Posts by Bob Terwilliger

Stasi Barbie mails your Daddy?

Burning Platforms Everywhere!

This guy seems to go from disaster to disaster.

Chromecast v Smart Tv

Apart from lowering the faff factor versus cables, there's also a few reasons why this is better than a Smart Tv

1) Trying to enter text on a TV remote - not fun!

2) Crippled Youtube on Smart TVs - search results don't give anything like the same results as on my phone or tablet.

Robust enough?

Does it Deep Fry??

Emulators???

Surely one of the main uses for this, at least initially, would be emulators & retro-gaming?

A Megadrive & SNES in the same box with hundreds of Roms available on line means there's already a massive back catalogue albeit of questionable legality.

Real Names v Aliasssessses

If Google plus want to differentiate itself, perhaps it can implement aliases.

They understand that people have different circles of friends with differing levels of access.

OK , fine +1 to Google Plus compared to Facebooks boolean default stalker heaven.

But it's strange that they don't seem to understand that people may wish to show a different name online in different situations.

If the alias is linked to the "Real Name" they still get the precious precious data that they need.

Watermark?

Perhaps twitter can give the option of adding the username as a watermark when uploading a pic.

Most online viewers wouldn't care about seeing a watermark but it would obviously not be broadcast or print quality and so if the meedja wanted the original they'd have to get in touch with the creator.

Such a simple solution that it's probably already patented in the U.S. by Apple...

Apple still think they are the only show in town

Seems like an Elopian move.

If Kindle is forced off iOS, it may hurt Apple more than Amazon.

Of the few iPad users I know all mention Kindle as a key part of their use of the device.

Wonder if iBooks has to pay this 30% tax also? If not then the lawyers could be busy.

Tablets?

If they could have got more stock of the Advent Vega they could have had a nice fat section of the tablet market to themselves over the Christmas period.

As it is, it's still not in stock on their websites.

HELLO!

Dom Joly wants his phone back.

Google won't tolerate spyware on Android

After all, spyware is *their* job.

The thing with Bing

Is that no matter what search results are returned, there's always a nagging thought that Google will return better results.

Maybe Microsoft should be pushing some money into search engine aggregation services as well as burning money on the big bing bonfire.

Don't see the lag??

I'd had T-mobile's version of the Hero for the past week and I haven't really came across much lag except for a noticable half second when flipping the orientation from portrait to landscape or vice versa.

One of the first things I did though was download a task manager from the Android market to let me easily clear "closed" programs that were still using the CPU. It's amazing the number of programs that stay running even after being "closed" don't know if this is a Sense UI thing or an Andriod thing.

Coming from an N95, the phone is fantastic but the camera is rubbish and lack of a flash really is a pain.

Never catch on

"burdensome, poorly understood by taxpayers, and difficult to administer consistently".

Isn't that the mission statement of the Inland Revenue?