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Tattoo your phone: O2 offer free tattoos to new and upgrading customers
Amy Winehouse has them. So does Angelina Jolie... so could your phone. We're talking about tattoos. O2 are offering free phone tattoos for new and upgrading customers in their London and Manchester stores over the next few months and there's a wide selection on offer. Visit site here to see the full amount. Pick your…
Fed up with tweeting in English? translate tweets to Klingon
How many of your Twitter followers understand Klingon? You can soon find out, by using this helpful Twitter app which translates tweets into that language spoken by the fictional warrior race in Star Trek. It's called http://tweetinklingon.com/ Great. Or "Dun" as a Klingon would say. You can only write 100 characters English, leaving the Klingon-generator…
Changes to Facebook: more privacy control, less regional identity
Facebook is introducing changes to its privacy settings, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last night in a blog post that puffed the site's recently-relased massive user figures and announced 3 major new changes. 1. An end to regional networks Back when Facebook members were largely students it made sense to have specific networks for universities or…
The G-board: a keyboard just for Gmail
If you rely on G-mail, google docs and google calendar (or G-cal) to run your life, this could be a very handy extra implement that could speed up how you manage email. The G-Board is a supplementary USB keyboard specifically for gmail, costing $19.99 it's available from its own site. Of course it's not worth…
Android ad tells us: iPhones are stupid and girly
Android are getting dirty with their new TV advert for their phone operating system, and we don't like it very much. Instead of say, advocating the Android app store, the new 'Droid Does' advert decided to lay into the market-leading iPhone by characterising it as a silly bimbo. The ad doesn't explicitly say "the iPhone"…
Nerding Lady Gaga part two: beardy geeks do Pokerface
Can there ever be enough nerdy parodies of Lady Gaga on Youtube? I for one will never get tired of them. After a sweet girl called Molly did an uber nerdy version of Pokerface with some weird complicated and definitely nerdy instrument, a group of boy geeks have done a slick and semi-professional rip-off of…
The Xmas Factor: at last.. an Xmas Tweet Calculator
Who is the most Christmassy Tweeter in your office/friendship group? Perhaps that's not a question you're asking right now, but if you are... errr, well you can find out. Visit site thexmasfactor.com and enter your name/your friend's/colleague's/boss's twitter name in and see how xmassy their tweets are. As the site puts it - "Have you…
The minimum wage machine
Ever wanted to work for minimum wage? Well a thoughtful socialist artist has come up with the Minimum Wage Machine, so instead of getting a job in the local supermarket, why not catch a plane and shimmy over to New York to see Blake Fall-Conroy's artwork and earn yourself some pennies. Turning the crank will…
Spotify not coming to Xbox or Playstation.. yet
One of 2009's hottest web services, free music application Spotify is not quite about to take over the world. Though a hit on PCs and smartphones, the service won't be making the transition onto games consoles in the near future. Rumours that Spotify would be incorporated into the Xbox 360 and PS3 were squashed by…
Top Google searches 2009: why the UK would love a bargain celebrity-endorsed swine flu remedy
The time has come. Once a year Google delves into its information treasure trove and coughs up a few nuggets of trivia to amuse us simple netizens. Yesterday, they revealed the UK's most searched terms of 2009, along with a look back at the hottest topics of the "noughties", as seen through Google searches across…