Month: November 2011
Twitter users the most generous according to JustGiving stats
Gone are the days of taking a raggy sponsorship form around your school or office, now if you want to raise money for a charity you use a platform like Just Giving, which makes the whole sponsorship, promotion and donation process quick, simple and most importantly easy to spread around to everyone you know. This…
Study finds far too many people drop their phones down toilets
I'm sure many of us have experienced that heart sinking moment when the mobile phone which cost us as much as our monthly rent drops into a toilet/sink/river. Of course even if you do manage to retrieve it, chances are it's damaged beyond repair after its little swim (although the rice trick is meant to…
CHRISTMAS APP GUIDE: 6 Apps and services for finding the right present
If you're the type of person who really struggles when it comes to finding the right present, or if a few members of your family are all planning on joining together to buy a big gift for that special relative, then it's probably best to start thinking about what you're going to do sooner rather…
Twitter's photo service more popular than Instagram and Twitpic?
Despite the fact services and apps like Instagram, Twitpic and PicPlz are growing in popularity on our mobile devices, it seems that in actual fact more users are uploading photos to the micro-blogging platform via Twitter's own photo service instead. But what does this actually mean for third party developers? According to new research featured…
6 Tips to keep your mobile safe, secure and happy
This morning we wrote about a new security app called Lookout, which aims to keep your mobile protected against all kinds of nasties. However, there's only so much you can get from an app, so we asked the Lookout team how else people can keep their mobile phones and personal data as safe, secure and…
Week in digital #6: Google+ brand pages, Instagram video sharing, romance and social media
This week sees Google+ launch its long awaited brand and business pages, rumour has it Instagram may be adding video sharing, how Tweet life and Klout scores are connected, romantic relationships in a social media world, Drinkify and Burberry continues its digital content endeavours. Google+ launches brand and business pages After waiting for what seems…
APP OF THE DAY: Lookout solves all of your major mobile dilemmas
This week US-based company Lookout Mobile Security has brought a new app over to UK phones, which will help us all to better understand how to keep our mobiles, data and personal information safe and secure. The new app, called Lookout, stands out in comparison to similar offerings on the app market because it doesn't…
Will you 'hangout' with your favourite brands on Google+?
Earlier in the week Google+ launched pages for brands and businesses, and since then we've seen big brands take to the platform, some users slate the whole idea (like Google+ advocate Robert Scoble) and others discuss its huge potential. The general consensus seems to be that it's still such early days for Google+ as a…
BLOG OF THE DAY: London Pop-ups for cool pop-up shops, galleries and gigs
While browsing through a few blogs looking for interesting things to do in the capital we came across the London Pop-ups blog, which collects together details of all the cool pop-up galleries, shops, bars and gigs dotted all over London. There's a real mix of quirky and entertaining pop-up events, from a design fair to…
Download the #ShinyAutumn free digital photo/iPad magazine
We received so many brilliant entries to our #ShinyAutumn mobile photography competition over the last few weeks that we decided to create a digital photo magazine, showcasing 30 of our favourite images. You can download the digital magazine, Shiny Shiny's Autumn Collection, from Magcloud for free now as a pdf or a fancy iPad version,…
