I think you are right. If there is damage done by the user blowing smoke into the machine and casuing it to clog up with tar, then there is cause to question if that should be excluded from a free...

This has to be the most bizarre excuse for voiding a warranty ever, but according to The Consumerist (http://consumerist.com/5408885/smoking-near-apple-computers-creates-biohazard-voids-warranty) at...

I just had a Jaws moment. You know, you think it is safe to go back in the water and then a bloody great shark bites your legs off. Except in this case you can replace the sea with the Internet and...

That's another area where I think these folk have gone wrong, marketing it as a 50+ thing as if you turn 50 and start falling apart. My mum is in her late 70s now, but even she manages to use the...

Depends on how 'old' an old person you are talking about. The people behind the simplicITy (still hate that name) are saying 50+ and I know tons of people between 50 and 60 who are very happy indeed...

What do you get if you combine a computer company with a group of Vegans and someone who used to present a popular children's TV show? The less than obvious answer is a Linux computer designed...

This thread has been marked as solved, the arguing is helping nobody so perhaps now is the time for this particular thread to end?

To be fair, she seems to be good at two things: writing (her fourth book is due soon, and the first three have been best sellers) and cancer research. Those are the things we should be celebrating,...

Botnets are, without any shadow of a doubt, one of the biggest scourges (http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/09/30/death-taxes-and-botnets/) of IT security today. From sending spam to launching...

Over the weekend news broke that a worm had started infecting Jailbroken iPhones in Australia. Nobody really took the exploit too seriously as all the 'ikee worm' did was change the phone wallpaper...

First Google expressed an interest in the web browser client (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20370/53/) market, and then the operating system market (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26281/53/)...

Reports are starting to emerge online that Microsoft may have initiated a cull of Xbox Live accounts belonging to users of modified games consoles. One claims...

Go Google and you will find plenty.

Closing this thread now before the spammers turn up.

Everyone seems to be talking about how first Facebook (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25376/53/) and now Twitter are being adopted by business users, as if the concept of social networking in a...

The UAC default is all wrong in Windows 7, much safer to allow nothing even if it does add more hassle for the user. That said, the Sophos testing was rather misleading I think. I wrote about it here...

It would seem that there is something of an ongoing battle in the world of online Chinese gaming, and World of Warcraft is right in the midst of it.

As I reported...

You cannot. You have to buy a genuine copy of Windows.

DaniWeb will not help you find an illegal copy of Windows or a source of illegal keys, read the Keep it Legal...

If piracy and illegal downloaders really are killing the music industry, how come more singles have been sold this year than ever before and people who file-share spend more money on legal releases...

You probably call it Halloween, for myself and other pagans it is Samhain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain), but for the cyber-gangs it is phishing time. Seasonally-themed spam is on the up at...

Some Twitter postings just demand you read them two or three times to take in what is being said in 140 characters. One such posting was made today by Mozilla CEO John Lilly which simply said:...

Forget the Windows 7 launch, the real big news from Microsoft this week is that it has reached a deal with Twitter to include real-time tweet data in Bing searches. If that wasn't excitement enough...

I think the real problem is that Twitter is like a giant child, growing very quickly but still not mature. So when it runs around the playground knocking the small kids over it doesn't actually...

Well quite.

"What do we want"

"Political change"

"When do we want it?"

"Are you free next Thursday for lunch and we can talk about it then"

GigaTweet (http://popacular.com/gigatweet/) has been counting the total number of messages posted to Twitter in real time, and the rolling count is almost hypnotic. Overnight the 5 billionth Tweet...

One point which I didn't make in the review is that the speaker unit is not magnetically shielded, so iPhone users will need to switch into airplane mode to prevent the annoying mobile phone signal...

Some high profile people have been caught up in this kind of scam. "As phishing messages go, it was never likely to be the most successful. A high ranking member of the British Government asking his...

Indeed. As soon as I see a survey about how important white teeth are has actually been conducted by a toothpaste manufacturer I tend to stop taking notice :)

Just when it looked like every avenue to prevent the extradition of self-confessed NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon had been exhausted, especially when just last week a couple of High Court judges denied...

12191It's just small enough to fit into your pocket, uses a specially developed high-tech gel and vibrates like crazy. But this latest must have addition to the iPhone accessories cupboard is no sex...

If it was a DAB radio I'd be more interested. Most FM radios built into MP3 players are, frankly, pretty awful to listen to in my experience.

You most certainly are not alone in being surprised, my friend.

Odd isn't it, how Microsoft kicked up a fuss when Google announced the Chrome plugin for Internet Explorer on the grounds that it could make the browser more insecure. Indeed, it went as far as to...

As promised in the review, I now have word from CoPilot about the in-app purchase pricing for the traffic live service:

"it will cost £19.99 for the year, and will include fuel prices and local...

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to bring full TV programmes online, streamed for free. It's the first time that any broadcaster in the world has made such a comprehensive...

I have now added screenshots of the TomTom app, and there is also a review available of the CoPilot satnav app for the iPhone here (http://www.daniweb.com/reviews/review230373.html) for comparison.

CoPilot Live 8 Mobile Navigation on the iPhone has been a runaway success at the App Store, consistently keeping ahead of its TomTom rival in the 'top grossing' app charts at least in the UK Store....

Actually, I won't be giving this a try right now as it appears doubleTwist does not support the iPhone 3.0 OS only iPhone 2.0 at the moment. Damn it.

I hate iTunes with a passion, but love my iPhone with an equal passion. Might have to give this doubleTwist thing a look.

The European Commission has called on EU member countries to do more, and do better, in fighting spam and other online privacy threats. In a newly published study...

My first web browser was Lynx, just text at the time. Am giving my age away now :)

I am still happygeek, no id change here. When staff writers post a news story rather than a normal forum post, it...