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Pioneer DJM-2000 Mixer: the don of DJ mixers?

March 11th, 2010 11:52am mike s No comments

Pioneer DJM-2000 Mixer: the don of DJ mixers?

We’re no strangers to throwing down tunes at Wirefresh (we run our own London club after all) but Pioneer’s new DJM-2000 is the kind of kit we can only dream of. And then probably need a change of sheets in the morning.

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Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot continues to thrill

March 9th, 2010 12:58pm Lee J. No comments

Honda ASIMO humanoid robot continues to thrill

We’ve been fascinated by Honda’s incredible ASIMO humanoid robot project, and find its tantalising glimpse of the future irresistible. We want one!

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The Apple iPad’s going to be a bugger to hold

March 8th, 2010 5:52pm Lee J. 1 comment

Apple iPad's going to be a bugger to hold

With Apple’s first iPad video commercial now doing the rounds, something has become rather apparent – it’s going to be a tricky beggar to hold.

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The Do Not Tweet List and how to avoid Twitter disasters

March 3rd, 2010 12:09pm Lee J. No comments

The Do Not Tweet List and how to avoid Twitter disasters

With numerous examples of loose-lipped Twitterers blabbing themselves into tricky situations, social media site NewCommBizz has compiled a handy list of Twitter Ye Nots.

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Apple sues HTC, guns for Android in massive legal challenge

March 2nd, 2010 5:18pm Lee J. No comments

Apple sues HTC, guns for Android

Bosh! Apple’s over-worked lawyers are off again, this time laying down a massive suit against HTC, claiming that the company is infringing 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.”

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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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NASA serves up two stunning pictures of Earth for your desktop

February 24th, 2010 11:45am mike s 1 comment

NASA serves up two stunning pictures of Earth for your desktop

NASA has just posted up two astonishing high res images of the Earth from space which are simply begging to downloaded and used as your desktop wallpaper.

Said to be the most accurate, highest resolution true colour images of planet Earth yet, click on the images below to soak up the full – and truly awesome – 2048 x 2048 pixels glory.

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Gowalla extends support to Android handsets; Palm, Blackberry on the way

February 22nd, 2010 9:30am Lee J. 1 comment

Gowalla for Mobile Web on AndroidIt’s proved a hit on the iPhone (mainly in the States), and now the doodz at Gowalla are hurling their popular location-based social networking game in the direction of the Android community.

Joining Google Buzz, Foursquare and all the other location based services hustlin’ and a-bustlin’ to grab the biggest slice of this growing, err, pie, Gowalla’s new beta Android-optimised site can be found at m.gowalla.com.

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Microsoft Office 2010 pricing announced, with free version available

February 17th, 2010 10:18am Pete Railton No comments

Microsoft Office 2010 pricing announced, with free version availableMicrosoft has put the price stickers on its new Office 2010 suite, and has included a Starter version that will come free with new PCs.

The new Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 package will be all yours to love and to caress for £239.99, representing a substantial saving on the previous Standard version of Office 2007, which sold for a hefty £349.99.

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Samsung Wave S8500 smartphone shows off its SUPER AMOLED screen

February 15th, 2010 10:15am mike s No comments

Samsung Wave S8500 smartphone shows off its SUPER AMOLED screen

Samsung’s new Wave S8500 smartphone has popped in to say hi at the Mobile World Congress, packing an impressive 3.3-inch SUPER AMOLED screen, supporting an 800 x 480 resolution.

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Sony Ericsson reveals Xperia X10 mini and Xperia X10 smartphones – videos

February 15th, 2010 9:15am mike s No comments

Sony Ericsson reveals Xperia X10 mini and Xperia X10 smartphonesSo cute and tiddly you just might want to give them a lickle hug are the new Sony Ericsson ‘Xperia X10 mini’ and ‘Xperia X10 mini pro’ pint-sized handsets.

Both phones are just about identical apart from the pro version packing a QWERTY keyboard and there being a different selection of colours available at launch.

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Steve Jobs keynote goes Autotune

February 12th, 2010 11:47am mike s No comments

It’s a frustratingly short clip, but we love it. More, please.

Click on for the L0Lz.

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WordWeb 6 free desktop dictionary and thesaurus: Review

February 12th, 2010 10:00am mike s 1 comment

WordWeb 6 free desktop dictionary and thesaurus: Review

A fast and smart English-language thesaurus and dictionary, WordWeb can be used to look up words from almost any program, swiftly serving up definitions, synonyms and related words like a resident egghead lurking in your system tray.

Now up to version 6 and as essential as ever, the dictionary runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7.

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Video tour of the International Space Station in HD

February 10th, 2010 11:44am Pete Railton No comments

Video tour of the International Space Station in HD

Quietly doing its thing above our heads since construction began in 1998 is the International Space Station (ISS), an orbiting research facility scheduled for completion by 2011.

Scheduled to remain in operation until at least 2015 – and probably five years after that – you can now take a tour through the station in High Definition video, thanks to a fabulous seven minute walk-through that’s just been posted up.

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HTC Legend Android smartphone secretly struts its stuff

February 9th, 2010 9:30am mike s No comments

HTC Legend Android smartphone looks sweet

Hotly rumoured to be the next Android-powered blockbuster, details of what could be the HTC Legend handset are slowly filtering through the fug of the web.

Photos leaked to tech site Engadget show the Legend resplendent in aluminium casing, and packing a 3.2″ capacitive touchscreen, said to be AMOLED but only supporting a HVGA screen resolution – the same 480 x 320 pixels size as the iPhone and the Palm Pre.

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