Month: November 2009
Mplayit launch iPhonearcade – a Facebook app for ranking mobile phone apps
Okay concentrate: this is an app for ranking apps. It's a Facebook app for ranking mobile phone apps. iPhonearcade will make use of your social network on Facebook to let you share comments and reviews with your friends and see what they're downloading. It will soon include Android and Blackberry apps as well. Instead of…
Rough Guides travel books to become Vodafone apps
Rough Guide travel books will soon be available as Vodafone apps. Each guide costs only 49p or 49 euro cents, it's a good deal compared to the books which retail at around £6-7. Featuring background information for each destination, 'things not to miss' plus the best places to eat, shop and drink, these mini guides…
Virus scam targets Twilight fans
Looks like fans of the Twilight film series are suffering more than unsatiated desire in the run-up to the release of New Moon on Friday. An internet scam preying on fans of the series has leveraged a fake virus alert to get people to hand over their credit card details. A google search for "Stephanie…
Zazew – a social network for aspiring writers
A new social networking site has been set up to help people write books online. Despite the new forms of writing on the internet -blogs etc - books continue to hold sway over people's minds. As such, this e-Publishing House could be quite successful. Zazew - set up in Suffolk - is free but there…
The warming, vibrating USB burger – your life is complete
I don't know why I even pretend to be surprised any more at the kind of USB gadgets that get invented. Every week some queer product is presented to the USB port. Who imagines these things.. let's make a vibrating dinosaur drinks holder! An USB egg heater? A nodding toy of Shakespeare that repeats Hamlet…
Fingertips v Netvibes: which personalised news site is better?
New site Fingertips creates free bespoke news services for its users. The site can combine story feeds from different news sites according to your particular taste and need for certain kinds of news. Fingertips.net claims that it "lets you create your own personalised newspaper from the publications you want." The personalised newspaper approach has the…
Orange lets you send pictures to Twitter over text message
Orange today announced a partnership with Twitter, which will enable customers to send photos to Twitter via MMS (multimedia text messages). The service is called snapshot and is only available to UK Orange users. Orange also say that they will let their customers send and receive Twitter updates directly from their mobile phones using text…
Sonic Fabric ties play music and actually look good
Ties that make music are usually tinny, cheap novelty affairs, they probably play Jingle Bells and have LEDs on them as well. So it's a pleasant surprise to find a musical tie that's actually quite a classy and haute proposition. It's the musical tie from Sonic Fabric made with 50% polyester threads and 50% the…
Play the Climate Challenge with Dr Who
Everybody's favourite TV geek crush, David Tennant of Dr Who fame, has joined up with Oxfam to offer an online climate challenge. You must guide David to answer questions about climate change, and pick the correct option out of three or four answers. Watch David Tennant screw his face up as he tries to figure…
Get translation advice BEFORE naming your baby, think of its google rankings
If you're thinking of calling your child anything more exotic than John or Mary, then maybe you should check out this pricey but unusual service which offers a "name translation check" pre-christening. TodayTranslations go through pretty well most languages in the world and checks that the name you mean to give your sprog doesn't mean…
