Month: September 2011
About.me and Flavors.me: Home page how-to and inspiration
Creating your own home page isn't just a useful exercise for media types or narcissists, having a little online space for basic information about you, links to your social media accounts and maybe a big picture has all kinds of benefits. Not only does it give you control over what people are likely to find…
12 Great iPad apps for kids: Talking Carl, Barbie I Can Be and The Fantastic Flying Books
I'm not sure whether it's because they look so exciting or because adults spend so much time staring at them, but kids of all ages LOVE gadgets, especially those with touchscreens that they can swipe, pinch and manipulate themselves. Enter the super intuitive iPad, which is much more appealing than a smart phone for teeny…
Three Instagram app rivals for the iPhone: Community and sharing
Last month we explored three photo editing apps to rival Instagram and now we've been looking for apps which mirror the way Instagram lets you share with a community, but don't necessarily give you lots of lovely filters to play around with. Granted these apps don't have the HUGE community Instagram has built up over…
Vimeo's Music Store ensures you're not breaking copyright law
Last week, popular video sharing platform Vimeo launched its own dedicated music store (surprisingly called Music Store) in order to give all kinds of video makers a huge selection of music that they're actually ALLOWED to use as soundtracks to their creations. The store will offer users more than 45,000 tracks from all kinds of…
A rundown of new Facebook's European apps: Deezer, Spotify and the Guardian
It's not just tech geeks that have been keeping up with social media news today, even our grandmas know that Facebook has had / is current having a big shake up. Our profiles are becoming timelines, our minds are becoming mushy and we're going to be using apps more and more. So, instead of seeing…
15 Behind-the-scenes movie making apps for the iPad and iPhone
Although there are a few good video editing apps for the iPhone, there are HUNDREDS of brilliant behind-the-scenes apps for movie making, whether you want to figure out production costs or use your iPad as a digital clapboard. We really had to extend this list out to iPads too, because so many of the apps…
Deezer Vs Spotify? Which one is best? Or do you need them both?
So what the hell is Deezer? And do you need another music streaming service in your life? Well, chances are you hadn't heard of Deezer before last night when the French company announced its role as part of Facebook's music package. Deezer however has been around for a while. It was launched as a service…
Week in gadgets #2: iPhone 5 launch rumours, HTC Explorer, 3D toy printer, Nikon's mirrorless camera and more
# 10 Angry Birds speaker My colleagues almost chocked on their coffee today when I told them I haven't played Angry Birds... ever. In fact, I haven't even seen the game in action - a strange thing considering I work with gadgets, geekery and social media... But enough about me. If you are among those…
5 Films Mark Zuckerberg watched for new Facebook inspiration
***May contain spoilers*** Last night at Facebook's f8 developers conference, the social network changed in a big way. Our profiles are now timelines stretching back to the day we were born and in the next few weeks apps will be super sociable, allowing us to tell our friends EVERYTHING we're doing ALL of the time.…
#FollowFriday: What is it and why do we love it so much?
#FollowFriday, or #FF if you're short for space, has become a pretty standard and widespread convention on Twitter. Some people use it a little differently to others, cramming all of their favourite people into a number of tweets or just writing a long list of compliments about that special someone. But where did it all…
