Video: Test driving the Parrot AR.Drone
Technology editor Charles Arthur sees if he has the right stuff as he takes Parrot's Wi-Fi controlled quadricopter for a test flight Charles Arthur Laurence Topham
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Jimmy Doherty: ‘Mac owners all seem a bit smug’ | Celebrity squares
Jimmy Doherty tells us all about his life as a luddite who looks like a nerd What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life? That's an easy one for me – it's my iPhone. It allowes me to email and receive email wherever I am. You suddenly realise: how did I ever live without it? You can also listen to music with it and play games. When was the last time you used it, and what for? This morning to have a look at these questions. What additional features would you add if you could? A lie detector would be quite good – that would be awesome. Do you think it will be obsolete in 10 years' time? Only if people stop lying
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Glastonbury festival: The full lineup as a spreadsheet
Glastonbury festival kicks off today, with Gorillaz replacing U2 as the Friday headliners. Check out the bands that will be playing and plan your weekend here • Get the data Glastonbury opened its doors to festivalgoers this morning. Revellers at Worthy Farm can look forward to a weekend packed with bands, including Damon Albarn's side-project Gorillaz, who hastily took a headlining spot after U2 were forced to pull out last month when Bono suffered a spinal injury. But Glastonbury is about so much more than the headline acts. Who else will be rocking Worthy Farm over the weekend of 23-27 June? Now the official Glastonbury site has put up the full timetable of acts - we've excised them for you and put them into a spreadsheet. Check out the embedded table, or download the spreadsheet, for the full line-up across all the main stages and venues. Last year, @RichardAblewhite created a magnificent visual mash-up by combining the Datablog's Glastonbury dataset with content from several other sites. He's created another excellent mash-up for this year's Glastonbury festival , which together with this dataset from Clashfinder General and the Orange GlastoNav app will enable data-savvy festivalgoers to plan their weekend with military precision.
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Naoko Mori: ‘I’m a gadget freak’ | Celebrity squares
Actor Naoko Mori loves all things Apple – except for the iPhone What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life? There's a lot. I'm Japanese, I'm a gadget freak – I like anything with buttons. I want to say my computer, but if I had to choose one, I'd say my mobile phone. This is almost sacrilegious, because I'm a complete Macophile, but I actually still have a BlackBerry – I just prefer the buttons. I'm still on the fence with the iPhone because of the buttons and the texting. When was the last time you used it, and what for? Eight minutes ago, checking emails. What additional features would you add if you could? I travel so much – I'm in the US a lot, and in Japan – that I currently have three phones.
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Tech Weekly podcast: iPhone 4, Like-jacking and searching with Wolfram Alpha
Aleks Krotoski and Charles Arthur welcome Tom Watson MP in this week's lively Tech Weekly discussion about open data, the newest iPhone announcement from Apple, and the most recent problems plaguing social network Facebook. Watson, who was instrumental in helping the previous Labour government understand the value of opening up its public records, shares his view on the reasons why openness should be valued – and what he had to do to convince his political colleagues. Charles Arthur speaks with Wolfram Alpha creator Conrad Wolfram about one of the potential applications of the government data, and how more like this should be released for the benefit of his service – and of mankind. Charles also reveals the specs of the newest handset in the Apple iPhone lineup, announced on Monday. But how did the leak of a prototype affect the launch? The team also discusses Steve Jobs' visions of the future, and how similar they are to Microsoft. Finally, we hear how to avoid being "likejacked", or scammed by hackers who've taken hold of a new Facebook feature that allows you to share where on the web you've been with your social network friends. Don't forget to ... • Comment below • Mail us at tech@guardian.co.uk • Get our Twitter feed for programme updates • Join our Facebook group • See our pics on Flickr /Post your tech pics Aleks Krotoski Charles Arthur Scott Cawley
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Apple’s next trick: the trackpad for desktops
What's better than iPhone 4.0? How about a new Apple touchpad to replace keyboards for its desktop computers... Published on Engadget , these images were leaked with perfect timing [insert marketing conspiracy theory here] hours before Steve Jobs will introduce the [spoiled] next generation iPhone at Apple's Worldwide developer conference in San Francisco. Take a metaphorical look backwards at Apple's road map: iPhone spent three years training consumers how to use a touchscreen, and was then followed by iPad. Take a look forwards, we'll all be using touchscreens at our desktops, as I said on the Guardian Tech Weekly podcast recently. Beyond that, it probably gets a bit conceptual and Minority Report. But here it is: The leaked images were published by Engadget , who point out John Daring Fireball Gruber and MacRumours wrote about an Apple trademark application back in for a ' Magic Trackpad ' and rumours dating back to 2008 . Digital media Apple Computing iPad iPhone Steve Jobs Jemima Kiss guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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Steve Jobs to launch Apple’s new iPhone – but will it be an anticlimax?
