Category: Technology
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What is a computer? Why do we have "computers" when actually what many people need is one or more consumer devices (or "appliances") that do a fairly limited number of things (such as web surfing, playing games, watching movies, and word processing) as painlessly as possible, and without having to worry about viruses and upgrading…
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Help! I think I’m running out of time in the day to listen to all the podcasts I download. Football Weekly (from The Guardian) is now twice a week, and the BBC has started to offer many more shows, including the News Quiz, the Jonathan Ross show, and even The Archers. As luck would have…
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Apple have come in for a lot of criticism recently over the iPhone. First for reducing the price so soon after launching it, and then for issuing firmware updates that have done bad things to phones if people did naughty things that Apple didn’t like. Jack Schofield in The Guardian wonders if the iPhone could…
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Still shooting those fish, I’m afraid. The TV preview section in this week’s Post Magazine makes a rather rash assumption. NHK & BBC make programmes in High Definition (HD). TVB broadcast these programmes. Person in Hong Kong buys HD TV. Person in Hong Kong is able to watch these programmes in HD. Well, no they…
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Google seem to have ‘improved’ iGoogle, and suddenly the Google News thingy has been ‘localised’, and I have no idea how to switch it from Chinese back to English: Top Stories 福田優勢速增額賀谷垣棄選 香港文匯報 – all 413 related » 布希未改伊戰立場民主黨無法接… 中央廣播電台 Rti – all 111 related » 國民黨將禮讓親民黨3席不分區立委馬蕭薦王第一 中時電子報 – all 52 related » 印尼24小時內連發4次海嘯警報 南方日報 – all…
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Rather bizarrely, The Mail on Sunday (a UK newspaper) is giving away Prince’s new CD today. I can see that it makes sense financially – Prince will get more from the newspaper than he would as an advance from a record company – but I find it hard to believe that MoS readers would be…
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John Naughton in The Observer on an old favourite: ‘You can’, my mother used to say, ‘have too much of a good thing’. Since she was generally not in favour of good things (which she equated with self-indulgence), I habitually disregarded this advice. But I am now beginning to wonder if she may have been…
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My wife is a techno-phobe. She doesn’t like computers, and only uses them because she has no choice. If something doesn’t work, she gives up – and, of course, this provides makes her even more convinced that computers are best avoided. Me, I will try to find out what is wrong and how to solve…
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Hong Kong will finally have Digital Terrestrial TV later this year (The Standard). As usual in Hong Kong this is being carved up by the existing duopoly of TVB & ATV rather than introducing any new competition. If TV viewers wish to watch programs in digital format, all they have to do is add a…
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I have criticized the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) in the past for their spineless response to the Internet access problems experienced in Hong Kong at the end of last year (through to the middle of January). Now one of their adjucations on an unrelated matter has been overturned by the Telecommunications (Competition Provisions)…
Ordinary Gweilo 