Month: December 2012
Connected Health: This week in health and fitness tech
The health and fitness tech market is growing rapidly, from wearable tracking devices like the Fitbit to more obscure medical gadgets that could have a big impact on those living […]
WTF Facebook: Pay for messages to show up in a nonfriend's inbox
Most Facebook users will find that when they check their Messages they’ve got two distinct inboxes, the regular Inbox and the Other inbox. If you’ve tweaked your settings it may […]
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Top 20 last minute UK high street tech buys
We’ve been writing up Christmas gift guides now for the past few weeks and although some retailers will still deliver presents right up to the last minute (well, until Christmas […]
STUDY: Now Facebook could be making you fat
Facebook’s regularly blamed for everything, from making us thicker to breaking up marriages and relationship left, right and centre. But today a new study reveals that it could be making […]
Tumblr finally launches its iPad app
You’ve always been able to use Tumblr’s iOS app on iPad devices, but the blogging service has never released an app that’s fully compatible with Apple’s tablets, well until today. […]
Facebook makes it easier to control your privacy settings
Despite the fact everyone makes such a big deal about Facebook being a big baddy that wants us to sign our lives away and expose everything we do to the […]
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: 10 Best home entertainment devices
If you’re having friends and family round this Christmas you might want to give your home a bit of an entertainment revamp, whether you need to boost your speakers for […]
PHOTO APPS: Our top 10 Instagram alternatives
Well, well, well, up until this week Instagram was everyone’s favourite photo application and we spent our days snapping, cropping and filtering all kinds of rubbish, from our breakfasts to […]
Instagram changes its policy and the whole world implodes
So according to some old Mayan stone the world’s ending this week, on Friday to be exact and in the Shiny Shiny offices we’ve been discussing exactly how that’s going […]
Let's all freak out about Facebook owning our Instagram content
Early next year Instagram will be introducing a new policy that means it’ll soon be sharing all of its content with its new BFF (we mean owner), Facebook. This morning […]