Posts by Alastair Dodd 1

ICT classes in school should be binned – IT biz body

stop calling it ICT

would help - I mean Information Communication Technology? Communication IS information so just call it IT - rather than use a redundant word... virtually nobody but schools call it ICT anyway

Dell Inspiron Duo

looks less fun

but is a whole lot more - 256 levels of touch sensitivity with the built in wacom digitiser and pen?

HDMI out too with out docking station and up to 7 hours battery life (and it does come close to this).

Do I need to mention th 4gb ram and free external dvd writer?

They cost about 550 now so it's a much better deal then this franky one trick pony Dell. I bought one last year and love it.

Buy two tablets, stop a laptop from being shipped

I suspect hybrids like the eee pad slider

might be a few of these. I can think of several jobs here they would be perfect for.

Disney torpedoes Yellow Submarine

He should work on

souless scary eyed dolls 5 as all of his 3D stuff seems to have looked like that so far. The Polar Express being one of the freakiest ever

Gwyneth Paltrow rouses Discovery crew

NIice

Okay which member of the crew pissed off Huston?

Battlestar Galactica vets needed for online roleplay

Because it's FREE

and actually alot more twitch based than Eve which is just the world's prettiest Spreadsheet.

Don't just naysay it as there is an established product on the market, that would be like saying we don't need an iphone 5 as the 4 is good enough!

DC Universe Online

Seems the same as City of Heroes when that launched

with better graphics. But thats 6-7 Years old now!

CoH still has more features and much more to do (create own missions and stores, etc). Only downsides - isn't on PS3 or using DC characters which is no real loss tbh.

School caretaker harassed after Islamists hack EDL

what free speech?

we have no laws supporting it AT ALL.

there is no Uk consitution and actually bugger all rights when it comes down to it.

Primary school miss flashes porn vid at kiddies

wrong way round

Betamax (Sony) refused to supply porn industry so that gave the kick that made VHS the standard, despite being more rubbish.

Hence Porn inductry contributing heavily to DVD spec.

Tube to get phone coverage by the Olympics

Boris

you muppet are you really going to spend more money buggering up the Tube more?

Stations I can see voice coverage fine but apart from that don't bother.

Google sued for scanning emails of non-Gmail users

if you are forwarding business emails to Gmail

you are probably breaking the Data Protection Act. It's your fault not Google's. Baic security fail there.

This lawsuit is ridiculous and should get thrown out will all costs awareded to the idiot bringing it. Other fools feel free to join in an pay.

Viewsonic ViewPad 7 Android tablet

very expensive

for it's speed and memory. Come on if you want to take on Apple guys you'll have to be more reasonable on price.

Dell tablet-netbook combo PC out next week

already got a win 7 tablet

but If I didn't that would be on my shopping list.

Love the screen!

Nokia slips out Designed By Community handset

afte taking part in this whitewash

I can assuredly say the options were horribly restrictive and it was well funnelled into what Nokia thinks the community wants - Blatantly designed as a marketing tool for the N8 from the outset.

Adobe Reader browse-and-get-pwned 0day under attack

Adobe reader

is terrible these days, it's a huge install and full of problems.

I'd avoid it toally and use an alternative like Foxit

Online badness: The kids are not alright

48% of 9-16 have acces in their bedroom?

I'll bet only 5% of those have had any controls put on it by their parents.. out of sight out of mind and it allows them to blame someone else for their screwed up little brat.

5 years time they'll be moaning to the Daily Mail about the sick depraved world and why doesn't someone (else) do something

Apple pays off pension fund

Well said

I hope soon everyone will realise Jobs is seriously a underhand dodgy BS and not worship him like they do. He is a ultimate capitalist in the way that if there was money in it he'd screw your dead corpse. Mind you the way business laws are in the US soon enough people will be campainging for his canonisation..

Cleveland residents get RFID-equipped recycling

seems like

A very good idea. Everyone has something that can be recycled every week and this is a good way to force them. Where I live now we have large bins in the road so you can dump your rubbish anytime the amount of recycling being put out is much less, I'm sure that it is just being dumped.

Android's UK phone sales quadruple

Android is a very capable OS

now I personally think feature wise and usability it is easier and more featured than iOS4. Just needs some decent marketing and its only going to increase it's market share.

The desire is the best phone on the market right now bar none. If you just want to not even use your head at all then the iphone will be your choice but if you want a bit more out of a phone that has pretty much no restrictions you'll do teh sensible thing and shop around most likey ending with an Android device.

