Wii Fit Balance board push up bar shown off in chummy video demo

March 12th, 2010 10:41am Lee J. No comments

We love our Wii Fit and Balance Board – especially when it awards us a “Wii Age” decades below our decrepit years – and for folks wanting to push things a little further, CTA Digital have released their “Wii Balance Board Push Up Bar.”

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Blogger cruelly shunts off FTP support, adds a template designer

March 12th, 2010 10:15am mike s No comments

Blogger withdraws FTP, adds a template designer

After seriously miffing off old school bloggers with their troublesome decision to withdraw all FTP support, Blogger are looking to sweeten the pill with their new Blogger Template Designer tool.

The  Template Designer has turned up in their ‘Blogger in Draft‘ experimental playground, and promises to “go beyond static templates and reinvent the whole process of designing your blog.”

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HP’s ‘Let’s Do Amazing’ TV ad campaign amuses – videos galore

March 12th, 2010 9:30am mike s No comments

HP's 'Let's Do Amazing' ad campaign amuses

With the company shelling out no less than $40 million on this TV campaign,  HP are looking to make a splash with the public, with a slew of adverts hitting YouTube.

Labelled with the grammatically worrying tag of, “Let’s Do Amazing,” the adverts are led by Rhys Darby of “Flight of the Conchords” fame, and on first look seem moderately amusing.

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Palm’s App Catalog hurtles past 30 million downloads

March 11th, 2010 3:59pm mike s No comments

Palm App Catalog hurtles past 30 million downloadsAfter checking the data in their webOS App Gallery, Palm-lovin’ website PreCentral has calculated that there’s been over thirty million downloads from the App Catalog.

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Pioneer DJM-2000 Mixer: the don of DJ mixers?

March 11th, 2010 11:52am mike s No comments

Pioneer DJM-2000 Mixer: the don of DJ mixers?

We’re no strangers to throwing down tunes at Wirefresh (we run our own London club after all) but Pioneer’s new DJM-2000 is the kind of kit we can only dream of. And then probably need a change of sheets in the morning.

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Google Reader Play makes browsing RSS feeds easy-peasy

March 11th, 2010 10:56am Pete Railton No comments

Google Reader Play makes it easy for users to gorge on RSS feeds

We’re mighty big fans of Google Reader at Wirefresh – it’s been our de facto RSS reader for years – but it can take a little while to find out and sort your feeds.

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Microsoft’s Bing TV campaign starts off with a weird one

March 11th, 2010 9:30am mike s No comments

Microsoft's Bing TV campaign starts off with a weird oneMicrosoft’s onslaught to persuade us Brits to try out a different flavour of search to Google has kicked off, with the first TV commercial for Bing hitting goggleboxes across Blighty.

The advert – the first of the three – can be seen across a slew of commercial channels such as ITV, Channel 4, Five, Sky Media plus IDS digital channels including Bravo, Dave, GOLD, Living TV and Good Food.

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Walkit.com serves up circular walking maps for urban amblers

March 10th, 2010 4:25pm mike s 3 comments

Walkit.com serves up circular walks for urban amblersMad-for-it walking folks Walkit.com have added a  useful and unique feature to their online route mapping service – circular walks.

The idea is both simple and brilliant: if you fancy a short lunchtime stroll or a calorie busting urban trek, simply type in your chosen location, input your walking speed and you can quickly plan a circular walk from 15 minutes up to 4 hours.

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UK minister reassures photographers about police harassment

March 10th, 2010 12:13pm mike s No comments

UK minister reassures photographers about police harassment

There’s been growing outrage and concern from UK photographers over increasingly Draconian, illegal – and plain daft – clampdowns on their right to take photos in a public place.

Police officers, security guards and general jobsworths have been using terrorism laws to harass photographers, sparking several public protests in London.

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Dell Mini 5 ‘Streak’ Android tablet serves up colours galore

March 10th, 2010 10:43am mike s 1 comment

Dell Mini 5/ Dell Streak tablet - details surfaceWe’ve been teased by a video clip of Dell boss Michael Dell strutting around with a pre-production Dell Mini 5 tablet, but with the release date looming, the company are prepping their promotional material for what seems set to be called the ‘Dell Streak’.

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Samsung silently shows off its SUPER AMOLED touchscreen

March 10th, 2010 10:07am Pete Railton No comments

Samsung shows off its SUPER AMOLED touchscreen

Samsung have knocked out a video detailing the advantages of their Super AMOLED screen.

The boffins at Samsung seem to have sorted the situation with AMOLED screens being hard to read in sunlight, with their new displays promising a brighter, better, more bodacious screen with improved viewing angles.
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Palm releases webOS PDK Beta – hot games to follow?

March 9th, 2010 4:10pm Pete Railton No comments

Palm releases webOS PDK Beta - hot games to followPalm have released their Plug-in Development Kit Beta for developers and is hopeful that a veritable torrent of top notch 3D games and other native Linux apps for webOS will follow in its wake.

Now available for your downloading pleasure at the Developer Centre, Palm is giving this one a mighty push, keen to promote their webOS as a gamers’ platform, and releasing it at the Game Developer’s Conference.

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Case-Mate’s Hug wireless iPhone charger – another bolt on beast

March 9th, 2010 1:59pm mike s No comments

Case-Mate's Hug wireless iPhone charger - another bolt on beast

We loved the Touchstone wireless charger for our Palm Pre, and expected to see similar solutions breaking out for other handsets, but it seems manufacturers are still struggling to come up with anything as discrete and as elegant.

So far, all of the ‘wireless charging solutions’ we’ve seen require users to strap on ugly backs to their phones, adding unnecessary bulk and weight.

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Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot continues to thrill

March 9th, 2010 12:58pm Lee J. No comments

Honda ASIMO humanoid robot continues to thrill

We’ve been fascinated by Honda’s incredible ASIMO humanoid robot project, and find its tantalising glimpse of the future irresistible. We want one!

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Griffin SmartTalk earphone adapter for iPhones & iPods – review

March 9th, 2010 12:27pm mike s No comments

Griffin SmartTalk earphone adapter for iPhones & iPods - reviewIf you’re less than chuffed with the distinctly average sound of the bundled iPhone headphones,  or you’re fed up being a mugger-attracting, walking advert for Apple products with those ‘iconic’ white headphones, then a headphone upgrade is always a good call.

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