Month: April 2011

Are you a World-Record-Breaking Texter? There's an app for that

Do you get friction-burns from you touchscreen? Do your thumbs ache after a BlackberryMessenger conversation? Are you the fastest texter in the world? There's now an iPhone app to help you find out. iTextFast measures just how fast you type and compares you to the World Record holder, and everyone else who has entered speeds…

10% of Men have pulled a sickie to stay at home gaming. Poll: Have you?

There are many reasons to pull a sickie - and being sick is only one of them. A survey by www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk found that one in ten British men would pull a sickie to stay at home and game, one in a hundred would do it on a monthly basis. No stats for women unfortunately. It…

WIN: a pair of tickets to the Gadget Show Live, Thursday 14th, Birmingham

Set in Birmingham - just like Crufts - but with more gadgets and fewer dogs - The Gadget Show Live is a hot ticket in the gadget-loving world. It's like a mini CES for the Brits and features the show's presenters along with all the hot gadgets months before they are slated to come out.…

Unfriend on the move: Facebook iPhone app gets a defriend option

One crucial feature has just made it on to the iPhone Facebook - the defriend option. This means you can now casually defriend someone on the bus on the way back from a dreadful night out. And probably regret it the next morning, and again one week later when you have to snivellingly ask to…

Advert for Naked Web Coders on UK Craigslist… uhhhh

Naturism is a serious thing. People - usually Germans - like doing things naked as a way to keep cool and commune with nature. However. A recent advert on Craigslist for naked female web coders to work in an office in Buckinghamshire comes across as slightly more seedy than philosophical... Chris Taylor of Nude Office…

David Bowie wants you to remix 'Golden Years', on your iPhone…

Another interesting music-app crossover today, following swiftly on from our geolocated album app story the other day. David Bowie - yes the David Bowie - has just re-released Golden Years an old track from 36 years ago - as an app. More than just the track, the app comes with editing software and the music…

A life-sized cardboard cut-out of Kate & Wills? Yes, Firebox get busy with Royal Wedding

If you haven't alreay spent your Royal Wedding budget on a return flight to the Carribean, consider some of Firebox's Royal Wedding memorabilia. LIKE A FULL-SIZE CARDBOARD REPLICA OF THE HAPPY COUPLE. You won't regret buying this for the office. Firebox say: Perfect for royalists, fantasists and mentalists, this life-size 72" cardboard cutout shows HRH…

Brits would favour a Blackberry Touch over the iPhone 5

This surprising finding was the result of a survey by goodmobilephones.co.uk which polled 901 people in the UK. 53% said they would rather have the new Blackberry Touch (codenamed the Monaco/Monza) over the new iPhone 5, expected to launch this summer, with 42% going for the Apple phone. Secret pictures of the new Blackberry emerged…

Not just fake degrees on the internet – fake job references too: CareersExcuse.com

We've had print-your-own fake degrees for several years and now we've got to the stage of download-your-own-job-references. Fake job references where you can claim whatever you want about your working life. A US website - www.careersexcuse.com - offers to give convincing fake testimony about whatever part of your career you choose. Their services range from…