Archive for December, 2010
Salt – I want my DVD player back
Seems like Sony are at it again with crazy DRM ruining their customer experience. Here’s what happens when I put Salt into my Kiss DP-600 DVD player: Disc spins up Starts to play Player crashes and switches off When I switch the player back on: Disc spins up Starts to play Player crashes and switches […]
Filed under: grumble | 8 Comments
Tags: crash, DRM, DVD, fail, player, Salt, Sony
A week ago I ordered a Push N Go Thomas for my nephew from T J Hughes (Amazon only had the Percy version). The site showed that they had it in stock (unlike some of the other sellers that I’d found on Google Shopping), and I was even willing to bear the somewhat steep P&P […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble | 1 Comment
Tags: cancelled, customer service, Froogle, google, online, order, product search, ranking, shopping, T J Hughes
I moved into my house over 8 years ago. The day after that move I bought a Brabantia kitchen bin – a nice big shiny stainless steel one. As I got to know more of the neighbours it soon became something of a running joke that everybody had bought the same bin. Some years later […]
Filed under: did_do_better | 1 Comment
Tags: Brabantia, customer service, guarantee, Touch bin
I live in the UK, and I feel like I’ve been waiting for Google Voice for way too long. I also travel frequently to the US, so I could get some use out of the service as it stands and it’s been frustrating that I couldn’t sign up. Disclaimers Google only offers it’s Voice service […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: google, google voice, IPkall, sip, SIP sorcery, SIPgate, skype, SkypeIn, SkypeToGo, UK, US, Voice, voip
Shortly before digging into the copy of Cognitive Surplus I bought on Google ebooks the other day I read this piece comparing the relative merits of Google, Amazon and Apple’s offerings. One of the areas of the store/reading experience it didn’t touch on was gifting. Since getting my Kindle I don’t really want any more […]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology, wibble | Leave a Comment
Tags: amazon, apple, content, DRM, ebook, geography, gift card, gifting, google, Google checkout, iBook, payments, publishing
One of the big tech news items today is the launch of the much anticipated Google eBooks. Sadly the service is only available in the US at the moment, so I thought I’d have a poke around and see what the hurdles were. US Browsing Browsing from my regular connection at home I could only see […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 4 Comments
Tags: Adobe, amazon, Amex, Calibre, convert, Digital Editions, DRM, ebook, epub, google, Google books, kindle, mobi, payments, proxy, UK, US
Region locks – My 2¢
Since I started using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy I’ve found that I’m exploiting it pretty regularly. Every time that I see one of those ‘you can’t access that content from your country’ type messages I have a choice. I can give up and move on, or I can fork out 2¢ to spin up […]
Filed under: could_do_better, media, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: amazon, aws, ec2, lock, micro payments, micropayments, payments, proxy, region, region lock, SSH, tunnel, video
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