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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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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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Tumblr hits 1 billion pageviews a month

March 8th, 2010 3:38pm Pete Railton No comments

Tumblr hits 1 billion pageviews a month

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.

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LG X300 slips out an ultra-thin premium mobile PC

March 8th, 2010 10:54am Pete Railton No comments

LG X300 slips out an ultra-thin premium mobile PC

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 .

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iPhone games ported to Palm’s webOS ‘in a matter of days’

March 5th, 2010 4:54pm Pete Railton No comments

iPhone games ported to Palm's webOS 'in a matter of days'

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.

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Twitter smashes through the 10 billion tweet barrier

March 5th, 2010 9:15am Pete Railton No comments

Twitter smashes through the 10 billion tweet barrier

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.

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BlackBerry gets the official BBC iPlayer. Finally

March 2nd, 2010 10:47am Pete Railton No comments

BlackBerry gets the official BBC iPlayer. FinallyPerhaps 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.

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Google buys up Picnik cloud-based photo editing service

March 1st, 2010 9:18pm Pete Railton No comments

Google buys up Picnik for cloud based photo editing

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.

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A feast of Google stats in one almighty info-graphic

February 27th, 2010 10:16pm Pete Railton No comments

A feast of Google stats in one almighty graphic

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!

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Nintendo Wii UK-bound (video)

February 26th, 2010 4:30pm Pete Railton 1 comment

Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Nintendo Wii UK-bound (video)

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.

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Design your own London skyline in a skyscraper frenzy

February 25th, 2010 1:04pm Pete Railton 1 comment

Design your own London skyline in a skyscraper frenzy

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.

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Prudish Apple goes on App Store moral crusade, censors saucy apps

February 21st, 2010 4:00pm Pete Railton 1 comment

Prudish Apple goes on App Store moral crusade, censors saucy apps

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.

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Google Shopper for Android released: free app for shopaholics

February 20th, 2010 10:55am Pete Railton 1 comment

Google Shopper for Android released: free app for shopaholics

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.

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Palm webOS App Catalogue hits 1,500 apps in the US

February 19th, 2010 2:31pm Pete Railton 1 comment

Palm webOS App Catalogue hits 1,500 apps in the US

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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