Apple is preparing to reveal its latest iPhone, but many details were leaked after a prototype was left in a bar Apple's chief executive, Steve Jobs, is due to unveil the fourth version of the company's hugely popular iPhone tomorrow – including a screen with up to four times more detail, a camera flash, noise cancellation and longer battery life. The announcement is expected at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, which has drawn thousands of programmers keen to write programs – apps – for the device. More than 51m iPhones have been sold since its launch in June 2007, and a number of developers have made thousands of pounds from selling apps through Apple's App Store. But for Jobs the unveiling will be something of an anticlimax – many details about the phone leaked out in mid-April after one of his staff lost a prototype in a bar near the company's headquarters. It was sold to gadget blog Gizmodo, where blogger Jason Chen took it apart and posted a video declaring: "You are looking at Apple's next iPhone." Jobs prefers to keep details of upcoming products under wraps to heighten expectations. But with more details known about the new iPhone than any previous model, some of that effect is likely to be diminished. Yet Apple can revel in having passed Microsoft as the most valuable technology company, based on market capitalisation, and having sold 2m of its iPad tablet computers worldwide since they went on sale in the US on 3 April – including a highly successful UK launch that saw a queue of over a thousand people outside Apple's flagship store in Regent Street, London. Gizmodo's posting about the new iPhone has turned into a criminal investigation after the roommate of Brian Hogan – who walked out of a bar with the iPhone – contacted police, worried that the phone was stolen
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Brett Ratner: ‘The iPhone is a toy’ | Celebrity squares
Film director Brett Ratner believes the BlackBerry is vasty superior to Apple's popular device What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life? I have to say there's a new gadget that's called a Dash [Personal Internet Viewer] – it's made by Sony, and it's kind of interesting because it's by your bed … basically it's like a futuristic clock radio. I can have everything from TMX to Twitter to Facebook right next to my bed, so I can wake up to my favourite music video. It's the coolest thing ever. I can see this thing being by my bed for the next 20 years. This has everything right at your fingertips. When was the last time you used it, and what for? Every morning when I wake up – I wake up differently every morning. I'm constantly being visually stimulated. What additional features would you add if you could? It's not a phone, so I would probably add that into it. Do you think it will be obsolete in 10 years' time? All technology will be obsolete in 10 years – it keeps changing and evolving, and makes life exciting. What always frustrates you about technology in general? How fast it's changing – how I buy a new computer from Apple and in six months it's old
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Joel David Moore: ‘On a PC I’m like a monkey trying to hump a football’ | Celebrity squares
Filmmaker Joel David Moore is a Mac man and an iPhone addict – but is desperate for a spell-check What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life? Unfortunately, I'm going to have to say the iPhone. It's the most used piece of machinery I own. But it's a love-hate relationship with the typing – if I didn't go back every three words to fix a typing error, it would look like an alien language. And not a good one, it would be an alien race that never left the planet and still hadn't figured out fire. When was the last time you used it, and what for? I'm using it to answer these questions. But not without switching over every couple questions and playing a tower defense game. geoDefense is what I'm addicted to now. It's like thumb crack. What additional features would you add if you could? Well, a physical slide-out keyboard, but that'll never happen so I'd settle with – I know this sounds crazy, but – SPELL-CHECK!!! It's ridiculous without it.
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Scott Hicks: ‘I’m struggling with my iPhone’ | Celebrity squares
Oscar-winning film director Scott Hicks wishes that he could use his iPhone when travelling to foreign lands What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life? My favourite is my Gator – which, if you're not familiar with it, is a six-wheel independent transmission all-terrain vehicle that I use at my vineyard. It has a light footprint, huge fat tyres, and it's endless fun. In springtime, we're dogged with kangaroos which come out of the bush and nibble the new vine shoots. Because we don't want to shoot them, I get my Gator out and go up and down the rows chasing kangaroos. There's no more contemplative experience than watching kangaroos bouncing along in front of you. When was the last time you used it, and what for? I used it last weekend when my family came up camping at the vineyard. I took my grandsons for a spin. What additional features would you add if you could?
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