For a whole week Shiny Shiny is going to be dedicated to our favourite application, some think it's a bit cheesy, some think it's a bit fake, but wow do we love Instagram. Whether it's sharing food snaps or taking beautiful photos of your favourite landmarks, Instagram is ideal for adding vintage filters, blurring out…

I've been looking for a bag that'll fit all of my random bits of technology as well as stupid amounts of make-up, an umbrella, a spare bag... The list could go on and on as I'm such a hoarder. Of course you can go with a normal bag, but chances are it'll break under the…

The iPhone 4S goes on sale today, in fact serious Apple fans will have already got their hands on one along with a high five and a clap from some VERY enthusiastic Apple employees earlier this morning. Shiny Shiny and Tech Digest went along to Apple's flagship Regent Street store to see what all the…

A cross section of Facebook users were asked what it would take to get them to give up Facebook FOREVER and of course it all boils down to the green stuff. One in three of those polled by advertising agency McCann London said they'd happily log off for good if it meant they'd get £50K…

Today high street favourite WHSmith announced it would be selling its first eReader range, the cutely named Kobo. The popular stationery and book shop has added a new page to its website which claims it's been looking for the right fit for some time now and thinks Kobo is the best option for browsing, buying,…

Earlier this week we wrote about ION Audio's Piano Apprentice learning system, which essentially turns your iPad into a keyboard so that you can learn how to read music and play certain songs. Well now an inventor and electronics engineer in the US called Harvey Starr wants to be able to turn our favourite little…

Apart from the odd short statement over the past week, RIM has kept pretty quiet about the BlackBerry outages and problems with email, messaging and web services. However, the company has published a new video in the last hour on the BlackBerry YouTube channel featuring the RIM founder and co-CEO of the company Mark Lazaridis…

HP has announced a new collaboration with big publisher Conde Nast, which means that subscribers can schedule the delivery of content straight to their printer from titles such as Allure, Glamour and Wired. The new print-at-home service provides publishers with a new way to get their content seen and read. Julie Michalowski, the senior vice…

Apple's new OS, iOS 5, was made available to the general public yesterday and comes with all the features that we were expecting after they were officially revealed at the iPhone announcement a few weeks ago. In our article iOS 5: Everything you need to know we discussed some of the new changes such as…

We're still not too sure what to think about the recent BlackBerry outages. Yes they were (and largely still are) widespread and have dragged on for far too long, but everyone makes mistakes, right? Even huge international corporations like RIM. Anyway, regardless of whether you're willing to let the recent issues slide or want to…