Year: 2012
REVIEW: Is Instagram alternative Starmatic your new favourite photo app?
Back in July everyone's favourite photo editing and sharing app Instagram surpassed a whopping 80 million users. However, despite its popularity and dominance in the mobile app arena, Instagram alternatives continue to be produced that offer very little to make them really stand out, just take a look at the likes of EyeEm, Deja Mi…
RunKeeper fitness app gets new training plans and free coaching
Popular fitness app RunKeeper has had a host of updates and new features added this week, which mean that users can now access more free training plans and coaching advice than ever before. RunKeeper has always offered tailored advice and training programmes to paying users, but now the team behind the app has realised that…
Basic guide to Amazon's new Kindles: Paperwhite and Kindle Fire HD
Last night Amazon's Chief Executive Jeff Bezos unveiled a number of highly anticipated new Kindle products and although they'd already been revealed in a US TV ad earlier in the week, the three new Kindle Fire tablets and Paperwhite eReader didn't fail to impress us. Here's a quick and dirty guide to the main announcements…
Facebook and Instagram buyout deal has been made official
It's been five months since we first heard about Facebook's acquisition of the hipster photo app and today, two weeks after the deal was officially cleared by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), it's official, Facebook and Instagram are now an item. AWH. For those worried that this means the end of your favourite photo…
Lady Gaga's new album Artpop to be released as an app
Pop sensation, entrepreneur, eccentric dresser and Mother Monster Lady Gaga has revealed on her social network LittleMonsters.com that she'll be releasing her next album, Artpop, as a dedicated app packed full of awesome Gaga-esque content. The Mother Monster wrote about the thinking behind the app in a status update over on LittleMonsters.com: "The most major…
Amazon reveals new Kindle Fire and Paperwhite Kindle in US TV ad
Last night an Amazon ad aired in the US featuring a Kindle with a blacklight, which looks a lot like the new Paperwhite device that we've seen leaked images of over the past few weeks. At the end of last month a picture of the Paperwhite made its way onto The Verge, looking very much…
INFOGRAPHIC: The Internet Map makes the web look like space
It's been a while since we got excited about an infographic, they're just all so dull and "so what" now, right? But today we stumbled across The Internet Map, a kind of a dynamic online map, which shows you websites in relation to one another. Think of it as a much more sensible We Feel…
LED glasses could allow deaf people to "see" sounds
When we're out and about many of us who have no problem with our hearing take for granted just how many sounds we hear throughout the day (even when we're on our own) and what a big affect they have on our experience of the world around us and our own personal safety. Researchers at…
Nokia announces Lumia 920 and 820 Windows Phone 8 smartphones
Today Nokia announced the first two handsets from its Windows Phone 8 range, the Nokia Lumia 920 with some great photography and navigation features and the Nokia Lumia 820, a mid-range option with a customisable exterior. Nokia Lumia 920 The Finnish company's flagship Windows Phone 8 smartphone is packing a 1.5GHz Dual-Core Snapdragon S4 processor…
Take This Lollipop guy creates interactive Linkin Park video
Remember the super creepy Take This Lollipop Facebook viral video, which made you think some crazy stalker was on the way round to your house to kill you or eat you? Uh it makes us shudder just to think about it. Well now the guy behind it, Jason Zada, has teamed up with Linkin Park…
