Month: October 2011
A tribute to the iPod: Happy 10th birthday in pictures
Happy birthday iPod, you've served us well over the past ten years, just look how you've grown up...
Will new Google music store mean Google+ and Facebook showdown?
Google is set to launch a new music store in the coming months (or even weeks), which will allegedly play a key role in the brand's social network, Google+, making it very similar to the most recent Facebook integration with the likes of Spotify and Deezer. There have been rumours of a new music offering…
Why did Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus leave Apple NOW?
Despite many Apple fans being a little disappointed at the lack of an iPhone 5, the iPhone 4S has still proved to be extremely popular and one of the main reasons is Siri, the voice recognition assistant we tried out a few weeks ago and were pretty impressed with. So, you'd expect whoever has been…
ROUND-UP: Instagram week and photography competition #ShinyAutumn
So today should be the end of Instagram week but we're having so much fun and we have a LOT of other things we want to cover, so we're carrying our dedicated 'Instagram Week' into another week. Instagram Fortnight we'll call it... Yeah, that's just as catchy... We've decided to give you a bit of…
10 Girl geek Halloween costume ideas: Leeloo, Quorra and She-Ra
Do you remember in teen flick classic Mean Girls when Cady turns up to the Halloween party and all of the other girls are dressed up as sexy cats and mice in stripper-esque lingerie? Well, don't think that you have to succumb to the female Halloween whore trend this year, as we've collected together some…
ROUND-UP: 5 Reasons Starbucks isn't just about the coffee: iTunes, My Rewards and free Wi-Fi
Whether you prefer independent coffee shops and find mocha-frappa-wotsits too commercialised, or you're a die-hard Starbucks fan, you can't deny that the popular chain makes pretty amazing drinks around Christmas time, with syrups, too much cream and how could we forget the red cups. Well you may notice when you venture in for your festive…
5 Online Instagram alternatives: VintageJS, PicPlz and InstantRetro
Although Instagram is clearly one of our favourite (OK our favourite) photo editing tools, there are those who can't access it from their handsets and others who feel a little restricted by the fact you can't tweak filters and borders to your heart's content. However, there are a range of other photo editing apps available…
77% of BlackBerry users missed BBM the most during outages
It's now common knowledge that last week RIM's BlackBerry handsets experienced a LOT of problems, including loss of access to email and the internet and no BBM services. The company came under fire for not communicating the issues effectively to its global customers right away, but RIM's co-CEO Mike Lazaridis tried to rectify the situation…
Griffin launches bright stylus range for winter to keep fingers warm
Griffin has launched a new range of bright, eye-popping styluses (we have no idea what the correct plural for stylus is... styli?) to brighten up wintery days and most importantly keep your fingers wrapped up warm inside your gloves. We're so used to using our fingertips to control our gadgets, but as it gets colder…
Photography competition: Win loads of cool iPhone prizes #ShinyAutumn
Today we're launching an easy to enter mobile photography competition with our friends at Orbitsound to kick off Instagram week and give one reader the chance to win a fabulous T12v3 speaker bar as well as lots of runner-up prizes that we have dug out from our cupboard including iPhone cases, iPhone lenses, games and…
