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Google Blog Search
Does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s very fast.
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Microsoft’s new goodies
Lots of new things from Microsoft, including a sneak peek at Office 12’s very different user interface and a new photo sharing app called Codename Max. Full details of office are here, but here’s a quick grab showing Word’s new UI: And here’s Max: Max is available for free download, although you’ll need a pretty…
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Return of the Walkman
Engadget has the scoop on the new digital-age Walkman, which features a really clever display that seems to be part of the case. Nice.
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Nano, nano
As expected, Apple unveiled the rather ugly iTunes phone in association with Motorola, but it also junked the iPod Mini in favour of a new, flash-based iPod Nano. As the picture shows, it’s really rather lovely. For me, though, the best bit of Apple’s announcement was iTunes 5, which finally dumps the horrid brushed metal…
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Vicarious PSP joy
The Sony PSP finally goes on sale in the UK today, and I really, really want one. Unfortunately I can’t afford one, and even if I could I’m pretty sure my wife would put me in hospital if I bought one. So it looks like I’ll have to get my gadget joy vicariously by asking…
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The best (mac) things in life are free
Once again I’m buried under deadline mountain, so while I’m feeling opinionated about all kinds of things I’m far too busy to scribble about any of it. In the meantime, here’s a great wee site for Mac owners: FreeMacWare As the name suggests it’s a collection of links to good Mac freeware programs, and while…
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“Easily the stupidest iPod idea yet”
So says Idiot Toys, and no sane person would disagree.
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Why you should be wary of online ticket touts
There’s an interesting discussion on the Record of the Day messageboard about the cancelled Eminem tour: the people who bought tickets are being given their money back – but the people who paid for the tickets aren’t necessarily the people who have the tickets, particularly now that half the world seems to be flogging concert…
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Cracking open BigChampagne
This fascinating article about P2P monitoring firm BigChampagne suggests that P2P is transforming the way record labels market their artists. To take an example, here’s what I can tell you about the Arcade Fire, thanks to a BigChampagne report. The week of August 4, 1.3% of filesharers– maybe 200,000-300,000 people– were sharing the band’s music,…
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Forget mobile phone viruses. This is much, much worse
New Scientist describes a terrifying new threat to the UK’s mobile phone owners: bluetooth-beaming billboards. Ignoring adverts is about to get a lot tougher with the development of billboards and advertising posters that use Bluetooth to beam video ads direct to passing cellphones. As people walk past the posters they receive a message on their…