10 REAL tips for your room at university
The Daily Telegraph is carrying a piece today titled 10 tips for your room at university. All of them risible. Unfortunately, many students have to live in a real world...
Anyone remember Adobe Livemotion?
Anyone remember Adobe Livemotion? 10 years (actually, 9 years) is a long time in interface design but the functional similarities between Adobe Edge (the new HTML5, jQuery, CSS animation tool...
Gadget of the Year
My pick for gadget of 2009 is a lightweight reading device, containing between 60,000 and 600,000 or more words of text. The catalogue of titles beats every e-reader out there, with...
I Love Spotify
I love Spotify. No one has paid me to say this. I am free to say “Spotify is as rancid as an old plum that’s been stored for ten years in...
Tesco Value iPhone
O2’s iPhone exclusivity ended with the announcement that Orange and then Vodafone would be supplying the Apple gadgets to punters. Orange have already launched, while Vodafone are set to begin...
Left 4 Dead 2
While downloading Machinarium from Steam yesterday I noticed that the long awaited Left 4 Dead 2 demo was available. Had, in fact, been available for public download since the 4th of November. Just in...
1994: The Future of the Net
Between 1993 an 1997 I was a university lecturer teaching media studies. I recently found a lecture I wrote in 1994, introducing the Internet to students taking a module entitled...
Turn the Other Cheek
On Sunday, I emerged from my apartment building to find a bunch of Witnesses on the doorstep trying to get in. The head God-botherer asked me if it was OK...