Author: Becca Caddy
Becca is passionate about health, fitness and wellbeing. She’s particularly interested in wearable technology, how our mobiles can help us to get fitter and ways to introduce mindfulness and meditation into our busy working lives. As a northerner living in London, she loves exploring the city, going to the cinema at every possible opportunity and Instagramming everything that crosses her path.
Getty Images to make 35 million photos completely free
In a surprising move, Getty Images has announced today that it has made more than 35 million of its images completely free under a non-commercial usage agreement. This means that any kind of online publisher - from a 14 year old blogger in her bedroom to a journo at The New York Times - will…
Wello: An iPhone case that can read your blood pressure
Over the past few months we've seen so many different health and fitness trackers, ones that strap to your wrist, once that strap to your bicep, ones that slot into clothing, ones that... You get the idea. But Wello is the first one that actually disguises itself as an iPhone case. Developed by Azoi, Wello…
Facebook and Instagram clamp down on gun sellers
Although it may seem all fun and games and dollar bills, working at Facebook must be tough when it comes to deciding the difference between freedom of speech and just being plain wrong, offensive or even illegal. Over the years numerous groups have asked that content be taken off the site, but only a few…
Evernote adds neat handwriting for Android users
Evernote's Android app is already pretty awesome, allowing users to integrate text, to-do lists, photos and more seamlessly into their notes. In a blog post today the team explains that with its latest update it wants "to extend the Evernote experience" even more and it believes the best way to do that is with a…
The Miracle Machine: A wine-loving megalomaniac's dream
The Miracle Machine manages to be miraculous and completely ridiculous at exactly the same time. It's a wine-loving megalomaniac's dream, simply add ingredients and water into the device, download the MM app, connect it up to your phone via Bluetooth and then a sudden puff of magical smoke (and a few days) later you'll have…
WeTransfer: You can now send big things via your iPhone
Today WeTransfer has launched an app for iOS, allowing iPhone and iPad users to share 10GB of files from their devices via 3G or a WiFi connection. Once you've downloaded the app the process is really simple, just tap the photos or videos you'd like to send, add in a friend's email address and then…
An embarrassing number of Americans think HTML is an STD
We'd forgive the majority of people for not knowing what the acronym HTML stands for (HyperText Markup Language in case you were wondering), but according to a recent study 1 in 10 Americans didn't even realise it was a technical term and instead decided it must be an STD. The research from Vouchercloud.net also found…
Guilty Pledgers: Spotify launches fundraising and party app
This week Spotify has unveiled the Guilty Pledgers app, a service that allows music fans to donate money to their favourite charity in exchange for adding their guilty pleasure tune to a party playlist. The idea behind the app (that works from within Spotify's desktop app) is that Spotify users will sign up to throw…
Twitter analyses the reach of THAT Oscars tweet
Twitter has gone all technical on us to prove just how HUGE Ellen DeGeneres' selfie tweet from the Oscars really was. According to a blog post by Michael Fleischman, Twitter's Head of Media Science, from Sunday at 5 p.m. ET until Monday at 5 a.m. ET, tweets about the Oscars were viewed more than 3.3…
SquareOne: Another mail app to clear up your clutter
Launched today, SquareOne is another mail app that's here to save the day and clear up all of your mess. The iPhone app is solely compatible with Gmail and works by getting you to divide your emails up into groups. It helps you out with some suggestions to start, but then you can reposition and…
