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Over the past few days you may have seen a few people tweet random stuff about who Google thinks they are "It thinks I'm a man!", "It thinks I like cats!" or "It thinks I'm 70!". Don't worry, Google...more
A lot of exciting Nintendo news has been revealed this week, as well as giving us all some of the details about the Nintendo Network online community features, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata confirmed new capabilities were being added to the...more
We love Instagram here at Shiny Shiny, we love writing about it, talking about it and sharing our silly snaps with our followers. But how far is too far when it comes to Instagram merchandise? Well, we think decorating your...more
Ever since it was first launched back in 2006 (THAT long ago!?) Twitter has been open and free for all of its users, regardless of of any issues of censorship or local problems in their home countries. Well this...more
A new year usually starts with great intentions of watching your calories, changing to healthier diet and exercising more. Yet for many those resolutions are shelved by the time February comes around as you just didn't have the right tools...more
We were all secretly hoping for it to be revealed last year, but could it really be that the iPhone 5 is set to launch this summer? We have no idea at all, but there's an interesting new iPhone-related...more
It really comes as no surprise that the FBI is looking to monitor social networks even more closely than it (presumably) already does. However, up until now there's been no official evidence as to what its online activities are, other...more
There have been rumours circulating about the innovative Android-powered watch designs from i'm watch since last summer. But, at CES earlier in the month they were officially unveiled to the world and even those sceptical about a slick smart...more
We've heard of creepy 'porn detection' software and devices before, but now a new gadget called the Porn Stick Detection Pro will snoop around in the dark depths of your computer and uncover any kinds of pornographic images or videos...more
If you signed up for Google+ some time last year and haven't logged back in since, you might not know that all kinds of exciting things are going on in the world of Circles and Hangouts. The Google+ activity...more
Popular video sharing community Vimeo announced plans for a new redesign yesterday, which will not only put more focus on the all-important video content, giving users a player that's two times the size of the original, but will also...more
I'm sure most of us have been in a relationship that's come to an end and have had to make the painful (yet sometimes liberating) decision to throw away those old teddy bears, cards and other cutesy keepsakes. But...more
Ever since the majority of Facebook users were given the option to switch to the new Timeline-style profile back in December we knew it was only a matter of time before Zuckerberg and the gang forced everyone to make...more
Clever recommendation website and quirky little mind map tool Jinni has changed the way we discover new films and TV shows, so imagine how excited we were to find there's a similar kinda service to help you pair up the...more
Our experience with the record-breaking NES game controller last week has had us pining for the retro consoles of days gone by. So, we were really interested in the results from a recent study, which aimed to find out what...more
All of our favourite websites and communities seem to want to shout about their achievements at the moment (we're looking at you Tumblr), and with impressive statistics and lots of new ideas in the pipeline we see no problem...more
We've said it 3,382 times over the past few weeks and we're going to say it again, content curation website Pinterest has suddenly become kind of a big deal. Everyone's pinning, collecting and re-pinning all kinds of photos and we're...more
The online personalities we've created for ourselves nowadays may be much more realistic than they were back in the Myspace years (I know I'm not the only one guilty of posing, applying tonnes of make-up and Photohopping EVERYTHING, right?!), but...more
Today at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, the founder and CEO of popular micro-blogging platform Tumblr, David Karp, revealed that the site and its many, many blogs attract more than 15 billion pageviews every month. Although that...more
Over Christmas more than 1.33 million Brits received a shiny new Kindle. However, it seems that just over a month later many of us have discarded our fancy eReaders like a sad, abandoned puppy we can't be bothered with...more
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