Perception is stronger than reality

The title says it all and is something that I am more than familiar with in some aspects of my job. Samsung are running a campaign called "Ditch the DSLR" and whilst I might not think that their cameras are the best ones to use as an example for such a campaign it is something...

NFL Super Bowl 2014 – updated

Every year the two winners of the NFC (National Football Conference) and the AFC (American Football Conference) American football leagues have a play off, this is the Super Bowl. This is one of if not the biggest annual sporting event in the USA. The event is now global and is watched all around the world...

iPAD 2 Pricing Announced

Thanks to Hexus.net for the detail. The iPAD 2 is still a go-ahead for sale on Friday 25th March in this country. This quite surprising as there are now shortages in the US, we were expecting the date to slip; we are not sure how many iPAD 2's there are in the UK. For once...

Simon’s Cat

A long time ago I remember getting a "Simon's Cat" cartoon as a WMV file. As it turns out the creator (a guy called Simon Tofield) has a whole website around Simon's Cat. There are a lot more videos and cartoon srips here, the videos are also hosted on YouTube. Simon's website can be found...

Phantom of the Floppera

I saw this over at HardOCP and thought it was quite funny. For anyone who's ever used a floppy disk, this is not a surprise. If you don't know what a floppy disk is then you have lived a privileged life; they were OK when they worked but had a nasty habit of failing at...

The new Apple TV

I hope that everyone had an excellent Christmas, I had a good time and it was nice to see my sister, brother-in-law and nephew too. I had a lot of nice present but wanted to write a short piece on what has been for some reviewers a controversial piece of hardware called the Apple TV....