After Google snuck some new fonts into Google Documents, we thought today was a good day for tipping our blogging toes into the wild waters of font wars. Passions run high, torn-off serifs litter the ground and some of the most vitriol on the internet is expended in these battles of words and lettering [see…

It's pancake designed to look like an iPhone. Being the cruel cynic that I am, I don't think looks like either a pancake or an iPhone or even edible. But then I don't even believe in Santa Claus. Jim makes pancakes for his daughter and then blogs about them. He explained how he made this…

New York have just introduced a way to pay for subway fares with your phone. It's a contactless system based on Visa's payWave program that simply requires users to wave their phones at a sensor to make a payment. Think of it - a queue of people waving their phones at passenger turnstiles. It's not…

Many people are staying away from Twitter today because a bug (the OneMouseOver Security Flaw) has posted heaps of dangerous links which can infect your computer without you even clicking on them. It doesn't affect anyone on a third party app but still sounds like it might be wise to give that social networking a…

The smart app that shows you Facebook events near you just got a bit smarter, now it shows you where your friends are and where they're planning to go. Using Facebook Places and Facebook Events the app for web and iPhone can plot a rough map of your friends' movements. The Hot List app is…

A worm in the new Twitter has affected thousands of users including celebrities like Sarah Brown. The bug only affects people using Twitter on the Twitter.com website, not those on third party apps like TweetDeck. The bug makes users inadvertently post malicious links which open up new windows showing either porn or dubious software. The…

If staying up till 2am working on your laptop in an office building sounds like your idea of HELL then the NightOwl project is unlikely to interest you very much, but it's a concept that has got big in New York and is now catching on in London. So the idea is that it provides…

Kooky Japanese watch-makers TokyoFlash have created another of the abstract art watches they are famous for. The Round Trip is, well round, and slightly more conventional than some of their other watches - like the one that was based on traffic flow for example. All their beautiful but weird watches look they like require a…