Month: August 2011
DrinkOwl: The app helping you find the best drink deals in London
Sometimes you have a friend with an encyclopaedic knowledge of local bar happy hours and drinks deals. But sometimes you don't. Sometimes you want a cheap cocktail but don't know where to find one. Drinkowl is an iPhone/Android and Blackberry app which catalogues drinks deals around you. It's ideal app material because it's the sort…
Will Movellas (or Figment or WeBook) a YouTube for writers change publishing?
Hard at work on your novel? Angling for a book deal? Well now there's another place online where you can share your wise words with others. Movellas is a Danish based start up that has expanded its offering to include English language books. The format is simple - you write your novel - or at…
Cameron: Only people who use the internet "for ill" will get their social media stopped
Oh that's fine then! Only people who use social media "for ill" will get their accounts shut down by the government. Great. Some great policy-making from David Cameron today in his speech condemning the riots. His idea to crack down on social networks during times of social unrest has caused outrage on Twitter. And also…
WTF: Cameron Threatens to Ban BBM & Other Social Networks if Riots Break Out Again
In his statement this morning about the London Riots - David Cameron announced more powers for police to take down social networks in times of civil disturbances. Leaving aside how that would even be possible, this really is a step too far. Blackberry Messenger may have been used to facilitate the riots - but it…
HTC buys up Beats: Dr Dre approved audio will be on HTC handsets from autumn
Those Beats headphones by Dr Dre must have be one of the tech hits of 2011. I have seen so many of them out and about - unusual brand penetration for a product, even if they were fronted by LA producer Dr Dre... Our experience reviewing them was just that they were goddamn loud. Really…
Find A Fountain: Don't want to pay for Water? There's a (web) app for that
If you too resent handing over £1.50 for some water in a plastic bottle- when you know that the damn stuff gushes for (almost) free out of the UK's taps then you may be pleased to hear that there's an app helping you find free water in London. Find a Fountain is a mobile-optimised website…
Relationship site The IceBreak gives Couple Therapy by Computer
Hit a wall in your relationship? You might think that going for a dinner date or having a Talk is the answer. But how about signing into a website, answering some questions and looking at how your responses compare with globally-compiled statistics? It seems counter-intuitive to look for the answer to an emotional problem in…
As David Karp of Tumblr trades on his looks for a Uniqulo ad: We ask you which Tech Entrepreneur is cutest?
David Karp, the slender, well-dressed founder of Tumblr has just done a video advert for Uniqulo, the reasonably-priced high-street fashion shop for hipsters. He gives advice to young people with a business idea and gazes dreamily off stage left with his pale grey eyes. In the interests of journalistic research we thought we'd ask you…
Creative Uses of Chatroulette #1: A Ben Folds Concert
We don't count getting your willy out as a creative use of Chatroulette. No, boobs don't count either. But, this concert by Ben Folds does count. This is a creative use of Chatroulette. The singer sits at a piano in a humungous concert hall, lets Chatroulette roll and sings some incredible improvised stuff riffing off…
Stitch-Your-Own iPhone case: X Stitch and iShoe
If you fancy giving your iPhone 4 more of a stitched DIY feel then why not get a case which lets you STITCH ON YOUR IPHONE. Not into the glass of course... but into a soft silicon iPhone 4 case with stitchy holes in it. It's the cunning idea behind the X Stitch case from…
