The London Project, Blizzard and the growth of 'ebook magazines'

Over the last few months members of the Shiny team have been working away on an ebook called The London Project. It features a group of bloggers writing passionately about the past and the present of the city they love. The book was created using a new-ish platform called iBooks Author, which enables the user…

Is Apple set to make big changes to iTunes soon?

Rumours have been flying around the interwebz for some time now that Apple plans to completely overhaul iTunes and it seems the highly anticipated makeover could be with us in the next few months. According to Bloomberg, by the end of the year iTunes is set to go through a number of the big changes,…

Instagram finally comes to the web (kind of)

For as long as we can remember (OK a year or so) Instagram has been an iPhone-centric app, but recently it's branched out onto Android handsets, rooted itself further into Facebook and it's FINALLY come to the web. Well, just a little bit. Now when you click on a friend's Instagram photo you can like…

STUDY: 60% of Brits will be bragging from their holidays abroad this year

Holidays used to be about exploring exciting cultural destinations, swimming in the sea or just drinking far too many margaritas by the pool. But, it seems that when we're on holiday nowadays many of us just can't help boasting about what an incredible time we're having online. According to the research carried out by T-Mobile,…

COME ON: New season Arrested Development coming exclusively to Netflix in the UK

First Netflix brought us the latest episodes of Breaking Bad and today it's revealed that it'll be the exclusive UK and Ireland home to the new season of Fox's INCREDIBLE comedy, Arrested Development. Now you must all do a chicken dance. GO. The new season will premiere in early 2013, which seems disgustingly far away,…

Google Nexus 7 tablet: Tech Digest talks basics

Google have taken the keynote of the Google I/O 2012 conference to reveal the Nexus 7 tablet. Built for Google by ASUS, it packs version 4.1 Jelly Bean of the Android operating system and is positioned to take on the Kindle Fire at a mere $199 in the US. Thin and light at just 340grams,…

WTHR, the fairest app of them all (and it tells you about the weather)

We expressed concern for our own minds and eyes last week when we called the new Nike+ Running app beautiful, but it seems that there's a new contender ready to take the fairest app of them all crown and it's called WTHR. The WTHR app aims to bring us details about the weather in a…

The Cools: A Tumblr and The Fancy hybrid for fashion junkies

A new fashion start-up called The Cools has launched today, with backing from some top names in fashion, funding from MTV founder Bob Pittman and a slick, minimal website that's guaranteed to appeal to style junkies. We hate saying a new platform is a bit like this and this, or a mashup of that one…

Creepy internet teddy bear installation will haunt your nightmares

Like some terrifying scene from Child's Play, a wall full of possessed bears that shout random updates from the internet in a range of weird accents now exists somewhere in the world. Good. Very good. The "installation" called TED (Transformations, Emotional Deconstruction) was created by Sean Hathaway and Carlos Severe Marcelin, who took a number…