Month: April 2011
Meet Me on The Facebook: 10 songs about Facebook… and other types of social media
Song lyrics often deal with the big issues: love, drugs, money, rejection... and increasingly, social media. It's on Dappy from N-Dubz's mind certainly. I love spotting social media references in popular songs. Here the ten best ones I could find. Add new ones in the comments. I gotta say that a lot of these are…
Mophie Juice Pack Reserve: Power snacks for your iPhone
With the holiday season fast approaching and many of us facing hours - even days - away from convenient charging sockets, the problem of your phone running out of battery gets serious. One solution of course is using it less, another is getting a portable battery. It's not just the fun apps that drain your…
Top Ten Photo Apps for iPhone
Make your holiday snaps look like they were taken by Nan Goldin... or put rainbows on them, or just make them look better. We do a round-up of the best iPhone photo apps to magic up your phone pictures into works of art. It emerged last week that the iPhone 4 was the 2nd most…
Does Twitter make super-injunctions redundant?
Is it really worth celebrities spending thousands of pounds on locking down media coverage of their affairs and three-in-a-bed romps when anyone with an internet browser can find out what's going on on Twitter? Super-injunctions - gagging orders which prevent the media reporting on an event and then prevent them reporting that the gagging order…
Hate & hope through the webcam: Tyler Clementi and the It Gets Better Project
The story of Tyler Clementi, his suicide and the aftermath is one of bullying, persecution and intolerance in America - and shows both the harm - and good - that can be done with the internet. A Rutgers court have just charged Dharun Ravi with intimidation and invasion of privacy - Tyler's room-mate who secretly…
Sony Chaos: Credit card details of PlayStation owners lost to hackers – internet's revenge on Sony could take the company down
A security breach at Sony is much bigger than previously thought and threatens to seriously rock the whole company. The credit card details of 70 million PlayStation owners are believed to have leaked online as well as their addresses, dates of birth, Playstation passwords and email addresses. Sony Playstation has been down since the 19th…
GetHuman: new site helps you navigate call centres and get to the human
If you're tired of endlessly keying in buttons and listening to hold music while waiting to talk to another human about your phone bills or your dishwasher insurance - then there's a website that could help you cut through the call centre rage. GetHuman is a smart website that helps you get to the human.…
NO: Don't insult your boss on Facebook – Scottish Guard fired over Kate Middleton insult
We often write about Facebook etiquette here and rule number one is: don't insult your boss. Rule number two is: especially don't insult your boss if the Daily Mail can somehow get access to your profile, and your boss is the Royal Family. An 18-year-old member of the elite Scottish Guards regiment has fallen foul…
Steve Jobs on iPhone tracking: "Google does it too!"
Steve Jobs broke Apple's silence about the iPhone tracking houha by replying to an email from a concerned iPhone owner. Steve's response was brief and vague about Apple's activities but he accused Google of tracking users of its Android phones too.. [via MacRumours] Apple owners were scandalised to find out last week that their iPhones…
Sony takes on the iPad: S1 PlayStation Tablet specs
Sony have jumped into the tablet computer market with the Android-powered Sony Playstation S1 and S2 devices. Rumours suggest that the S1 and S2 Playstation tablets will be available from September and will cost $599 for a Wifi-only version. Sony are hoping to carve a niche for themselves in tablet industry by using the name…
