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Month: December 2009

Google

Google shimmies in on the URL shortening scene

Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009 - by mike s

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 …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps

Guardian newspaper charges for iPhone app

Monday, Dec 14, 2009 - by mike s - 10 Comments.

The 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. …

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stuff

Christmas lights, trees and Yule logs: a history

Monday, Dec 14, 2009Monday, Dec 14, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

# 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 …

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computing / software / Windows

CCleaner freeware system optimisation tool: review

Monday, Dec 14, 2009Sunday, Dec 13, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Always 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 …

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Android / Google

The Google Phone is coming and it’s called the Nexus One. Probably.

Monday, Dec 14, 2009Monday, Dec 14, 2009 - by mike s

Tech 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 …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Lou Reed releases Lou Zoom iPhone app. We’re waiting for the fun.

Saturday, Dec 12, 2009Saturday, Dec 12, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

For 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 …

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photography

Nikon D3000 entry level dSLR feels the love, lack of Live View disappoints

Friday, Dec 11, 2009Friday, Dec 11, 2009 - by Pete Railton

Flapping 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 …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Opera Mobile coming to Android handsets

Friday, Dec 11, 2009Friday, Dec 11, 2009 - by Lee J.

Things 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 …

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Android / mobiles

Motorola Droid comes to the UK as Milestone – sells out in record time

Friday, Dec 11, 2009Friday, Dec 11, 2009 - by Pete Railton

It’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 …

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computing / Windows

MSI’s Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one PC looks good for £600

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Noted 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 …

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web

A day in the life of the internet: a feast of stats in a pretty graphic

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 - by Lee J.

Click 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 …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Tesco reveal iPhone pricing plans, available Dec 14th

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Being 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 …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps

HootSuite iPhone Twitter app welcomes compulsive Twitterers

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 - by mike s

Aimed 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 …

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computing / web

Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day: study

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 - by Pete Railton

A 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 …

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hardware / stuff

Hard drive survives six months at the bottom of the ocean

Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

You 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 …

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