Month: April 2010
Girl Geeks in Vogue – geeks are fashionable!?
I'd always thought high fashion was kind of sniffy when it came to acknowledging geeks. I thought that if you spent your days tinkering around with code and made nerd jokes on Twitter, it precluded you from being "fashionable" in the strict sense of the word. I doubted that power glamazons would be interested in…
Gray Powell memes: lose an iPhone, gain a whole lot of viral net content
So Steve Jobs probably doesn't love him, but the internet is alllll over him. Him and his liking for German ale and his little slip-up with a prototype of the summer's most hyped gadget, whether it was lost or stolen. So Gizmodo were not afraid of fingering the 27 year old Apple engineer by publishing…
The iPhone 4G leak – a quick guide to the conspiracy theories
Screw the volcano, geeks' beady little eyes are fixed on the unfurling drama of the lost iPhone 4. Is it truly all a stupid mistake by an employee and a lucky break for tech blog Gizmodo? Is it a PR stunt by Apple? Here's a brief round-up of the possibilities - vote for your favourite…
Apple drama and volcano see cost of iPad for Brits shooting up
That volcano is not helping British Mac fans. If it seemed bad enough that Apple delayed the UK release of their iPad, the ash filling transatlantic air passages has killed the prospect of casual visits to the States and all sorts of air freight. British prices for iPad have been going up almost as fast…
The difference between the new Facebook Like button and the old Share button
Facebook announced yesterday that they would be rolling out their "Like" button to the rest of the internet. Within a few weeks, website owners will be able to embed this button on their website and users will be able to share webpages they like with their friends on Facebook. If you're savvy about these things…
The Google breach: how that single password makes us all more vulnerable
From a report in th New York Times, it looks like Google might have been more compromised than was first known following the Chinese hacker debacle back in December. Then, hackers accessed the gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents and the Chinese government's failure to crack down on the hackers resulted in Google pulling its Chinese…
Shiny Poll: is this year's iPhone 4G upgrade as hot as last year's?
If Gizmodo's lost iPhone 4G is the real thing (and it looks like it is..) then we've already got all the details of the 4G upgrade. But it seems like the upgrade this time round is less exciting than last year's. The shift from the 3G to the 3Gs brought video capabilities and the ability…
The New iPhone 4G's case and hardware…
That stray iPhone prototype found on the floor of a bar in Redwood has produced sheaves of videos. Here's a quick 10 second look around the case. The most significant difference seems to be a slightly broader and flatter silver band around the outside which brings the iPhone in line with the design of the…
Some afternoon adorable: Cute Boys with Cats = best Tumblr ever
Oh my. This Tumblr blog is a nice turn-up for the books, cute boys with cats marries two great things in one simple image blog. Thank you internetz. Sometimes is a real close call which one is cuter: Another lovely pairing: And one which approaches soft porn for those of a geek-boy-and-cat-loving bent: Cute Boys…
Newspapers ballsing-up their Kindle editions – doesn't bode well for the iPad
As newspapers and magazines rush to create iPad editions for Apple's sleek multimedia device (which we hope will arrive in the UK some day), it seems their efforts at readable e-editions have been pretty poor to date. Flipping through reviews of newspapers for the Kindle on Amazon it seems that papers haven't really grasped how…
