Category: Internet

Sometimes I wonder about the sanity of the film industry. The torrent sites currently have for download a high quality copy of a “DVD Screener” of the big new Will Smith film, I Am Legend. The film has only just opened in the UK, and has only been out about three weeks in the US…

Another website “optimises” itself for the iPhone. I do hope that every other gadget on the market gets a version of Picasa Webpages that makes best use of its own unique attributes. As I said previously, I’m getting really fed up of everybody rushing to write iPhone specific versions of their sites. I’ve no problem…

I’ve just been looking at this website’s “activity log” and was amazed to see how often comment spam comes in. Thank goodness that I’ve got some basic filtering in place. Yesterday there were 170 attempts to comment here (with one genuine comment), all of which failed because they didn’t pass my cunning challenge response box.…

There’s an interesting piece about Apple’s pricing for video in Variety at the moment. It seems that Apple would quite like to drop prices from $1.99 to 99c an episode, and not all the studios are happy. ABC/Disney might bite the bullet, but as an unnamed commenter for the piece says ‘it doesn’t make sense…

Well, I’ve bitten the bullet and upgraded to MT 4, and so far everything seems OK. I got it working pretty much straight out of the box, and I took Sixapart’s advice and did it as side by side install to allow me to only move across folders that I actually needed. That said, once…

NBC Universal has fallen out with Apple over the pricing of their products on iTunes with the result that Apple will not be offering any new material for sale from the company via its store. That means no new seasons of Heroes, Battlestar Galactica or The Office – three series that have sold very well…

We all know that Flickr is really cool don’t we? I mean, I’ve certainly always thought so. Until now. That’s why I was appalled to read this post from Rebekka who’s easily one of the more famous Flickr photographers. She put up a composite of several photos she’d taken of her home country Iceland and…

I’m looking forward to reading this.

My laptop has had a hidden “service” partition on it since I’ve had it, so in a fit of tidying up files, instead of handing the space over to Windows, I decided to chuck Ubuntu on it. It’s been ages since I had a play around with Linux, so I thought it was worth a…

There’s plenty of coverage elsewhere about the whys and wherefores of EMI going DRM-free, with Apple iTunes the first partner. But I will make a couple of comments. It is brave of EMI, but necessary. By holding out longer, you’re just going to piss your customers off, and when you’re having as turbulent a time…

The news that YouTube is being sued by Viacom for $1bn is not really that surprising. I’ve been frankly amazed at how YouTube has managed to operate when so much of its content is clearly copyright. I know that people like Jeff Jarvis will think that Viacom is shooting itself in the foot by bringing…