Posts by Chris Matchett

Outrage over 'sponsor a boob job' website

Sod the ban

Let's milk this pun for all it's worth

MS polishes UK dialect dictionaries

@ Some Guy

English (British) isn't a branch.

English (English) is the root.

Microsoft demos mind-bending photo app

The viewer is excellent

I'd imagine it would take a lot of work to set-up the environments - all those photos but the viewer is excellent. It does seem to be that fast and here's the amazing bit - it's Firefox aware! No "please use our browser" but "let's load the control as an extension in Firefox".

Impressive.

Next-gen Palm Treo spied on web... twice

I believe Bubba Sparxxx said it best...

It's not much of a famous iPhone killer that was promised is it? Treos should stick to productivity devices and leave the leisure time to Apple. It's a battle they won't win.

Vodafone Live 'improvements' kill mCommerce

how to get out of the contract

Ask Vodafone to prove that the new arrangement will not increase costs by more than 10%. If they cannot do so then you can break the contract.

Maybe Chubb should go to Yale

1) mobile email

2) windows mobile smartphone edition

3) welcome to the big city! 3G coverage is pretty good actually

4) good data plan cheaper than some dodgy internet café

5) HDSPA

6) AgendaOne/Pocket Informant

7) Turn vibration off when silent

actually

I tried to visit BBC News later on and got the banner twice - it also stopped me from getting the BBC site properly. I tried twice more and eventually got the proper site. I'll try removing live.vodafone.co.uk from my homepage in case that works. Bye bye Vodafone Live.

Title

The first time I visited a site I was asked if I wanted to use their mobile internet engine. I said no and Live Mail opened up fine without banner. If I want optimised I've got Opera Mini. Otherwise Pocket IE plus copes just fine with most things. I can also use that to set the User Agent.

This including reading and sending an email plus reading the 3 help pages on the new portal took about 200+Kb.

STILL waiting for VF to update billing.

Also they can no longer compare past usage with new because they have so significantly changed the VF Live portal page. So how can they tell that the new setup doesn't cost 10% more each month?

Citrix and Microsoft introduce BOB

When I read this headline

I must admit I pooed a little where I sat

Book publisher steals Google laptops

Confused

Is everyone confusing copying with theft? It would be the same thing not to take the laptop but to make a perfect copy of it and that's assuming that the laptop was something that was written down or art and not hardware which you can't copyright.

The thing to do would be to stand next to the booth and parrot everything that the booth staff say until they can't take it anymore.

Orange simplifies data by capping at 30MB

Walled garden

Does Orange offer a walled garden WAP site and does it cost anything to browse that?

PS Vodafone is 120MB not 130MB

Vodafone data bundle pricing slips out

Title

Some new developments: http://www.whatmobile.net/forumvb/showpost.php?p=192810&postcount=6

I suspect that there might be a U turn coming up

UPDATE

Vodafone Live itself now has a page about this. Although it fails to mention how much you get for £7.50 it does say this will be available from 6th June.

Meanwhile with less than 2 hours to go Vodafone's website still says that browsing Vodafone Live is free.

I'm (in)famous!

If you are with Vodafone now tell them TODAY that you think that their changes (i.e. making Vodafone Live pay to surf) will increase your bills by 10%. Then after 30 days that happens then they have to make you a nice offer or let you leave the contract early.

The other thing is that the data amount on my bill are much lower than the ones that my data counter software (SPB GPRS Monitor) is recording. Much lower. This could work in your favour but there does need to be transparency over how they calculate how much data is used.

Man barely survives hamster attack

and yet...

My hamster contains cucumber. He likes egg too.

'Dettol Man' cleans himself to death

Pedantry

Daniel, you forgot to open the tag that you closed.

curiously...

Ramsey is the name of a street in Australia

MS update patches patching

Doesn't work

Doesn't work. What's the point of part 1 of 2? Just give us the whole thing! My PC is often unusable!

Greek cops to paintball rioting fans

So Liverpool fans don't like having missiles launched at them...

The irony!

Viagra reduces jet lag in hamsters

Genitals

Have you seen the size of hamster packages? I bet they'd be up and running on the wheel sooner than 8 days if the Viagra didn't cause manoeuvrability issues.

Belgian politico to orally pleasure 40,000

Is that a straw in her hand?

