Category: Technology

Two things worrying about this story. 1) That DRM could be stymied before it’s got off the ground (and with the Chinese government backing it, cheap radios are going to be much more plentfiul far quicker than DAB radios have been) 2) That it could stop Shortwave radio transmissions completely. That would be terribly sad.…

Woo. With the advent of an OS X version of Skype I was finally able to communicate with my brother using this VOIP application. I’ve got to say that it worked pretty well. It probably helps that we both have broadband, but the quality is massively better than that offered by the regular telephone. Just…

I love DAB. In many respects it’s great. But there are things wrong with it…

Their time has yet to come. There’s Sky+, but it’s quite expensive and tied to a Sky subscription. Freeview does now have a 7 day EPG which is an essential part of the mix, but the boxes are unsubsided so still pricey. So they need to come down in price (you can buy a VCR…

Finally we’re beginning to see cheaper generic music players coming through. I got an email from Novatech today advertising their 20GB music player for 149.95 – the NPOD if you will! I’d been wondering how long it was going to take for some Chinese factory to start knocking out generics. The specs don’t look too…

So the iPod is, what, over two and a half years old now? My big question is why no-one has quite launched the iPod killer. Yes I know that the iRiver is pretty damn good and about a hundred quid cheaper than the equivalent iPod, but why aren’t there cheap Taiwanese or Chinese versions around…

Aaargh…. Nooooo….. My primary hard drive’s failed at home couldn’t get it to boot for love nor money. Obviously I haven’t been backing up assiduously either. At least the email is likely to be OK minus about a week’s worth – it backs up onto another drive on a weekly basis. Add to that the…

Well not content with finally twiddling with MTAmazon enough to get it working, I’ve now been playing with the top 10 thing on the right hand side of the page. Basically you can play around with Amazon.com’s scratchpad in an attempt to build an RSS XML feed, but the scratchpad doesn’t fully work. For one…

Well I’ll be buggered if I can get MTAmazon working at the moment. It returns precisely nothing. I’m fed up with it now! UPDATE: Obviously I’ve got it working again.

Today see’s the launch of the Nokia N-Gage, its phone and pocket games console combo. I’ve got to say that I’m not sure about the whole thing. I had a bit of a play with one in the Nokia shop on Regent Street yesterday, and the first thing that strikes you is its size. It’s…

The government last week published a report into digital television, Digital Television For All: A report on usability and accessible design. The DTI published it in association with a research outfit called The Generics Group. In particular the report examines current motivations for going digital, and the usability of the systems currently available. It still…

Scary – I finally got around to fitting a new fan to my main PC. The problem was that every time I came to rebooting it, the motherboard made beeping noises at me, and I had to wait a few minutes for it to cool down. This is surely not a good thing! So now…