Month: December 2010
Printing from iPad just got easier with Epson PrintJinni
Printing from your iPhone or iPad just got a bit easier as Epson updated their free app for iPhone, iPod and iPad called PrintJinni. [We think "jinni" is a cute way of saying "genie"]. You need a wireless printer - Epson recommends their WorkForce, Artisan and Epson Stylus NX models - but once you have…
Why you should be eating oats for Christmas
It would be the university of Aberdeen that comes out with a press release suggesting you eat oats for Christmas - the Scottish are famous for liking their porridge. It doesn't sound like much of an alternative to Christmas turkey - though fortunately what the new study from Aberdeen shows is that eating oats as…
Poll: Angry Birds – are you addicted?
With news that Angry Birds has been the most successful mobile game this year - selling an eyepopping 12million on top of 30 million free downloads we just thought we'd look at the effect this fun little game has had on the lives of its users. In case you're not aware of it - in…
Funny iPhone 4 decal fakes a call from Steve Jobs
We love this one. A witty decal (that's a sticker to us Brits) for iPhone 4 mocks up a call from Steve Jobs on the back of your phone. It copies the ringing screen for the iPhone and put the face and name of the Great Leader on it. We like the way they just…
App of the day: Live map show London Boris Bikes parking spots
With the protests planned for central London today, you might be wise hopping on one of the Boris Bikes rather than a bus. A live interactive map could help you plan a trip around London. The TfL Cycle Hire Interactive Map plots information from Boris Bike stations on a map, letting you predict how full…
Fancy developing for social good? London releases raw data for NHS, asks for useful apps
Any app developers or data-crunchers out there wanting to use their skills for social good, may be interested to know that the Mayor of London's Office has just released a bunch of data on the NHS in London. The London council are appealing for developers to come up with useful or interesting ways of structuring…
Quick Guide: The Chrome OS, Chrome apps and why you should be interested in it
A quick Q&A guide to the new Google Chrome. Q Yes yes, I've got Chrome it's a web-browser right, what's all the fuss about? A Well it is yes, it's Google's speedy web browser, but Chrome is also a new Operating System released just today, in testing mode. That's what everyone is writing about. Q…
The Julian Assange Fanciers Guild: Perhaps the wrongest thing to come out of the Wikileaks scandal
The media is all over the place about Julian Assange, the leader of Wikileaks and his recent arrest for sexual assault. Given his position at the centre of the massive secrecy-busting leaks and the victimisation of Wikileaks by companies like Visa and PayPal - his arrest for sexual assault is being seen as a set-up…
Your Christmas Tweet: what people are saying about Xmas on Twitter
Sure you can see what the people you follow on Twitter are saying about Christmas, but one little app will show you what everybody is saying on Twitter. It's pretty cute and it's all done up in whizzy visuals. That means you can see what most people on Twitter want for Christmas, how most people…
Why we'd rather talk to robots, any day..
A great story in the Harvard Business Review states what I have long suspected: that people would much rather talk to an intelligent robot than another person. Not in all situations of course - just most of them. In the article - Your Customers Don't Want to Talk to You - the writer states that…
