Month: October 2011
BlackBerry goes down again, Twitter VERY angry
Anyone who's ever said that "no one has a BlackBerry anymore" or "all the young people have iPhones" (people say this to me in comments and on Twitter a LOT) must be eating their words today as BlackBerry is reportedly down (again) and a lot of those who you'd expect to be Apple fan boys…
ION Audio turns your iPad into a keyboard with Piano Apprentice
The size and shape of the iPad really lends itself to "learn the piano" apps, which teach you the basics and get you playing Three Blind Mice non-stop. But ION Audio has taken it one step further, so instead of banging around on virtual keys from within an app, you can hook your iPad up…
Facebook FINALLY launches its official app for Apple's iPad
We've been expecting it for some time now. We even got impatient and wrote about four things we'd love it to include. But it seems Facebook has now FINALLY launched its official app for the iPad according to The Facebook Blog. The blog post about the app explains that it's pretty comprehensive, with a focus…
Will Sean Parker's new Chat Roulette-inspired startup Airtime be a success?
The two big names behind Napster, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, are launching a new venture called Airtime. According to Techcrunch, Airtime is similar to Chat Roulette in that a big part of it will be about meeting people you don't know, possibly through random, real-time video chatting, which sounds interesting yet a little uninspiring…
Raven: Mac browser turns sites into apps but is it too different?
A new browser for OS X devices called Raven has been launched today and it stands out from the likes of Internet Explorer and Google Chrome because it turns your favourite sites into easily accessible, dedicated apps. We can't work out whether this will be really useful or a little unnecessary quite yet. You start…
5 Worst Facebook status crimes of 2011: Pregnancy over-sharer, man hater, fitness fanatic
Over the past few years we've collected together some of the worst Facebook status update crimes against social networking and humanity. View Susi Weaser's original list of crimes featuring the song lyrics, the ask me ask me ask me and the play-by-play. Or Anna's collection of update fails a few years later, featuring the classic…
4 Places you wouldn't expect to find QR codes: Cookies, models and tattoos
QR codes have been popping up everywhere over the past year or so, on products we buy, ads on TV, ads on the tube, even business cards and CVs as people aim to prove just how tech savvy they are. However, there are still some places you wouldn't expect to find a QR code, like…
Be.ez launches bright raspberry accessories for your MacBook
I'm always looking for bags and accessories that keep my laptop safe, look good AND are easy enough to carry around on my daily commute. You'd be surprised at how few products tick all three of those boxes and so I've been left with a scratched laptop, an achey shoulder or a huge backpack that…
RIM unveils BlackBerry Tag for its smart phones
At the GITEX conference in Dubai today, RIM's Co-CEO Jim Balsillie has unveiled BlackBerry Tag, a new and pretty exciting way for BlackBerry users to share content and add each other as contacts on BBM. BlackBerry Tag will be introduced in the next BlackBerry 7 OS update and will allow users to share things just…
10 Top covers, skins, cases and accessories for your Kindle
It's not just your mobile phone that you can dress up in fancy cases and accessories, your Kindle needs looking after too. We've collected together 10 of our favourite covers, cases and skins to keep your Kindle both safe AND looking pretty.
