Month: May 2010
The Shiny Shiny Guide to UK election night: Twitter – the hashtags and people to follow
Twitter will be my first port of call on election night, starting at 10pm and continuing until my reddened eyes close and my iPhone, open at the Tweetie Twitter app, falls out of my hand and lies still on the floor till its back-lit screen flickers off. Given the big role the micro-blogging site has…
LG Viewty GT: social-networking smartphone going for £15 a month
Phone makers are falling over themselves to create great social-networking phones: Microsoft's Kin; Nokia's C3 - and mid-market phone veterans LG are jumping on the bandwagon releasing their LG Viewty GT exclusively on 3, on sale now. We like the look of this touchscreen phone though the biggest asset might just be the £15 a…
Shiny Review: Eurovision the iPhone App
For some people the big contest of May 2010 will be the UK elections, but others have their eyes elsewhere: on a competition full of passion, public votes and glittery tights - the Eurovision Song contest. And while everyone's been twittering on about election-this and gordon-brown-that, the good folks over at Simu Soft have been…
Tell yourself where to go: Nokia Ovi Maps lets you record directions in your own voice
You can now record travel directions on Nokia's Ovi Maps application in your own voice. Instead of the calm tones of the default speaker telling you to "take the second left at the roundabout" it can now be your own voice telling you to do that. Nokia's Ovi Maps comes preloaded on Nokia smartphones and…
Glossy lacquers, flags and artwork: Dell offer new case customation for their Studio laptops
Dell have released a new range of laptop case covers for their Mini Inspiron and Studio laptops meaning there's a total of 130 new cases to choose adding to the over 200 already available. Dell Studios are media-centric laptops with a focus on design and good graphics rendering and the customisable case is part of…
There's an app for that: test how ripe a melon is with iWatermelon for iPhone
If you don't mind looking like an idiot, there's now an iPhone app which lets you test how ripe a watermelon is. Switch the app on, enter the size and colour of the melon and then tap the melon with the iPhone. The app then calculates from the sound how ripe the melon is inside.…
Internet Explorer use dips, now has under 60% of the browser market share
In Internet browser world, Microsoft Window's Internet Explorer has always been the biggest player but its influence is on the wane and the decline of the browser hit another milestone this week as its market share fell below 60%. Coming pre-installed on all PCs with Windows, it's the default internet browser for millions of people…
Nokia C3 – social networking smartphone comes to Pay As You Go on Vodafone
Nokia's Blackberry-lookalike social-networking phone the C3 will be exclusively availalbe on a pay as you go deal with Vodafone. It's a move that may encourage lots of customers with less money into smartphones. When the Nokia C3 launches in June, Vodafone customers will be able to pick it up on one of the network's pay…
Shiny Poll: British @googlemail addresses switch over to @gmail – are we pleased?
The @googlemail.com email address will be phased out, and UK users will get the option to switch their Google Email accounts into the @gmail.com formats. For example [email protected] will now get the opportunity to become [email protected]. Existing users can keep their googlemail accounts but new UK sign-ups will only be offered the gmail address. The…
