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Internet: The Movie!

Crave Google have a few quid going spare -- last attempt to finance a film disappeared without trace, but let's give it a shot. Hooray for Hollywood, that screwy balleyhooey Hol-ly-wood. Oh hello there. Here at Crave Towers, we've been inspired by the...

3 December 2008, 15:58

Hands-on with the Samsung NV9: Cooler King

Crave with the beauty shot feature. Ice-blue eyes coldly meet the rear-view mirror. Engines rev. Dashboard needles flick wildly. Tyres squeal.and we remember that we're not in Bullitt and we're not Steve McQueen, we're just playing with a camera.

2 December 2008, 10:55

Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd

Crave You also get a timer that waits for couples or groups to be ready before firing off a shot. Pinch, punch, first of the month -- no returnsies! Today's wintry Crave is the 10-megapixel Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd, the latest in Fuji's line of sliding...

1 December 2008, 10:06

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson W705 Walkman

Crave Here's a sneaky shot of the new Walkman interface, featuring reflection-happy icons and a snazzy rotating layout. Released next year, the W705 is perhaps the most beautiful Walkman we saw in 2008. And we can reinforce that now we've got a working...

27 November 2008, 13:34

YouTube videos play in HD with a simple hack

Crave On my Intel Core2Duo machine, my CPU usage shot up from around 10 per cent to 40 per cent, and it peaked at 70 per cent. Wired, with the help of users on the VR-Zone forums, has uncovered a simple way to get high-quality uploaded videos to display...

Tags: problems, playback, high quality, hd

21 November 2008, 10:13

Photos: Brabus Tesla Roadster packs warp drive

Crave Here's a closer shot of the rear spoiler and the lower diffuser. German tuning specialist Brabus -- producer of souped-up versions of cars from Mercedes, Smart et al -- has announced it will build an enhanced version of the Tesla Roadster electric...

14 November 2008, 11:41

Three Colours Red: Scarlet, Epic and 3D for Red cameras and camcorders

Crave We've heard some pretty grand claims from Red head Jim Jannard, and the performance of the Red One video camera seemed to back him up: Peter Jackson loves it, apparently, while demented Crank actionmeisters Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have...

14 November 2008, 11:01

Toshiba Regza 42ZV555D: 'World's first' upscaling TV

Crave All HD Ready TVs have upscalers built in, because if they didn't, when you came to watch something that was shot in a resolution different to that of the screen, you'd end up with a postage stamp-sized bit of video.

Tags: toshiba, cell, processor, definition

11 November 2008, 11:59

Hands-on with the Datz Music Lounge

Crave But for discovering music it's about as useful as being shot in both ears. That's the Datz Music Lounge in a nutshell, as we reported last week. We've spent the weekend cracking open this DRM-free nut, testing the Lounge to its limits, but it's not...

10 November 2008, 10:57

Photos: The Samsung Pixon, an 8-megapixel monster

Crave There's nothing more annoying than lining up a shot and your camera phone not reacting fast enough. Here's a test shot of the CNET UK pool table. Despite what you may have heard, LG and Samsung are the best of friends.

4 November 2008, 11:02

Flickr reaches 3 billion photographs

Crave It's also more notable when you consider that Flickr's 2 billionth shot arrived less than a year ago. The 3 billionth photo, with the meaningless camera-supplied name of DSC_2672_1, is a black-and-white shot of a door on an abandoned house in New...

Tags: shot, share, smith, flickr

4 November 2008, 9:33

Netbook showdown: The top 10 mini laptops rated

Crave The company shot to prominence in the 1980s with innovative computing platforms, but eventually had its backside handed it to it by just about everyone. So you want a tiny laptop, but you're not sure which one to get?

31 October 2008, 9:06

Netbook showdown: The top 10 mini laptops rated

Crave The company shot to prominence in the 1980s with innovative computing platforms, but eventually had its backside handed it to it by just about everyone. So you want a tiny laptop, but you're not sure which one to get?

30 October 2008, 15:55

Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO pics revealed

Crave A Tython trooper takes a shot in Star Wars: The Old Republic. LucasArts and BioWare announced yesterday their forthcoming massively multiplayer online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. The game takes place chronologically about 300 years after the...

22 October 2008, 10:07

Photos: Hands-on with the tiny Optoma Pico projector

Crave That said, if you're with friends and you want to watch some video you shot on a camcorder or a mobile phone together, and you happen to have a pitch-black room with a nice white surface -- and you can use anything for that, like a paper napkin or...

21 October 2008, 12:13