Sandettie Lightvessel has just reminded me.
A video recorder is a type of machine, and thus I will accept it being used as a verb.

However, I bloody HATE it when people do advertising for free - that joke - "How do you know if someone's got an iPhone? They tell you." - thus, people who talk about "Sky Plussing" something, or "Skyping", or "on my Blackberry".

"Hoovering" I have become numb to.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:43, 8 replies)

Googling?
Google actually complained about journalists using Google as a verb. Are they bloody stupid? If googling becomes the verb for using a search engine then surely that's a good thing.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:46, closed)

Yes.
Yes Googling too.

Thinking about it - there's so much to hate, and so little time.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:47, closed)

But if it becomes generic ...
.. then they lose their trademark registration and anyone can call themselves a "google provider" or something.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 11:01, closed)

Similarly
I once saw an official marketing document from PhotoShop setting out the right and wrong ways to talk about their product, viz.:

WRONG: "This image has been photoshopped."
RIGHT: "This image has been modified using Adobe PhotoShop."

Far catchier, I'm sure you'll agree.
( .Yeti., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 11:31, closed)

Get with the program or be coffined.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:56, closed)

Interesting* fact for the day
In the UK at least, 'to hoover' is now officially recognised as a verb referring to the act of using any vacuum cleaner, and 'a hoover' is a generic term for a vacuum cleaner. The company, Hoover, failed to protect its trademark and thus anyone can now refer to their vacuum cleaner product as 'a hoover'.

* or, not
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 12:05, closed)

it's not 'for free'
It's 'free' or 'for nothing'.

Bitch
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 2:15, closed)

once upon a time
some physicists tried to get a paper published using "Hoover" as the unit of quantum uncertainty (back then, oft called "vacuum noise"). Unfortunately the journal spotted it and refused.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 14:58, closed)