TalkTalk turns StalkStalk to build malware blocker

nasty nasty

but tbh Talk Talk are probably the worst ISP I've had the misfortune to use, god awful service and support (I didn't choose them). Cheap, but cheap and rubbish. Avoid.

Bendy bike inventor scores design prize win

suspect

in real use that frame will last about 2 months. There is ALOT of stress on the frame of a bike in normal use and I'd hate to be on that when the cable snaps, if you were on a major road that you under a lorry's wheels and dead. At least normal folding bikes don't completely collapse when one part fails..

Nice idea just no way practical I'd say as a cyclist.

Acer Aspire 1825PT 11.6in touchscreen notebook

What about the Hp Touchsmart TM2?

Give this a review, about £50 quid more than this acer, has built in wacom tablet with multitouch, comes with USB DVD burner, bigger screen similar power CPU/RAM/HD but added ATi 4550 mobile graphics so will even play Left 4 Dead!

I have one, sweet machine, and no I don't work for HP...

Jobs tells iPhone users to get a grip

typical (and slightly wrong as usual)

"This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases."

Well it's not actually the same problem on all wireless phones, it's the iphone aerial in the metal band at fault and their design of this. How you hold an handset will make a difference yes but a normal handset a case won't help at all. The issue is pretty much a sort of shorting out of the wireless signal when flesh bridges one of the gaps between the band sections. One fix a freind has done is putting some scotch tape up the side of the phone to insulate & break the circuit.

Sorry steve it IS an design flaw.

Teletext licence holder fined for killing service early

Little more than a slap on the wrist

quite pitiful and still cheaper than the probable costs of running it for 4 years.

iPad pawprints for voter registration

a finger cannot do a stylus signature

it will create an idetifiable 'signature' thats without a doubt but a signature done with your figer should NEVER be matched up to one done with a pen or stylus - Surely the way your fingers move when writing is completely different from using your finger. I suspect this would add way too much leaway into any verification when one was compared to the other.

JooJoo tablet offered to Brits

it's better than the ipad

but only 4gb of storage is a joke

Acer Easystore H340 2TB Nas box

all looks good

apart from the McAfee installed sounds good but with that pile of god awful shite I'd be worried they had botched up somewhere else that will only appear after a couple of months use.

Apple leaves profits on table for 'huge' iPad future

Priced agressively?

I think not, if this oversized itouch was priced agressivley it would have an entry level price similar to a netbook not at least 150-200 quid more.

It is agressive compared to all other Apple overpriced products yes but not in the whole market.

You could consider it premium like a name brand sports car (BMW Z3 for example). Its a shame that if apple made a Z3 like they make the ipad it would be lovely to sit in, have a great ride but no steering wheel so you couldn't DRIVE it.

Activision Tony Hawk Ride skateboard controller

late and overstates how BAD this game is

the garphics are terrible, the response from the board is erractic to say the least. This is a tragedy in game making more frustration than fun and still not worth the bargain basement prices you can get it for? 80% you are having a laugh - 40% is more like it.

AVOID like a shitty stick. Seriously just don't buy this tosh.

Why did you do this review reg? Someone throw you a freebie or did the reviewer owe some marketing muppet a favour?

Tesco Internet Phone rings off the hook

Woo

thak god something that Tesco does has failed, shame it didn't lose that morally bankrupt bunch of aholes billions

Jobcentre turns to the iPhone

Jobcenter Search

Is appaling and doesn't work - they should've spent the money on fixing that before this crap. Bloody typical of this government, do the flashy things rather than the bits that really need doing.

Whatever happened to the email app?

and MobileMe is free?

No you have to pay for MobileMe which the author seems to have forgotten. It's amazing the percieved value of a Mac compared to it's actual cost and how expensive it really is.

Good to promote the excellent Thunderbird tbh thou.

LG to bring over-the-air phone sync to all

Old

and on windows mobile (6 or higher) you can do the same as this and MobileMe but unlike apple MS arn't charging for it.

Oh and Windows Phone 7 has this too.

HTC HD2 Windows Mobile smartphone

Flash and updating

First in the article you say it has no flash support. TRY USING IE on it as that has native flash support that works very well like ALL WM 6.5 phones.

oh and "as it's a difficult procedure to upgrade Windows Mobile phones" RUBBISH!

connect to PC, run update file. Done. Ooooh that was hard. Official update are available from operators or you can get HTC ones direct. Mind you the guys at Xda developers cook some mighty fine roms.

and finally Brimful you are talking out of your arse as 6.5 is actually quite good and beats the arse of Symbian without breaking a sweat.