in an op/ed for once, so I’ve written about Opera 10. It’s moved from alpha to beta, and it’s really rather good. Internet Explorer 6, the gurning half-wit of the browser world, has nearly 17 per cent of the market. Opera, a truly great browser, has 0.72 per cent.… [more]
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Should ISPs advertise broadband services that don’t – can’t – deliver what the ads promise? Of course they shouldn’t. If you aren’t unemployed or self-employed, BT is choking your connection at the very times you’re most likely to use it. On the subject of iPlayer’s bandwidth demands BT says “We believe there is a real… [more]
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Could be… Have you seen the demo of Spotify on Android yet? If not, check it out and listen really carefully. That sound you can hear in the distance is Steve Jobs swearing. It looks like Android has found its killer app. [more]
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Isn’t it? Yes. This… is the same firm that decided to call its security suite Microsoft Wanker. Sure, it says OneCare when it’s written down, but go on. Read it aloud. [more]
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Moblin, the Intel-backed Linux for netbooks, looks pretty nifty. Which makes a change: With most technology, looking into it is like shopping for a new and exciting car. We’ll happily spend days scanning brochures, reading reviews and coming up with increasingly imaginative and expensive configurations. With Linux, though, it’s more like shopping for a new… [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.
