Author: Becca Caddy
Becca is passionate about health, fitness and wellbeing. She’s particularly interested in wearable technology, how our mobiles can help us to get fitter and ways to introduce mindfulness and meditation into our busy working lives. As a northerner living in London, she loves exploring the city, going to the cinema at every possible opportunity and Instagramming everything that crosses her path.
IFA 2011 – Native Union launches Play – Quirky little to-do list gadget
Amidst all of the new Samsung products being announced at IFA this morning comes a bit of a quirkier device from Native Union. The Play is an interesting mix of a high quality video camera, audio recorder and a 2.4 inch colour LCD screen. The brand suggests it would be brilliant for to-do lists and…
How to get the most out of Instagram
More than 150 million photos have now been shared to Instagram, so it's safe to say that although the filters can seem a bit gimmicky at times, the quick and easy photo sharing app and its dedicated community are here to stay. But, if you find yourself just uploading photos, applying a quick filter and…
Sony's Reader Wi-Fi does what it says on the tin
Sony's new e-Reader, the Reader Wi-Fi or PRS-T1, has just been announced at IFA. Sony is dubbing it "the world's lightest e-Reader" and at a mere 168 grams no one's arguing with them just yet. As well as being light, it's super thin at 8.9mm and boasts Wi-Fi connectivity alongside the ability to borrow ebooks…
IFA 2011: What we'll see and what we'd like to see
IFA in Berlin is a huge trade show that's kicking off for the press today and continuing until the 7th of September. It's an opportunity for lots of different brands from all over the globe to showcase their gadgets and there'll be a huge mix of consumer tech on display, from home appliances through to…
7 Promising Jux bloggers
This is only a list of 'promising' bloggers currently impressing our eyes on the new blogging platform Jux because it's just that, very, very new. We staged a bit of a blogging battle between Jux and Tumblr earlier in the day and Jux was, quite surprisingly, victorious. But, if you're going to start using the…
Facebook changes all kinds of settings (AGAIN)
If you log onto Facebook today, you'll probably notice the busy beavers over at Facebook HQ have added a few new features around the update status box. Now various blogs and publications have been writing about these changes over the past week (thank you All Facebook), so we were all expecting them to arrive sooner…
STOP breaking the law for a Facebook friend
Yes, Facebook is an integral part of all our lives. Yes, we're 'friends' with people we barely know. But, is it really so hard to not add everyone that we come into contact with as a friend? After all, we checked and there isn't an innate switch in our brains which hooks up directly to…
The battle of the blogs: Jux vs. Tumblr
We've already written about our love for brand new blogging platform Jux, which Ashley described last week as "Tumblr on steroids". It may well be the focus on images, the simple interface or the lovely lovely layout which has us hooked, but it's also refreshing to see a platform with such a no-nonsense attitude, as…
Facebook behaviour: Are you a clicker or a liker?
A new study published on All Facebook today suggests that your sex and age has a big impact on whether you like, click or just ignore Facebook ads. I seem to have learnt to block them out over the years, whether it's "social media overload" or just the fact I'm getting freaked out by seeing…
The invasion of the iPad: Now on planes, trollies AND bin lorries?
Gone are the days of iPads being solely reserved for that pretentious guy in the corner of the coffee shop. Recently they've started to pop up in more and more unusual places, they're in our schools, on our buses and in our offices, which is actually no surprise given how compact, slick and intuitive the…
