Category: Technology

A story on Mediaguardian reports another little area in which mobile operators are stinging their customers – international texts. Of course Orange already double charge you with the cost at the far end as well as the cost at your end. Charging 24p for such a tiny piece of data when email is free is…

Slightly annoying – my PC crashed, and as a consequence, it seems to have lost all my cookies. Now do I try to get into this Fightbox thing?

Slightly annoying – my PC crashed, and as a consequence, it seems to have lost all my cookies. Now do I try to get into this Fightbox thing?

I see that Tessa Jowell is claiming that the digital switchover is likely to be in 2010. I just can’t see that. While many homes are now “digital”, they only have one receiver which means additional TVs and videos are not. There are also vast tracts of the country that are simply not covered by…

It’s taken a while, but finally Dell has released their $199 and $299 Pocket PCs to the market. Just a couple of minor riders – the prices require you to mail in for a $50 rebate (they bank on you not mailing in), and secondly they won’t reach Europe until February/March next year. And can…

I’m still suffering from unresolved firewire “issues”. I can capture happily from my camera but can’t record back to it. I don’t know if there’s a problem with the camera, my computer or just the cable. Some experimenting at work tomorrow (or later today) is in order.

Today’s Guardian handed over it’s second section totally to the phenomomenom that is the mobile phone. Full of fascinating facts about the number of mobile phones overtaking landlines internationally, that one person in six on the planet has one and that the British do a lot of texting (oh – you knew that). But can…

This article on The Register is suggesting that both BMG and EMI (Germany, at least) plan on copy protecting all their music CDs from now on. I’m furious at this news for three key reasons: 1) I can’t play the CDs back on my PC. Some copy protection systems ship with below par windows encoded…

It’s been a while since RAM was so cheap, and at �25 for 256MB PC133 (what my PC takes) with one spare slot in my computer, I decided to wait until it was even lower. Well of course it went back into the �50 range, so I waited. And waited. And finally bought the extra…

I just had to let out some steam! I’ve just spent about two hours trying to install, remove, reinstall, remove, install once more, then think I have working a TV card, until finally I nearly had the computer not boot up at all. It all drives me totally mad. Just to explain that my computer…

I’m trying to work teach myself Freehand 10 so I can put together the company’s weekend away magazine. Why is it always print settings that bugger me up? If I create a 300dpi image in Photoshop and then import it into a 300dpi Freehand document, shouldn’t it look good? It doesn’t.

Interesting article in yesterday’s Guardian Online section about 3G’s slow eventual rollout now beginning. I have some serious doubts about the whole thing, and the amount of money everyone spent. On the one hand I certainly don’t want the Treasury paying any of that money back – if I go mad at a Bargain Hunt…