Month: August 2010
What Women Want To Read Online – the Daily Mail?
Interesting story from the Guardian this week which showed that of all the British newspapers, the Daily Mail is the only one with more female readers than male ones. And it's the website that's pulling them in according to the story. Just why is the Mail Online so successful with women? I think we can…
Canon release new digital SLR to lust over: the 18megapixel EOS 60D
An update to the wildly popular and critically acclaimed Cannon EOS 50D, the 60D ramps up the specs and makes Canon's latest release capable of capturing images in exquisite detail. It will sell for £1099 (without a lens) from October in the UK. With an 18 megapixel sensor, 5.3frames per second (fps) shooting and the…
Phone calls come to Gmail: three reasons it won't bother Skype
Google will now let you make phone calls from its email service Gmail. As of last night you can call numbers in the the US and Canada for free, with cheap international calls on offer too. Google voice chat pops up with a keypad you dial a number into, and there you are, calling your…
Blinging Fashion Plasters are much better than normal Plasters
Once you've worn a novelty plaster, it's hard to go back to the normal ones. They just aren't so exciting. That's why I'm reluctant to recommend these blinging fashion plasters (or band-aids as they like to call em in America). They are great. Maybe you should get some though. They are called Bling Bling Boo…
Chrome design wins the browser battles? Internet Explorer 9 leaks show influence of minimal Chrome
The new interface for Internet Explorer 9 will look very like Google Chrome judging by leaks from Russian Microsoft. The new Internet Explorer will be out in 20 days and a hastily withdrawn demo page (above) showed us some of its new design. It seems that Chrome design features are winning out in the battle…
Ten Signs you are Addicted to the Internet
Well every so often we get all hot and bothered about how we're addicted to the internet. Oo, it's shrinking our brains, no-one remembers anything any more and my significant other only communicates with me by Facebook chat and text. Or something. A new book has just come out reinforcing that old claim. The Shallows:…
3 Sports that look good on 3D TV, and 3 that don't…
When people talk about 3D TV, they talk about how amazing sport broadcasts and nature documentaries will look. Think of the ball shooting into the back of the net looking like it's about to burst out of the screen, think of a beaver swinging its tail round and THE TAIL LOOKS LIKE IT'S COMING OUT…
What library? Students spend equivalent of a day a week on Social Networking
It's probably not news to you that students spend a lot of time bumbling around on the internet looking up weird stuff and chatting to each other on Facebook. Some statistics out today show just how much they're doing it. Time spent on social-networking sites adds up to be the equivalent of a full day's…
Poll: have you stalked celebrities on Google Streetview?
It's not like Wednesday is silly survey day, but hey we get a lot of them. Sometimes we like to share. So a Scottish double-glazing firm have ascertained that 34% of Britons have used Google Streetview to stalk celebrity homes. The most stalked celebrity according to www.centralscotlandjoinery.co.uk is Barack Obama who lives in the White…
Jordan's iPod range, and why it's probably not what Steve Jobs would have wanted
She is picturesque in her own way. She is also a collagen-pumped attention-seeking celeb. And her covered in skin-tight silver lycra is probably not what Steve Jobs or his Apple engineers had in mind when they designed the iPod. In fact when Katie Price aka Jordan dressed up as an iPod, it really didn't look…
