Month: November 2010
iPhone App: Postcode Envy – house prices and class snobbery – Brits will love this
Postcode Envy panders to two great British obsessions - class and house prices - so I bet that this little app will sell well. Postcode Envy doesn't do much - just tells you the average house price in a given postcode area, puts your neighbourhood on a scale from Trashy to Minted and then gives…
The Christmas Present from HELL: a screaming bauble
Well thank you ThinkGeek for inventing this horror. If no-one has had an argument, slammed the door or bitten someone else over control of the TV remote, ThinkGeek have come up with a way to inject some excitement - read terror - into your Christmas celebrations. A screaming Christmas Tree bauble. The TannenBomb Prank Christmas…
Meet Net God, confess your sins & be forgiven by a website
I bet you didn't know God had a website... but he does, and he's happy for you to chat about your sins to him on it, and most likely, he'll forgive you too. The site Father Net offers you a range of There are helpful references to the ten commandments in case you've forgotten them.…
Is Foursquare toast? – What Went Wrong & What They Should Do Next
A pioneer in the red-hot field of location, Foursquare's smart little location-based gaming app caught everyone's attention last year and got geeks all hot and bothered. The technorati were scrabbling to check in to their local supermarket in ever-escalating battles to become mayor of their branch of Tescos. Foursquare married a cool new technology -…
Track Your Flush For World Toilet Day
Apparently tomorrow is World Toilet day and the World Toilet Organization (yes really...) has launched an app to help raise awareness. The Flush Tracker, does just as it's name suggests. By entering in your location the app will show you exactly what happens to your flush once it disappears down the toilet: track its exact…
Unclutter Your Browser With Readability
Readability is a great add-on for browsers that transforms any web page into a clutter free page. Created by Arc90, a technology solutions agency based in New York, the add-on was created in order to provide readers a better reading experience online and to bring our attention back to the content. The system strips the…
Review: Qwiki – jazzed up Wikipedia, but does it make it better?
Qwiki is a web service that aims to make Wikipedia more exciting. What? - I hear you say.. how could all those paragraphs of nerdy detail in Times New Roman be made more interesting? Well, the new site has decided to jazz it up with pictures, videos and best of all - a strange female…
Gallery: new Latino Spider-Girl kicks ass
Sure, she's a lycra-suited 16 year old with the cup-size of a comic book woman. But we like her. And hey as the Guardian points out.. Spiderman wears tights all the time anyway. We always dig a power-woman especially if she can swing between buildings. So here are a couple of snaps of Spider-Girl. Spider-Girl…
10 Things We Do Not Want for Christmas
Maybe it's something you'd rather just buy yourself, maybe it clutters more than it helps or maybe it's damn useless contraption that fills you with aggravation everytime you look at its winking little LEDs. A survey of almost 2,000 Brits by the British Video Association asked respondents to detail their unused and unwanted gifts. This…
AR app Layar gets 10million Euros in funding coup
Amsterdam-based Augmented Reality platform Layar have just scooped 10million Euros in funding from venture capitalists. With fast expansion going on in all areas of Augmented Reality other names have started to emerge and techniques as well. The money will be funnelled into Layar's app, software and platform and finance its continued geographical expansion. The investors…
