Month: December 2010
Angry Birds Day is a real thing: people in New York dress up as angry birds
One way to celebrate your favourite mobile phone game is to dress up as a character from it and parade around town. Angry Birds day is a thing. Let's have one in the UK! Take our Are You Addicted to Angry Birds Poll to help us measure the spread of the game.. [pictures from the…
What we expect from iPad 2..
It's coming out sometime round Valentine's Day (in the States at least) and geeks are getting all hot and bothered. After all, the first one took the world by storm and this promises to be uh, even better. And that wouldn't be hard considering that there are significant features missing from the first iPad. 1)…
Amazon Fail: the 30 minutes when world stopped buying Kanye West CDs and German history books
Thousands of people across the globe were prevented from ordering books about Nazi Germany and Kanye West CDs for about half an hour last night as online retailer Amazon went down. There was speculation that the Amazon down-time was the result of hackers punishing the site for taking their server space away from controversial website…
The eJoux Texting Bracelet
Texting obsessed? Check out the eJoux prototype by Biju Neyyan. The eJoux project consists of a Bluetooth device from which you can receive text messages or connect it to your music player to see what is playing. You can also program it to display animations, for example blowing leaves. This technology would allow you to…
Cartolina Christmas Card iPhone App
Christmas cards maybe not be as popular as they once were, but it is still nice to both send and receive festive messages from family and friends. That is why I really like the new Cartolina holiday iPhone app. Cartolina Cards are designed and produced in British Columbia, Canada by graphic designer Fiona Richards. The…
This week in social media 10th December: Most googled terms in 2010, create iPhone app in five minutes,
This week we find out what the UK has been searching for in 2010, how to create your own iPhone web app, people buy 90million virtual items per day, Facebook fan gets to direct Vodafone online video, and why people befriend brands on social networks. Via Sutrodigital
Video: Majoobi – Make your own iPhone "app" in 5 minutes
Yes, you can now create an iPhone app for free in 5 minutes, and you don't need to do anything more technical that copying an RSS feed. Sure the resulting app isn't the most complex one out there (basically RSS and it is a web app rather than an Apple approved one) but it looks good,…
The Facebook friends box & how it selects who to display
Yesterday I published a story asking exactly how Facebook calculates who is shown in the friends box on the new profile pages. Well today Facebook rang me up and told me, or rather gave me some general statements explaining some of the factors that the algorithm might take into account when choosing whether Tom rather…
There's an app for that: iPhone app helps you buy fruit
Of course there's an iPhone app that helps you buy ripe fruit. How could I have ever have imagined otherwise? How did people even buy fruit before the app store was invented? Released today, Fruit Guide offers photography and reference text to help users select "only the finest, healthiest fruits available". This is one of…
Forget the iPad, seems we're all buying Telescopes this Christmas…
Well, it's not exactly a new product, but John Lewis report that telescopes are flying off the shelves this year as Christmas buying gets underway. Sales of telescopes are up 148% since last year, and this week they have sold 78% more than last week. John Lewis currently stocks six telescopes ranging from the entry…