Month: January 2011

iGotYa: iPhone App Snaps Photos Of Anyone Lurking Your Phone

I wish I had this app installed on my iphone when it was stolen a few months ago. The iGotYa app lets you know who's trying to snoop around your iPhone by snapping a photo of whoever enters a wrong lockscreen passcode. The photo is then emailed to you along with your devices current GPS…

Just a note to say: The New Facebook Profile Is No Longer Optional

Deal with it kids. It means you'll get that ribbon of most recent pictures at the top of your profile, your Info and Pictures tabs will be on the left at the side, instead of at the top and you'll have ten of your top friends pasted down the side. Despite dire warnings from the…

Kindle Comes To The Mac App Store

The Kindle app comes to the Mac App Store, but do we really care? The app is already available for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Windows PC and of course Kindle. So I guess it is no surprise they would make it available on the Mac App store, after all there motto is "buy…

The Hipstamatic App Gets Its Own Gallery Exhibit

It seems like almost every iPhone owner is using the Hipstamatic app these days to capture the world around them. It is this success that has inspired the Orange Dot Gallery in London to dedicate a whole exhibition to the retro photograph app. The exhibit will showcase 157 prints taken from the popular hipstamatic blog…

New Google Goggles app – will change how you shop & let you cheat on Sudoku

Smart Android app Google Goggles just got better as Google updated it with faster smarter barcode recognition and the ability to link real world adverts to online shops. The key changes: Barcode search has been on Goggles for a while, but Google have speeded it up, and it now send you directly to an online…

Laser cannon will be used to "dazzle" Pirates

It sounds like a scene in a sci-fi film, but it's acutally true. Weapons and defence company BAE systems are trialling a laser cannon for use against pirates. They intend it for use off the coast of East Africa where commercial ships are increasingly in danger of piracy and Somali pirates currently hold 586 people…

Law cracks down on Twitter as footballer faces disciplinary action over tweet

A footballer for British club Liverpool is facing disciplinary action from the Football Association over a tweet where he criticised a referee. Ryan Babel posted a picture of Howard Webb with a Manchester United shirt photoshopped onto him after Manchester beat Liverpool in a game where Man U was awarded a penalty. The Football Association…

Dental Drill Noise Cancellation Aims To Make Dental Visits Less Stressful

We all dread going to the dentist. The very sound of the drill is more than enough to leave even the toughest of us shaking in our shoes. That is why King's College Dental Institute's Professor Brian Millar has invented a noise cancellation device that eliminates the unnerving sound of dental drills. Many people put…

How Mac and PC apps will kill Tweetdeck…

The new app store for Mac has lots of positive features, but it's likely that the centralised Apple store and it's specially optimised Twitter app for Mac will kill off the ecosystem of third-party Twitter apps that have sprung up. And top among them is Tweetdeck. Well, only among Mac users at first of course,…