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.
Facebook Messenger now FINALLY on Windows Phone
Facebook Messenger, the social network's popular app that allows users to send messages to their friends for free, is now available on the Windows Phone platform. There's nothing particularly new or exciting about the Windows version of Facebook Messenger and it has many of the same features as Android and iOS Messenger that we're all…
Atlas: Could this be the smartest fitness tracker yet?
Just as we were starting to place bets on which the best fitness wearable of 2014 would be - I was going for Moov, FYI - along comes Atlas, a fitness tracking device that looks good and monitors your activity, but also analyses your form and performance levels to make your workouts more awesome. As…
7 Things to give up for Lent: Buzzfeed Quizzes, Mail Online, Inbox Zero
Instead of giving up chocolate or alcohol for Lent (assuming you want to take part in the archaic act of giving up luxuries for weeks on end all in the name of religion), why not try something a little different this year. We all know what's good for us when it comes to giving up…
Could Evernote-linked Postach.io be the next big blogging platform?
In the same way Medium is particularly appealing for those already using Twitter, Postach.io is a simple blogging platform that's specially designed to link up with Evernote. Although Postach.io is still in beta, this week the service has rolled out a premium tier for its users, which works out at $5 a month or $50…
Samsung Galaxy S5 to ship with premium apps worth more than $500
When the Samsung Galaxy S5 is released in April, it'll be packed full of premium apps and subscriptions worth well over $500, according to a new site on the Samsung website called Galaxy Gifts. Although for many users the apps still may not be enough to justify the Galaxy S5's (still undisclosed) price tag, but…
Cortana: Microsoft's Siri clone is a friendly circle
Microsoft's new voice-activated personal assistant, called Cortana, is expected in the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update and The Verge got its hands on a set of leaked images that reveal the Siri clone is a small, blue animated circle (nothing like the AI woman also called Cortana who features in the Halo game series). Although…
Kickstarter: $1 billion pledged to wacky prototypes
Kickstarter announced on Monday that there have now been $1 billion worth of pledges to all kinds of its weird, wonderful (and sometimes terrible) projects. Since its launch in April 2009, Kickstarter has become the top crowdfunding site for everything from movie projects to sex toy boxes and more than 5.7 million of us across…
Ellen DeGeneres officially wins at selfies with star-studded Oscars photo
Ellen DeGeneres has managed to break the record for most retweets EVER with this awesome star-studded selfie taken at last night's Oscars. If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014 So far the tweet has had more than two and a half million retweets and counting,…
Apple CarPlay: iOS and Siri inside your car
Today Apple announced that a number of leading car manufacturers, like Honda, Ford, Ferrari, BMW and Nissan, will soon be introducing CarPlay into their motors, an intuitive in-car iPhone system that uses helpful little Siri to make driving easier and more fun. CarPlay will provide iPhone users with a way to add Apple's iOS right…
Netflix's Hack Day and the hacks we wish were a reality
Let's add Netflix to the list of companies we'd happily sell our souls to work for. According to the Netflix Tech Blog, the company is all about innovation, creativity and building awesome stuff. That's why it's begun the soon-to-be tradition of holding a Hack Day, when its engineering teams are encouraged to develop an idea…
