The majority of young Brits own three Apple products

Despite the fact a growing number of brands (hello Samsung, RIM and Nokia) are offering devices which are more than capable of competing with the iPhone in the fancy smart phone stakes, it seems many are still drawn to the magical power of Apple, as the average young Brit owns three products from the brand…

Twitter Stories restores our faith in humanity and social networking

Twitter has launched a new website called Twitter Stories, which aims to "remind us of the humanity behind tweets that make the world smaller" according to the Twitter Blog. How. Sweet. The spin-off website features a range of stories, including the tale of a tweet which stopped a bookstore going out of business and a…

Google makes Gmail changes available to everyone

Yesterday, when changes to Google Reader were rolled out to all users, there was a lot of talk about the Gmail revamp too and today the long awaited revamp of Google's popular email service is available to everyone, simply click "switch to the new look", which should be in the bottom right hand corner of…

APP OF THE DAY: Picamo gives EVERYONE a moustache for Movember

To help raise money for popular moustache growing charity Movember, Blue Hive is launching a new iPhone application called Picamo later today and the Shiny Shiny team got to have an exclusive sneak peek and a play around with how we'd look with a load of crazy moustaches! Basically the app allows anyone to get…

Instagram now has 12 million users and 100K downloads a week in China

According to an article in Techcrunch this morning, our favourite photo application now has a huge 12 million users worldwide. The app's co-founder, Kevin Systrom, spoke at a recent Techcrunch event in Beijing about the app's quick international success and revealed that the 12 million milestone had recently been hit. Systrom then went on to…

Google Reader gets revamp and Google+ integration but did we need it?

This week Google has changed the way its popular RSS reader product works, making it much more integrated into the Google+ experience and giving it a clean new redesign too. Google has stopped the native social sharing features that used to be available to Reader users, such as "Like", "Share" and "Share with note". Instead…