Posts by shane fitzgerald

Hotmail users bitch and moan about new interface

So?

Nobody ueses the lame ass service anymore so who cares?

Samsung Innov8 i8510 eight-megapixel cameraphone

dear god,

why does it get 5% less points than the N95? what is is missing?

Sony PRS-505 Reader e-book

Compare it too...

You can get mobireader on symbian, windoze mobile, pc etc. Why not compare it to that?...

I have a couple of books on mine and its fine if im stuck somewhere I can read a good book. Theres no way i'd pay £200 for a dedicated device though. Esp one which can't even search - one of the main benefits of any ebook reader.

Vodafone to offer Nokia 'Tube' iPhone rival

Hey!

...leave kipper ties out of this. Just cos you don't like the phone theres no need to go kipper tie bashing!!

Commodore launches little laptop

Pointless

....its doesn't even have a run-stop key....

Sky plays the victim over Ofcom pay TV rights probe

Sky

...you pay to subscribe - they still show ads every 15 minutes. I had it for 12 months. Got rid of it. Complete rubbish.

Commodore goes titsup (again)

Its alive!

I run C64 on my N95. Its so cute, that little blue screen on a 2.8" monitor....

Email pen concept does away with keyboards

It will never take off...

..it will take too long to write all the > greater than signs at the edge of the page each time you reply to an e-mail...

Nokia unveils the N96 and N78

n96

so its the 95 with more memory (+ a pointless tv standard that will be about as useful as 'visual radio')..... still I guess each generation of the ipod classic was nothing more than the last one with more memory.. I'll probably upgrade my N95 8gb just for the extra memory.

Nokia N95 8GB smartphone

Why the drop of 5%?

The original review of the N95 gave it 90%.

The 8GB 'Verdict:

A big improvement over the original N95...'

Yet now it gets 5% less? Huh?? Where did it loose points?

What shall a phones lot in life become in this confusing world?

NHS frets over Brits' genitalia

If you ask me?

Balls.

When Commodore ruled the world

N80

I got the C64 emulator for my N80 - it looks really great to see that small blue cursor blinking bewilderingly once more..

Some of the games are like watching re-runs of the a-team or knight-rider though. You thought they were cool at the time but taking a second glance - the're crap.

Still some of them like boulderdash and stuff work really well still on the small screen and keypad... But I guess like lots others above it was programming the old 6502, action reply freezing games to find out how they worked. Changing the way they work ed.. that kinda stuff. That was the fun of it. Not so much fun on a phone keypad and 2" screen though. ...

So if the DS Lite and Wiis are in short supply this year pick up a C64 istead! :) The kids will be plesantly suprised (i.e. WTF??? Why did you get me a brown lunch box for christmas? Its ugly shit. Get out of my way old man. I got some Man hunting to do. w00t!!)

The day Microsoft 'embraced and extended' Java

Neither..

I'm still happy writing in 6502 assembler......

Telly vision: future display technologies

Harry potter eat your heart out

> Other advantages include screen flexibility (a bit pie in the sky, but with the potential to give roll-up displays, and clothing with displays built in).

Cool. Is this not the basis of the invisibilty cloaks mentioned some time ago? (Where they display on the outside what is behind them whilst me, the perv, sits on the inside watching women remove various items of clothing)? I can't wait.

Pee-powered battery unveiled

NoPoPo

I think the No Poo-Poo title is in fact a warning or warranty disclaimer. Since you can fill it with pee it might inspire the use of other fuel substitiutes. But by warning no-poo-poo this clearly indicates you must not squeeze a soft steamy log into it.

Dominos trns 2 txt

Does it matter?

..what codeword you use? Anytime I ever ordered from them I always get the same thing: Base, to roughly the size ordered, with a scant covering of tomatoe and cheese 'paint'. Then about 3% diameter, roughly somewhere near the middle, some random soggy or hard blacky/yellow/red bits......I'd prefer to fart in an empty cornflake box and eat that.... Now newyork pizza in holland is a different story.... ummmmm...

Culture matters: Why i-mode failed

O2 Feng Shui tarrif

I think people are missing the point here. The authors main point is O2 should encourage people to smash all their internal walls, burn their 50" plasma and all sit around in the middle of their one massive empty living room squinting at a 1" mobile telly.

Analyst rubs crystal ball and sees iPhone 2.0 based on Nano

Yeah...

..And soon after that expect them to patent the budget 'iPhone Shuffle'. It won't have a keypad but if you want to make a call you 'shout at it' and it just dials numbers at random from your phonebook. The hours of fun as each party tries to work out who the heck they are talking to.

And then since there is no screen, text messages are 'eeeked!' to the user in morse-code through the head-set... bringing all the joy of learning fluent Morse, to the poor..........

University boffins squeeze 500GB onto a DVD

Shhhh!!..

..can we keep this quiet for a while? I'm in the middle of trying to flog ebuyer.com a 1.44mb floppy disk here......

Wind-powered phone-charger coming to market?

Bing!

"The problem with wind or solar is that

wind and sun are untrustworthy while

most people walk and drive a great deal in a day"

- And therein lies the solution to the problem - while driving stick in on the car roof.. while walking... run and stick it on your head!

Manhunt 2 rated 18+ in US

Sounds good..

.... but i'll only play it if it lets me throw people in a basement, whilst waggling my wii controller, as it rubs the lotion on its skin....

HTC S310 Windows Mobile smart phone

And?

So it basically has the features and capacity of a nokia 6630 from 2004 that you can pick up for next to nothing these days....The mind boggles.

Hotmail is dead! Long live Hotmail!

Ugly duckling

Its plain ugly. Well it is on Firefox with a slightly larger than normal font (looking at this from my couch on TV). One third of the screen is just a big blank box!! On IE with a normal font it looks ok. Big deal? It looked 'ok' to start with, before the tinkering. Still won't change me back from g-mail.

Nokia N95 multimedia slider phone

2GB?

I currently have an N80 and was looking forward to this phone. But 2GB max?? Please tell me this is some kind of joke! Surely it will support the new 4GB and future higher capacity cards? No? No?

I have about 800 songs encoded at 64 which is ok. But that doesn't leave much space for pictures. And now since its a 5MP instead of 3MP the memory is going to run out even faster... And then if you buy this - you will want to have some GPS maps downloaded. But you just won't have room!

Ok yes you can carry round a few 'spare' cards. That was my plan for the N80. one for music, one for pics / videos, one for a few divxs etc. But the reality? I don't bother carrying them around. They are a pain to stop/take out/insert a new one/ wait for it to recognise it etc etc. Just because I need a bit more space to take a photo. And then any apps installed on the main card don't work until you swap it back again... It seems like a good idea - but in the end it doesn't work out like that.

The phone looks really really nice and i'd buy it tomorrow but not with a 2GB limit. Its an Alpha-Romeo alright... with a lada engine...