In My Words: App replaces words you hate with those you love

Do you remember when we made the world a slightly better place by erasing mentions of Chris Brown from the internet? Well now you can actually get rid of every word or person or thing you're not too keen on and replace it with something you like instead. The new Chrome extension called In My…

Logitech's new Broadcaster Webcam sends video straight to UStream

Today Logitech unveiled a sleek new device for Mac owners, the Broadcaster Wi-Fi Webcam, which instantly makes the webcam a cool, must-have computer peripheral again. As the name of the webcam suggests, it's got Wi-Fi capabilities, allowing Mac, iPad or iPhone users to stream videos directly to UStream, using the accompanying Broadcaster app. The Broadcaster…

Anonymous and Wikileaks are no longer BFFs after paywall dispute

Hacktivist group Anonymous has always stood firmly by Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange and even launched distributed denial of service attacks on the credit card companies that pulled the plug on the secret information organisation back in 2010 and went on to attack the Swedish Prosecutors office too. However, it now seems like the…

FACEBOOK: Another new redesign could focus on search

Over the past few months we've all become accustomed to the way the new Facebook timeline works, after agonising over a cover photo and deleting all those photos of our exes of course. So it makes perfect sense that the social network is set to confuse its users again with a new redesign, but this…

Top 10 Facebook conspiracy theories, privacy scares and reasons to freak out

Do you remember a few weeks back when people started to notice their private messages were (maybe) being published to their public Facebook timelines? We all collectively freaked out, dashed to somewhere with wi-fi and checked through the past few years to see if anything was out of place (and we know we weren't the…

STUDY: Forget orgasms and procreation, we all prefer Facebook instead

Forget orgasms, love and procreation, it seems we're all much more turned on by status updates, Instagram photos and Farmville nowadays, as a US-based study suggests we have a stronger desire to look at Facebook than have sex. Researchers at the University of Chicago wanted to see just how addicted and obsessed we are with…

Shiny Shiny's ultimate guide to girl geek Halloween costumes

Yeah OK, we're not sure how comfortable we are with the term "girl geek" either, but if you're female and you're into comic books, video games and the worlds of sci-fi film and TV we may have some Halloween costumes ideas that are right up your street. We've tried to shy away from the "I'm…

Facebook to turn us all into spoilt toddlers with "want" button

Everyone is making a huge fuss today about the news Facebook is set to add a "want" and "collect" button in order to allow retailers to push their products at users and turn us all into materialistic zombies who just shout WANT at things we really don't need. Good job planet Earth. According to The…