Month: February 2010
Get some nature on your tech with National Geographic laptop skins
If you want to bring a bit of nature's wild beauty to your laptop or eBook, do investigate the National Geographic's collaboration with GelaSkins. National Geographic have transferred some of their stunning photos to silicon rubber and made a range of Kindle and laptop covers showing scenes from the tropics to the snowy ice-caps and…
Does Foursquare make you sad?
Does FourSquare make you sad? The perennial complaint about the internet is that it cuts us off from the Real World and makes us into goggle-eyed wifi addicts who think that our Facebook friends are our real friends. There was some suggestion around the launch of new location-based apps that they would bring you closer…
What the Gmail lab shake up tells us about Gmaillers
Labs at Gmail just got a little shake-up according to the Gmail blog. Apps that made the cut and have become fully fledged Gmail features include my favourite custom colour labels and youtube previews. Apps that got the boot include "random signatures" and "location in signature". Here's the list: Graduating: Search Autocomplete Go To Label…
Ultimate Geek Chair – Martha Stewart the Prince of Dubai are fans
Need a chair? Need a chair with three screen monitors, reclining base, surround sound, air filtering and light therapy? Think about it. You'll realise that you do. Named the Emperor Workstation, this dark internet-enabled throne is the ultimate geek chair - they've got them in the Google offices, the Prince of Dubai has several and…
Tracking clicks on Facebook: the scams, the apps and whether we want it?
It's the sort of app that everyone wants but fears and knows would ruin social networking. Something that lets you track who looks at your page and how often they click on it. These apps pop up from time to time and run until Facebook find out about them and squash them. I was sent…
Three eReading apps for iPhone: reviews of Kobo, Free Books and eReader
Do you really need to buy a eBook? We looked at the eBook versus iPhone debate earlier, and here we review three e-Reading apps for iPhone.These will also work for iPad of course - when it comes out. Kobo www.kobobooks.com Cost: free on iTunes, various prices per book What it does: A multiplatform book store.…
Firebox scanners rescue old negatives from photo-death
A pair of scanners dedicated to rescuing old photos, negatives and slides from oblivion has recently gone on sale in e-tailer site Firebox. The two intelligent scanners, the Pics 2 PC and the Pics 2 SD digitise old image content letting you store and use it online. Images can be scanned on any scanner of…
eBooks vs iPhones – is reading on a mobile phone good enough?
This has been touted as the year of the e-Book, but e-Books and Readers are still relatively niche products in terms of sales. Many more people will have smartphones than specialised reading gadgets, meaning that they have to carry (and buy) fewer gadgets. So is reading on a phone an acceptable alternative to eBooks or…
Voucherhub tells us why their UK vouchers are better than other vouchers
Vouchers are big, we're coming out of recession, thrift is chic and getting £10 off Marks&Spencers is always good whatever the global economy is doing. Given the rise of online shopping, it is hardly surprising that sites collecting online vouchers have got big too. Online vouchers are usually promotional codes that you can fill in…
Wagamama's app: order from your iPhone
Finally someone is bringing a convenient way of ordering chicken itame to the iPhone. Wagamama's - the UK restaurant chain - are now letting you place orders over an iPhone app. Download the Wagamama's app for free, use the GPS to find your nearest restaurant, then browse the menu, order some tiger prawns and stroll…
