As easy as link-shortening services bit.ly and tiny.url are to use, external services are always a bit of a faff. So tweeters everywhere will be very happy to hear that Twitter has introduced automatic link-shortening. It works automatically - just paste your full link into the tweet box, and hit send. The link will then…

The video showing the process of getting this, eh, interesting tattoo done is less than two minutes long, but that's a blip considering how long it takes to tattoo an entire arm. 152 little squares, mostly in colour - maybe about an hour each? That's a lot of pain, and a lot of money too.…

Look at that - it's a log with an iPad slot. Brilliant and simple, isn't it. Made by Twisted Twee, the stand even has eco credentials as it's made from reclaimed London wood. It retails for £35 at Not on the High Street, and the log even has a slot for the wire to come…

Users of Skype are having problems using the phone service again this morning. This is the second time this has happened in just one month. A number of Skype customers are finding that they cannot sign in, with the process getting stuck at the 'connecting' stage. The same thing happened about two weeks ago, when…

You'll need a motion-sensor camera such as the Kinect, the add-on to the Microsoft Xbox 360 game, and possibly a degree from a top American science university - but Princess Leia would be proud. The Kinect is a range-finding camera that detects your movements, as is necessary to use your body as a controller for…

We got away with it once, but it seems UK lawmakers are not ready to admit defeat on the issue of the internet and superinjunctions. Dominic Grieve, the government's senior law officer (there's something very America-sounding about Attorney General, isn't there) said that those who violate injunctions on the internet could find themselves prosecuted for…

Look at that - we go to bed here in Europe and those crazy Californians go and changed the world. Or should we say, the technological world - Steve Jobs donned that turtleneck and did the thing he does best, up on the stage at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference). There showed us a…

Relations between Google and China have seen better days. Now the technology group has been accused of acting with a political agenda, as Google had dared suggest the Chinese government may have had something to do with a recent hacker attack on Gmail. The attack on Gmail meant data belonging to hundreds of users were…

The book itself won't be out until March 2012, but Amazon has already posted an image of it, offering people the option to pre-order it. Chances are the final cover of the book - with the amazing title 'iSteve: The Book of Jobs" - will be different ... don't you think? Or then again maybe…