Posts by Alex Walsh

Have they sorted out the issue with Nvidia nforce ethernet drivers? Last time I looked, everyone was still using wireless- I certainly am :(

Bad news for sites like B3ta that definitely aren't porn but still got caught by O2's adult content filter. Who wants to bet that there will be an "admin" fee to remove a "porn" block?

Why are the tests run at such a low resolution? Surely at 1080p for most games out there, people could spend half as much as these cards only come into their own at higher resolutions?

Why is there the assumption that 7 inch equates to low end? Maybe some people (like those who spent £600 on the HTC Flyer when it first came out- and that definitely doesn't feel low rent) don't want a 10 inch.

Or perhaps you're confusing it with the Ainol Elf and the plethora of cheap foreign 7 inch tablets?

Tethering with a phone does have it's place but mifis come into their own when you don't want the battery drain. We were out and about at the Nurbergring last weekend. Our German host enabled tethering on his Galaxy SII but we wiped his battery out in around an hour or two with only 4 devices connected to it.

An article on Ultrabooks containing 2 Mac's that by default do not meet the definition of an "ultrabook", as copyrighted?

I know the reasons for including it, the inspiration behind ultrabooks but considering the spec is locked down, it's a bit disingenuous to include them isn't it?

I didn't go down the DIY route but did buy a Zyxel NSA310 which was populated with a 2TB WD green jobbie for £109. Okay, it's single enclosure but it's still cheaper than most of the unpopulated two bays here.

Are you sure

..that Butt House Blondes is anything whatsoever to do with music and not some grumble flick?

You really love that NEST controller don't you? It's in almost every round up you do.

A little bit Holy Grail in places

Big fan of the books and a reasonable fan of the series. Maybe with the increased budget of series 2 they'll be able to give a better sense of a living kingdom filled with people. So far, we've not really had that. Kings Landing seems no more occupied than the Frenchies castle in The Holy Grail, and as for any armies... Drogo's 40,000 odd clan looks more like a couple of dozen people looping round the camera.

what we need

is an article on plug socket loading. 7 HDMI inputs, so that's 7 devices that could be plugged in. On top of all the other stuff gathered round a telly.

Round mine, I've got 13 things plugged in and beginning to worry we'll all die in a wiring fire :/

Could you bring back the <blink>blink</blink> tag. Purleeease? :D

remember..

..the stories on El Reg about (computer) admin cock ups costing HMRC £1bn a year in overpaid working family tax credits?

Or the fact they don't seem to have an adequate system for ascertaining the joint income of parents to means test child benefit?

So I'm sure halving the amount they ineptly spend is going to work brilliantly.

Think you should over tweet a link to the video. it is international womens day after all.

Pointless device at this price. Baffling why their isn't better LAN support for streaming given the thing's got an ethernet port.

As far as I can see this supports no local streaming at all? If that's the case it's massively overpriced for what it is surely?

Wow

Is this the long fabled GDrive finally making it in to the open? I pay something like $20 a year for 80gig of storage with Google, which is mostly used to house a complete back up of all our digital photos. I imagine price wise they'll blow Dropbox et al out of the water.

Great app, doesn't correctly identify my 32gig SD card though, for some reason it thinks it's a 10gig card. Works like a feature enhanced version of iFiles on the iPhone. Great little app.

shame

That T'Mobile (the worlds only Northern telco) has such a poor range of phones atm. I was looking to switch networks earlier this month and their big headline announcement was the Playbook. No sign of anything remotely new from the network itself, you had to rely on third party resellers, which for various reasons I didn't want to.

WD TV Live

Whats the model number on this 3rd gen version? There are soooo many available, it's baffling.

You can pick up a (HDD-less) Boxee Box for £166 online, that leaves you almost £200 to buy either a NAS box or USB HDD's. I spotted a £3tb NAS box for £209 the other day (Buffalo). I think this makes the Iomega TV exceptionally bad value for money.

Boxee rocks though :D

The EU need to sort out the clearing system first. Having to pay £25+ to make a CHAPS payment is still often the only way to ensure that money moves instantly from one bank to another. Scandalous. Yes, there are some fast pay systems in place but I get fed up with 1-3 working days for money to appear in my account.

Add Boxee to the apps and his work is done.

We suffered from this. The webpage status showed no errors but I figured since the fault page was taking about 5 minutes to load and constantly timing out, that there was actually a problem.

Only the second or third time we've had connectivity issues in the 5 years I've been with NTL/Virgin, so not overly fussed.

Zumba

Only appears in the Wii chart, is the installed user base really high enough that it got to number 4 overall on the basis of that?!

"The body, compared to the likes of the more expensive Sony NEX-7 or Fujifilm X10"

The X10 is £1 more. It's probably poor grammar that makes it sound like you're bracketing the Fujifilm in the "more expensive" camp?

Enough of this nonsense, where's the smaller xoom2 review?

If this was the internet radio they recently had on offer for a tenner, I've no complaints. Wouldn't have been so happy at £45 though...

I've read tons about the massive overstock and have yet to see much in the way of bargains as Acer clear the stock out. Bah humbug :(

I never got on with the Atari ST version but when I picked up the Sega Saturn double pack of Bubble Bobble & Rainbow Islands, it came into its own. The tune still isn't as catchy as Bubble Bobble though ;)

Lets wait until apple change their terms and conditions to remove Sky Go from the app store. I'm sure it wont take Apple long.