Google Reader Play makes browsing RSS feeds easy-peasy

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.

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.

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 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.

Easy-peasy blogging platform Tumblr has notched up a noticeable milestone, with the site receiving no less then one billion page views in February, 2010.
They were so chuffed with their achievement that they knocked out a natty info-graphic to help spread the news.

LG Electronics (LG) have announced the launch of their ultra-thin premium mobile PC, the LG X300 and it’s a rather sleek and stylish looking number.
Their new “flagship mobile computing device,” the LG X300 weighs a mere 970g and is wafer thin at just 17.5mm thick .

Palm will be strutting their stuff at the Game Developer’s Conference next week and their presentation will focus on their Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) – a set of tools designed to help developers create graphics-intensive games for Palm’s webOS.
The PDK is said to let developers rewrite mobile apps designed for other platforms in double quick-time, with iPhone apps reputedly ported over in “a matter of days,” with no degradation in performance.

Although we’re sure an awful lot of these were of the inane “I’m going to the shops for some fags” variety, there’s no denying that Twitter’s total of over 10 billion tweets is one hell of an impressive figure.
Perhaps they’ve been so busy blasting out business missives that they haven’t realised what they’ve been missing out on, but BlackBerry users can now get the BBC iPlayer on their mobiles
The new iPlayer on BlackBerry does exactly what it says on the tin, and streams video-on-demand from the BBC’s new BlackBerry-optimised BBC iPlayer page.

Google has just announced that it has opened up its big bag of money and acquired the cloud-based photo editing service, Picnik.
The website lets you crop, touch-up and add various effects to your photos from within your web browser.

The folks at Pingdom have treated us to one mahoosive graphic throwing up a ton facts’n'figures related to the search engine giant.
Want to know Google’s marketshare? Global website ranking? Daily visitor total?
Or maybe have a stab at how many pages they’ve indexed?
Click on for all the facts and more and be the toast of the next pub quiz!

Nintendo Wii users will soon be able to immerse themselves in even more Super Mario action, with the latest in the Wii Galaxy Series bagging a UK release date.

It’s more or less completely pointless, but if you’d like to rearrange the London skyline into a futuristic vista stuffed full of colossal skyscrapers, then architectural illustrators Hayes Davidson have got just the thing for you.

It seems that the prudish types at Apple are keen to apply their moral values to the App Store, first kicking off the (admittedly rather tawdry) boob-jiggling app Wobble, and then setting off on a crusade to cleanse the store of flesh.

Google has taken the wraps off its latest application for the Android platform, Google Shopper.
Shopper lets you search for product information by using your phone’s camera: point it at the object you’re interested in (e.g. books, CDs, DVDs, and video games) and Google will recognise what it’s looking at and serve up a list of search results, with links to prices, reviews and specs.

The collection of apps available in Palm’s App Catalog store in the US has now risen to an impressive 1,500 apps, and is growing at a rate of more then 10 apps a day.
On top of the 1,500 officially available apps there’s also nearly 450 ready for downloading from the Homebrew catalogue, giving Palm Pre and Pixi users a wide range of apps to play with.
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