office

Real Life: From office employee to assassin with StreetWars

Crave Egbert has taken measures to avoid being assassinated en route to and from work (although he was unwilling to reveal the measures) and has stopped going out for lunch -- assassination targets are safe within their office complex, but outside they...

Tags: tournament, water, part, measures

8 August 2006, 10:24

'Office in a Bucket': an inflatable room

Crave So imagine our delight to hear that we can now inflate a pure white office in our gardens at home as well, and keep up the good work on those lazy summer evenings when we're blogging away at home. All you need is the Office in a Bucket (OIAB) -- it...

Tags: privacy, office, steve jobs, bucket

30 May 2006, 16:12

Photos: Hands-on with the iRiver Spinn

Crave There's a palpable level of excitement in the office today, and there's only one reason: we've got our hands on a fully working iRiver Spinn in its ready-for-sale state, and man are we excited. One or two guys here in the office found the...

7 August 2008, 17:46

DHD4000: dual in Thomson's crown

Crave Swooping into the office in a pretty battered box, the inconspicuous little blighter looks more like some sort of network router than a life-changing televisual wonder. The Thomson DHD4000 is so good that we've FINALLY managed to pick up Channel 4...

Tags: thomson, channel, channels, office

12 May 2005, 10:27

Apple's black MacBook: A lips-on report

Crave There are two things you can bring into an office that will induce the weaker-minded to stand around, coo, and stroke. The office gimp licked the built-in webcam while making little snaffling noises -- rather like a baby lamb suckling on its mother...

Tags: apple, laptop, macbook, apple store

22 November 2006, 10:48

Set Logitech mouse laser on stun

Crave The MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse feels a little dangerous in a normal office environment. It's supposed to sit there, harmless, on your mouse pad and be used for all that pedestrian pointing and clicking that office drones do for a living.

Tags: logitech inc., silver, buttons, instant messenger

20 September 2005, 11:22

Photos: Check out our big pimpin' new offices

Crave Welcome to our new office! Say hello to our lovely receptionist Gemma -- she'll direct you downstairs to our part of the office on the third floor. We commissioned this arty lightbox to provide some colour and personality to the entrance to the...

2 May 2007, 11:14

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

Crave On arriving in the office this morning, we were greeted with a pleasant surprise in our inbox: an invitation to join the BBC iPlayer open beta, which starts today. However we tried iPlayer on two computers -- one in the office and one on a...

Tags: error, problems, beta, waiting

27 July 2007, 13:07

Bush TR2015: Radio without the wires

Crave When a Wi-Fi radio arrives at the office, Crave gets excited. We hooked it up to the office Wi-Fi connection, gave it the passkey and that was it: instantly we were able to listen to huge number of stations.

Tags: bush, fi, job, wi fi

26 February 2007, 10:00

KiSS 1600: The DVD player that likes to stream media

Crave It's not often we get so excited about a DVD player these days that we jump up and down when it arrives in the office. Audio support is varied and plentiful too, even including OGG, which always gets a product a little cheer in the Crave office.

Tags: linksys, stream, output, dvds

8 August 2007, 11:55

Hands-on with the skinny new Palm Treo 500v

Crave Reaction in the office this morning has been varied, with some people loving the new, curvier design and others saying it looks like a Treo made for children, rather than a serious business phone. Of course, you can still set it up with the office...

13 September 2007, 14:05

Open-source software rated: Ten alternatives you need

Crave Paid-for version: WinZipOpen-source alternative: 7-Zip 7-Zip is a file archiver that handles not only its own file compression format, but also the common .zip format, meaning it's ideal for everyday home and office use.

19 November 2007, 8:00

Ears-on with Audio Technica's ATH-ANC7 noise-cancellers

Crave We've tested them on London's Tube, on overland trains, in the office and out on the street. And in our office the unnecessarily loud air-conditioning system was reduced to silence. We're no strangers to noise- cancelling headphones, and we're...

Tags: audio technica, testing, noise, headphones

15 May 2008, 11:29

Rory's Christmas Shopping: Followit tracking

Crave Better still, you could secrete it amongst the lip-gloss, makeup and other miscellaneous junk in your girlfriend's purse to see if she really is going to the hairdressers and not nipping off on a sordid weekend with some rich banker she met while...

Tags: value, christmas, tracking, sim

20 December 2005, 14:00

Crave Talk: Is Origami the future?

Crave It's been  billed as the ultimate 'lifestyle' PC -- one that is highly portable, capable of displaying video, audio, television and still images, and be just as adept at handling office tasks as your existing laptop.

Tags: microsoft, field, ultra, host

15 March 2006, 8:00