Google continues to amaze me with what it creates. Recently, thanks to the mild annoyance of the Japanese of Street View, Google have decided to combat the anger there with a stop motion animation… For those bereft of the ability to view that, it’s a video of a robot with a camera for it’s head [...]
We would have told you sooner had the website been working properly, and I’m sure that everyone else on the internet knows this already, but better late than never: Apple released a new iPod Nano. I know, I know, it’s not really big news at all on the face of it, but it is. For [...]
On Friday and part of the weekend, some visitors will have been greeted by a malware warning from Google in an effort to protect your computers. We have since spent some time correcting the damage caused and trying to prevent this from happening again. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused you, and [...]
Have you ever taken a photo with your digital camera, edited it within your favourite image editing software, then saw the final printout had colours that did not match what you actually saw? No, me neither… The Spyder3Express is a device you stick to the front of your monitor and adjusts the colours to where [...]
It brings a slight tear to my eye when I say this, but it’s been 10 years since the Sega Dreamcast was unleashed onto the shores of North America. On the awesome date of the 9th of September, 1999 (9/9/99), the joyous white cuboid of happiness descended onto US stores, causing a stampede at the [...]
Sony have now announced something that has been speculated for some time now: A Slimmer PlayStation 3. They have reduced weight, volume and power by a third and also rebranded the name so it’s no longer completely typed in upper case… The US, Europe, Asia and PAL countries will get this 120GB version on September [...]
From the department of news-gathering labelled only as “Did this really need to be researched?” comes: Twitter is used for pointlessness… Yes, someone with way too much time on their hands (Pear Analytics) has found out that out of a random sample of 2000 Tweets, that 40% of them are classifiable as “Pointless Babble”. The [...]
Yes, you’ve read that right. Microsoft have been ordered by a court to stop selling versions of MS Word because of patent infringement. Within the next 60 days, Microsoft must either amend Word 2003 and 2007 in such a way to stop the infringement, or cease sales altogether. The patent in question is owned by [...]
It appears that Twitter is now the new CNN, in terms of news. @visitken (a blogger for LG) has unleashed some new pictures of the LG Chocolate. No, not the old one. The new one, the LG-BL40 of course! This phone has a 4 inch wide screen. That’s all the statistics you really need, but [...]
It’s been 48 hours since Apple at WWDC announced the iPhone 3G S, and people are already complaining. Aside from some people saying that it was all a bit of a letdown in terms of announcements, the large majority of whining comes from iPhone users on O2 that want to upgrade but have a problem. [...]