Posts by Dave Foster
14 posts • joined Tuesday 23rd October 2007 21:01 GMT
Posted in Dixons whacked by profit warning
Second rate shop
This of course has nothing to do with the fact that their goods are top price and salespeople are totally clueless?
Posted in AOL waves goodbye to 900 staffers
Internet dinosaur
I dumped AOL when they merged with Time Warner and achieved the difficult task of making their website even more bloated. I'm amazed they still exist.
Posted in Virgin tempts Brits with fee-free TiVo
Is it such a good deal?
I got my invite to enter today, I started to register, then got suspicious. If I registered and didn't get a free TiVo box did that mean I'd signed up to pay for one anyway? So I cancelled, not that I don't trust Branson....
Suport your local store
My local computer store will build me whatever I want with any OS I want at a competitive price. Plus I can chat to the technician and see if he has any suggestions or thoughts.
Vista in control?
Their website was probably running on one of those Vista machines with 500 meg of ram that they used to stuff across unsuspecting punters a while back.
easy choice
Hmmm, £429 for the cheapest iPad or £149 for the Kindle. Difficult choice if you just want to read books!
BBC Game
Don't forget the old BBC computer game 'Pod'.
Posted in Mobile Broadband
Dave Foster
A lot of people (myself included) will want these mobile dongles for holiday use. They all seem to need topping up each month which makes them expensive for occasional use.
I'm using one of the older Vodafone dongles which was a genuine PAYG. It doesn't run out after a month so is ideal for my purposes. It is slower than the latest models at 1 gig download speed but that isn't a real problem. It's a great pity that the mobile companies don't offer a PAYG mobile dongle that lasts longer than one month before topping up.
Kaspersky issue
Firefox 3.5.3 is OK with TSB site, the only issue I have is that the virtual keyboard in Kaspersky has stopped working with Firefox. It still works with IE though. Kaspesky claim to be aware of the problem but aren't doing a fat lot to sort it.
Posted in ITV 'could dump' Friends Reunited
Lemon Time
ITV really did achieve a difficult thing, they turned a potential moneymaker into an overstuffed lemon. Time for some big bonuses?
I'm a dinosaur
Still running Windows ME and IE 5.5 on a Pentium 3. It works so why fix it!
darkside
So he made a mess of the programming. Sounds like he is ideal for an IT job working for the British Government.
Posted in Yahoo! assists! searches!
Totally crap
Until today I used Yahoo as my front page because I could check my emails quickly and get on with some work. Now they've hidden the email page inside so I have to negotiate menus to perform an everyday task. Great improvement Yahoo, what stupidity will you come up with next?
Posted in 2012 Olympics to be 'car-free'
Green cars?
I trust that the cars using these reserved lanes will be a Toyota Prius or similar?
There won't be any Rollers or Mercs poluting the atmosphere will there?
