Month: December 2010
Facebook Facial Recognition automatically tags the pictures you upload
Picassa and iPhoto have been doing it for ages, but finally Facebook, the world's biggest photo site has introduced automatic photo-tagging. Facebook will start to use facial recogntion tech to recognise people in the photos that users upload... Tag Suggestions as it is called will begin rolling out to U.S. users next week, according to…
LG launch world's first dual-core chip – for a phone: LG Optimus
Dual-core chips have fuelled a boom in laptop processing power by doubling the amount of info that can be channeled through the processor. Now LG have put one in a phone. The LG Optimus 2X uses a high-performance Tegra 2 processor which makes for faster, smoother web browsing and applications and lets users multitask with…
The Photoshop Rap
Ever wanted to know how to use Photoshop? The guys over at College Humor recently posted this amusing yet informational rap. Now if only some one would only make a dubstep track to teach Final Cut pro... See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
When people who don't understand the internet say inadvertently funny things about Wikileaks
The conservative elite may not fully understand the Wikileaks scandal but they sure know they don't like it... My favourite Wikileaks misunderstanding came from the judge looking after Assange's extradition hearing who got "Wikileaks" mixed up with "Wikipedia" - we just hope PayPal and the US government don't make the same mistake. But there was…
Tumblr blog of the day: Hookers Or Cakes
We like to bring you the best of the internet here, so obviously a Tumblr blog called Hookers Or Cake is going to have feature somewhere. We're not really sure what it's about, but it just seems to be quite good. Maybe it's feminist, maybe it's just a collection of weird shit loosely themed by…
Poll: Time's Person of the Year – should it have gone to Assange or Zuckerberg?
Despite Wikileaks leader Julian Assange winning the people's vote, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook has just been named Time's official man of the year. Zuckerberg is a genius, sure, but did he deserve this, this year? As Wikipedia says - Time tends to shy away from people controversial in the United States. We quote:…
The first ever iPad gig? Everything Everything stream live to iPad
Manchester band Everything Everything are making a musical first this evening by streaming their London gig live to iPads. There's a custom-made app for the occasion called 'Man Alive - Everything Everything: Live at Union Chapel'. It's free. Band frontman Jonathan Higgs said he wanted to make the gig available to people who couldn't get…
Five reasons to chat someone up on Twitter
The BBC have drawn our attention to a list of celebs on Twitter who have been flirting with each other publicly on that little social network. Well, nothing like the example of a famous person to make you try something out and if Shane Warne can do it, so can we, the people. Five Reasons…
Hack the label: App Barcoo lets people add to barcodes
This is genius idea and I'm really happy that someone made this app. Barcoo is a barcode scanning app that is actually useful, and is for iPhone, Blackberry and Android. It gives consumers power to hack barcodes - on anything from cookies to t-shirts - and provides them with ethical information about that product where it…
Facebook visualises World's Relationships…
It's a deep blue map with slender white lines tracking human relationships across continents. Facebook bring us a geography of friendships with the map they have created... Interesting things to note: > Africa has strong links to Europe and North America but less so to South or Central America > Spain, Portugal have strong links…
