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We’ve been long time fans of bit.ly, which usurped our previous fave tinyurl.com, but now Google has decided to have bash at this URL shortening lark. Perhaps prompted into action …
Google shimmies in on the URL shortening scene Read MoreThe UK’s most popular lefty(ish) newspaper, The Guardian, has created an iPhone app and made the unusual decision of charging users a one-off fee of £2.39 fee to download it. …
Guardian newspaper charges for iPhone app Read More# As Slade sing every ruddy year, “iiiiit’s Christmaaaaaas!”, and with the festive period comes the traditional tree and fairy lights. Perhaps, as you stumble into your house after an …
Christmas lights, trees and Yule logs: a history Read MoreAlways one of the first programs to get installed on any Windows machine we get our hands on, CCleaner is a superb system optimisation and privacy tool that comes with …
CCleaner freeware system optimisation tool: review Read MoreTech twitterers went totally ape over the weekend as details of what is said to an interesting new handset from Google leaked out. Followed up by the usual blurry photo …
The Google Phone is coming and it’s called the Nexus One. Probably. Read MoreFor reasons best kept to himself, the former ice-cool frontman of the seminal 60s band the Velvet Underground has released the $1.99 ‘Lou Zoom’ app. It doesn’t do an awful …
Lou Reed releases Lou Zoom iPhone app. We’re waiting for the fun. Read MoreFlapping its arms around and hoping to attract mobs of festive buyers in the hugely competitive budget dSLR market is Nikon’s new D3000 camera. Replacing the D60 – Nikon’s best-selling …
Nikon D3000 entry level dSLR feels the love, lack of Live View disappoints Read MoreThings are going to get a little more interesting in the browser department for Android users, with Opera announcing that it’s offering Opera Mobile to OEMs to replace or accompany …
Opera Mobile coming to Android handsets Read MoreIt’s been a hefty hit in the US, where it was released as the Droid and promoted by some hilariously macho adverts, and Motorola are now letting Europeans get in …
Motorola Droid comes to the UK as Milestone – sells out in record time Read MoreNoted notebook and PCs manufacturer MSI have announced the UK launch of their new touchscreen PC, the Wind Top AE2020. A rather attractive looking all-in-one number, the AE2020 multi-touch PC …
MSI’s Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one PC looks good for £600 Read MoreClick on for an amazing infographic showing what a monstrous beast the Internet is, with 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images and 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on …
A day in the life of the internet: a feast of stats in a pretty graphic Read MoreBeing able to pick up a smartphone with your Baked Beans and Cornflakes still seems a bit weird to us, but Tesco shoppers will soon be able to lob an …
Tesco reveal iPhone pricing plans, available Dec 14th Read MoreAimed at hardcore users, the ludicrously named HootSuite for the iPhone offers a ton of power features for folks who simply can’t stop a-Twittering. Unlike other iPhone Twitter apps (and …
HootSuite iPhone Twitter app welcomes compulsive Twitterers Read MoreA study has found that Americans spend around 11.8 hours a day consuming information in one way or another, and that collectively adds up to 34 gigabytes and 100,000 words …
Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day: study Read MoreYou would have thought that the prospects of getting any usable data from a hard disk that has spent six months on the seabed would be precisely zero, but a …
Hard drive survives six months at the bottom of the ocean Read More