Posts tagged with "technology"

O2 are souring the pot by removing video calls from inclusive minutes. From next year they cost as much as a cheapish sex line. Hoorah for progress. Hoorah for competition. Perhaps Google can fix things.

Posted by Oli 14 months ago in o2, google & technology. Continue reading »

On June 29th 2007 we are going to witness an explosion of blog entries, digg posts and comments because the heralded iPhone is finally going on sale. Question is, will you brave the chaos or hide from it?

Posted by Oli 17 months ago in apple, iphone, digg & technology. Continue reading »

Considering the lower performance of Vista's games for power-players, I'm taking a look at how to grab older versions from an existing XP installation and get them working on Vista.

Posted by Oli 18 months ago in microsoft, vista, xp, games & technology. Continue reading »

Mark from Nutter's Mark has just posted up his "Top 5 PC-Games You Probably Didn't Play". I've got a few more that I think deserve your attention.

Posted by Oli 18 months ago in games & technology. Continue reading »

Six years old and still causing plenty of headaches for webdevelopers, IE6 represents everything that is bad and wrong with Microsoft... But there is hope! Figures show that IE6 usage is dropping right off, really much faster than could be expected.

Posted by Oli 19 months ago in ie6, ie7, microsoft & technology. Continue reading »

Before I get started reviewing Shred Agent, I'll disclose that this is a paid-for review. I have, however only been paid for the review and not its outcome. All following opinions are my own. Shred Agent is an application that can automatically securely

Posted by Oli 20 months ago in review & technology. Continue reading »

I've preached to the choir for some time on standards, plug-ins and JavaScript best practices. I thought I'd skew the angle a little, work the reverse-psychology and give everybody a few tips on how to make a website really blow chunks of meaty crapness. 1. Mono-browser compatibility

Posted by Oli 20 months ago in technology. Continue reading »

Those who caught my epic "How Sony Screwed Up" (dubbed: "122 reasons not to get a PS3" by readers) will know I'm not Sony's biggest fan. It's not because I hate Sony, just that they've made a colossally expensive mediocre gaming

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in sony, ps3 & technology. Continue reading »

Customer service is always at the forefront of somebody's mind when choosing hosting. Price and features are very important but when your server comes crashing to its knees and you need to contact somebody to get it back up again as soon as you can, it's the quality of customer service that will decide

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in technology. Continue reading »

I'd almost forgotten that the PS3 was yet to launch here in Europe but a story from the BBC today brought this oversight to its knees. Sony have today announced that the European version of their Playstation

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in sony, ps3 & technology. Continue reading »

I mentioned the other day that the OpenID scheme received a real bonus when Microsoft said it would be moving OID compatibility into its new CardSpace but AOL have gone 63 million steps further today. [image] They are turning all their existing

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in technology. Continue reading »

I've been linked to several video's recently where it's been hosted on Viddler. I'd just like to say now that I'm all in favour of people supporting new video services but they shouldn't expect everybody to get the same service from the small start-up

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in video & technology. Continue reading »

Windows Vista has quite a few new features, some of which take some digging around to discover. I was playing with the clock feature today and I noticed that it's possible to add extra clocks for other timezones. [image] While I realise this probably wasn't responsible for Vista's three

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in technology. Continue reading »

The distributed identity system, OpenID has received support from one of the most unlikely corners: Microsoft. [image] If you're not familiar with the OpenID system, I'll just run over it now. With an OpenID ID you can login to a supporting site just by giving it your profile's URL.

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in openid, microsoft & technology. Continue reading »

In an open letter from Steve Jobs to the recording industry at large, he said he would implement an open store "in a heartbeat" once they relinquished their unmanageable grasp over digital rights. [image]

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in technology. Continue reading »

Steve's just had a little rant over how he feels the proposed, dropped and now reproposed .xxx top level domain is good for the internet... But I respectfully disagree. For starters,

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in domains & technology. Continue reading »

Over the past several months Apple has been battering Microsoft's software with a series of adverts. It's getting to the point where you have to be a hermit not to have seen them especially with the

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in apple, microsoft, linux & technology. Continue reading »

Seopher has just posted his predictions on browser usage statistics entitled: Browser stats 2007 - Firefox for the win. From the title you can clearly see who he things the winner is going to be. Here

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in browsers, 2007, firefox, ie7, seopher & technology. Continue reading »

Stuart Brown of Modern Life is Rubbish put down my webdev language of choice. He says he uses it so I can't take him to the cleaners completely with his post but there are a few pointers that I really want to

Posted by Oli 23 months ago in microsoft, aspnet, php & technology. Continue reading »

I think I've just cured the disease that's been ailing me ever since I started using URLRewritingNet and just in case anyone is being effected the same way, I have the code that will allow you to fix the problem. I'll be honest with you from the off: I'm not 100% sure what implications this

Posted by Oli 24 months ago in technology. Continue reading »

Microsoft, in an interview with the BBC, have said in no uncertain terms that it's aim is convince people that older (than latest) versions of their software are redundant. Chris Capossela, corporate vice president of...

Posted by Oli 24 months ago in microsoft, office & technology. Continue reading »

It's the day after the big event. One press release known as a KeyNote, where the big man at Apple, Steve Jobs gave a talk about the up and coming things from Apple. Although the actual content is nothing special to me, lots of people went absolutely CRAZY over the whole thing... Especially the users

Posted by Oli 27 months ago in digg, apple & technology. Continue reading »

Aren't mobile (that's "cell" to the yanks) phone providers rubbish. Last month I got a text message from my provider, O2, saying that because I was a valued customer of theirs for six months, I was eligible for an "O2 Treat". All I had to do was ring the number and select what

Posted by Oli 30 months ago in o2, offers & technology. Continue reading »

[image] A couple of days ago a news report from NASA came out about one of their rover's six wheels breaking. This news was buried in under the headline "Mars Rovers

Posted by Oli 33 months ago in space, us & technology. Continue reading »

They're cool and ever-so-slightly handy especially when you've not got one when you need it. Now thanks to the marketing geeks at MS anyone that clicks a link, fills out a short form (and gets some questions right) can have one. Your first step is to head along to:

Posted by Oli 33 months ago in usb, free, microsoft & technology. Continue reading »

Today I was just doing some compiles of the website while checking the database and I noticed everyting starting to lock up. I loaded up task manager and this is what I saw: [image] Holy cow! That's the most memory I've seen any application use... ever! And I've made some pretty inefficient

Posted by Oli 34 months ago in beta, messenger, ram, memory leak & technology. Continue reading »