Posts under ‘Tech’

The best remote control ever… I just spotted this on the Firebox site!
Basically this remote allows you to control almost anything, with nifty Harry Potter style wand waving!
Left and Right to select tracks, for example, and circular swishing movements to adjust volume. It can learn up to 13 infra red commands. It even comes in [...]

Here in the UK there are a few good sources of online TV, mainly the BBC iPlayer (excellent), Channel 4 On Demand (4OD, works well), and now the ITV Player. All give you a selection of catch-up TV (usually a week or 30 days depending on the program) as well as older, archived programs and [...]

Google is 10!
Google, a project first started in 1995, was incorporated on Sep 7th 1998. The company is a success story par excellence, generating massive profits and making it’s founders billionaires. Not bad for a company that has ridden the internet boom with aplomb. After all, “all” it does is provide a directory to the [...]

Google is launching it’s own browser – called Chrome (beta is now available), and they’ve also created a web comic to explain the thinking behind it. My first thoughts are at the end of this post, but here’s what Google itself says are the ideas behind the project:
Chrome Web Comic
It makes sense for Google to [...]