Locked, branded phones are a complete pain in the behind. Period. They shouldn’t sell them but they do. Luckily for you, me and everybody else, you can usually step around these issues. Here’s how I unlocked and debranded a fairly new Orange-locked Samsung Pixon
O2 are souring the pot by removing video calls from inclusive minutes. From next year they cost as much as a cheapish sex line. Hoorah for progress. Hoorah for competition. Perhaps Google can fix things.
On June 29th 2007 we are going to witness an explosion of blog entries, digg posts and comments because the heralded iPhone is finally going on sale. Question is, will you brave the chaos or hide from it?
Considering the lower performance of Vista’s games for power-players, I’m taking a look at how to grab older versions from an existing XP installation and get them working on Vista.
Mark from Nutter’s Mark has just posted up his "Top 5 PC-Games You Probably Didn’t Play". I’ve got a few more that I think deserve your attention.
Having preached to the choir for some time on standards, plug-ins and JavaScript best practices, I thought I’d pivot, work the reverse-psychology and give everybody a few tips on how to make a website bad
Yesterday The Register published 10 reasons why you should part with 425 (~$900) for a PS3. The reasons are so poor that I thought they might be joking as they often do but I don’t think that’s the case here.
What happens when things go wrong is the great separator between web hosts.
Windows Vista has quite a few new features, some of which take some digging around to discover. Look what I found when playing with the clock settings.
In an open letter from Steve Jobs to the recording industry at large, he said he would implement an open store “in a heartbeat” once they relinquished their unmanageable grasp over digital rights.
Steve’s just had a little rant over how he feels the proposed, dropped and now reproposed .xxx top level domain is good for the internet
As Microsoft and Apple duke it out, consumers are starting to realise there’s more than Windows
Perennial misunderstanding mixes with saving-the-children to make truly bad law.
Seopher has just posted his predictions on browser usage statistics entitled: Browser stats 2007 - Firefox for the win. From the title you can clearly see who he things the winner is going to be. Here is the graph I’ve stolen from his article (© Seopher.com):
Stuart Brown of Modern Life is Rubbish put down my webdev language of choice. He says he uses it so I can’t take him to the cleaners completely with his post but there are a few pointers that I really want to address.
I’ve been making websites long enough to notice that the trajectory of change is far more accute in just the last few years.
To keep selling an endless cycle of upgrades, marketing has to convince you the thing you bought last year is ancient and broken
It’s the day after the big event. One press release known as a KeyNote, where the big man at Apple, Steve Jobs gave a talk about the up and coming things from Apple.
Service providers are rubbish. Why do business on the merits of the service delivered when you can just trick people?
Six-wheeled space rovers need more than five working wheels
Just how much RAM could a messenging client possibly need?