Month: September 2011
Clever Facebook creates your friend lists for you
According to TechCrunch, Facebook has slowly started to roll out a new feature called Smart Lists, which proves it takes grouping your friends just as seriously as Google+ does. Smart Lists appear to organise your friends for you without you having to really do anything yourself. This takes away the time consuming process of creating…
Should mobile phones be banned on public transport?
Imagine the scene, you've been on a packed tube train for around half an hour, you spent ten minutes pressed up against some big guy's armpit, you were kicked by a kid in a pram (prams on tubes should be banned before phones) and you finally get a seat when someone sat opposite you answers…
Electric cars to take over London
A number of car manufacturers have made electric, hybrid and low-CO2 emitting vehicles over the past few years, including the likes of Fiat, Honda and Citroen, as well as more niche brands like Tesla Motors. Most people see these cars as brilliant ideas, but they're often considered a bit too pricey or high maintenance, so…
Have daily deal sites had their day?
Do you remember back when everyone (and we mean everyone) signed up to Groupon and we were all revelling in the joy of having random coupons and promotions delivered directly to our inboxes? Well, it seems it's taken us a year or so to realise that we don't need our toes waxed or to take…
6 Content curation apps for the iPad
It's always great to discover new things all by yourself, but often curated content that's brought to you from links your networks have shared is a much quicker and more efficient way to consume all kinds of news, rather than spending hours browsing all around the web for it. There are many who would argue…
Is social media stopping you from getting a good night's sleep?
We're tired of sensationalist stories which claim that social media is single handedly causing the breakdown of relationships, turning our brains into mush and making us more reclusive. However, a new study shows that it could have an impact on how well we sleep and although that might not seem as serious as developing OCD…
15 TOUGH iPhone and iPad cases
We've seen our fair share of iPhone and iPad cases here at Shiny Shiny, from the multifunctional to the crafty, the eco-friendly to the stylish, but there comes a time when we get a little sick of what something looks like and what fancy material it's made from. Instead we want a case that will…
Start your own adult entertainment empire with .xxx domain
We've been expecting it for some time now, but it's official, you can now claim the .xxx domain name for your website, whether your speciality is crafts, gardening or hardcore porn. Obviously the .xxx domain lends itself to the world of adult entertainment, but in actual fact any business can go and claim its domain…
5 Cool new(ish) music apps for the iPhone
Most people seem to have a favourite music service that they always come back to for discovering, storing and sharing their favourite tracks. The likes of iTunes, Spotify and Soundcloud are already firm favourites, but we've come across a few music apps and services recently that are a little different. 1. Flowd What is it?…
Are we all online spies, cheats and liars?
It seems it's not just national journalists who are guilty of hacking into phones here, there and everywhere, as more than one in five women check their partner's emails, messages and social networking accounts compared to only one in ten men, according to The Telegraph today. The interesting and rather scary findings are part of…
