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.

Shiny Shiny's pick of the best BlackBerry Z10 cases and accessories

BlackBerry launched two brand new handsets this week, the Z10 and the Q10 and already some of our favourite brands are designing cases and accessories to ensure your sparkly new handsets are safe and stylish. Here's our pick of the first few good-looking Z10 cases, expect more to come over the next few weeks... Related:…

WTF: CouchCachet uses social media to lie about your awesome life

CouchCachet is probably one of the saddest, most depressing app ideas we've come across in some time. It basically plays on the crazy, insecure minds of those who venture online to stalk their friends and find out what amazing things they're doing and have a bad case of what the creators call FOMO, a Fear…

TWITTER: Update makes photos and videos bigger and bolder

Another day, another new feature from the guys at Twitter HQ. Today it's not an all singing, all dancing new app, but just a few tweaks to the way you view photos and videos on the micro-blogging platform. Now when you click on an image when you're browsing through a user's feed or amongst search…

New watch could help tackle sexual violence in Indian communities

After a series of violent and highly publicised sex attacks in India over the past few months, the government in the country has decided to look into a number of more unconventional methods to provide women with a better defence against potential attackers. Last week Kapil Sabil, the Minister of Information Technology, revealed that the…

Alicia Keys becomes the Creative Director of BlackBerry

BlackBerry has today announced that it's appointed singer/songwriter Alicia Keys as its Global Creative Director. Weird, huh? It seems the brand has picked a popular celebrity to front its new "we're definitely just BlackBerry now not RIM" re-branding efforts and Keys admitted to ditching its handsets and then coming back to them now that the…

RIM becomes BlackBerry as BB 10 is officially launched

Today RIM has officially launched its BlackBerry 10 operating system and has renamed itself just 'BlackBerry' at the same time, which makes complete sense as that seems to be what most of those not in the techy sphere refer to the company and its products as a whole anyway. RIM, sorry, BlackBerry hosted simultaneous events…

Twitter (probably) won't side with UK police and reveal your identity

For those crazy conspiracy theory nutcases amongst you who think Twitter and Facebook were purely set up in order to pass our details onto the government, then you'll be surprised to know that Twitter has revealed it's hardly ever handed personal information over to the police when they've asked for it. But then again they…

DON'T SAY HASHTAG: The French don't like our silly, internet words

Since we started tweeting, unfriending, retweeting, hashtagging, tagging, following, instagramming and blocking one another online we've started using a lot of crazy words that have well and truly ingrained themselves into our vocabulary. However, the French aren't happy that such ridiculous and anglicised 'words' are becoming so popular, so from now on the word 'hashtag'…

Food app Snapdish plans to take over the world

As much as it sometimes irritates us, it's clear that lots of people just can't get enough of sharing photos of their food, whether it's some lame cookies they've baked or a big spread at a fancy, pretentious restaurant. It's no surprise then that lots of apps have cropped up in recent years to allow…