Could be pretty serious if you were doing 180mph at the time...

The standard UK iPhone tariff includes 500 texts - after that they're about 20 cents (12p). But since it also includes pseudo-unlimited data, I can send as many emails as I like, complete with pictures. Most of my friends have iPhones too - so we send emails with pictures to each other all the time.

Chris - did you have a bad day? I hope not, especially if you celebrate Christmas. My post was light-hearted - it's funny when someone mis-spells 'taught', because 'taught' implies learning, but they haven't learnt how to spell that very word. It was a light-hearted little joke on my part and certainly not intended to offend anyone for whom English is their second language. I'm actually English - as in, from England, and therefore painfully aware of the sacrilegious perversions of my country's beautiful language ;)

When I'm driving hard on a rally-type road, I use engine braking (by downshifting) as a supplement to conventional braking to cut the discs some slack so as to avoid overheating. I've had brake fade and warped discs on every car I've owned.

Great story - thanks for sharing.

But not how to use the spell-checker :)

You can't, but once you hit five computers you have the option to deauthorize them all and reset the count to zero. You can only do this once per year.

I'll bet many Americans reading these stories on the iPlayer have no idea how much video content on the internet is US-only. I wish I had a US-registered IP and credit card! Anyway, It's all to do with how TV content is licensed and funded.

1: Bought-in content.

The BBC pays a fee to NBC, for example, to show Heroes in the UK via TV/iPlayer. The BBC then has an obligation to ensure that they only make the show available in the licensed territories.

2: In-house content.

In the same way, some BBC-produced shows are licensed internationally. Top Gear, for example, has a comparatively high budget for a UK show largely because of its high revenue from foreign TV networks who have bought 'exclusive rights' in their respective territories.

In both cases, the amount of revenue achieved by providing the content ad-supported to foreign visitors would be peanuts compared to the lucrative cross-network licensing agreements it would be undermining.

Yeah it was a frustrating 10-minute road for me, so I thought it would be worth posting some instructions that actually work :)

Here's what you have to do:

Turn on the beta 'labs' features here, then get the installer. You might be able to get the installer from this link, but if not, choose "Download" from this page.

Here's some further info for installing on the Mac, and installing on Linux - but the above should suffice.

Of course, you're better off using iplayer-dl to download the flash streams DRM-free ;)

Come on - that's the whole point. This is what you'll need to run the PS3 version of Crysis!

If I was an MS shareholder*, I would applaud their attempts at diversifying and reducing, just that tiny little bit, their dependence on PC OS sales. Some efforts have failed (Zune, search), but others are doing well.

-The Xbox 360 is a very successful product in gaming.
-Windows Mobile is a very successful product in the cellphone market.
-Products like Windows CE Automotive are in use.
-MSN/Live Messenger dominates IM, at least in the UK.

*I'm not an MS shareholder and I use PS3/iPhone/iPod/OSX.

Ditto. I saw a suspiciously high number of genuine accounts being attempted. I drew the conclusion that this was coming from bulk email lists.

1. Buy bulk email list, containing fred@foo.com and others.
2. SSH to foo.com as fred - try some common passwords. Maybe try fred@ftp.foo.com for good measure.
3. Profit!

Maybe it's happening already. I'm amazed at how small some of the richer iPhone applications are, and how much they can do with limited RAM.