Year: 2012
New Ford Fiesta put to the test in Rome traffic
The Ford Fiesta is known for being affordable and reliable and has been a great car for all types of motorists, be it city dwellers or yummy mummies, for decades. To keep up with the times and a fast moving car market, the Ford Fiesta has been boosted and reimagined ahead of 2013 and now…
Tech Digest and Brandish name their best 21 gadgets of 2012
Over the last few weeks the team at our sibling site Tech Digest has been working with the mob at Brandish to come up with what believe are the 21 best gadgets of 2012. All the gadgets you might expect are on the list (coughs) iPads, Galaxy phones, Smart TV, plus a whole lot of…
Yahoo gives Flickr an Instagram-style iOS app update
Today Yahoo has released a redesigned version of its Flickr app, which has changed the whole look and feel of the photo sharing service on iOS. The shiny new lick of paint may make us much more likely to load it up and (maybe) use it as regularly as our current phone favourites or it…
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Cool gadgets & accessories for geeky guys
If you've got a geeky guy to buy for this year but you're struggling for present ideas then take a look at our list for Christmas 2012, complete with tech DIY kits, Herschel accessories, Marshall speakers and the iPad Mini. Let us know in the comments below what you've got on your Christmas list this…
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Top UK high street cameras for beginners, retro geeks & social media addicts
There are so many different cameras on the market at the moment that all kinda look the same, sound the same and on paper have the same features, so instead of wading through pages and pages of reviews, just shop based on who you're buying for and narrow your options right down. We've collected together…
PHOTO BATTLE: Twitter adds filters and Instagram gets an update
Over the past few weeks there's been a lot of tension between Twitter and Instagram, which has today culminated in a shiny new set of filters being added to the Android and iOS Twitter apps. We've heard rumours that Twitter's been developing filters for what feels like years and this week the micro-blogging platform's official…
Instagram to fight off spam and fake naked ladies
If you're a big fan of Instagram you'll know it's full of awesome photos, retro filters, all of your friends' snaps and tonnes of spam links to Justin Bieber sites, bargain blogs and people pretending to be hot MILFs. Of course the last three are really irritating and not what the Instagram team really had…
Nook Video service launches in the UK with Ultraviolet
Nook has brought its video service over to the UK this week, which will allow those with Barnes & Noble's range of eReaders to watch movies and TV shows from their tablets. The service, called Nook Video, will offer content from HBO, NBC Universal, BBC and Warner Bros as well as many more channels and…
Instagram's Twitter tantrum continues as photos are removed from tweets
Last week Instagram threw all of its toys out of the pram and sabotaged the way its photos looked in tweets so that users would be more inclined to click away from the micro-blogging platform and into the arms of the photo app's new web presence. Well now things have taken a turn for the…
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: The 10 best fitness gadgets, apps & accessories
Over the past year the worlds of fitness and tech have merged to bring us some great gadgets, apps and workout accessories that really can make a difference to your training, enabling you to perform better, achieve more and just generally become more fit and awesome. We've collected together some of our favourite fitness tech…
