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Keen to drum up a bit of support for their business, UK online cartridge retailer Cartridge Save thought it would be a whizzo idea to calculate how much paper would be needed to print a year’s worth of Facebook statuses.
If you’re not sure if that latest phone is going slip discretely into your pocket or leave you with an unwanted trouser bulge, this handy new site lets you compare relative proportions of different smartphones.
It probably won’t be up for long, so watch it quick!
Best line: ”Don’t cry, Disney owns the rights to that emotion.”
Today (Jan 18th) sees what is being billed as ‘the largest internet protest in history’ as websites show their opposition against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sibling the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the US.
Wikipedia has announced that it will be lending its weight to the campaign against two bloody awful internet censorship bills currently being considered in the US.
Campaigning US site Stop American Censorship has created an infographic explaining how two proposed bills in the US - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – are being pushed through against the wishes of the ‘vast majority of Americans.’
Google has slipped out a promotional video showing off a Google Maps-driven game for the Google+ Games platform.
Self-publishing website Blurb has announced a second collaboration with Adobe, letting photographers bang out snappy looking books from within the public beta of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.
Even when you try hard to keep track of what apps have access to your account information, it’s easy to forget a few, so praise be to this wonderful site which lets you easily check what is accessing your accounts.
According to a recent study, Facebook is becoming a major factor in divorce cases in the UK, with the social networking site being cited in 33 per cent of behaviour petitions in 2011 – a hefty jump from the 13 per cent of cases in 2009.
With some parts of the world (like New Zealand, South Korea and Japan) already into Christmas Eve, Google’s festive logo has started appearing on their search homepage.
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.
Google has served up a festive treat for searchers, with a neat trick being served up for surfers typing in a certain seasonal phrase.
WordPress – the very same software that powers this ‘umble site – has just enjoyed an upgrade to version 3.3, with the latest update including useful features like iPad Optimisation, a new drag-and-drop uploader and a Tumblr Importer.
With many bloggers, Tumblrs and liberty-taking companies treating the web as a free resource for any images they may stumble across, photographers and illustrators need to keep an eye out on who’s “borrowing” their work without permission.
There’s quite a few resources out there for ‘reverse searching’ images, but our current favourite is Src Img, a nifty free bookmarklet that lets you see if your web images are enjoying an unannounced second life elsewhere.
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