editorial
Games
Project Natal Won E3, and Maybe the Motion Control Wars
8:20AM Mark Wilson | Wii MotionPlus will make the Wii better. Sony’s very impressive motion control demo will be better than Wii MotionPlus. But Microsoft stole E3 and may have already won the motion control wars with the announcement of Project Natal.
Peripherals
I Love Battery Packs and Portable Chargers
2:00PM Jason Chen | As Matt explained last year, batteries are holding up laptops, mobile phones and PMPs from lasting long enough and running fast enough to get things done properly on the go. What’s my solution? Portable battery packs. More »
Games
Plastic Controllers Are the Future – Stop Complaining
6:40AM Jason Chen | That Tony Hawk plastic peripheral skateboard elicited groans from people who didn’t want yet another plastic controller in their living room, but you know what? Suck it up, because they’re the future. More »
Gadgets
Vapourware – How Machines Will Always Disappoint Us
7:40AM Jason Chen | There’s a principle in human psychology that promising something and then taking it away is a bigger disappointment than not knowing about it in the first place. Vapourware is the epitome of this for us. More »
Gadgets
The New Mantra of Tech: It’s Good Enough
6:20AM Mark Wilson | A few months ago, I sat in a think tank with a group of distinguished digital camera experts. We were talking about the future of cameras, what was to come.
Games
I Love Downloadable Media, But It Makes For a Crappy Gift
8:00AM Mark Wilson | iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and even PSN are all pretty good at distributing downloadable movies and music. But all of these data files, as easy as they are to buy, make for a crappy gift. More »
Gadgets
My Final Gadget Will and Testament
3:20AM Mark Wilson | I, Mark Wilson, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do declare this to be my last gadget Will. More »
Phones
Mobile World Congress 09: The Good, The Bad, the Ugly and the Boring
11:40PM Jesus Diaz | Despite the new HTC Magic, the Sony Ericsson Idou, and Windows Mobile 6.5—which is still not Windows Mobile 7—the Mobile World Congress was a bag of lame. Some blame the economic crisis. I don’t.
Gadgets
Why Kids Deserve Crappy Gadgets This Holiday
12:46PM Brian Lam | This may sound weird, but maybe the children—the future engineers, programmers and techs of our world—deserve crappy gadgets as presents this holiday. More »
Software
9:30AM Nick Broughall | There’s a completely BS article by Fran Foo over at Australian IT today about Google Chrome’s “failure to shine in its first 100 days”. Apparently, according to Nielsen Online statistics, less than one per cent of visitors to Fairfax and News Ltd websites in Australia use Google Chrome. For a start, since when is News.com.au or The Age a reliable metric for how a browser “shines”? I might just go out on a limb and say that the reason 70% of their audience still uses IE is because in many cases they’re completely ignorant about the superior alternatives, while many workplaces also restrict which browser can be used.
Then there’s the line, “Some argue Chrome’s languishing figures could be bolstered if it were pre-installed in computers.” Now, I don’t pretend to speak for Google at all, but considering they have 10 million active users worldwide after just 100 days, I don’t think they’d be describing Chrome as languishing. Seriously, I thought The Australian was meant to be objective. More »
Apparently Fairfax And News Websites Are The Web’s Best Metric For A Browser’s Success
9:30AM Nick Broughall | There’s a completely BS article by Fran Foo over at Australian IT today about Google Chrome’s “failure to shine in its first 100 days”. Apparently, according to Nielsen Online statistics, less than one per cent of visitors to Fairfax and News Ltd websites in Australia use Google Chrome. For a start, since when is News.com.au or The Age a reliable metric for how a browser “shines”? I might just go out on a limb and say that the reason 70% of their audience still uses IE is because in many cases they’re completely ignorant about the superior alternatives, while many workplaces also restrict which browser can be used.
Then there’s the line, “Some argue Chrome’s languishing figures could be bolstered if it were pre-installed in computers.” Now, I don’t pretend to speak for Google at all, but considering they have 10 million active users worldwide after just 100 days, I don’t think they’d be describing Chrome as languishing. Seriously, I thought The Australian was meant to be objective. More » 