Month: June 2011
An iPhone accessory that will make you look like a twat: As modelled by
Sometimes iPhone accessories help you do things - like recharging your batteries. Sometimes they protect your device. Sometimes they just make you look like a twat. Lenny Kravitz has been caught modelling just such an accessory. If you want to get the look - you can get it for £21 on Amazon. Will work with…
Google+ summed up in a cartoon
Been wondering about this hot new Facebook rival from software giant Google? The appeal of Google Plus summed up: thank you xkcd
Bad SEO? – Sue Google. French search engine takes search giant to court
A French search engine have taken on Google - but in the courts rather than on the internet. Good luck to them. 1PlusV are claiming that Google is using their market dominance to stifle competition. The niche search engine is suing for €295 million (£265million) on basis that Google has both hindered the company in…
Ryan Cleary released on bail: But banned from using the internet – will it kill him?
Teen hacker from Essex Ryan Cleary has just been released on bail by a London Magistrate, pending his trial for charges of hacking next month. Under the terms of Cleary's bail agreement he is forbidden from having any internet-enabled devices in his house. This is the guy who threatened to kill himself when his mum…
Checking Out: Is Foursquare dead in London?
On a recent trip to New York - I noticed Foursquare stickers on the windows of literally every independent coffee shop I walked past - check in here! etc, but if the service isn't dead in London, it's on life-support at the least. Of course we predicted this when Facebook Places came out in August…
Listen to music in the back garden: Wireless Outdoor Speakers from BestBuy
Glastonbury has got us all thinking about spending time outside lying on the grass, listening to sweet tunes. And if that means lying out in your back garden, so be it. And especially if you chose to take your music while lying in in your back-garden, you'll want a decent set of outdoor speakers. Which…
Poll: Were you entertained by LulzSec hacks?
Obviously, they were doing it for their own entertainment, but they also like to claim they were doing it for ours too. The lulz they made were meant to be shared and LulzSec had the most extrovert profile of any hacker group over the past few years. That included a twitter account followed by 288,000…
LulzSec Goodbye message set to an MGMT song: Claim hacks were done "to selflessly entertain others"
LulzSec signed off from the internet with some of the fine-flown rhetoric we've come to love and expect and someone has set their resignation note to an MGMT song and recorded it on Youtube. Uploaded today, the video. It's from a user called MusicWavesMan who has previously posted a range of anti-government videos, videos about…
The Wikipedia Love button: And why it might not work
A love button sounds kind of rude - but it's not. Its Wikipedia's new way to motivate its team of volunteer editors who feel increasingly taken for granted. Instead of being treasured and praised as knowledgeable people who are generous with their time, Wikipedia writers and editors have come in for much more flak than…
Five alternatives to Twitter: Focus, Mobile and Photos the trends to look out for
What alternatives are there to Twitter? The micro-blogging site is the go-to site for breaking news, celeb gossip and inappropriate photos of politicians (we're looking at you Anthony Wiener). But could it be in two years time that the Twitter model will be out-moded and we'll want more specific, tailored groups of people to share…
