Month: August 2010
Helpful Gmail app Rapportive links mails to tweets and online profile
A useful new app for Gmail has just got a new round of venture capital funding: Rapportive is a nifty app that links emails you receive to the Linked-In profile of the sender and their recent tweets. Rapportive replaces the Google adverts in the side of your Gmail with an information about the sender. That's…
Five gadgets they really could have done with in Inception
Inception by Christopher Nolan is a great and very complicated movie. Too complicated in the opinion of some, the new Matrix in the opinion of others. Anyway the dream-world thriller which splits levels of human conscious into some crazy tiered architecture thing is the high-brow geek movie fare of the moment. Without making any judgements…
Gadget Lust: Kisai Traffic Watch combines road map with clock face, is mental
Our favourite Japanese watch-makers have just turned out another of their specialities - a completly illegible watch that looks really great. Called the 'Kisai Traffic Watch' it is inspired by flyovers, underpasses and intersections. Does it tell the time? yes, but not as we know it. 3,6,9 & 12 are etched around the outside, and…
ITV will charge for content over Sky: creep of paid-for content
ITV will launch paid-for HD channels on Sky in a deal that sees ITV charging for content for the first time. ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD, and ITV4 HD will launch as part of Sky+HD's subscription package of channels in autumn 2010. The channels will be available to all homes subscribing to a Sky+HD subscription. While…
How technology has changed dating for ever..
Things ain't like how they used to be. In the past twenty years, technology has changed everything from the publishing industry to home videos. Dating has not escaped. Tell us what you think in the poll at the bottom... How technology has made dating a nightmare... 1) The privacy of gadgets Just noticed an article…
Is there an app to teach you Jewish mourning prayers? Yes there is
Well I don't know if this is an common need among iPhone users, but an app now helps you to pronounce a Jewish mourning prayer. If you find it hard to master the intonation while reciting the ancient Aramaic text of the Kaddish, this app will definitely help you. It's a free tutorial program that…
Our Copy-Paste Culture and why plagiarism isn't such a problem anymore…
A lot of students these days don't know what plagiarism is, and when they do, they don't think it's a problem according to the New York Times. The article posted today blames free-for-all internet culture where no information belongs to anybody for the increase in the numbers of students committing plagiarism. But you know what,…
Shiny Poll: Those Old Spice adverts – did anyone find the user replies a bit dull?
The Old Spice advertising campaign has been the MAJOR success story of online advertising in the past few months. Racking up 5.2 millions views in a week, becoming the most popular channel on Youtube and trending on Twitter - it was like the perfect online ad campaign. Somehow mainstream yet quirky enough to get everyone…
Why eReaders will be really good for older people
Techie gadgets are often seen as the preserve of the young and hyperactive. But eReaders could be really good for the older generation, even though they're the ones that probably are most attached to the paper and card format. Apologies to the eagle-eyed, wired-up, Nexus One toting oldsters - but a couple of features on…
Five Reasons Why Company Blog Posts are good things
I know what you're thinking - 500 word rambles about how great a company is, written by someone who would much rather be writing computer code or cracking some data - are not a great addition to knowledge and understanding on the internet But Read Write Web just put out a plea for the importance…
