Kodak Picture Mail: Email to frames
Digital CamerasKodak is continuing to put the easy sharing into EasyShare with a new software feature for its cameras and wireless digital photo frames called Picture Mail. The technology was demonstrated at the recent event in Barcelona where we also got our hands on the HD video-shooting EasyShare V1253.
The EasyShare range of digital cameras includes a handy big red 'share' button that allows for one-touch transfer of images to your computer and to Kodak's online photo gallery. Images can then be sent to Wi-Fi Kodak frames, where an icon appears notifying you that a new photo is waiting. Continue reading...
Opera Mini: Doomed to collapse on stage
Mozilla has said it is "serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices", and that it "plan[s] to rock it". I've often pondered Mozilla's next move; its successes in the desktop market are unquestionable. Continue reading...
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Top ten geek holiday destinations
SoftwareLike a technology showcase, our planet holds some absolute gems for geeks who go in search of them. The difference is that, of course, Earth is much bigger. Earth also has a hell of a lot more water. With only 30 per cent of the planet being land, it makes our search for the ten most geektastic holiday destinations significantly easier.
We employed the globetrotting abilities of Google Earth and a plethora of ideas to construct a detailed and visual tour of the places every self-respecting geekling needs to fly themselves to. Do you want to visit the house Steve Jobs built the first Apple computers in? Would you like to see where Einstein lived? Perhaps you'd like to check out the world's largest radio telescope, as seen from space?
So, without further ado, fanboys, fangirls, social outcasts, tech hobbyists, IT professionals, iPhone obsessives and Slashdot commenters, please fasten your seat belts for a tour of global proportions as we visit Earth's greatest geek holiday destinations! Continue reading...
iPhoto '08: Apple learns to skim
SoftwareYesterday Apple invited Crave to touch and stroke the new iMac, iLife and iWork products at its UK headquarters in the West End of London. We were particularly keen to find out if the improved iPhoto can compete with Google's magnificent Windows-only photo-organisation program Picasa. We quickly discovered that Apple has built on one of its greatest strengths -- integration across its whole range of software -- to stick ideas from other programs into the previously lacklustre iPhoto.
Photos are automatically sorted into events. We know, we know, it's date sorting, but hey, it just works, right? You navigate through photos within each event by 'skimming'. This is like a mouse mash-up of iTunes Cover Flow and the iPhone's gesture-based navigation. You skim your photos by hovering over the cover image of each event, with the speed controlled by how fast you mouse left or right. To change the cover photo, simply skip to the picture you want and hit the spacebar. Continue reading...
iTunes video: TV shows available to buy now in the UK
TelevisionsIf you're one of the three British people that bought Apple TV, you'll probably have spent some time wondering when you might be able to buy stuff to watch on it. Well, we're happy to say it's sooner than you thought, because Apple has just launched a bunch of TV shows on its iTunes video store in the UK.
Programmes cost a hefty 1.89 -- yup, that's right, pretty much 89p more than the same show does on the US iTunes store. You can watch them on the usual devices, including Apple TV, the iPod and presumably, the iPhone, when that finally pitches up here. Continue reading...
Are RSS feeds replacing the virtual surfboard?
I've talked about my appreciation of RSS readers before. But only recently have I seen a certain negative impact as a result of using them so exclusively. While they're amazingly efficient at bringing the content of hundreds of sites to our fingertips, they can also keep us from perusing the Web sites themselves. Continue reading...
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CNET.co.uk Firefox Search plugin: Get tech reviews faster
SoftwareFeeling intelligent? Pride yourself on your superb ability to be a cut above the rest online? Firefox user by any chance?
If your answer to the above is yes, you owe it to yourself to install the CNET.co.uk Firefox plugin. This useful tool allows you to search for news, reviews, previews, photos, videos and editorial -- not to mention Crave -- across the entire CNET.co.uk Web site, all from the comfort of your Firefox search box. Continue reading...
Crave Talk: ISPs upset by BBC iPlayer hogging bandwidth
SoftwareUnless you've been offline due to a lack of available bandwidth, you'll probably have noticed that ISPs are kicking up a stink because the BBC's iPlayer is consuming bandwidth on their networks. Imagine that -- people downloading things over the Internet. How very dare they?
The issue here is that broadband has proved incredibly popular in the UK, which is a problem, because it means that capacity is running out. Adding more costs money, and the cheaper ISPs have essentially priced themselves out of the market. This problem has been on the horizon for some time now, and while the ISPs are blaming iPlayer, it's far more likely this is just the straw that broke the camel's back. Continue reading...
Should we sue Microsoft if we're hacked?
A House of Lords science and technology committee has proposed software firms should pay up if their customers fall victim to e-crime. In other words, if a piece of software has security flaws that lead to you being hacked, having your identity stolen, or otherwise screwed over, you'd be able to sue its makers. Continue reading...
Polar Rose: Photo tagging for the whole Web
SoftwareWith Internet Explorer 7 now offering add-ons and Firefox's extensions expanding to bigger and better things, Internet browsers are becoming more powerful and influential by the day. One new development attracting a lot of attention is the Polar Rose photo-recognition and tagging software.
Currently in beta, and available for Firefox only, Polar Rose automatically finds photos of people on any Web page you're viewing, adding a drop-down menu next to every face. From there you can name the person and group him or her to any selection of photos already under that name. Continue reading...
