Month: July 2009
5 kitchen implements to desire
I know kitchen implements are there to be useful... they open tins, contain hot things and facilitate the making of millefeuille pastry. But sometimes they're so much more than that. Sometimes, they become things you want really badly with a desire that eclipses any potential usefulness they could possibly have. These are five kitchen implements…
FriendFeed – what is it good for?
FriendFeed has been getting flak in some quarters for simply copying banal trivia from one part of the internet and putting it in another part of the internet. I think we all know by now that the human race likes banal trivia. If the existence of small talk hadn't sufficiently proved that, then Twitter certainly…
5 great coffee machines
The dark liquid that flows in the veins of the workforce, coffee is a popular drink. American coffee-drinkers consume an average 3.1 cups a day (according to coffeeresearch.org) - sadly British statistics haven't been compiled, but I imagine we're not far behind. If you're going to drink that much of it, it might as well…
Meet Shiny Shiny on Twitter – @ShinyShiny
Shiny Shiny tweets and would like you to follow please. Some people call Twitter a stream of banalities - of course it is, and that's why we love it. And when you follow us it's a stream of ShinyShiny-flavoured banalities. So... follow us! Practically an RSS feed, we use our Twitter-stream to post links to…
10 best places to buy gadgets and geek chic online
From the obvious to the weird, we pick out the internet's best gadgets and geek chic shops. 1. Amazon www.amazon.co.uk Good for: home entertainment, cameras, personal computing Pros: has the retail system, reliable, wide choice, compiles different sellers Cons: it's a marketplace - not all sellers are necessarily reliable. One of online retail's biggest players,…
Dog iPhone apps, dog tracking devices, pet cam and dog social networking
One day someone will breed a Pekingese with an iPhone and the result will be beautiful. Perhaps even better than this. In the meantime there are many useful and even more non-useful ways your dog can interact with technology. From a simple iPhone app that barks at you, to an amazing all-options-covered way of surveying…
Social-networking sites & blogs have love-children
The mounting buzz around short-form blogging sites Posterous and Tumblr puts a new spin on the blogs v twitter debate; a third way. It's got me thinking that rather than killing each other, or even co-existing, social networking sites and blogs are actually coming together and making mid-length social blog babies. Metaphorically I mean, there's…
Bing – why you should be using it
To say that Google runs the biggest most successful search engine on the world wide web is so obvious it's slightly ridiculous, so when Microsoft launched its search engine Bing I didn't really envisage myself using it beyond the odd curious poke-around. But having Binged (Bung?) for a few months now, I'm going to recommend…
