Category: Technology

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…

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…