Month: March 2010
Smush Creme Eggs with your iPhone: the Creme Egg app
Creme Egg fans, there is a iPhone creme egg app. No you can't eat it, but you can replicate the moment when you crush the chocolate shell of the creme egg and all the goo oozes out. The Scramble the Egg game on the Creme Egg iPhone app presents you with an egg on your…
Google's Public Data Explorer makes stats into beautiful graphs
Love or hate Google, you gotta admit it provides some of the best web services out there - maps, docs, mail - and all for free. One of the latest tools they've released is Public Data Explorer, a way of making important public data into brilliant graphs. The Data Explorer is a data visualisation tool…
Sky will work with all 3D TV sets
Following the announcement of new 3D TV sets, Sky - the main providers of 3D TV content just wanted to make sure that everyone knows that their boxes will work with all 3D TV sets. So let's just say that again: Sky boxes will work with all 3D TV sets. In a bit more detail:…
Tech companies that give out free tampons: Microsoft yes, Google no
Err, this isn't exactly a breaking news story, but I came across a photo and post on Flickr recently that shed a little light on the inner workings of the world of tech, and though the gender imbalance in technology may be something chronic, it seems that women who do work there don't do too…
Twitter builds in location tags: but does anyone care where you are on Twitter?
You can now tweet your location from the main Twitter site. Location tags now pop up on tweets if the users choose to geotag. This means you can now see where they were when they sent it. On a map. It looks like this: But is Twitter's hook-up with location just a gimmick? I guess…
Phase Car Stereo lets you play music from iPod or memory stick
If you are fed up with jiggling CDs around to get music in your car, then winkle out the car stereo and replace it with this, the In Phase IPS-100SSD. It's a headunit or a digital car stereo that can take input from any music storage device: you can hook it up to your iPod,…
GuitarBud: plug your Guitar into your iPhone for geeky jam sessions
Okay so it doesn't exactly sound like rock and roll, but a new cable system GuitarBud that lets you plug your electric guitar into your iPhone is bound to please geeky guitar-players. Made by Paul Reed Smith Guitars, GuitarBud lets you link your instrument up with lots of different apps. Hook up to simple Voice…
Twitter handles: the available, the regrettable and why it's okay to a be a bit loopy
Seemed like a good idea in 2008 didn't it? calling yourself littlebunnyfufu on Twitter because no-one you knew was on it or looked likely to join it and that was your msn name back in the 90s. Now though, you've got a serious job in social media, it's the top google result for your name…
LG brings a 3D TV triple whammy to the UK's sitting rooms
LG just announced that they are launching a portfolio of 3D TV devices due to hit UK shops in May - bringing the 3D experience of films like Avatar to the nation's sitting rooms. The products were raced to shelves faster than intended according to Head of Marketing Stephen Gater: "We've seen such enormous interest…
App Review: Stickybits – letting you stick digital stuff to real objects
Stickybits lets you tag digital content to the real world - an idea that immediately got me excited. Using product barcodes and the iPhone's ability to "scan" them using the camera it lets you leave photos, video, audio or just a text comment attached to anything with a barcode. It's like augmented reality but not…
