Lift: Has highly anticipated "habit forming" app been worth the wait?

It's been ready to launch to the public for some time now, but this summer Lift, a highly anticipated "habit forming" app came to iOS devices. If you feel you've heard of Lift before but you're not sure how, why or where, then it's probably been on your radar because it's backed by Twitter co-founders…

Worldcam: View Instagram snaps from all over the globe

We all take an insane amount of Instagram shots everyday, but how often do we ever really look back through them or store them anywhere? Well now a new app called Worldcam allows us to search back through our snaps based on where they were taken. By tapping into Foursquare, Instagram, Geonames and Geoplugin's APIs,…

WARNING: Tumblr maintenance means your Saturday could be completely GIF-free

if you're a gif-loving, photo collecting hipster you'll have already logged into your Tumblr account today to find that the site will be down for maintenance this weekend. According to the message that pops up on your home screen, the team are working hard to improve the performance and reliability of the blogging platform, but…

Bazaart turns your Pinterest pins into stylish collages

Are we the only ones who are getting a little bored of Pinterest at the moment? After all, there's only so many times you can stare at pretty pictures of clothes, holidays and interiors you'll never be able to afford. Well maybe our love for the virtual pinning board will be reignited with Bazaart, an…

Your internet addiction could soon be an actual mental illness

Do you ever wonder whether your incessant checking of your ex's Facebook page around 5,696,393 times a day or that 12 hour long Pinterest session till 4am could mean there's something actually wrong with your brain? No? Just us? Well according to reports over in the US, the American Psychiatric Association is ready to add…

IT'S OFFICIAL: 1 billion of us have sold our souls to Facebook

So it's official, pretty much all of us are on Facebook. Well, one billion of us, which may as well be all. Facebook released stats yesterday confirming the HUGE number and good ol' Zuckerberg wrote a long and melodramatic update about how Facebook has single-handedly solved world hunger and made everyone BFFs. Or something like…

Taploid turns your Facebook feed into a sleazy gossip mag

Do you ever read through updates from your friends on Facebook and sometimes think you're in a really REALLY terrible and badly dressed version of a reality TV show? Well now a new app called Taploid aims to suck your soul straight out of your body by presenting all kinds of Facebook activity in the…

Girl geek Halloween costumes comic book edition: Catwoman, Emma Frost, She-Ra

Last year we wrote up our 10 Girl geek Halloween costume ideas and judging from how many of you have been visiting that feature over the past few weeks you're going to be taking Halloween very VERY seriously this year. So, instead of pulling together a general girl geek list we've split up the Halloween…

Girl geek Halloween costumes film & TV edition: Leeloo, Hit Girl, Neytiri

Last year we wrote up our 10 Girl geek Halloween costume ideas and judging from how many of you have been visiting that feature over the past few weeks you're going to be taking Halloween very VERY seriously this year. So, instead of pulling together a general girl geek list we've split up the Halloween…