Month: June 2011
What apps are we actually using? Hint: it's not the ones we're downloading most
Now that people spend more time looking at apps on phones than they do looking at the web on browsers, it's of interest to everybody what apps we're looking at most and spending the most time on. And interestingly, it's not always what we download the most. Of course we knew that anyway - seriously,…
5 iPhone photo apps worth checking out
Taking good photos can seem so difficult and it's understandable if you think it is a complicated process that requires expensive cameras, big lenses and turning your bedroom into a dark room. Of course all of the above are probably necessary if you want exceptional pictures, but luckily for all hobby photo enthusiasts out there;…
LulzSec dish out journalism lessons, but they didn't hack The Sun
I thought it was the CIA they were trying to change - but LulzSec have the journalism profession in their sights too. Not that they want to hack it and spill its data everywhere - at least they claim they don't - but they do want all those journalists to do their jobs better. As…
Pottermore: Forget the eBook shop, it's the online universe bit we're interested in
It's probably not a rival to Facebook, but it is kinda innovative for the publishing industry: JK Rowling's Pottermore site promises to be a social network cum literary experience with an online store for eBooks built in. The eBook idea doesn't exactly wow me, but we are kind of interested by this Harry Potter universe…
Pottermore: JK Rowling's mystery site is a book with nobs on and a sales portal
Well. There you go. We'll find out what the mystery pottermore.com site is at midday when JK herself will do an announcement about it. It has been announced already but is under embargo till then. This is what one tweeter at the press conference said about it: Rory Cellan-Jones says: Sales eh? Sounds sensible to…
Cleary's targets: The record industry and the British police
The record industry and the police seemed to be what really got Ryan Cleary angry. The 19 year old hacker from Essex has just been charged with hacking the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The police say he launched a DDoS attack on the International Federation of…
Hero to the hackers, mental nerd to the tabloids: Ryan Cleary is a symbol of our times
Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Man of the Year in 2010, but sometimes those lonely nerds stuck in their bedrooms do stuff that's dangerous as well as powerful. Papers have piled in to call 19 year-old Ryan Cleary a geek, and section him off as a weirdo. See the Mail's report which delved into Cleary's…
Ryan Cleary's bedroom & why you should never put tinfoil over your windows
Question: Why shouldn't you put tinfoil over your windows? Answer: because it makes you look mental. Especially after Scotland Yard arrest you for hacking multinational companies. A photo of 19 year old hacker Ryan Cleary's bedroom has just been released. Key features include the covered up window, the air conditioner, a picture of two naked…
FBI's carpet-bombing approach to LulzSec takes multiple sites off the internet
Sounds like the FBI have been pulling server space right, left and centre in their attempt to clear LulzSec off the internet. That includes wiping out servers that they suspect might have Lulz or Anonymous material on them. The only problem is that genuine companies are hosted on these servers too and they're getting taken…
How important was Ryan Cleary in LulzSec?
Some papers report him as a ring leader, LulzSec say he just hosted a few chatrooms and their website encyclopediadramatica.ch on his server. But the real danger for LulzSec in Ryan's arrest will be the details that the FBI comb out of his computers and the information that he coughs up under questioning. That could…
