Month: February 2010
Interview with Britain's top Augmented Reality Specialist: Howard Ogden talks the Beatles app and the future
Developer and entrepreneur Howard Ogden is one of Britain's leaders in the field of Augmented Reality. Through his business augmentreality.co.uk Howard develops Augmented Reality apps for phones on a platform called Layar - available on Google Android phones and on the iPhone 3GS (soon). He is the man behind the Augmented Reality Beatles tour. We…
Part 2 of the top 20 free iPhone games
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Sony Ericsson's new Greenheart phone – the Aspen, an eco-Blackberry
Sony Ericsson have added a business phone to their line up of eco-friendly handsets. The multi-tasking Windows Aspen joins the Elm and the Hazel in the Sony Ericsson Greenheart range. The phone's general features reflect the business niche that Sony Ericsson are gearing their Aspen handset towards: the key point being the Windows Mobile 6.5…
Site of the week: Checklists.com – a collection of useful and weird lists
Site of the week goes to Checklists.com. As a list-a-holic, a collection of lists arranged in a list format gives me great pleasure. The site is a collection of pre-made check lists for individual situations. Obviously a lot of lists are very specific to you: for example pick up Andrew will only have significance if…
It's not information overload, it's filter failure
A bleak struggle with my inbox and the general abundance of articles like this about information overload, reminded me of this talk from web theorist and author of Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky. Shirky tells us it's not the amount of information that drives us crazy, it's the failure of filters to sort it properly…
Forget websites, make an app: advice from Geek Squad founder
Anyone hoping to make an internet start-up work should go for the mobile platform first, then do a standard website after, said technocrat and founder of the Geek Squad, Robert Stephens in an interesting interview with sustainablejournalism.org. Mobile is where it's at according to Stephens. "If I were to advise a company on what to…
Student who wants to make a website? Microsoft and 123Reg offer UK students a £1 deal
The government is floundering around trying to help the 16-24 year-old generation, who seem to have got shafted by the recession. Job-wise anyway. For those still in college, here's a chance from Microsoft to get a few web skillz that could come in useful. Microsoft along with 123Reg is offering discounted website hosting and access…
Met Office release free weather app
The Met Office have just released an iPhone app - providing weather forecasts prescisely tuned to where you are using your phone. The app is free, has got enthusiastic reviews and seems to be both well-made and user-friendly plus streaming the relatively high-quality forecasts of the Met Office. It uses your current location to give…
