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.
WE HEART YOU: Happy 20th birthday texting!
Happy birthday texting, you're 20 today and wow have you served me well over the past few decades. I really don't know how I'd have got through my awkward teenage years without you and the thought of talking to boys via the medium of speech and not short text-based messages with an abundance of emoticons…
Pope Benedict XVI joins Twitter in eight different languages
The Pope has now got a Twitter account over at @Pontifex and will no doubt be updating us about his crazy life in Vatican City over the next few weeks. Not only has an English Twitter profile been set up for good ol' Benedict XVI, but he's following German, Spanish, Portugese, Polish, Italian, French and…
myLED: UK Kickstarter project brings light notifications to the iPhone
myLED is a clever light notification system for iPhones and iPads that flashes when you have a missed call, FaceTime call, Skype call, email, Twitter notification or text message, so you know what's going on (well, kind of) without looking at the screen. The tiny little accessory slots into your headphone jack and you simply…
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Top 5 UK eReaders for all budgets
Everyday we get sent research telling us that eReaders are purchased as gifts and then never used afterwards, but regardless of what surveys tell us there are still a LOT of die-hard eReader fans, just take a look at how many hands are full of shiny little Kindles on the tube. So here's our pick…
Connected Health: This week in health and fitness tech
The health and fitness tech market is growing rapidly, from wearable tracking devices like the Fitbit to more obscure medical gadgets that could have a big impact on those living with disabilities. Each week we'll be bringing you a round-up of the best from Connected Health, our sister site that's dedicated to the world of…
STUDY: Twitter DMing is the new sexting for online scumbags
Single guys and girls no longer meet through friends, dating sites or (god forbid) in real life, but spend most of their time finding new people, flirting and being dirtbags on Twitter, according to a new study. The research, commissioned by discount website VoucherCodesPro.co.uk, found that out of 1,267 active and single Twitter users more…
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: 10 Samsung Galaxy S3 cases for her
Yeah we know, a phone case for a Christmas present? Bit lame, right? Well not if you pick something from our list that doesn't just protect the new Samsung Galaxy SIII but looks awesome too. We're reluctant to label a mobile phone case guide "for her", but don't worry, there's no diamante, pink fluff or…
Top 5 Twitter hashtag fails: #susanalbumparty, #waitrosereasons, #rimjobs
Last week everyone's boring working day was made around 495,493 times better by the fact that Susan Boyle's PR team accidentally introduced the most hilarious hashtag known to man into their tweets about her new album #susanalbumparty. OH LOLZ. So we thought it'd be a great opportunity to collect together our top five hashtag fails…
Hipstamatic's Snap photo magazine comes to the web and iPhone
Earlier in the year Hipstamatic launched Snap, a magazine all about how awesome mobile photography is that also takes a peek at different cultures across the globe with a few other lifestyle bits and pieces thrown into the mix too. Until now the magazine has only been released for iPad owners, but this week it's…
YPlan London app suggests cool things to do tonight
Today everyone (and by everyone we mean geeky London kids) seems to be talking about YPlan, described as "tonight's going out app", it'll serve up a bunch of cool suggestions for things to do within the next few hours. If you live in London you know that it can be really overwhelming to figure out…
