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Brother DCP-135C: Quirky, cheap multi-function printer

Crave That's understandable from time to time, but the resultant error message from manually installing the driver is hilarious: "error -- printing", Windows said, implying the act of printing -- with a printer -- was some kind of illegal operation.

Tags: brother, usb, printing, cable

24 December 2007, 8:00

BBC iPlayer: Auntie launches the public beta of its IPTV app

Crave In the office we got error messages about updating our security, but the application wouldn't allow us to do the update, which was truly infuriating. It, too, displayed an error about security. On arriving in the office this morning, we were...

Tags: error, problems, beta, waiting

27 July 2007, 12:07

Last.fm reveals Earth's most popular music

Crave It has clearly made a monumental error internally, and listed Katy Perry as one of the best artists of the year. Last.fm, the music streaming site (and our CBS corporate sibling), released some data this week about the most popular music of the...

Tags: last.fm, songs, album, perry

4 December 2008, 10:27

New, improved Ask.com buckles under pressure

Crave Taking a break from the gadget world, Kate Macefield, of Crave Podcast fame, decided to search for escorts in Cambridge -- well, just their punters, really.But instead of getting a page full of curb crawlers or semi-clad ladies of negotiable...

Tags: beta, algorithm, clicking, searches

8 June 2007, 11:04

Pioneer creates 400GB optical disc: Like 16 layers of Blu-ray

Crave This massive increase in storage has been made possible by better laser optics and vastly improved error correction. Barely half a year after Blu-ray won the format war we're now being told that Pioneer is working on the next big thing, and when we...

Tags: disc, discs, ray, storage

10 July 2008, 10:47

Crave Talk: Google snoops on your TV

Crave And the precise knowledge of what's being watched will be manna to TV schedulers and advertising agencies, who until now have been stuck with crude and error-prone methods of determining how many people are glued to Ready Steady Celebrity Antique...

Tags: google, talking, watching, advertising

20 June 2006, 11:39

Top ten Internet memes

Crave To compensate for the error, Simpson proceeded to pathetically dance around like a rabbit on stage. The Internet is a weird place. It has a weird way of making things wildy popular that would never have been famous before the 'copy-paste...

9 November 2007, 8:00

Spurned Intel pans iPhone's Internet performance

Crave When it first broached this argument last year, Intel refused to publicly identify specific smart phones it used in an IDF keynote presentation, which damned ARM-based smart phones as error-prone when browsing the Internet, saying it didn't want...

Tags: intel, chip, chips, architecture

23 October 2008, 9:58

Virgin Free TV: It'll cost you

Crave We regret the error. If you can't get, or don't want, full cable TV, Virgin Media would still like to get some money off you. Surely that's the dream of every company, isn't it? So how does Virgin persuade people to hand over money without getting...

Tags: sign, box, broadband, money

4 April 2007, 10:47

Photos: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is officially gorgeous

Crave Why, that's Lenovo's OneKey Rescue System, which helps recover data at the touch of a button should a system error or virus occur. Here are some excellent pictures courtesy of our pals over at CNET Taiwan.

7 August 2008, 14:13

Hands-on with iTunes 8 Genius: Einstein with dementia?

Crave resulted in an error message. For us, the most interesting part of iTunes 8 is the Genius feature. Not because it's essentially a new way of selling you stuff from the iTunes Store. But because if you have a massive library of music, it seems to be...

10 September 2008, 11:53

Hands-on with BT Vision: Feature-packed cheapness

Crave We regret the error.Update 2: A full review of BT Vision is now live. BT sent a lovely chap called Dave to my flat last week to install its Vision PVR/on-demand box. Apparently we can't be trusted to plug them in ourselves, so customers have to pay...

Tags: bt, broadband, demand, installation

23 May 2007, 10:32

Crave Talk: Five things that are wrong with BBC iPlayer

Crave Issues we've encountered are: incompatibilities with WMP 11; security update warnings that won't allow you to press 'update'; files that simply refuse to download; files that download but will only play the BBC ident and stop before the programme...

Tags: limit, linux, beta, windows xp

31 July 2007, 11:42

We7.com: An ad with every free track

Crave CNET.co.uk regrets the error. Gather round everyone as DRM-free, no-cost, completely legal music downloads are here. What's the catch? we hear you cry. Why does there have to be a catch, you cynics? Does the idea of completely free music that's...

Tags: we7, song, sample, ad

1 May 2007, 10:48

Crave Talk: Robberies rise, escape with your iPod

Crave CNET.co.uk regrets the error. His assailants held what felt like a semi-automatic weapon to the back of Cocker's head and told him, "we're taking all your stuff". They then took his Motorola L6 Slvr (iTunes compatible).

Tags: london, tape, hole, crime

20 July 2006, 11:29