My latest piece for Bit-Tech is up there now – well, actually it’s been up there a few days, I’ve just not had time to post it here. It’s all about the influence of politicians on technology, or rather, their lack of influence: “Senator Stevens isn’t the only one who is, to put in bluntly,Continue reading “Politics and technology”
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Emusic UK pricing: Operator, get me the President of the world!
As I mentioned in the last post, online music retailer eMusic has launched a UK version of their site. Emusic is interesting because it sells MP3 files without onerous DRM restrictions. You can therefore use the files on any portable MP3 player, and copy and burn them as you see fit; it’s also accessible throughContinue reading “Emusic UK pricing: Operator, get me the President of the world!”
A Worm’s Eye View: Some site updates and more
Some brief site updates: thanks to Blogharbor support, I’ve fixed the site’s URL so that http://www.thewiredjester.co.uk works properly (i.e. it no longer just does a simple re-direct). This was done using a CNAME setting at 1 and 1, where I bought the domain from, and a quick e-mail to Blog Harbor’s support department to sortContinue reading “A Worm’s Eye View: Some site updates and more”
ViiV: They Want The Show To Go On
Speaking of columns, the Custom PC website has just been updated with the content from the May issue (#32), including my column on Intel’s big living room PC idea, Viiv. “By using existing software, Intel has waded into the mess that currently masquerades as ‘the digital home’. Very little of the digital home is basedContinue reading “ViiV: They Want The Show To Go On”
The Million Pound PC Feature
CrossFire Originally uploaded by Custom PC. Issue 32 of Custom PC is out now, featuring a group test of cases aided with £30k thermal camera! As well as providing us with some neat insights into the way heat and airflow works inside your average gaming PC case, it was also plenty of fun to playContinue reading “The Million Pound PC Feature”
My Big Mouth and what my PC wants to do to help me
I think it is the dream – or has been the dream, at one point – of nearly everyone in the media to work for the BBC. For me, that dream may now be over. I was on the radio this evening, on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Drive show. Someone who freelances for Custom PCContinue reading “My Big Mouth and what my PC wants to do to help me”
We don’t usually talk about that sort of thing at the dinner table (or anywhere else for that matter)
The Guardian’s recent revamp brought with it a lot of changes – colour, fancy fonts etc – but they also updated the daily addtional sections. Monday remains unchanged, and it’s still the one burned into my memory, because it’s the Media section – the one I seem to buy regularly for about five years whileContinue reading “We don’t usually talk about that sort of thing at the dinner table (or anywhere else for that matter)”
Import PSP and YourPSP.com, take 2
The story so far: yesterday, a bit frazzled after a week at work, I tried to register my imported (i.e. Japanese) PSP on the European PSP portal, YourPSP.com. You need to give YourPSP.com your serial number; I did, and it didn’t work, so I rather quickly wrote a very hot-headed blog entry all about howContinue reading “Import PSP and YourPSP.com, take 2”
PSP Madness: UNDO
A retraction, and a ‘RTFM’ moment. Joystiq linked to my original, fuming, steam-out-of-the-ears post about how import PSPs didn’t work with YourPSP.com, and a discussion quickly sprang up – turns out some people with Japanese PSPs have managed to register them on YourPSP.com. So I’ve checked the YourPSP.com, and have got mine to work; youContinue reading “PSP Madness: UNDO”
On the iPod
‘Ah, iPod. Great product. Little wheel. Click, click. Very neat.’ I recently went to a press event for a big Taiwanese computing/electronics firm, and ended up chatting to the guy who heads their UK office. The quote, above, is how he summed up the Apple iPod digital audio player. I was asking him whether heContinue reading “On the iPod”
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