Ian Morris
Ian Morris loves televisions so much he's been banned from wedding chapels in Las Vegas for trying to marry them. When he's not romancing technology, he can be found watching American TV. Ian likes roast potatoes, but he doesn't like digital rights management.
Tuesday 2 June 2009, 4:27pm
Electricity wants me dead
Last week CNET got a little visit from a man who had come to test the electronics in our building. This largely involves walking around with a machine that drives grown men mad with its beeping, making sure that every cable and appliance isn't going to suddenly go all sadistic and kill us with mains electricity. Click here for more
Friday 22 May 2009, 3:07pm
Time to kill the video star as YouTube jumps the shark
Don't get us wrong: there are plenty of utterly awesome, absolutely hilarious and otherwise brilliant videos on YouTube. The service has some rather spectacular problems, too -- so much so that we're calling Google out. It's time for the search giant to call it a day on the popular video-sharing site. Here's why it should shut up shop. Click here for more
Friday 15 May 2009, 11:28am
Working from home is the future
I am a geek -- and that means late nights doing geek stuff and a propensity to not wake up when my alarm clocks start their desperate call for my attention every morning. Last night, I watched TV until the small hours, which usually spells disaster in the morning -- but not today, because it's national working from home day. So I am. Click here for more
Monday 30 March 2009, 5:39pm
Dear Microsoft, where's my sack of cash?
I'm told I'm famous. "At last," I cried, when Rory informed me last week I was an international superstar. "The day I've been waiting for," I bellowed across the office. Luckily, I stopped before telling everyone I was finally getting out of my day-to-day existence and suggesting they should stick their collective heads up a collection of pigs. Click here for more
Monday 16 March 2009, 12:41pm
The music industry should be paying YouTube
It's almost as if there's some sort of law in music publishing that requires everyone to act like a total idiot. The recent YouTube spat with the Performing Rights Society (PRS) has proved once and for all that those involved in music don't have the first clue what they're doing. Click here for more
Tuesday 3 February 2009, 5:17pm
A tax on Internet access is a good idea
There's been fresh interest recently, in the light of the Digital Britain report, in some form of taxation on Internet access in the UK. The idea is that copyright holders could be compensated for the losses they incur through copyright infringement by online file-sharers. The suggestion seems to be that we'd each pay something like £20 a year on top of our broadband subscription, to cover P2P downloads. Click here for more
Tuesday 18 November 2008, 12:16pm
Cruel new BBC branding imposed on stars
Imagine you settled down to watch your favourite spy-themed drama series, but instead of watching on regular BBC One, you chose the advanced showing on BBC Three. As you might imagine, this means tolerating the usual vile, bright-pink on-screen logo. Click here for more
Friday 31 October 2008, 10:06am
Quantum of Solace should be free
You don't have to pay to watch Coronation Street because the advertisers are footing the bill. So when a movie has more ads than an episode of Corrie, you'd expect you would be able to see that for free too -- the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace, is stuffed so full of product placement, everyone should be allowed into the cinema for free. Click here for more
Articles by Ian Morris
LG 50PS6000: Rumours of plasma's death greatly exaggerated
Crave Are you living in the future? If so, this TV isn't for you, so go back to your 100-inch 3D OLED TV and leave us to our glorious 50-inch plasmas
Sagem DTR 67500T: Never miss another paternity punch-up
Crave If you like finding out if person x cheated on person y with person z then you'll love the Sagem 67500T's ability to record endless episodes of the Jeremy Kyle show on to its massive hard drive
Western Digital WD TV
Review The WD TV is a really well-designed and well-executed little media streamer that manages to outshine devices that cost significantly more. With good codec support, an appealing user interface and excellent 1080p video playback, it's hard to dislike this machine
Top five free Android games: Waste your time, but not your money
Photo We all like messing about, and we've all got mobile phones, so it makes sense to combine the two. Happily, there are several excellent games for Android phones
Freeview HD: Ofcom strikes fear into our HD-loving hearts
Crave We love HD -- that shouldn't come as much of a surprise -- but we're very worried indeed about Ofcom's proposals for Freeview HD. Find out why
Serif MoviePlus X3: Windows video-editing software that doesn't reek of fail
Crave If you've got a camcorder, you'll probably want some computer software to turn your garbled shots into something you can be proud of. Serif MoviePlus X3 can help
The best Android apps
Photo We all know that iPhone users can get an app for virtually everything, but less is written about Google Android. Join us, dear reader, as we investigate the best apps for the open platform
Popcorn Hour C-200: OMG! Now with Blu-ray
Crave The Popcorn Hour media streamers are among our favourite devices in the whole world. Now there's a new model and it adds Blu-ray support to an already outstanding feature set
