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Month: December 2009

gaming / mobile apps / Palm

webOS hacker gets Doom to play on the Palm Pre

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

With its  latest firmware update to webOS 1.3.5, Palm included a software library called SDL (or Simple Directmedia Layer) which grants low level hardware access to developers – which is …

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computing / web

Radiohead – House of Cards video gets the DIY treatment

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s

We’re big fans of Radiohead, and we loved the disturbing yet beautiful video to ‘House of Cards’ when it came out last year. The video was created using cutting edge …

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stuff

Arise Sir Capt. Jean-Luc Picard!

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s

He’s an incredibly versatile actor who has mastered the Shakespearian classics and played a vast array of roles on stage and screen, but the 69-year-old Yorkshire actor Patrick Stewart is …

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web

Online video: Surprised Kitten pwns Michael Jackson

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s

We’ve already published YouTube’s list of their most watched videos of 2009, but social bookmarking site AddThis has chipped in with their own list of their most-shared articles from sites …

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mobiles / Palm

Palm app store edges towards 1,000 apps. UK users left out in the cold

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Their App Catalog is still trailing a considerable distance behind Apple’s bulging App Store, but US Palm Pre and Pixi users should soon have over a thousand apps to download …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / photography

Gorillacam camera app for the iPhone serves up 1.6 pics per second

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Brought to you by the company that created the legendary Gorillapod bendable tripods, the new Gorillacam app introduces a slew of useful tools to improve your iPhone snapping. The free …

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Blackberry / mobile apps / mobiles

Four essential Blackberry apps

Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 - by mike s

If Santa slipped a shiny new Blackberry into your festive sack and you haven’t had time to enjoy a good rummage through the offerings in BlackBerry App World, we’ve hand …

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Apple / business

Nokia vs Apple – the patent war heats up as Nokia counter-countersues!

Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 - by mike s

We reported back in October that the Finnish mobile giant was suing its rival Apple for infringing their mobile phone technology patents with the iPhone, and things seem to be …

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Google / mobiles

Google Goggles image recognition mobile search: video demo

Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 - by mike s

Google’s futuristic mobile image recognition  feature — Google Goggles — has been demoed on the Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10. Although the Xperia is yet to be released, you can see …

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mobiles

Dropped your phone down the loo? Don’t panic!

Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 - by Lee J.

A report a while back reckoned that getting on for a million mobile phones are sent crashing down UK toilets every year, at a cost of £324 million. With the …

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mobiles / Palm

Carphone Warehouse offers free flights for Palm Pre buyers, we shake our heads

Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 - by mike s - 7 Comments.

Rumoured to be in response to poor sales, the Carphone Warehouse is giving away two free airline tickets to anyone who buys a Palm Pre before the end of January. …

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audio / reviews

Grado SR60i hi-fi headphones reviewed

Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 - by mike s

Created by a family business in Brooklyn, USA, Grado’s philosophy is to simply create the best sounding headphones they can, with sound quality being placed far ahead of streetwise looks …

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mobiles

Text this: Happy Christmas! Record SMS/MMS numbers predicted over the festive period

Friday, Dec 25, 2009Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 - by mike s

First off, we’d like to wish a Happy Christmas to our readers! Thanks for sticking with us. We’re well chuffed with the speed that the site is growing and we …

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web

Spotify’s most listened-to tracks of 2009

Thursday, Dec 24, 2009Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 - by Lee J.

Based on the number of streams each track received in their six launch countries, music streaming site Spotify have released a listing of their most listened-to tracks of 2009. if …

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Google

Google gifts $20m to charities for Christmas

Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 - by mike s

Google  have emailed its users this morning to thank them for the “time, energy, commitment, and trust” they’ve shared with the company. The email – presented in the form of …

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