Month: October 2006

Watch full films for free on the net

So.. YouTube have got rid of all the copyrighted material now have they? Well no, they haven’t. In fact, although each video is limited to 10 minutes in length, you can still watch entire movies on YouTube courtesy of multiple-uploads and link pages like this telling you where each video is. There’s other culprits too, including all the “YouTube wannabe’s”… Read more →

Exclusive first test? Really?

I’ve just been reading this msmobiles story about an “exclusive first test” of the Lobster 700TV in “Total Mobile” magazine. Is it? Strange, we’ve already reviewed it here. Links – msmobiles.com – Lobster 700TV Review Read more →

Reasons why MySpace is just plain wrong

The internet is a weird and wonderful place. Many websites have embraced the new “Web 2.0” thing and made a fortune from it. YouTube.com and MySpace.com are just two. The latter I don’t really visit much as it gives people far too much control over webpage design and the resulting “personal page” is a hideous combination of huge pictures, music… Read more →

Road rage

Driving into work this morning up the madness that is the M6 I was witness to a rather irate person in a Citroen Picasso. The M6 was busy. It’s always busy. In fact, last week I was late home from work (we’re talking 11.30pm) and yet somehow I still managed to get stuck on the M6 in a traffic jam.… Read more →

Bollards in Manchester

My mate sent this to me on email. It comes from the Manchester Evening News. There’s a massive debate raging about new rising bollards right now as cars get speared by them. They have been installed to try and reduce the street’s high casualty rate. The local council have no plans to change them before the trial ends next year… Read more →

Fun Time Friday rained off

Right, that’s it. I’m on strike :) I’ve not got a fun-time Friday for you today because I’ve been mega-busy with work and website stuff. It’s been one helluva busy week but hopefully you guys should notice a marked speed improvement here on Coolsmartphone.com. I’ve had to put Fun Time Friday back for a day, so I need you guys… Read more →

Beer makes stuff better!

Blimey, things are getting busy here at CoolSmartPhone. Over the weekend the server was getting really busy. It’s not so much the loading, but more to do with my “screw it, that’ll do for now”-attitude to PHP scripting. Luckily, after a few beers, I had a flash of inspiration and I’ve recoded pretty much all of the front page. The… Read more →

No payment for the content providers?

Hmm.. Stephen Colbert (who I presume is some US TV person) makes a fairly valid point with this video. Surely, if Google have bought YouTube, we’re all owed a cut of the cash ? Think of it this way. If YouTube didn’t have any videos, what would it be? It’d be useless.. 99.99999% of YouTube is OUR videos, so (and… Read more →

At last ! After months I have the perfect picture!

A few months back we bought a new flashy Samsung LCD TV. It’s a Samsung LE32R74BDX and has a brilliant picture…well, I lie… it has a brilliant picture now, after almost 3 months of twiddling with it and Googling. The best picture, for those of you who have one, is done in one of two ways. Firstly, either use the… Read more →

Try not to annoy the police

This was on TV last night so I’ve YouTube’d it. Some nutter, who got pulled over by a policeman on a motorbike, decided that he didn’t want a conversation and instead attacked the officer with a Samurai sword. Attacking police officers is possibly the worst single thing you could do with your day. All available officers are called in to… Read more →

The most perfect TV advert in the world

No blog for several days and then two posts in one day? Woah, I’m a crazy mother.. or something. I’ve found possibly the best commercial ever. Listen up advertising people, because this is a perfect example of how to sell your product. The product in question here is chocolate and it involves a young lady in her underwear. It’s sheer… Read more →

A big blog cus I miss you guys… :)

I’ve been meaning to write a blog for some time. Our recent review of the Lobster 700TV has meant that blogging went out the window for a short time (yes, yes, it is a big review). So what have I been up to this week? Well I almost offended the entire staff of the local Chinese by doing my “joke”… Read more →

Flying back home

Planes are bloody scary things at times. Right now we’re flying back to the UK but, whilst sitting at the start of the runway the pilot came onto the tanoy to say… “And while we’re waiting for clearance you may want to know about some of the complexities of flying. We’re about 300 tonnes in weight tonight, quite light really,… Read more →

Yes, I’m still in the USA

Following the end of the Mobius event I’m in our hotel room while Emily is out shopping. I’ve spent about 25 minutes flicking through the various TV channels here in Boston and I’ve finally – yes finally – found a channel with a TV programme on. It doesn’t matter how many times I come to the USA, I still can’t… Read more →