Nate Lanxon
Nate Lanxon is CNET UK's Senior Editor of News and Features, and covers every aspect of technology for Crave. He also enjoys popular-science books, obscure Japanese animation and plays 'technical metal' on the drums, whatever that is.
Monday 2 November 2009, 4:52pm
Digg that anatopism!
In a moment of what I shall call 'Gladwellian mis-thinking' earlier today, the universe suggested that I spend too much time on the Net. And digg.com. Walking back from lunch earlier today, I saw a yellow poster on the back of a lorry. My first, split-second thought was, "Weird. Why's there a 'Digg This' button on the back of a lorry?" Click here for more
Friday 16 October 2009, 4:30pm
Giraffetweet: A geek, a girl and a weird use of Twitter
If you've never had a restaurant get in touch with you because it heard you had a crush on one of its waitresses, you might not fully appreciate how weird I found Twitter recently. Click here for more
Monday 21 September 2009, 4:05pm
Who the hell buys Crane Simulator games?
If you've exhausted every adrenaline-lined avenue of excitement thrown your way in life, perhaps it's time to sample the very latest in high-octane industrial lifting-machine simulation. Behold: Crane Simulator 2009 is now available! Click here for more
Tuesday 8 September 2009, 6:25pm
Twitter coming to Sonos
"See you at our stand tomorrow? Have something I want to show you." That was a message I received from Fiede Schillmoeller -- European PR for Sonos -- on Twitter, while on the site complaining about my hotel. Appropriately then, what he wanted to show me was a brand new Twitter-related Sonos update. Click here for more
Wednesday 26 August 2009, 5:11pm
Problems plague GoW2's Horde mode
Gears of War 2's Horde mode is the greatest multiplayer game ever made for a console. It's better than anything in Halo or Call Of Duty, and anyone who tells you otherwise is certain to be one of the fly-bitten foot-lickers who plays Gears 2 with a golden Lancer and have upper-case letters interspersed throughout lower-case in their Gamertag. But several problems prevent it from attaining perfection. Click here for more
Friday 21 August 2009, 10:36am
A bullet: I'd take one for Dropbox
If I ever meet the stranger who suggested I try Dropbox, I'll buy them ten beers. See, when Dropbox earned its place in my cloud storage feature, it also bagged itself a spot in the deepest recess of my aortic pump. For sharing files with friends and family, it's unrivalled in my opinion. Click here for more
Monday 17 August 2009, 3:09pm
Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta DLC tested
A vast, eclectic wasteland of disturbed, often deformed bi-polar characters created a schizophrenic atmosphere in Fallout 3. New downloadable expansion Mothership Zeta abducts you away from all that -- and took my love of Fallout 3 with it. Click here for more
Tuesday 11 August 2009, 5:48pm
Gears of War 2 Dark Corners DLC tested
Shooting a Brumak in the face: is there anything more satisfying?
Watching Lars von Trier's Antichrist with girls, sure. Though to be fair, these two activities share several common themes. It's the Brumak choice we're focusing on today, however, because I spent a whole bunch of time shooting the waste out of one at the weekend. Click here for more
Articles by Nate Lanxon
What does Google Suggest suggest about the state of humanity?
Crave People ask Google some exceptionally worrying questions. We poked through the things it suggests you might be asking and offered some answers to the hard of thinking
Why won't they die? The tech we won't forget
Crave If you were born, it's highly likely you'll die. Sorry about that. For consumer tech though, it's not quite so cut and dried. We explore the technology that just refuses to be killed off
EMI baffles us: Offers Beatles MP3s... on memory sticks
Crave EMI and Apple Corps have released a £200 USB memory stick in the shape of an apple, with all The Beatles' albums in MP3. We're so unimpressed we felt compelled to complain
Interview: Zero Punctuation's Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw reveals all
Crave Zero Punctuation is a wonder, truly one of the greatest online video shows of the age. Its creator -- Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw -- sits down to take us behind the scenes of its creation
Every BBC iPlayer device tested
Crave The BBC's iPlayer is compatible with so many portable devices now it's almost funny. So here's your ultimate reference resource: we've tested and judged every single one of them
Firefox 3.6 beta tested in-depth
Crave The next major revision of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser is version 3.6. Mozilla promises speed boosts and many new features. We've been testing the beta for a few days
Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS-300
Review Dispensing with bells and whistles, the Reader Pocket Edition PRS-300 ebook reader does one job and does it well. It's extremely easy to read text on its e-ink display, it's attractive and pocketable, and it's very simple to use. Overall, we think it's the best ebook reader currently on the UK market
Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600
Review The Reader Touch Edition PRS-600 is a decent ebook reader with some intriguing capabilities, such as its touchscreen, which not only lets you turn pages with a swipe of a finger but also allows you to make annotations. It's not as simple to use as Amazon's Kindle, but it offers much more freedom when it comes to finding books
