Posts by hugh

Naughty-step Apple buries court-ordered apology with JavaScript

Who'd have thought, the reality distortion field

is written in Javascript.

Apple Store staff outnumber queues as new iPad goes on sale

the queues were short

because Starbucks wouldn't let their baristas have the time off.

Steve Jobs' death clears way for Apple-Android peace talks

It'll all be over by Christmas

yeah, right.

Steve Jobs' last design: New Apple HQ pics

Prior Art

I hope GCHQ have patented the design.

World heading for massive jobs slump

It's worse than a slump

he's dead.

Leo DiCaprio slated to play Turing in biopic

Casting...

Crispin Glover surely?

Schoolteachers can't teach our kids to code, say engineers

Big Trak

I bought my four year old (ok, myself) a brand new Big Trak at the weekend.

Its a very basic introduction to programming (a program is little more than forward 1, left 15, shoot 5 times with one goto per 16 statement program) but its programming nerveless.

He's got it pretty much figured out already.

Next stop the trailer for beer delivery then onto Lego Mindworks.

HP's WebOS mess: When smartphone assets go toxic

Picture rendered on a Mac.

nuff said.

Galaxy Tab still legal in the Netherlands

Every story of this kind should include this clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

Apple injunction startles Samsung

I'm really keen on getting one now.

just because Steve says I can't.

Tesco pricing cock-up provokes beer stampede

See you jimmy!

Way to re-enforce a stereotype lads.

Vatican crackdown at Rome's Playboy Mansion-style monastery

Damm right

the catholic church is no place for heterosexual adult sexual activity !

White iPhone 4 'in production'

and on this day

not a shit was given.

George Lucas 'very happy' with 3D Phantom Menace

but you can roll it in glitter

3d glitter.

Amazon jumps the gun on free clouds

but only in the US

they must be having problems with the English version.

Ex-PM blocked Steve Jobs knighthood

Cool Aid

“Apple has been the only major global company to create stunning consumer products because it has always taken design as the key component of everything it has produced. No other CEO has consistently shown such a commitment.”

Bloody hell, this MP must have drowned in the cool aid. I don't think Apples Marketing/Reality Distortion Engineers at their most magical would try to pull that one off.

Having left parliament and the expenses, he must be skint and in desperate, desperate need of a free iPad.

T-Mobile imposes swingeing cuts on fair use data limits

I left Orange to get away from this BS

....

Not got a text though.

Why is Google's new Nexus S like no other smartphone?

its running (albeit needs work) already on the desire

the Nexus One

the Droids

even the the HD2

Judge puts Assange behind bars ahead of extradition hearing

Unstable people ?

that would be the CIA then.

John Lewis pitches 80-quid colour e-book reader

I like blinking I do

> I was initially sceptical about e-ink, until I tried it. I can read a Kindle for hours without any eye >strain, whereas I can barely manage 30 minutes on an LCD before I'm rubbing my eyes and >blinking.

Try blinking every few seconds.

LimeWire (finally) dies under judge's gavel

@Tigra 07

Spotify?

UK.gov pledges licence fee 'rethink' over heavy catch-up use

And so it goes

Every Jeremy Hunt MP policy regarding BBC (c) News International.

Apple spews Judas Phone signal bar 'fix' to world+dog

And one more thing...

Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around the eyes, look into my eyes. [click] There is no signal drop.

Sepp Blatter dubbed 'Bellend' by SA gov website

No one mentions his sister Fanny any more.

(c) Frank Skinner

Apple iPhone forums gripped by deleted thread paranoia

An Apple user cooked his dinner in the microwave?

Is it safe to cook tofu salads like that?

We'd still have a deficit

he'd just get someone to reprogram how the deficit was calculated

EU boffins aim to reinvent the hard disk

They'd be better off not bothering

and focusing their efforts on SSD.

Search begins on seized Gizmodo journo kit

@trev

so what you're saying is that bloggers are wannabe journos?

Who knows if hes a journalist?

Is Steve is implying bloggers aint journos?

Thats going to piss of 99.999% of the fanatics.

Google blames developers for lousy Android battery life

Apollo 13

The developers should be made to watch Apollo 13.

Boy those guys counted amps.

Whilst power management in Android is an issue, this is nothing compared to the storm of complaints that will come about when Iphone OS4 is released.

Latest iPhone 4G leak reveals A4 CPU

where's the magic?

I see no magic.

Adobe gives up on the iPhone

Wusses

they should pull Photoshop off the Mac as well.

if only just for a laugh.

Volcanic Eyjafjallajökull dirt-splurt space snap

no con trails

pretty.

iPhone 4.0: iAds, multitasking, and 98 tweaks

@cambeltonian

GPS level accuracy as long as the user doesnt move once he's switched cell.

Orange teases with HTC Desire debut

An Android phone ?

with Orange dataplans?

shivers.

Cultists aquiver as Applestore goes into hibernation

and its back....

Aperture ?

Whoop de doo. Second dissapointment in as many weeks. They're on a roll.

And. Their store sofware must be pretty useless if they need to bring it down to add a product.

Google Nexus One caught on camera

Roy Batty was one of his contacts....

that wont help with the Dick case.

MS store staff in spontaneous electric boogie

inmates in brightly coloured clothes forced to dance agains their will

they've ripped off the Cebu Prison guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xx4tszZ-DE&feature=related

Police sitting on forensic backlog risk, says top e-cop

the backlog

is probably all child porn cases. a triage tool will be simply looking through the filesystem hashing as it goes and checking the hashes against a database.

All fine and good as long as the hash databases are current, the files are not encrypted or in a format that the software doesnt understand, if not then stuff is going to get through.

Robot negotiator ends tense Colorado siege

ED209

ED209 shows how the next season of 'The Apprentice' should work.

ED209 lives!

You have twenty seconds to comply.

T-Orange puts names on dotted lines

Surely the better name would be

T-Mange

Boffins develop 'Hidden gateway to Hogwarts girls' loos'

The cake is a lie

This is a triumph, I'm makeing a note here, great success.

HTC Hero comes with Adobe Flash

more interestingly

he used a multitouch type gesture to zoom in and out.

steve wont like that

Facebook eliminates parts of Wales

they're not the only ones.

according to Wolfram Alpha Wales is in the midlands 9 miles from Rotherham.

Someone should burn down their holiday homes.

BBC goes live... over Wi-Fi

Not working on Android

"Your device appears to be unable to support this service"

Sharp UK intros 108in monster telly

2.6 mm tall pixels :o

need a bigger HDier format.

Taliban man loves his iPhone

its not a great leap

from one fundamentalist religion to another.