Today Facebook has rolled out the new timeline to its brand pages meaning no more rubbish landing pages or walls full of spam. We've all had a few months to come to terms with the stalker's dream that is the new Facebook timeline, with its big cover photo, never-ending scrolling functionality and revealing photos of…

It seems the end is finally in sight when it comes to the wait for Apple's highly-anticipated iPad 3. According to many online sources, the tech giant has begun sending invitations out for a mystery launch event on March 7th, to take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at…

Pinterest really is what you make of it, so follow some of our top recommended users for plenty of cool photography, fashion snaps and design inspiration. So you've bought into the Pinterest hype, you've created some boards with pretentious titles and a large proportion of the time you'd usually spend working/eating/sleeping has been taken up…

A new Facebook application called PrivateString allows users to self destruct their messages moments later. If you're prone to saying things that are a little mean, naughty or confidential then chances are Facebook isn't for you. Anything you write could be saved and forwarded on around the world by your 'friends' or stored on Facebook's…

A new version of the location app Forecast aims to connect us all with future check-ins and Facebook integration. It sounds promising, but will it work in practice? Here at Shiny Shiny we seem to be over location-based sharing. There, we said it. We don't know what it is. We used to love Foursquare and…

There's been a lot of debate over the past few weeks about whether Pinterest users are breaching any kind of copyright law by curating content from all over the web and adding it to their boards. Today it seems Flickr has taken matters into its own hands and has begun restricting Pinterest users from pinning…

Adobe has launched a new app called Photoshop Touch, which is specially designed to bring popular Photoshop functionality to iOS and Android tablet devices. Photoshop Touch comes equipped with all kinds of tools you'd expect, like blurring, clone stamp, layers, cropping and much more. In this way it's very similar to the desktop version we've…

We all know we spend far too much time stalking our friends on Facebook and mindlessly scrolling through tweets, but this week Twitter co-founder Christopher Stone has said it's "unhealthy" to sit and stare at the micro-blogging site for too long, despite the fact he, you know, founded it. Speaking at an event earlier in…