How Twitter can help you fall in love (aah)

Want to find yourself a partner. Well then get tweeting - that the implicaitons of a survey undertake by electronics retailer PIXmania.co.uk into how people are using social media to give Cupid's arrow a bit of a nudge. The survey, which questioned 2,500 16 -45 year olds, concluded that it takes on average 224 Tweets,…

New, fairly convincing iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 pics leak

Two days on from that launch and we are already thinking about Apple's next big venture. Sonny Dickson has got some pics which purport to show both the Apple iPad 5 and the Apple iPad mini 2. They don't exactly show us much do they? Nevertheless this is the guy that got some very realistic…

Amazing GIFs that show the impact of tides on the British coast

Now here is a really superb idea. Capture some interesting parts of the British coast and then create GIFs which show what they look like when the tide comes in and out. That's excatly what the photographer Michael Marten has done and you can see his work below. Here's the blurb from his book Sea…

Five top iPhone apps for parents of young children

Gillian who writes A Baby on Board, a blog all about London life as a new mum, shares her five favourite iPhone apps that might prove lifesavers to parents of young children Congratulations, you're going to be a parent! The good news for modern mums and dads is that there are mobile apps to cover…

Create your own Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon track

Here's a highly useful bit of the web that has been surfacing a lot on social media recently so I thought it was worth another plug. It seems that those smart people at WMFU station - it is apparently a radio station in New York - have been messing around with Pink Floyd's seminal Dark…

Does Facebook make you sad? Surveys say it might

There's an interesting article in the New Yorker today which suggests that Facebook, that loveable social network, might actually be making you unhappy. It isn't the first time that social networks have been accused of adding to human misery but this article, which references a new study from the University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross,…

Samsung's Galaxy S5 – metal case, 64-bit processing and new camera rumours

Well now that we know all about what Apple have planned for the next few months the limelight turns once back onto Samsung and how the Korean company will respond to some of the innovations that the US company unveiled on Tuesday. So no surprises then that Samsung is already hyping up the samsung Galaxy…

Retro cassette style MP3 player from Mixpixie

The jury it out on this one, It is a fairly basic MP3 player with a cheaper price to match, in the guise of a cassette.You can personalise the player too by adding your own text. It will house 200 songs and you bung them on the player via USB. It can also come with…

Apple's iPhone 5C and 5S – what the industry thinks

So there you have it - a pair of new iPhones. What do you think? Did they float your boat? Are you going to be ready to upgrade in a week or so's time? Here then is what some industry figures have had to say about the products.. Tony Cripps, principal device analyst at Ovum…

The Apple iPhone 5C UK pricing and availability

The iPhone 5c comes in blue, green, pink, yellow and white and will be available in the UK for a suggested retail price of £469 (£390.83 ex VAT) for the 16GB model and £549 (£457.50 ex VAT) for the 32GB model. The iPhone 5c will be available from the Apple Online Store, Apple's retail stores,…