Month: March 2014
You can now walk and text without getting hurt
Over the weekend, Cult of Mac revealed details of an Apple patent that would make texting and walking a little safer. The idea behind the patent was that a live feed from your camera could be piped through to the background of your texts, so you can see if something dangerous, like maybe a road…
Facebook adds Groups and weird forwarding feature to Messenger
Facebook has updated its Messenger app for iOS today by adding in a Groups feature. Yep, you can add more than one person to a conversation already, but this will allow you to Group people together and spam them with emojis to your heart's content (check out the screenshot above for how this would look).…
LOLZ of the day: The @buzzfeedquizz parody Twitter account
As much as we love Buzzfeed and its abundance of quizzes, cats, lists and quizzes we love a good parody Twitter account that rips at the fabric of its existence and makes a mockery of everything it stands for even more. Enter @buzzfeedquizz, a new but absolutely hilarious Twitter account that satirises Buzzfeed's quizzes by…
The best apps for breaking bad habits (and sticking with good ones)
We all know that the beginning of the year really isn't the best time to address our bad habits. If anything a lack of alcohol/chocolate/curling up in bed in the foetal position in January is going to make us less likely to do good things than going cold turkey on everything that's nice about the…
UpTo launches calendar app for social butterflies
On the surface UpTo looks like a regular calendar app, sync it with your existing calendar and you're presented with a much slicker (and yep, not to mention prettier) way of seeing what's going on in both your personal and professional life. But UpTo is also aiming to create one huge shared calendar for everyone…
Samsung's first Smart Bulb will last a whole decade
It may have been beaten to the finish line by Philips, and more recently LG, but Samsung's first smart LED bulb has been unveiled and it's called, wait for it, the Smart Bulb. It looks like other offerings but it's actually Bluetooth-only, whereas the bulbs from LG and Philips can also hook up to your…
Twitter launches real-time music chart (but only in the US)
Twitter and US-based music magazine Billboard have teamed up to launch a new chart, which will rank music based on what's being shared and tweeted about the most (but only by US users). According to a post on the Twitter blog, the chart will rank the most popular tracks being talked about in real-time and…
Twitter might take a second stab at a music service
Remember when Twitter launched a music app and service called #Music? Yeah, we don't either, but it looks like we wrote about it this time last year. Last week Twitter officially removed #Music from the app store, presumably because no one was really using it. Well now according to Wall Street Journal, Twitter is already…
Readly: Spotify for magazines launches in the UK
In the same way Spotify has changed the way we listen to music and Netflix has changed the way we watch TV, Readly is here to shake up the way we read our favourite magazines. You pay a flat rate of £9.99 a month and Readly allows you to access a range of different magazines.…
Never screw up a recipe again with the Drop, an iPad-connected kitchen scale
There are already loads of apps designed to make cooking, baking and experimenting in the kitchen easier than ever, so it's about time we had more gadgets that sync up with our apps in case we make a mistake. Drop is an iPad-connected scale and app combo that works with you to follow a recipe…
