Month: May 2010
10 Funny Pictures of When Google Adsense Ads go wrong
Google Adsense. It's got fans and it's got detractors. Google have been running the service since 2003 and it automatically serves up ads to web users based on what words they searched for or what site they're browsing Some people like the money it brings in, some people criticise it for bringing in a pittance…
Dog fur for oil spills and Five Other Surprising Things Dogs do For Us
I know dogs aren't gadgets, but if they were, they would be the best gadgets ever. They have a fantastic user interface - fur! are way more responsive than the most sensitive touchscreen (can iPhones gurgle?) and adapt to individual users and users different moods over time. Incredible. Okay, so they poop. Dogs are also…
Gallery: Six best Geekware Accessories For Her
We do love well-crafted geekery here at ShinyShiny. So a Canadian website specialising in smushing up old gadgets to make cute geek accessories with the broken but beautiful fragments was always going to go down well here. Geekware is pricier than say Etsy (which has some similar stuff) but they have a cute range on…
IPad won't go mass-market in UK, survey predicts
So while we're all interested in the iPad, a survey by technology company says that it won't go mass-market in the UK. The survey by Simpson Carpenter suggested that while people love the looks and the touch screen when they were shown the device, they don't feel like coughing up close to £500 for it.…
Another iPhone 4G gets lost, turns up in Vietnamese blog….
Well, I don't think the American police will be chasing this one up - an iPhone 4G has just been found in Vietnam - apparently. A Vietnamese blog has posted a whole gallery of what they claim is the new iPhone 4G. They've posted a large gallery of shots, different to Gizmodo's, making it clear…
Grammar freak? just amused by wandering quotation marks? there's a blog for you
Came across a great blog today which traces rogue quotation marks in signs across the world. You know when you put quotation marks on something, it's either because it's a quotation or else it sounds like you're being really ironic and don't actually mean what you saying. As in: Oh yes, I'll bet you're doing…
SmartSwipe – a USB gadget that cuts time and fraud when paying online
A clever gadget aimed at reducing credit card fraud: SmartSwipe plugs into a USB port on your computer and lets you swipe your card to enter its details on a site, instead of having to type them in each time. A USB gadget that is actually useful, it will be sold by Firebox from June.…
Canon add high speed and low-light tolerant IXUS HS 300 to its luxury camera range
A compact but high-specced camera is the latest addition to Canon's luxury digital camera range - IXUS. The IXUS 300 HS shoots pictures at 10 megapixels and High Definition video, and it specialises in taking shots at high speed - great for fast-moving scenes, and in low-light environments. Features include manual controls and the wide-angle…
Shiny Poll: Everything Everywhere – that rebranding in full & what they should have called it
We've just seen the logo of new British uber-network Everything Everywhere - the product of the merged T-mobile and Orange networks, that's it on the left. The company will be massive - with over 30 million customers - but the rebranding has hit a dud note with blogs saying it sounds a bit well, vague.…
Orange and T-Mobile merge to form.. "Everything, Everywhere": what it means for customers
UK networks Orange and T-Mobile have announced how their merger will create a super-company named Everything Everywhere that will control the largest UK phone network with customer base of 30 million people, over half of the UK adult population. The two brands will still operate under their own names, but they will be run by…
