Month: July 2012
Kinect PlayFit dashboard comes to Xbox users in the US
Microsoft has launched a new feature for the Xbox console today called Kinect PlayFit, which collects data about your activity and the calories you've burned playing a whole host of popular titles, such as Dance Central 2, Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 and even Kinect Star Wars (yeah, really), as well as a number of…
STUDY: 20% of men keep photos of their exes [SCUMBAGS]
The fact many of us share so much of our lives online means break-ups can be pretty confusing, do you delete your ex from all your photos? Do you hide all of those cheesy statuses about how smitten you are? Do you go from "single" to "in a relationship" and force your friends to see…
Little Monsters: Lady Gaga's social network now open to the public
If we ever needed more proof that one day Lady Gaga will take over the world and turn us all into flamboyant little activists, the singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and general badass has now launched her own social network. Little Monsters has been a private beta entity for some time, but today it's been released into…
Dish.fm: Share foodie snaps, write reviews and browse menus
There are plenty of foodie apps designed to show you the best restaurants in your area, the places with plenty of offers on or those with top rated service, but new app Dish.fm strips all of that information down to what really matters, THE FOOD. Instead of reading review after review about different restaurants, Dish.fm…
Top 50 Shades of Grey Twitter parodies: 50 Sheds, Andy Gray, Mr Grey
It seems the globe has been divided, either you're obsessed with Fifty Shades of Grey and spend every waking minute reading it, talking about it and fantasising that Christian Grey (the main guy) will scoop you up and do filthy things to you, or you're sick to death of hearing about it and want fans…
STUDY: Brits are bored of Blu-ray because it's too expensive
Blu-ray discs first became available to the public back in the summer of 2006 and since then they've smugly looked down on us from shop shelves across the country, making us feel poor, inadequate and sad about the fact we just have regular DVD players. Well it seems we're not the only ones who've had…
Trojan app Find and Call shows iOS devices aren't that safe after all
The Android Market, or Google Play if we're being all modern, is no stranger to malicious apps that have been known to spam contacts and contain spyware, but now the first app known to contain malware has popped up in the iOS App Store too, so it looks like no one's safe... The application, called…
Is DNS Changer really going to shut down the internet? Probably not
Crazy zombie attacks and now threats that the internet could die next week, we really don't like how many similarities there are between the past few months and a low budget apocalyptic movie (we do, it's much more exciting than everyday life). But is it true that the ominous DNS Changer virus could really shut…
The app book gets a makeover – London – A City Through Time review
There's a lot of London publishing going on at the moment, like this ace free iPad book (disclaimer - there's some Shiny involvement in it) but in terms of digital publishing nothing quite as ambitious or an innovative as this. London - A City Through Time is an iPad app that is an extraordinary in…
Twitter set to make big changes to search and discovery
One of Twitter's senior engineers hinted that the micro-blogging will be making a few big changes to the way users search and discover new content over the next few days. Pankaj Gupta (or @pankaj) wrote the tweet early this morning and said the way we search and discover new things using Twitter is "set to…
