Month: September 2011
Picaboo: How to send naughty photos without getting caught
This week a number of sneaky publications published some rather NSFW photos (allegedly) of the lovely Scarlett Johansson. Now it’s not been confirmed yet how they got their hands on […]
Pinterest: Is it just full of crafts, cookies and kittens?
Pinterest is a useful photo bookmarking tool that allows you to “pin” content to a number of different boards. We’ve written about it a few times before and it featured […]
Kuchi-Paku polar bear singing iPhone speaker
Every Christmas there’s a gimmicky toy that everyone loves to hate, remember when far too many people had that odd talking fish on their walls a few years back? Yeah, […]
Week in gadgets #1: the cheap tablets, iPhone 5 launch in October and should mobile phones be banned on public transport?
British teenagers know their Apples But not the ones you eat! A survey has found that 13- to 18-year-olds don’t really know how much staple food items like eggs and […]
Posterous gets a makeover with Spaces and takes on Facebook & Google+
Is it just me, or are all of our favourite online services getting a bit of a makeover at the moment? Posterous is the latest online platform to go all […]
Thumbs Up's iPhone powered Dancing Cat speaker – quite!
As some clever northern bard once said. ‘There’s more to life than watching cat videos on YouTube… but not much more.’ And if you agree with him you are about […]
Is Foursquare about to become useful? Push notifications to remind you to buy the milk on the way.
Unlike in the US where take up is apparently booming, we seem to be a little ambivalent about location based apps here in the UK. With Facebook effectively canning Places […]
Windows 8: What is it and why should we care?
What is it? Windows 8 is the next version of the Microsoft Windows operating system (yes Apple fans, that does still exist) which launches to developers this week. Why should […]
YouTube adds video editing with Lomo, Sepia and Comic Book filters
YouTube is now allowing its users to edit videos that have already been uploaded, so you can add that dreamy vintage hue that Hipstamatic and Instagram made so popular to […]
Facebook promises to stop spamming us all
This morning I opened up an email from Facebook which was addressed to me personally. How lovely. It explained that from now on the social network will aim to cut […]