Posts by smeddy
34 posts • joined Friday 26th September 2008 12:01 GMT
Posted in Wireless HD video sticks demoed
Good device
I couldn’t understand the negative stance of the article, glad others agree. Great little device.
Still not happy
Screw them still, I hate the fact my details are out there because of them.
Posted in Apple iPhone 4 vs... the rest
HTC Touch HD2
Over a year old, but with Android on it, and it's perfect! And cheap!
Irony: Daily Mail readers
Ironically, anytime there's a cannabis-related story on the DM website, regardless of it's angle, all the commentators (well, 8/10) come down in favour of legislation... Here's one time I hope they do use the DM readers as policy-writers... :)
But on the main point of the article, it's a ridiculous move based putely on popularity politics... and probably one that will blow up in their faces.
"He will also be put on the Sex Offenders Register"
I just realised I've got to stop telling people I'm on The Register...
Posted in Apple reels as Steve Jobs Flashturbates
Fantastic article
No hyperbole, no hypocracy, no bashing for the sake of bashing. That was a really good read, regardless of which side of the fence you're on
Posted in Adobe warns over unpatched PDF peril
adobe need to go down the drain
I've refused any of their software on any pc I own for more than 10 years. Along with iTunes and QuickTime, and probably RealPlayer back in the day, it's the most bloated, addicted-to-pop-ups pice of software in the history of software. I hope it's software gets knocked extinct soon.
Posted in Steve Jobs unveils iPhone 4
iPad Mini
"Jobs noted that the iPhone 4 has 78 per cent on the iPad's pixels "in the palm of your hand.""
Say what you like about the product, but you have to admit Jobs is a pure hype-machine/salesman/charlatan (delete as appropriate)
Posted in Three In-Car Wi-Fi
in need of a title
Or, as others have said, I can just use my HD2 with it's free Wi-Fi Router, with my all-you-can-eat(ish) inclusive data.
It seems like a product in need of a market - anyone techy enough to need this device could probably list two or three alternatives which a) don't need an extra device b) won't cost the earth.
It would have been a nice idea three years ago, if anyone could have afforded £1,000 per MB.
bo
... The fanboi says: "I can't jump, I'm locked-in!"
Posted in LaCie LaCinema MiniHD
Netbook
I love these, I reall, really, really do, and I follow all news about media servers closely.
But I'm just as happy using a powerful netbook or laptop to power XBMC, and use that for HDMI-enabled video playback. Then I can tweak with appearance, with codecs, with millions of other things, plus all the benefits having a laptop brings (internet, Iplayer, music, etc) for a similar price to this. I have a NAS box sat in a cupboard pumping out an music/films/tv.
HD2 e-reader
Although I have slight concerns about reading on an LCD, if I'm going to use an e-reader I'm going to use my HD2 phone (with the AlReader erm... reader).
If I want to browse the web or be useful and mobile I'll use a netbook over the ridiculously useless (if slinky) iPad.
If I want to pay wayyyy over the odds I'll get either an iPad, or a Kindle, and actually buy eBooks!
Token?
I wouldn't have such a gut reaction to this - if the press release actually said what she's done, what she's doing, what she wants to do.
Instead it just reads like: "Hey, we've found a woman, and she's BLACK! We gave her a title!"
Posted in Acer H5360 3D projector
A worthy projector?
Ignoring the 3D capabilities, would you reccomend this as a great living room projector at the price? Are there any better sub-£600 projectors out there? Because I'm tempted :)
Posted in Brits left cold by mobile internet
Old study...
But the samplw base was asked nearly a year ago... It's only been in the last six months that larger screen handsets have become more commonly used. I'm a techno geek and I've only had my Touch HD six months, and before that I would occasionally play with the net on my cramped Sony Ericcson, but I'd understand why people wouldn't. Only Google Maps would get any data use from me.
I'd be interested in a study done in the last 3 to 6 months as I see a lot more people using their phones for 'net now.
In such a fast moving industry, did it really take them six moths to collate and publish their data?
Posted in Conceptronic Grab'n'Go
Fail again
Every single time, companies bring out these media boxes - and then forget to design the software! Why oh why?
Something like this with XBMC over the top = EPIC WIN.
Sorry to go all internet kidz on you.
Posted in Why Bono is wrong about filesharing
Hurry up and go extinct, dinosaurs!
