Rich Trenholm
Rich Trenholm writes about digital cameras, except when he's writing about films, music and comics. He does not drink tea and never has.
Thursday 4 December 2008, 11:13am
It's a tough Christmas, but someone's got to do it
I hate Christmas. Oh, I'm not some kind of warped Scrooge figure; I hate all public holidays equally. Halloween, New Year's Eve, bank holidays, all of them. The costumes, the enforced jollity, the shops being too busy one minute and shut the next, even though it's a perfectly good Tuesday, paying fifteen quid to not be able to get a seat in the pub you sit in every night... Click here for more
Wednesday 26 November 2008, 11:17am
Twattiquette: why Twitter is not a messaging tool
So much has been written about Twitter and its Marmite quality I won't go into why you need to use it. Instead I've been thinking about how people use it. Click here for more
Friday 14 November 2008, 3:17pm
Wow, look at the weirdos
NCIS made me laugh the other day. Like many episodes, 'The Immortals' followed the CSI template of killing someone in an obscure subculture -- in this case, online gaming -- so the bemused but beautiful 'tecs can investigate it, complete with gothette lab tech Pauley Perrette explaining the game to a befuddled David McCallum. The apparent suicide of an MMORPG-playing sailor, unable to distinguish between game and real life, revealed an online feud spilling into the real world in a paranoid revenge fantasy. Click here for more
Thursday 30 October 2008, 10:52am
Why I must quit CNET: My Russell Brand sex shame
It is with 'eavy 'eart that I must announce my resignation from CNET UK. My time at the UK's largest consumer technology Web site has been challenging and enjoyable, yet I feel my position is no longer tenable after recent revelations that I have never had sex with Russell Brand. Click here for more
Friday 24 October 2008, 11:33am
Love in 140 characters: It's 2.0mance
2.0mance: n. A real-world romantic liaison supplemented by online communication tools, between two geeks. Hot geeks. Click here for more
Thursday 16 October 2008, 12:03pm
Boxwish: Celluloid style
More harping on about products in movies. This week I returned to Boxwish, a site with a great premise: you look up a film, and it tells you where you can buy the stuff seen in the film. If you spot something for sale that can also be spotted in the film, these 'spots' are linked from the site. You can also add merchandising such as books, toys and branded clothing. Click here for more
Wednesday 1 October 2008, 11:58am
I'll shoot the camera next time: James Bond and the eBay affair
If the product placement crowbarred into Casino Royale wasn't jarring enough, just wait for Quantum of Solace. While the second trailer has this Bond fan salivating, I'm not enjoying the advertising campaign gearing up to plaster Daniel Craig's meat-pie mug across adverts for watches, cars and washing powders. Apparently James Bond's favourite airline is Virgin Atlantic -- remember Richard Branson's smug cameo in Casino Royale? Click here for more
Wednesday 10 September 2008, 2:25pm
Large Hadron Collider generates weird particles, headlines
It's official: we're all in the grip of Large Hadron Collider fever. As forums buzz with apocalyptic hysteria and rational, reasoned -- ie, boring -- rebuttals, even Google has got in on the act with today's logo design. The LHC was turned on today and we're all still in one piece -- or at least we think we are... Click here for more
Articles by Rich Trenholm
Creative Vado goes HD, hungover Cravers muster limited excitement
Crave If you must get excited about the arrival of the new high-definition Creative Vado, do it quietly. Crave is feeling slightly fragile this morning
Internet: The Movie!
Photo Films and the Web have gone hand-in-hand since the first pirate sneaked into the mutleyplex. But what would films based on your favourite sites and software look like? Crave calls lights... camera... action!
Hands-on the Hitachi DZ-HV564: HD on SD
Photo The camcorder market doesn't know if it's coming or going, with the Hitachi DZ-HV564 parachuting in to combine high definition with expandable memory
Hands-on with the Samsung NV9: Cooler King
Photo There's a number of nifty touches on the slinky 10-megapixel Samsung NV9 that make it cooler than the average compact
Hands on with the 24-megapixel Nikon D3X
Photo We've had our hands on the 24-megapixel behemoth that is the Nikon D3X, and we're impressed. Take a look at our photos, which show an average Crave reader doing some world-class holding
Canon HG21
Review Our main issue with the HG21, Canon's high-class, high-definition camcorder, is that it may be too good for its own good. Now that should tell you something. The HG21 comes with a whopping 120GB hard drive, a vast array of high-end features and produces video that is absolutely breathtaking. If you think you can make use of it all, this one's a winner
Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd
Photo December is officially here and that can mean only one thing: shop faster! If you're feeling the pinch, the Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd is a stylish 10-megapixel point-and-shoot for a very reasonable price. Now shop!
Photos: Hands-on with the high-definition Canon HG21
Photo The Canon HG21 is a high-class, high-end, high-definition camcorder. Take a look at our pictures and forget the credit crunch
