Fiona Rey called it decidedly ‘half assed’ not to have grabbed it.

Oops. Actually, I don't think I used such uncouth language on National Radio, but I did call TVNZ "fogey" for not slapping Karaoke High onto MySpace and YouTube and not even having the domain name. Weirdly, nothing seems…

Since I wrote it, a member of the public has also picked up karaokehigh.co.nz. Duh.

Oh that would be me then.
It was one of those big red button moments – you know the ones – a big red flashing button...
On Nat Radio Justin Gregory (I think) asked TVNZ…

and people who actually just want a decent phone

If you just want a decent phone, why the hell would you buy an iPhone? It's about as far from a basic phone as you can get.

Main drawback to the iPhone I'm seeing is the fact that reviews I've seen…

, never mind the cost of mobile data usage on Vodafone New Zealand,

Also note that the info released thus far says that to get better than bog-standard GSM requires a WiFi network. No EDGE, no GPRS. Which will make the web browsing experience somewhat suboptimal in most of NZ.

"Who is this 'Jack' fellow, and why does he have an amputated hand in a jar? Why can't he be killed? What does he mean he's died before? This show is crap!"

I watched the whole of Torchwood without realising that the hand in the jar was related to __Doctor…

According to Wikipedia, he's in it for the last three episodes.

Wikipedia knows the future?Woah.

But seriously, I get the impression that Doctor Who production knowledge is a distinctly tradeable commodity.

I'm betting Jack'll only crossover in the final quarter of the season/finale

According to Wikipedia, he's in it for the last three episodes.

I'm not convinced that a…

I guess it depends what you mean by 'the moneyed few'. With [insert big number here]% of the world without any kind of phone at all, that's pretty comfortable bet-hedging.

I guess I'm really responding to the "everyone" will want one theory thats been touted. Its simply not true. I…

Advice, anyone, on stand-alone FLV players?

there is this plugin (http://perian.org/) for quicktime that allows it to play FLV clips. not stand-alone i guess, but it works fine.

Apple made USB popular?

Are you sure Russell?

Pretty sure. Although it was developed by Intel, USB wasn't widely adopted until 1998, the year the first iMac was launched (and the year USB 1.1 arrived).

People were startled at the time at how bare-assed Apple was going on it -…

Are you sure Russell? I got the opposite impression about USB, to me it seemed like the PC market drove USB, remember the iPod’s first few generations needed firewire to operate, which required the purchase of a PCI Firewire card in most cases. In addition a…

I came across iSquint earlier in the week, looking for a quick'n'easy way to go from a flv (from YouTube) to a straight mp3.

This seemed to the be Swiss Army knife of tools – ffmpegX (http://homepage.mac.com/major4/) – not surprising, given its a GUI wrapper…

I've had no problem getting VLC to play the FLV files – I just open them via VLC's Open File dialog. This is on a MacBook.

That's what it says on the VLC website too. I was a couple of point releases behind on VLC, but I updated to 0.8.6…

Apple's entire history consists of taking pre-existing technology, making it better (generally simpler) and then embuing it with the emotional appeal only advertising and packaging can supply.

To nuance the above point, since Steve came back they've also done very well at picking winners in emerging hardware technologies. USB was…

iPhone will be a pretty niche player. It may be a large niche but that's it.

The people that read columns like this and a moneyed few will be interested but most of the rest of the planet won't even know it exists.

Hmmm. Like, Apple know nothing about being…

Cheers

http://www.isquint.org/getit.php

I can envision a lot of confused viewers, especially around Cyberwoman and the finale...

Indeed:

"Who is this 'Jack' fellow, and why does he have an amputated hand in a jar? Why can't he be killed? What does he mean he's died before? This show is crap!"

And with the next…

Reading all this stuff about DRM and the iPhone leaves me wondering two things: Whither Microsoft in all this?

If they have any sense they wait a week or so til the famous reality distortion field dies down, then point out that thay already have a number of these devices…

http://www.tbi.co.nz/article.php?sid=3060

what are we dinosaurs to make of NatRad's abysmal (yet again) month of excruiatingly boring January dross?????

My question exactly. There was a discussion here the other day about whether the Herald had its cleaning staff writing copy to save money over Xmas. NatRad is just playing a bunch of…

And secondly, how come everyone is so sure Apple is going to storm the ramparts of mobile phone fashion as easily as they did in the PC/Digital player space? Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and co. are not going to just roll over and play dead.

I agree with every word.…

Forget about DRM. Leave the Browser Wars for three hour George Lucas inspired Star Wars like epic. After my 1940's Fleetwood warms up it is valves all I get…

I remember one of the panellists at the Hopetoun Alpha P.A. Live do: "you call it TVNZ Interactive, but where's the interactivity!?"

Credit goes to Regan Cunliffe from Idolblog (and now Throng) for that one. He knows a thing or two about television and interactivity.

"I recall coming back from London one summer and just being dumbstruck by the utter, utter crapness of January TV."

Did you mean to write New Zealand TV up there?

Though given the way TVNZ thoroughly fucked up with genre-tinged BBC shows like Life On Mars (wasn't that pulled so we could have even more Corrie?),…

"TVNZ are showing Torchwood without mentioning it's a spin-off from Doctor Who? I can envision a lot of confused viewers, especially around Cyberwoman and the finale..."

No more than the confusion there might have been when Touched by an Angel, and it's spin-off Promised Land were aired…

Does TV in January really have to be bilge?

I recall coming back from London one summer and just being dumbstruck by the utter, utter crapness of January TV. There was a Canadian soap opera on, FFS ...

The resident TV oracle says Prime are definitely bringing it back, they just broke for the holiday season.

I know they do that in the States, and so US programs often come with a mid-season cliff-hanger, I guess I just don't really grok why we're adopting it here when the…

I was staunchly behind Prime's viewing schedule, right up until they stopped play series 2 of Stargate Atlantis halfway through the series...

The resident TV oracle says Prime are definitely bringing it back, they just broke for the holiday season.

I was staunchly behind…

Heartbreaking stuff.

TV in this country seems likely to go the way of fine arts: an obscure dalliance for the eccentrically bored.

What I find interesting about this whole browser thing is the take up of IE7 (Around 15-25% already).

Not round here.

This month, we're running at 11.8 % share for IE 7 vs 40.6% for IE 6

Last month was 9.6% vs. 45.5%

For Firefox, across all versions:

This month:…

I don't have accurate statistics as such (don't know if anyone has) but this is what Sitemeter has recorded over the past seven or eight months:

Operating Systems
Windows XP: 68%
Windows Vista: 6%…