Although Google Buzz runs fairly dandy from within the iPhone’s browser, the first dedicated app for the innovative social networking tool has been sent out into the wild.
Called Buzie, the app lets users check out Buzz conversations in their local area without logging into the service.
Once signed in, they can then start conversations, or join in with their followers, or just indulge in a good ol’ bout of stalking.
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When we were young, we used to look up at the Moon and imagine we were heroically piloting a lander, ready for some top notch lunar exploration before heading back to the module for lashings of gingerpop and cake.
Sadly, the call from the Command Centre never arrived, but at least NASA is giving us the opportunity to virtually control our own Lunar rover with its first ever iPhone game: the Lunar Electric Rover Simulator.
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Since releasing the Chrome for Mac beta browser at the end of last year, Google’s techie bods have been busy bunging in new features, and have today decided to share their latest version of their free browser with the Apple world.
Their new update of Chrome for Mac now packs extensions, bookmark sync, and the ability to install any of over 2,200 extensions currently available in Chrome’s extensions gallery.
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Some of the best apps are the simplest, and they don’t come much simpler than Ninite, which lets you install all the essential free downloads you’ll need for your new/upgraded PC in one fell swoop.
Forget spending ages trawling program websites looking for the ‘downloads’ page and endlessly clicking away: with Ninite all you have to do is tick off the programs you need from an expertly curated list, download your customised installer and then – bosh! – run it.
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Set to make your current monitor look like a pie-eating lardbucket is BenQ’s flagship V2220/V2220H which positively insists that it’s the thinnest 21.5-inch monitor in the known universe.
Thinner than a Ryvita biscuit that’s fallen under a steamroller (possibly), the 15mm V2220 LED monitor serves up a ‘class leading’ 10,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio resulting in none-more-blacks.
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London-based design and innovation company Seymourpowell has whizzed up an incredible vision of a giant, elegant ‘clipper in the clouds’ airship that’s got us scrambling for our passports and monogrammed leather luggage.
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If your idea of style is a fisherman’s sleeveless vest stuffed full of pockets, loops, zips and straps and you think strutting around town with an iPad strapped inside your jacket is the last word in haute couture, then move over Valentino Garavani, the Travel Vest for Men is here.
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With today being International Data Privacy Day, Google has decided to mark the occasion by publicly publishing their guiding Privacy Principles, accompanied by an explanatory video.
We reckon anyone using their services should cast a swift eye over what they’re saying, so we recommend reading on!
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An updated version of the Skyfire web browser has been released for Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition smartphones.
The free app claims to bring a PC-like browsing experience to mobile devices, with the latest version adding full support for high-resolution screens, an updated, finger-friendly user interface (UI), crisper text, smoother zooming with kinetic movement, and a full-screen mode that maximises screen real estate.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are now able to access what’s been described as the ‘ultimate wireless connection,’ and took not time in swiftly despatching the world’s first ‘Space Tweet.’
A software upgrade means that astronauts can enjoy personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web from the space station instead of having to relay messages down to ground crew.
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Wikitude, one of the earliest augmented reality apps to hit the Android apps, has now been upgraded to version 4.
The latest update adds new geo-location information-services (aka “overlays”), like Youtube, Google Local Search, Twitter, Booking.com or Panoramio, with makers Mobilizy insisting that the improved interface and search feature makes it, “the ultimate augmented reality browser for any type of user e.g. travelers, tourists, hikers, city-people, etc.”
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Berlin-based Savoy Software have developed Liquid Scale, a ‘content aware image resizing’ app for the iPhone.
According to its makers, Liquid Scale resizes pictures while “magically keeping the important features of the image intact,” and can, “intelligently remove or add pixels to preserve important parts of the picture.”
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Here’s a neat tool for Windows users who’d like to experiment with the Ubuntu operating system without having to faff about with dual booting systems or risk trashing your current installation.
The free Portable Ubuntu for Windows application lets you runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application – and then carry it around on a USB stick.
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Blue Microphones have updated their ‘Mikey’ bolt on microphone for iPods and iPhones, and it should prove a handy tool for sound recordists, interviewers, musicians and shifty bootleggers.
The first version arrived in 2008, and the new and improved version boasts “improved circuitry for superior recording and enhanced new features,” plus a pair of custom-tuned Blue capsules with settings for recording high-volume concerts.
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If their recent patchy network coverage is anything to go by, there must be an awful lot of O2 customers watching YouTube videos on their smartphones at the moment.
Talking about the strain on resources that high data content sources can bring to a mobile network, O2 ’s Chief Tech officer Derek McManus, claimed that: “Watching a YouTube video on a smartphone can use the same capacity on the network as sending 500,000 text messages simultaneously.”
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