Turn your photos into whimsical wonders with the A Beautiful Mess iPhone app

The Beautiful Mess iPhone app, from the cult lifestyle blog of the same name, is designed to let you enhance your photos and turn them into quirky masterpieces. You can personalise images with layers of text, doodles, borders - and of course, filters - and then share them online. Elsie and Emma, the bloggers behind…

LG upping their cameraphone specs with optical zoom in new smartphones?

LG have revealed that they're looking into the development of sleek optical zooms for their future smartphones. With the mobile photography bar raised by Nokia's PureView Camera tech and Samsung's unusual Galaxy Camera, the company are working on a mechanical shutter that will allow for better-lit cameraphone shots to be taken. Jakyung Jeon, Senior Research…

Free O2 Wi-Fi hotspots open for all in London's top shopping destinations

Londoners get a few extra free Wi-Fi hotspots today, courtesy of O2. The network will be opening select hotspots around the capital to all mobile web surfers, regardless of their network affiliations. Visitors to Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden Leicester Square, Oxford Street and Regent Street amongst other areas will be able to connect to O2's…

Let out a little roar, Mountain Lion Mac OS X is finally here!

Apple's new desktop operating system, Mac OS X Mountain Lion, is available today, Wednesday 25th July. Over 200 new features will be coming to Mac OS X with Mountain Lion, including deep Facebook and Twitter integration, Game Center features and AirPlay screen mirroring. When it lands in the US, it'll cost $19.99, with UK users…