Scientists confirm keeping your ex on Facebook is a bad idea

You've had your heart ripped out and stamped on by another human being, or you've been the one to do the ripping and stamping yourself, and although there might be serious things to think about like who gets the Xbox, how do you tell your parents you're an emotional failure and how do you split…

Gangnam Style breaks a Guinness World Record for awesomeness

Unless you've been hiding under a rock over the past few weeks you'll have listened to, laughed at and danced around to Gangnam Style, the music video featuring South Korean rapper Psy, that's taken the internet by storm. More than 227 million people have viewed the video now, but according to Mashable today it's broken…

Not Your Baby street harassment app tells you how to respond to scumbags

A new app has been developed by Canadian charity METRAC (Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children) to empower women to respond to situations of sexual harassment wherever they are. You simply select who it is that's harassing you, where you are and the app will serve up random suggestions about what to…

Fifty Sheds of Grey becomes a hard (sweaty, filthy and manly) back book

Ever since the world went crazy for Fifty Shades of Grey, its dirty sex scenes and terrible TERRIBLE metaphors for naughty bits, a range of parody TV shows, songs, eBooks and Twitter accounts have cropped up to take the mickey out of the saucy trilogy. However, the most popular parody Twitter account has to be…

Moo buys Flavors.me to sort out your online identity too

The super cool print company and business card specialists over at Moo are all set to buy up equally cool home page creator Flavors.me, so they can ensure we have the best possible visual identity both online and offline. London-based Moo allows you to print all kinds of things for you or your business, like…

Photo printing and sharing service Keepsy comes to the iPhone

We've written about photo printing and cool-book-making service Keepsy a few times in the past for our "awesome things you can do with your Instagram snaps" round-ups and it's a firm favourite in a sea of similar offerings. Well now this week Keepsy differentiates itself from the competition that little bit more, because it's launched…

Is RebelMouse the social media hub we've been waiting for?

Looking like a Pinterest for your personal and branded social media platforms, RebelMouse aims to gather most of your digital footprint in one handy place for others to see (Facebook, Twitter and Instragram for now but we expect them to tie in other channels as the platform matures). Besides the initial questions surrounding Facebook and…

YES WORLD: App erases all mentions of Chris Brown from the internet

Do you ever take a long, hard look at the world around you and wish terrible things like starvation, murder and Chris Brown were just no longer on the planet? Well, we can't help you with the first two (not yet anyway), but luckily there's now an app to kid yourself into thinking violent scumbag…

Why is the Twitter redesign so focused on photos?

Yesterday Twitter rolled out a new redesign focused solely on photos and a number of changes have been made to the way we display our recent snaps, use them to make our profiles look better and upload them to the site. The most noticeable change is the introduction of a new header photo (look at…

LG upping their cameraphone specs with optical zoom in new smartphones?

LG have revealed that they're looking into the development of sleek optical zooms for their future smartphones. With the mobile photography bar raised by Nokia's PureView Camera tech and Samsung's unusual Galaxy Camera, the company are working on a mechanical shutter that will allow for better-lit cameraphone shots to be taken. Jakyung Jeon, Senior Research…