Month: March 2010
Would you like that in English? Google Translate now built into Chrome browser
If Google's blanket advertising campaigns for its web browser Chrome haven't bamboozled you into trying the browser - then perhaps this nifty translation feature will. Popping up a bar if Chrome senses you are viewing a page in another language, it asks if you want to translate the page. Sure translation engines have been around…
iPad rival – the HP Slate will sell for €400 (£359)
A Spanish paper has broken news of the price of HP's tablet computer, the HP Slate. The Slate - the big rival to Apple's iPad should be be selling for 400 euros or £359 for an entry level model. That puts it just above cheaper end netbooks and directly challenges the iPad on price: coming…
Mafia man caught after using Facebook
Mafia bosses are never on Facebook in the big famous films, and it really seems that they should keep it that way. A Facebook session went a bit wrong for Mafia hitman Pasquale Manfredi after the Italian police used high tech tools to work out where he was accesssing Facebook from and arrested him. Manfredi…
5 Worst Facebook status Crimes of 2010
Back in 2008, Shiny ed Susi Weaser wrote the controversial reference work: The ten worst Facebook status crimes. Two years and countless web innovations later we look at the new Facebook status crimes. We realise there are ups and downs to even the most irritating statuses which is why we're offering (sort of) balanced pro…
How many apps is too many apps?
Some of us download apps like sugar-mad children let loose in a sweet store. iPhone users are particularly guilty - they have the biggest app store of any mobile platform and arguably the iPhone apps are the iPhone's selling point, I mean that 3mg pixel camera wasn't why you bought it was it? But how…
Lightsaber Duel iPhone app lets you fight your friend with a lightsaber
So you can't have a lightsaber in real life because a) they don't exist, b) you might hurt someone - but neither reality nor the police can stop you owning the lightsaber duel app for iPhone. An exciting update to the previous lightsaber app for iPhone, this one lets you fight your friend in a…
App Review: NextBuses tells you when the next bus is
When is the next 36 bus? It's the sort of question that drives you crazy when you're waiting for it, and hardly anything can tell you the answer. Especially not the strange man in the corner of the bus shelter kicking the wall. Well you guessed right - there's now an iPhone app for that.…
Playfish issue Cash Cards available in Sainsbury's: real money for game money
Paying money for virtual goods has always raised a few heckles in the media. The thought that people are spending hard-earned pennies on virtual strawberry seeds in Farmville or virtual pumpkins to decorate the kennels of virtual dogs in Pet Society get traditional media organs a bit het up. Admitedly paying money for what is…
A sitcom based on Steve Job's life? Yup. But is there enough sex n drugs to make it interesting?
It's obviously Make-Something-Inspired-By-Steve-Jobs Week. After the horror of the mozzerella sculpture of Steve Jobs' head, some enterprising TV producer has pitched a TV sitcom based on the Apple CEO's life. At least this isn't yucky. The show which is making a pilot episode, is called iCON (of course, geddit) aka The Secret Life of Steve…
Nokia X9 phone pictures and specs leaked from Chinese site
God knows quite how this got into the public domain, but pictures and specs claiming to be the new Nokia X9 are flitting around the interwebs. What we're seeing is a pretty hardcore smartphone running the Symbian 4.0 operating system and featuring a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, which is an advanced version of the processor…
