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Samsung Galaxy S II commercials continue to cock a snook at iPhone fanboys

January 24th, 2012 7:34pm No comments

Samsung Galaxy S II commercials continue to cock a snook at iPhone fanboys

Samsung is continuing  its rather witty advertising campaign to highlight the advantages of the Samsung Galaxy S2 over the iPhone – and we have to say we’re still enjoying them.

Scroll down for the latest three instalments (and an explanation of what ‘cocking a snook’ means).

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

December 28th, 2011 5:40pm No comments

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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Talking Dog tops YouTube’s top videos of 2011; Fenton nowhere to be seen

December 20th, 2011 11:33am No comments

YouTube has released its list of the most watched videos online for 2011, with a not-particularly-amusing “talking” dog topping the list of UK viewers.

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Alfa Romeo snatch much-prized ‘most amount of water balloons burst by a car’ world record

December 7th, 2011 11:58am No comments

Alfa Romeo snatch much prized 'most amount of water balloons burst by a car' world record

If you’re in the market for a car with above average water balloon bursting capabilities, then it seems Alfa Romeo have just the car for you.

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Here’s how to make a fantastic, professional music video for under £50 ($80)

November 17th, 2011 4:30pm 1 comment

Here's how to make a fantastic, professional music video for under £50 ($80)

When we saw this incredible video for ‘Snow City Radio’ by the unsigned UK band The Lost Cavalry, we assumed that they were either rich kids able to afford a big budget production, or that the band members all doubled up a film industry professionals.

We were intrigued enough to write to them to ask them how it was done, and were amazed by what they told us: the whole thing was done on a budget of less than £50 and filmed and produced entirely by the singer, Mark West – who has had no training as a cameraman or photographer.

Here’s the story of how he managed to put together such an incredible video:

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Astonishing NASA time lapse video from the International Space Station

November 13th, 2011 4:32pm No comments

Astonishing NASA time lapse video from the International Space Station

I’ve been totally blown away by this astonishing time lapse video taken from the International Space Station.

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Surprisingly amusing AT&T Blackberry Torch video promo goes viral

November 9th, 2011 10:30am No comments

Surprisingly amusing AT&T Blackberry Torch video promo goes viral

We don’t usually associate AT&T and Blackberry with the concepts of ‘fun’ and ‘amusing promos,’ but their new video for the Blackberry Torch smartphone actually managed to raise a smile in the battle-hardened offices of Wirefresh.

It seems to be striking a chord with others too, with the video rapidly gaining ‘vital’ status online.

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UK filmmakers! Ridley Scott and Britain In A Day wants your movie clips

November 3rd, 2011 11:30am No comments

UK filmmakers! Ridley Scott and Britain In A Day wants your movie clips

Billed as “Britain in a Day. Four nations. 24 hours. 61 million perspectives,” YouTube’s latest project aims to capture 24 hours of us Brits doing our thing.

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The incredible Life In A Day movie now available to watch, right here

October 31st, 2011 8:42pm No comments

The incredible Life In A Day movie now available to watch, right here

Billed as a “historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010,”  Life In A Day is a 90 minute movie created from user-submitted videos.

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Step into Microsoft’s astonishing sci-fi future [video and pics]

October 28th, 2011 8:15am 1 comment

Step into Microsoft's astonishing sci-fi future [video]

Man oh man, we want to jump straight into the wonderful world of high tech shown off in Microsoft’s astonishing futuristic movie.

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Google launches Android film rental store for UK mobile users

October 21st, 2011 4:02pm No comments

Google launches Android film rental store for UK mobile users

Google have swished back the red curtains to reveal their Android digital movie rental store for UK users today.

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YouTube movie rentals now showing in the UK, on PCs and Android devices

October 7th, 2011 3:37pm 2 comments

YouTube movie rentals comes to the UK, with thousands of films on offer

YouTube’s movie rental service has just gone live in the UK, allowing popcorn munching Brits to sprawl over their sofas and suck up over a thousand movies for a small fee.

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Android Skype 2.5- more handset support plus ‘enhanced video experience’

September 29th, 2011 3:24pm No comments

Android Skype 2.5- more handset support plus 'enhanced video experience'

Skype have slammed down an update to their Android app, with the all-new, all-shiny v2.5  adding support for video chat on an additional 14 devices (see below), including the popular Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola XOOM tablets.

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Microsoft slams down a salivatingly good set of Windows Phone 7.5 demos [video]

September 15th, 2011 10:15am No comments

Microsoft slams down a salivatingly good Windows Phone 7.5 demo [video]

It’s only a video taster, but we have to say we’re getting increasingly stoked up at what we’re seeing of the forthcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Mango mobile interface.

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Skype adds 2-way video calling to 17 more Android handsets

August 4th, 2011 11:31am No comments

Skype adds 2-way video calling to 17 more Android handsets

Back in the balmy days of June, Skype bolted on the ability to make one-to-one video calls over both Wi-Fi and 3G via its Android application, but it was a fat lot of good to most users as very few handsets were actually able to make use of the feature.

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