This is just going to be blow football isn't it?

London dirty-bomb tests start this weekend

Sign this journo up as a guinnea pig

Bit insensitive those closing comments. Even an attack harming 12 people is of concern and it is right that the authorities are carrying out experiments to get a better understanding of any threat such as this. I wonder if the author lives and works in London or not.

MS update ate my CPU cycles

In my case...

The update itself triggered at the same time as Norton tried to update itself at the same time that I was using my laptop to take important notes. SVCHOST ate my memory and CPU. The PC froze up and I missed picking up important information - my PC was unusuable.

It was the last act that Norton ever did before being uninstalled forever but I did suspect that Windows Update itself had a hand in matters. Although I'm about to put Kaspersky on instead I am wondering if my PC would perform better and become a useful tool again if riddled with Trojans and security holes compared to the clean unresponsive system it is now.

Many software utility companies (Microsoft included) have forgotten why we wpent hundreds of pounds buying these things in the first place.

Hotmail is dead! Long live Hotmail!

Source?

What do you mean 'no source given'? You got it from wikipedia didn't you ;-P

I've been using Live Mail for over a year and I like it. I've even ditched using Outlook 2003 in favour of it despite owning Outlook and having a hotmail account that still qualifies for free Outlook sync.

So there

Hotmail's antispam measures snuff out legit emails, too

On the other hand...

Crap emails in my hotmail box have decreased sharply over the past year. It's actually quite usable.

Vodafone's new pricing model excludes VoIP and P2P

That's not all...

Your article fails to notice that the Vodafone Live portal will no longer be free. Right now I can check the football scores for free but I won't be able to from next month. It'll cost me the best part of £1 each time. I'm sure Vodafone will put as many images and extra links between the home page and the information we want.

If our contract didn't already say that they reserved the right to pull Vodafone I would be cancelling my contract right now.

I am however interested in the monthly tariff - especially if it can be used with push mail but with a month to go there are NO details whatsoever.

Google snubs St George - again

What St George?

All I can see up top on these pages is either the standard red or a flash of white and red covered up hastily by a Sun advert. Patron Saint days are not for big monolithic companies - they should be for the facist or drunk instead.

MP plans Bob Mugabe body-blow

What's the use?

He'll just get another one off the internet you know. Mind you $50 is quite a lot in Zimbabwe these days...

ISP ejects whistle-blowing student

Did you say this guy is now with Zen?

I don't feel safe on Zen as I did before reading this if he is on there.

Summary:

Right to boot him off.

Wrong to try and sue him.

Wrong not to fix the hole.

Muppet was wrong to publish the password.

Any customer that joins Be after this would be the most wrong thing of all.

Missing the PowerPoint of public speaking

Subtitling

I should have been more clear:

I turn subtitles on for English programs. My fiancé does that because english is her 2nd language and I do it because I grew up with deaf parents. But I process the sound and vision together.

This is old

And I said it was bullocks the first time. I watch lots of subtitled stuff - I find it easier. Yet there it is speech and text saying the same thing. That flies in the face of more so called scientific research - no doubt dreamt up in the student bar.

Power point can still suck if done wrong but the less space given to these hippy anti-slide mouths the better.

Microsoft shows its hand to stay in the mobile web war

Minimo is awful though

Deepfish isn't that impressive but Minimo is a complete dog. It needs a lot of memory to run, takes ages to start up and the interface is cluttered.

Thai King video wag pulls YouTube clip

Grow up!

How would the Thais feel if any portal they had that mocked Bush or Blair or any other world figure was blocked from that country? A light satire on Bush and then suddenly the site is banned from millions of Americans? Are you going to tell me that there is no anti-bush website on Thai webspace?

It's time some of the posters grew up, stop being offended at the works of a third party and learn that satire is a very necessary counterpoint to the influence of the rich and powerful. You also need to accept that other people are free to have their own opinions and don't need to love the things that you do.

So while you are free to control your own borders don't act all surprised if the boot is on the other foot.

Official: Powerpoint bad for brains

Subtitles

I was raised by deaf parents and now I can't watch TV without turning on subtitles. My japanese fiancé needs them too. But wait... that's words in visual and audio form at the same time!

Isn't the truth actually just that presentations are boring in almost any format?