Tag: "Rant"

Engadget Mobile Podcast 100 – 08.21.2011

We’re 100. 100! If you’re like us, you totally can’t believe it’s been more than two years since we first started Mobile Podcasting but you totally can believe it at the same time because that’s just how we roll: dedicated. To celebrate we’ve brought along Engadget Chinese editor Richard Lai and Noah Kravitz of TechnoBuffalo to weigh in on stuff like the Xiaomi phone and Symbian Belle leaking its way into the world. And…a couple of other things. We’re old. It’s a mobile party. You just got your pentaband invite to click on the play or download links below. Don’t sleep on it: before you know it we’ll be 200.

Aug 21, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

Software companies, the hard sell and the whiff of desperation

Web commerceI’ve just got off the phone with a global software company, and I’m shocked. Partly because I’ve had to phone up and register a piece of software in 2010 – it’s like a throwback to 1997 – but mostly because of the cynical way that the phone registration was used to try and pressure me, a potential customer, into buying stuff I just didn’t want.

Aug 06, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Word has just eaten my files @#!

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Aaagh! I’m in the middle of a computer nightmare. Coming in this morning to continue working on a couple of Word files everything looked just as I had left them the night before until I realised that all the work I had done on them yesterday had completely disappeared! It was like groundhog day, but with considerably more aggravation and swearing.

Aug 04, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

The phone with the real flaw? It’s not the iPhone 4, it’s your Android

So Apple has made its defence. Whether right or wrong, wise or foolish, the media circus rolls on. This blog isn’t going to cover that. Instead, this blog will discuss the most consistent comment we get when we talk about the iPhone 4:

Jul 19, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

The fundamental differences between Flash and HTML (and the real reasons that Steve Jobs wants to kill it)

Recently I’ve been making the case that Steve Jobs’ refusal to allow Flash near the iPhone, iPod and iPad isn’t an inconsequential squabble but rather a fundamental attack on the very future of web-based design and development.

At first sight, the argument may well look perverse. After all, everyone knows that Flash is a proprietary and [...]

Jul 01, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Please, Microsoft, let Windows 8 banish passwords

For me, the most important part of the recent leak of Windows 8 material (assuming it is real, of course) is the use of facial recognition to do login authentication. We know that passwords are a pain in the bum of sysadmins all over the world. Of course, we enforce all kinds of things to [...]

Jun 29, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

The world’s most ridiculous Terms & Conditions?

Even though I generally like the hardware Apple produces, I’m not a huge fan of Apple’s way of doing business, and in particular its habit of tying you into its systems. For precisely that reason, I’ve never bought an Apple device: nary an iPod, an iPhone or a Mac.
However, we currently have two Apple iPhone [...]

Jun 29, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Photoshop Extended vs Informatix Piranesi

A while back I wrote a piece asking What is the point of Photoshop Extended? The underlying technology is undoubtedly brilliant allowing you to import fully-textured 3D models into your flat images, but the implementation is awkward and intimidating. Beyond adding some extruded text (or should that be “repousséd”?) I doubt whether many users have [...]

Jun 23, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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