From the day Napster was launched in 1999, the tools and technoloy were there to create a one-stop shop, where I could pay, say, 25p per single and £3 an album.
The music industry have (quite rightly) done their best to squeeze every last penny out of physical sales, keep digital sales up, and confuse the market with different formats, different markets, DRM etc. etc. So liberating a market when it's going to cost you bucks.
Obviously the tide has turned, so the label companies are now prepared to head into the digital age, but again in the most cumbersome, non-technical, but most-profitable way possible.
That's why I have not had any guilt about using p2p services for a decade, with the exception of about two albums a year where I feel the artist is small and worthy of support.
But until I can browse an artist and download the tracks unrestricted, to do with it what I like, for a reasonable price, I will not give those dinosaurs a cent.
Posted in Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1
Proprietry cables = No sale
Sorry Sony, that's £300 you're not getting from me. Goodbye!
Ridiculous
Why aren't Apple being called out on this? Or more importantly why are the media playing their game?
Whenever they introduce (or patent!) something that's been available for years, it's treated like a technical revolution! All they're doing is playing catch-up, or stopping ridiculous restrictions - multi-taking, woo!
I'm not a fanboi of any camp, and I think Apple have done a great job at a) marketing and b) usability/interface, but I am much, much happier with my HTC Touch HD.
Ugly Microsoft
Microsoft should pay HTC whatever they want to make TouchFlo the de-facto Windows Mobile GUI.
Everytime I'm bounced back into the Windows Mobile interface I'm left just stunned, wondering what on earth they were thinking that they allow such an ugly, primitive system to stay in place.
I'm in love with my Touch HD (so superior to an iPhone) but Microsoft are the weak link here.
Posted in Seagate shows off HDD-to-TV media player
Free internet service providings....
Nice, but how is this any different from any other HDD player of the last four years and why did it warren a video?
Also I'm sure he calls it a dog-station and his voice reminded me of one from Phonejakker: "we give you free internet service providings..."
Mainly kidding, I enjoyed the video, it just seemed fairly basic technology to warrant a video
Posted in Nokia transforms text messages into art
They spelt conversations wrong in the graphic!
That is all :)
'Hey, there's unusual emissions of gas.'
Same in my house, sadly no signs of intelligent life tho
Hulu got me into Arrested Development
...ANd for that I'll be eternally grateful.
Bad news about Boxee though, I can't wait for the Windows version to be rolled out. Every move the networks make against Internet TV just makes me more compelled to stick to torrents.
Posted in Gears of War grind to halt
There's 4 games I havn't bought because of DRM
And this was one of them. I don't need or want it on my PC
Why can't they just hook up a torrent server?
It's proven technology, it's next to free, and it requires next to no bandwidth.
Oh, and I played with a copy last week. It's looking okay, but seems really just like a new Vista/XP skin. Hopefully there's more under the hood which Im missing.
I knew it!!!
The Queen reads the Daily Mail!
Boo
Apple. Suck. Balls.
I don't mind the Mac but I avoid everything else they do for their Hitler-esque levels of tolerance.
Good news
Seems a rational study. Like it will make any difference to the Government though. So I'll continue feeling like a criminal and feeling paranoid (haha) about making weekly pickups outside a pub, being unsure the quality of what I'm smoking, all because the Government won't pull it's finger out and tax the thing. Maybe it will be easier just to back to cigarettes (80,000 UK deaths a year) and alcohol (55,000 deaths a year plus violence, stabbings, STDs etc.).
*PS I pulled those figures out my butt but I don't think they're a million miles off, I'll stand corrected if someone does the research!
/goes off for a joint and a good philosophy book
Posted in Archos 5 internet-enabled PMP
Bye Archos
I have liked and bought Archos since their Jukebox Recorder 10 days in 2001-ish, but the moment they started charging for plugins and extras (e.g. no mains adapter) was the moment they lost as regular bump of £250 every 18 months from me. FAIL.
Disappointed
I've waited for almost a year for this phone, but it's not blown me away - the low camera res, the complaints about Panels, and the nothing-spectacular music and video players. I've got three months until its time for a phone upgrade and for the first time in seven years I think I'm going non-Sony. Maybe the N96?
Posted in BT withdraws Wi-Fi access to The Cloud
so sick of company quotes nowadays
Fact is: one or both of these companies couldn't cream enough money off the top with this partnership, and couldn't really give a cr*p about how widespread wifi is. Don't they realise these spin-doctor type quotes have got old?
