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Crave Podcast 47: Should Wi-Fi thieves be arrested?

Crave Ear drums are still reverberating following the debate about whether the man should be behind bars or patted on the back. The news this week that a guy has been arrested for 'stealing' Wi-Fi nearly caused a riot at Crave HQ.

Tags: crave, wi fi, fi, listen

24 August 2007, 12:48

Why I like: VLC media player

Crave What is it with those four separate menu/title bars at the top of Windows Media Player 10? I've tried most of the mainstream media players and disliked all of them for one reason or another. Windows Media Player irritates me by not allowing me to...

Tags: install, media player, icon, quicktime

3 July 2006, 16:00

Yamaha HTY-750: Surround sound in one small speaker

Crave The HTY-750 scores over some of Yamaha's larger sound bars in two main ways. If you long for the auditory joy of surround sound, but don't want -- or aren't allowed to have -- a multi-speaker setup at home, then you'll relish the opportunity the...

5 November 2007, 11:08

Sennheiser Sport: Singing in the rain

Crave And if you're shivering in one of London's fashionable ice bars, you can relax, as they'll work when it's below minus 10 degrees C. If you've gamed your thumbs into the ground and are in need of some serious physical activity to revive the mind and...

Tags: sennheiser, sport, activity, sports

11 May 2006, 9:57

Photos: At home with Google and friends

Crave This free, help-yourself café offers cereal, ice-cream, an array of chocolate bars and more. Offices are usually very dreary places filled with boring furniture and discontent -- but it all depends on who you work for.

14 May 2008, 11:20

Photos: Hands-on the Samsung Dual Display 2263DX

Crave It runs at a native resolution of 800x480 pixels, which isn't quite enough real estate to accommodate a Web page without scroll bars, but there's plenty of other things you can use it for. Crave knows two screens are better than one.

15 May 2008, 12:15

Intempo 'Daisy': Wi-Fi Net radio for your pocket

Crave If Wi-Fi enjoyed more widespread coverage outside coffee bars and hotels, it might be more attractive to have something like a Daisy in your pocket. We're living in happy times right now. Happy, because the Internet is no longer restricted to...

Tags: intempo

14 January 2008, 10:55

Motorola Slvr makes us shiver

Crave The Razr was radically slimmer than all the preceding clamshells; the Slvr is somewhat flatter than competing candy-bars. The Glamorous Event of the Year (so far) Award goes to Motorola, for the launch of the Slvr, a slim mobile phone that's...

Tags: motorola, silver, event, slot

1 February 2006, 11:10

JVC's ultra-wide TV: When widescreen just isn't enough

Crave When it comes to watching normal TV, you're going to be stuck with enormous black bars to the left and right of the screen. Good news: your widescreen TV is obsolete. Sure, you may well have just spent a fortune on an exciting new flat panel...

Tags: jvc, ratio, cinema, widescreen

29 January 2007, 11:57

Photos: The wizardry of pinball machines

Crave Among the elements that are usually hidden but are visible in Schiess' machine are the sound elements, like these three resonant bars. Located on the island city of Alameda in the San Francisco Bay, Lucky Ju Ju is a place where magic, karma...

26 June 2008, 12:33

Crave Podcast 80: Is BBC iPlayer breaking the Internet?

Crave There's one that specialises in linking you to women behind bars, one for the obscenely tall and another that links people who have similar diseases. It's podcast Friday! The big eight-oh is upon us, but far from going all geriatric, we've attacked...

Tags: tech, isps, robotic, downloading

11 April 2008, 10:00

Real Life: From zero to De Niro with LoveFilm

Crave The quality of the picture is excellent, but I am unable to get rid of the top and bottom menu bars despite fiddling around with the Windows Media Player options. I heard today that Channel 4 will be launching a DVD download service this autumn...

Tags: media player, film, clicking, laptop

22 June 2006, 11:21

Crave Summer: Super sun-kissed speaker selections

Crave They're powered by four AAA batteries -- as readily available at nearby shops as wet-wipes and Mars bars -- so there won't be any panic if they cut out towards the end of your Metallica marathon one night.

20 June 2007, 12:20

Crave Talk: Five things that are wrong with BBC iPlayer

Crave There have also been problems with widescreen files being encoded in the wrong size, so it's not possible to watch them full screen without black bars all around the image. The BBC is always trying hard to make sure its content is available to as...

Tags: limit, linux, beta, windows xp

31 July 2007, 12:42

Crave Talk: Should user interfaces cater for the intoxicated?

Crave Bars often play loud music to make rational conversation difficult -- driving the patrons to buy more drink, served in large, easily gripped glasses. Why is the button that connects your mobile phone to a premium-rate Internet service twice as big...

Tags: cash, mac os, machines, london

6 February 2007, 12:24