Month: July 2011
Does my iPad look good in this? The most desirable iPad cases
With the iPad becoming more of a staple item in people's lives these days - I sure would like the third generation iPad that is rumoured to be announced in not too long - one dilemma us women will face is where and how to bring it with you. It's not big enough to warrant…
Why Online Anonymity is important, even if H8 is the price we pay
An article in the Observer this week about INTERNET RAGE became the most read story on the Guardian media website yesterday. It explored just why people get so angry on the web and how we can stop them making death threats and rape jokes on YouTube, rounding up with a call to ban anonymous commenting…
Our friends' Facebook photos do make us want to go holiday: Stastically proven
Over half of us are moved to book a new holiday by looking at our friends' facebook photos, a new survey from a Swedish travel business called tripl reveals. See the infographic below: Tripl implies that it's pictures of our friends of sun-kissed beaches and palm trees that's sending 53% us to EasyJet. But it…
Apple Stickers: Ten Weird Places People Put Them
Apple stickers end up in a lot more places than just on Apple Macs. We bring some of the weirdest places people put those free stickers you get when you make the great decision to buy an Apple product. As ever, it's a smart marketing ploy from Mr Jobs because those stickers really do get…
Don't bother with your social start up – you can't beat Twitter and Facebook
So says Silicon Valley guru Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners, who was one of the first investors in Facebook. The theory is that the twin pillars of social are now so strong that it is almost impossible for anyone to come up with a start up to challenge them. So all those social start ups…
The Top Ten Tumblr Blogs you should be following
With 23 million blogs and counting - Tumblr is the top platform for creatives, hipsters, wankers and some genuinely great people who produce beautiful blogs. This is an update to our classic Top Twenty Tumblrs post with some fresh delights from 2011. We've got beautiful ones, funny ones, ones that are about cats but all…
What will Apple do when they eventually stop growing?
Apple has risen so far so fast that it's not just negative tech bloggers with too much time on their hands who wonder whether it can possibly sustain the rise. And just how it's going to cope with the inevitable plateau. Apple overtook Microsoft to become the most valuable tech company on the stock market…
Apple could bring in big-name outsider to replace Steve Jobs
Well, you'd hope Apple are thinking about it. Steve, 56, took medical leave last year to cope with cancer of the pancreas. Tim Cook, Chief Operating Officer, has taken over most of the leadership duties, but since so much of Apple's image and success is bound up with their combative charismatic leader, it's natural they…
Poll: Have you "Owled"? Will you? The New Planking sweeps Daily Mail, England Cricket team
The Daily Mail gave us a heads-up on this new web-craze last week and we just wanted to see how Shiny readers felt about it all. Remember "planking"? the mania for lying flat on things and posting pictures of yourself doing it on the internet got big in Australia. Planking hit the news after a…
iPhone is the biggest-selling phone in the world: 20 million sold last quarter
It's not just big, it's the biggest, despite being one of the most expensive phones on sale. We all know Steve and Apple have pulled off an incredible success with the iPhone but seeing the cold hard facts is still a gob-stopper. Between April and the beginning of July this year - 20.34 million iPhones…