Apple updates iPhoto for iLife '08: Fruit puns abound
SoftwareYou could cut the tension with a knife at Crave Towers last night. A West Side Story-style face-off developed between those Cravers who get excited about new Apples in the orchard, and those who give really don't give a Mac Mini.
The headline news was the well-rumoured new aluminium and glass iMacs. These were announced at a press conference at Apple Towers in Cupertino, where Apple head honcho Steve Jobs also pitched iLife '08. Updates to the lifestyle software suite included some tweaks to Apple's image-management program iPhoto. Continue reading...
Streaming BBC iPlayer video to your TV
The BBC's iPlayer has had plenty of knocks, the most common being that all the files are copy-protected to the max. It's true, they are, but it doesn't mean you can only watch the video you download on your PC. With the right kit and a little know-how, you can watch it on your TV. Continue reading...
WeShow: Organising YouTube for you
SoftwareYou've got to have some asteroid-sized cojones to start up a company based on Web video when YouTube is so humungous, but that's what WeShow is doing. The new video-streaming service hopes to create the ultimate online video resource by combining clever search and organisation techniques with streaming from the world's best video sites.
The site works by aggregating content from YouTube, iFilm, MySpace and others and organises them in a way that should help users find them more easily. This is done through aggressive manual tagging by a large 'development community', or 'tag monkeys' as we like to call them. Continue reading...
Crave Talk: Five things that are wrong with BBC iPlayer
SoftwareWe want to love iPlayer, we really do. The BBC is always trying hard to make sure its content is available to as many people as possible on as many platforms, and we love Auntie for that. iPlayer, which we should point out is still in beta, goes far beyond the services from other broadcasters -- the amount of programming on offer is vast, with something for everyone.
But as much as we love the concept, there are a few things we hate about iPlayer in practice. Here are the five key things we think need changing before the final iPlayer release. Continue reading...
BBC iPlayer: Auntie launches the public beta of its IPTV app
SoftwareOn arriving in the office this morning, we were greeted with a pleasant surprise in our inbox: an invitation to join the BBC iPlayer open beta, which starts today. We didn't waste any time in getting stuck in. Although anyone can sign up, the number of people who will be allowed to join is being controlled by the Beeb to ensure the whole service doesn't collapse in on itself.
Getting into the system is reasonably easy, once you get your invitation. The first step involves accessing the password-protected beta area. Once in, you must register a username and password. When you've done that, you'll be able to download the iPlayer library -- a little Web applet that keeps track of your downloaded shows. This is also the part that contains the peer-to-peer application that shares the files with other users. Continue reading...
Firefox Lite: Old PCs can crush IE
While most of today's PCs boast gigabytes of RAM, the lesser technologically able, older machines suffer in quiet dark corners, brutally slave-whipped by modern applications demanding memory units in the thousands. Firefox, while initially a fairly lightweight Web browser, is now in its 2.0.0.5 incarnation and with a few extensions and a few open tabs, sometimes consumes upwards of a quarter of a gigabyte of RAM. Continue reading...
How I read 20,000 tech articles a month
"From your 159 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 21,781 items". This is the message that was shown to me when I clicked through to Google Trends within my Google RSS feed reader, appropriately called Google Reader. It tells me I'm subscribed to 159 news sources, blogs, Web sites and so on, and that I've read 21,781 different articles in total over the last 30 days. Every one of these Web sites is tech related. They vary vastly on topic, but the collection gives me a constant influx of information, insights, breaking news, quick event coverage, live blogging updates and product reviews each day. Continue reading...
TV over the Net: Not quite legal yet, but a nice proof of concept
TelevisionsYou remember Napster, right? Not the legal one, the one that went before it, the one that meant universities across the world had to get bigger Internet pipes just to cope. Napster started the revolution of digital music and introduced the world to a new idea: getting media over the Internet. Now Napster has gone legit, but we probably wouldn't even have iTunes if it hadn't been for Shaun Fanning and his early shenanigans.
Back in the day, Napster was an exciting new technology that opened doors we hadn't previously considered. Indeed, these early illegal sites employed some really cool technology. The quality of an MP3 in those days was pretty rubbish -- 128k was pretty much the highest quality file you could find -- but it was a proof of concept, and we all know where the technology ended up. Now there are 100 million iPods in the world and quite a few other MP3 players. Continue reading...
Google, privacy, and why you're wrong
Google's 'Street View' map service is the latest Web movement to stir controversy, and just one more in a long line of accusations that the Internet is invasive of privacy. Continue reading...
BBC iPlayer to launch on 27 July
SoftwareIf you'd held your breath from the point the BBC's iPlayer was announced until now, you'd be stone-cold dead, and would have been for some time. The BBC has struggled through all sorts of regulatory approval for its Web-based, on-demand TV catch-up service, but it's finally here and you can use it from 27 July. Probably.
The only hurdle now is the huge demand we're likely to see on launch date. The BBC is going to be keeping a careful eye on the number of signups, and will pull the plug if the whole thing looks like it's going to collapse in on itself. In order to defy protests when this happens, the 27 July launch is being called a public beta, but the code is finalised now, so there won't be further features added or anything like that. Continue reading...
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