Connected Health: This week in health and fitness tech

The health and fitness tech market is growing rapidly, from wearable tracking devices like the Fitbit to more obscure medical gadgets that could have a big impact on those living with disabilities. Each week we'll be bringing you a round-up of the best from Connected Health, our sister site that's dedicated to the world of…

WTF Facebook: Pay for messages to show up in a nonfriend's inbox

Most Facebook users will find that when they check their Messages they've got two distinct inboxes, the regular Inbox and the Other inbox. If you've tweaked your settings it may work a little differently, but most people will find that the regular Inbox is full of messages from friends and the Other inbox contains (often…

CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Top 20 last minute UK high street tech buys

We've been writing up Christmas gift guides now for the past few weeks and although some retailers will still deliver presents right up to the last minute (well, until Christmas Eve), it's starting to get a bit late to order all kinds of weird and wonderful things from the interwebz. Well fear not, because we're…

STUDY: Now Facebook could be making you fat

Facebook's regularly blamed for everything, from making us thicker to breaking up marriages and relationship left, right and centre. But today a new study reveals that it could be making us fat and spend too much as well. Great news. According to The Telegraph today, interacting with close friends on social networking sites raises your…

Tumblr finally launches its iPad app

You've always been able to use Tumblr's iOS app on iPad devices, but the blogging service has never released an app that's fully compatible with Apple's tablets, well until today. The long awaited iOS app, which has been specially design for both the iPad and the iPad Mini, was launched earlier this morning and includes…

Facebook makes it easier to control your privacy settings

Despite the fact everyone makes such a big deal about Facebook being a big baddy that wants us to sign our lives away and expose everything we do to the public, if you spend enough time digging through the settings you'll actually find you have complete control over EVERYTHING Facebook related. However, the settings are…

CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: 10 Best home entertainment devices

If you're having friends and family round this Christmas you might want to give your home a bit of an entertainment revamp, whether you need to boost your speakers for a more immersive audio experience, find a better way of controlling your music and TV or invest in a new games console that'll keep everyone…

PHOTO APPS: Our top 10 Instagram alternatives

Well, well, well, up until this week Instagram was everyone's favourite photo application and we spent our days snapping, cropping and filtering all kinds of rubbish, from our breakfasts to our totally awesome pedicures (gross). However, everything changed this week when Instagram announced it had made a number of amendments to its policies that may…

Instagram changes its policy and the whole world implodes

So according to some old Mayan stone the world's ending this week, on Friday to be exact and in the Shiny Shiny offices we've been discussing exactly how that's going to happen. We've pretty much narrowed it down to... A sudden flash of light then NOTHING, a zombie infection or a huge natural disaster that…

Let's all freak out about Facebook owning our Instagram content

Early next year Instagram will be introducing a new policy that means it'll soon be sharing all of its content with its new BFF (we mean owner), Facebook. This morning the Instagram team wrote an official announcement on the company's blog, outlining some of the key changes that are set to come into affect in…