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Month: December 2011

reviews / stuff

Our top posts of 2011: Lumix LX5, Powershot S95, Nikon D3100 and Galaxy S2

Saturday, Dec 31, 2011Friday, Dec 30, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

With the year almost up, we thought we’d have a rummage through our stats to see which posts proved the most popular in 2011, and were a little surprised to find our photography articles proving the …

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web

It’s D.I.V.O.R.C.E. on Facebook, with the site cited in one third of UK divorce cases

Friday, Dec 30, 2011 - by mike s

According to a recent study, Facebook is becoming a major factor in divorce cases in the UK, with the social networking site being cited in 33 per cent of behaviour petitions in …

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computing

Lenovo Ideapad S110 netbook, sorry, *mini notebook*, shown off in slick video teaser

Friday, Dec 30, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Lenovo have slipped out a slick promo trailer for their upcoming Lenovo Ideapad S110 ‘mini notebook.’

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Apple / iPhone

Supermarket prankster turns iPhone’s Siri assistant into foul mouthed yob

Friday, Dec 30, 2011Saturday, Dec 31, 2011 - by mike s

A prankster tampered with a demo model of an iPhone in a Coventry supermarket so that anyone trying out the Siri voice technlogy could expect an earful of abuse in return.

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Blackberry / mobiles

Ghastly Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry goes on sale at Harrods for £1,275

Thursday, Dec 29, 2011Thursday, Dec 29, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

The Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 designer smartphone has just been priced up for the UK, and it comes with a price tag every bit as ridiculous as its uber-macho, all-metal design.

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Google / video

Google launches YouTube Slam for ‘hot or not’ video face-offs, office productivity set to plummet

Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 - by Lee J.

Keen to help you find more entertaining distractions, Google has launched YouTube Slam, serving up the hottest, oddest and (ahem) ‘funnest’ video clips.

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computing

HTC Flyer goes on sale for a bargain £199

Tuesday, Dec 27, 2011Tuesday, Dec 27, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

We rather liked HTC’s stylus-toting 7″ Flyer tablet when it was announced in April 2011, although the upmarket price tag made it hard to recommend.

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portable / reviews

Kindle £89 ereader: great screen, superb value, wonderful price: review

Monday, Dec 26, 2011Monday, Dec 26, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Last year, Amazon’s Kindle eReader was the runaway must-have Christmas gift, and Amazon look to have scored another hit with its cheaper successor, first announced in October 2011. Released in …

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Android / audio / mobile apps

Audiotool Sketch brings top notch electronic music making to Android tablets

Sunday, Dec 25, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Although there’s no shortage of decent apps in the Android Market, it still lags a little behind the Apple App Store when it comes to high quality, music making tools. …

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Google

Christmas Google Doodle animates, bangs out ‘Jingle Bells’

Saturday, Dec 24, 2011 - by Lee J.

We reported on what we thought was a rather understated Christmas Google doodle yesterday, but an large extra dollop of festive spirit has now been added to the google.com homepage.

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gadgets

Gaze in awe at Brando’s fabulously pointless Sound Controlled Desktop Musical Fountain

Saturday, Dec 24, 2011Saturday, Dec 24, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Making a sound like someone with advanced, post-curry bottom problems, Brando’s Sound Controlled Desktop Musical Fountain is designed to bring the park experience to your table top.

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Google / web

Google gets in the festive spirit with a Christmas doodle

Friday, Dec 23, 2011Friday, Dec 23, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

With some parts of the world (like New Zealand, South Korea and Japan) already into Christmas Eve, Google’s festive logo has started appearing on their search homepage.

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audio / reviews

The best headphones you can buy for around £100: AKG and Grado

Thursday, Dec 22, 2011 - by mike s

Old school headphones seem to be enjoying something of a revival, with all sorts of hip names putting out heavily branded (and often comically oversized) headphones. If in-ear ‘phones aren’t your …

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computing / gadgets / photography

Three gadgets we’d like around our Christmas tree, please Santa

Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 - by mike s

If it turns out Santa really does exist and he’s carting around a big bag of tech gear, the staff at Wirefresh have compiled their gadget wishlist and sent it …

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Android / Google / mobiles

Android activations soar to 700,000 devices per day

Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

The rise of Android continues, with Google’s Andy Rubin reporting that the astonishing total of 700,000 Android devices were now being activated every day.

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