Month: July 2010
Why you might need to stick duct tape on your iPhone 4 so it works properly
It's not the sort of thing you expect from Apple and certainly not from the beautiful smooth-running iPhone 4, but turns out there's a hardware flaw. And if Apple don't issue a recall to fix it, you might have to do it yourself, maybe with some duct tape. It's to do with the stainless steel…
Why Android App Inventor will be great & we needn't fear bad apps, there are lots already
Google have broken down a massive barrier to app creation by introducing a do it yourself visual app maker.. App Inventor is a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get app making tool, that lets a non-techie with a bit of basic intelligence and a familarity with lego, build themselves an app for any Android-based phone. They can then upload it to…
Poll: Tweetdeck is the most downloaded Twitter Client – do you use it?
A round of back-patting at TweetDeck the other day as they released figures showing that they are the most downloaded Twitter client with 15 million downloads of their desktop app. To put out a few more stats: the TweetDeck iPhone app has been downloaded over 2.5 million times and every day across all their apps…
iPhone app includes the eerie creaks from Lost
Want to recreate that eerie, surreal terrified feeling you get from watching Lost? Well you can now bring a little bit of it into your sitting room with an prank app that will play back the unsettling jungle echoes from the show. Finally the mulitasking of iOS4, has come in useful. This app can run…
Facebook's new Panic button and five other buttons I'd like them to introduce
Facebook made headlines today with the annoucement of a "Panic Button" aimed at kids at risk of cyber-bullying or worse on the site. Facebook UK launched the initiative with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). The "panic button" -- is a Facebook app that adds a tab onto your Facebook profile, clicking on…
Why the Music Industry is getting all hot and bothered about Augmented Reality
It's not a big secret that the music industry got caught napping by the internet. A few years of ignoring it have cost them dear and suddenly they have an industry-crushing crisis on their hands. Mick Jagger gave a bleak little assessement of it all on the BBC Today, claiming that the golden age was over…
Nixon The Trooper review — it's headphone week one
Welcome to Shiny Shiny's headphone week 2010. Everyday for the next fortnight I'll be reviewing a different set of headphones eventually culminating in the definitive league of personal audio. Catchy right? Day 1: The Trooper by Nixon. Allow me to be blunt, those looking for a pair of £50 on-ear headphone might be advised to…
Google's new video ads will talk to you..
Google's new ads will talk to you, if a revenue-generating idea from the tech giant gets approval. CEO Eric Schmidt announced Interactive video ads at a conference run by investment bank Allen & Co. The new ads would be videos that could float across pages and allow users to leave comments in the video. Users…
As Posterous tries to poach WordPress users: which do you prefer?
Slim-line powerblogging site Posterous are hoping to poach Wordpress users to their own platform by launching a widget which would transfer Wordpress blogs wholesale to Posterous. Posterous offers a very stripped down easy way to blog. One of their cornerstone features is the email-to-blog feature meaning you don't even have to sign into a content…
The experience of the feminist geek.. do you agree?
Skimming the interwebs, I came across an interesting article which lays out the experience of the feminist geek. As a feminist geek myself, admittedly a little more softcore than I might be, this article by Mary on GeekFeminism.org pinpointed several key issues. Here are the bits that rang true with me. Do you? Take the…
