Rock band Chester French make iPhone app – what has happened to Rock and Roll?

A rock band has just made their own iPhone app. Pop-rock band Chester French programmed and built it themselves using simple development platform Force.com. It's probably telling that instead of leading peace marches or having drug-fuelled orgies, rock bands in 2009 are making iPhone apps. Though maybe they're doing the other stuff on the side.…

The worst driving gadget in the world: a steering wheel laptop desk

Don't even buy this for your worst enemy. While a gun might be more obviously life-threatening, this laptop steering wheel rest really is almost as dangerous. As suggested by the wise writer on RedFerret.net, attaching your laptop to your steering wheel like this will result in death and mass destruction. It's a common truth that…

New Youtube Shows section gets full-length Channel 4 shows

Finally a big TV company gets serious about internet TV - Channel 4 has decided to stream whole shows on Youtube, giving UK users legal access to programmes on demand. FTW, as they say. It seems that Google has persuaded TV companies that they can make money out of internet advertising, in a very similar…

Virus scam targets Twilight fans

Looks like fans of the Twilight film series are suffering more than unsatiated desire in the run-up to the release of New Moon on Friday. An internet scam preying on fans of the series has leveraged a fake virus alert to get people to hand over their credit card details. A google search for "Stephanie…

Zazew – a social network for aspiring writers

A new social networking site has been set up to help people write books online. Despite the new forms of writing on the internet -blogs etc - books continue to hold sway over people's minds. As such, this e-Publishing House could be quite successful. Zazew - set up in Suffolk - is free but there…

Play the Climate Challenge with Dr Who

Everybody's favourite TV geek crush, David Tennant of Dr Who fame, has joined up with Oxfam to offer an online climate challenge. You must guide David to answer questions about climate change, and pick the correct option out of three or four answers. Watch David Tennant screw his face up as he tries to figure…

Get translation advice BEFORE naming your baby, think of its google rankings

If you're thinking of calling your child anything more exotic than John or Mary, then maybe you should check out this pricey but unusual service which offers a "name translation check" pre-christening. TodayTranslations go through pretty well most languages in the world and checks that the name you mean to give your sprog doesn't mean…

Barack Obama has never used Twitter! sob!

We're very sorry to report that Barack Obama has never used Twitter. No, I didn't expect that he personally composed *all* of the Barack Obama account Twitter updates, but some - surely! In my heart of hearts I always suspected that some of those campaign tweets were from the Blackberry of the great man himself.…

Geek called Molly 'nerds' Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga's raunchy cyberpop hit Poker Face got nerded on youtube by a sweet adorable geek called Molly. Molly covers the song in a really nice way, but makes the track sound a bit like a Sesame Street jingle. This has been described by the internet as nerding. As in -making something nerdlike. Where Gaga…

Google's Chrome browser to get extensions – will it slow down?

If you use Google's sleek and speedy internet browser Chrome you can look forward to the browser getting an extensions gallery in the near future. A new icon on the Chrome home page takes you through to a planned but unfortunately not yet functioning extensions gallery. Suggestions are that extensions will available from early December.…