Year: 2012
WTF: New app rewards your child with love if they do chores
We're not sure whether there's something in the air this Friday or whether the Mayans were right and the sky is about to come crashing down on us all and bring about the apocalypse. First Lauren Conrad mutilated some books Saw-style, then we discovered an app that can impregnate your friends and family and now…
New workout clothes vibrate when you mess everything up
Designers are currently working on a new range of clothes called Move, which don't just do all of the regular things that workout clothes should do, like allow your skin to breathe and ensure you're super comfortable, but they also improve your posture, your workout and essentially the way you move by vibrating when you…
FINALLY an app that lets you impregnate your mates
A new app has been released by Sydney-based Appy Dude (we hope his name is already ringing alarm bells) that's caused a lot of controversy over in Australia because it allows you to impregnate people. No, no, it doesn't turn your phone into some kind of twisted sex toy from the land of Saw, it's…
Facebook finally deletes all of your deleted photos
Many of you probably didn't know that in the past if you tried to delete a photo on Facebook of you looking particularly drunk/falling over/kissing a random person, then it would have been removed from your profile straight away but stayed right there on Facebook's servers, meaning it still existed somewhere in the dark depth…
Instagram update 3.0 launches with a photo map and new profiles
Instagram has had another shiny update today, which includes Photo Maps and a new look to profiles, the explore tab and hashtag and location pages. Although there's a cleaner, whiter look to pages and your profile, the key feature of the 3.0 update is definitely the Photo Maps, which pin all of your geotagged snaps…
WTF: Etsy banned body parts and now eBay bans magic potions and curses
Just days after learning that crafty site Etsy has banned most body parts, firearms and poison from being sold by its users, eBay has announced that mystical sellers (also known as con artists) will no longer be able to flog spells, curses and potions on the online marketplace. eBay has recently made a lot of…
Directory lets you browse retina display apps for your Mac
If you're lucky enough to have got your hands on a new MacBook Pro, then you're only going to want to know which the best apps are to make the most of its incredible retina display. We've pulled together a few different lists over the past few months for the new iPad (check out New…
Pinterest app FINALLY comes to Android and iPad devices
Today social bookmarking site Pinterest has announced that you can now download its app for iPad and Android devices too, so you no longer need an iPhone to happily pin away your days. The Android version has been in the pipeline for some time now and promises to work just as well on mobile phones…
10 Cool photography gadgets & camera accessories
There are all kinds of different photography gadgets and camera accessories on the market at the moment, whether you're really serious about your photos or just like to fool around with Instagram on your iPhone. We've collected together some of our favourite accessories that'll help you take better photos, transport your kit around in style…
What's App.net and why should we care about a Twitter clone?
We haven't been excited about the launch of a new social network since Google+ (you know, the one with the dancing circles), but over the past week we've heard a lot of interesting things about the subscription-based alternative to Twitter, App.net, which is currently in development... So what is it? On its home page right…
