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Twitter: feel the wads of wonga

Sunday, Oct 4, 2009Sunday, Oct 4, 2009 - by mike s

The fellas at Mashable have compiled what they describe as ‘5 Eye Popping Stats’ about the microblogging service Twitter. After rummaging through the PEDC numbers,  they’ve produced some figures about …

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web

Ten web collaboration tools reviewed

Saturday, Oct 3, 2009Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

If you’ve failed to grab yourself a piece of the Google Wave beta action, or simply don’t fancy handing over another piece of your life to the GoogleBorg, Lifehacker has …

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Apple / Palm

Biff! Plucky Palm reintroduces webOS iTunes sync

Saturday, Oct 3, 2009Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 - by mike s

Ding dong! Round five! You’ve got to admires Palm’s chutzpah on this, as their latest v1.2.1 webOS update ‘unbreaks’ Apple’s blocking methods and lets Palm Pre users enjoy full iTunes …

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Microsoft / mobiles / Windows Mobile

HTC Imagio given video once-over by long nailed woman

Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 - by mike s

Previously known by its codename  Whitestone, the HTC Imagio is a Windows Mobile 6.5 device with a fairly upmarket spec sheet. The phone has yet to be officially released, but …

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computing

Asus EeeBox EB1501 Nettop entertainment miniPC

Friday, Oct 2, 2009Friday, Oct 2, 2009 - by mike s

Now, we’re definitely digging the bijou lines and smart aluminium styling of Asus’s new EB1501 entertainment nettop PC. Looking well Mexico in its angled stand, it’s the first EeeBox to …

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Android / mobiles

T-Mobile Pulse cheapo Android handset onsale now

Friday, Oct 2, 2009Friday, Oct 2, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

T-Mobile’s third Android device, the pocket-friendly Pulse, has gone on sale in the UK from today. The Huawei-manufactured handset sports a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen, with T-Mobile and Huawei working together …

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software / Windows

BumpTop reveals slick multi-touch Windows 7 interface

Friday, Oct 2, 2009Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 - by mike s

If you prefer your interfaces to be of the hugely lavish, eye-candy-laden, extremely interactive kind, then feast your eyes on the preview of the new BumpTop ‘desktop workspace’ for Windows …

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photography / software / web

Flickroom: free desktop Flickr photoviewer

Friday, Oct 2, 2009Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 - by mike s

If you’re finding Flickr’s bright’n’white interface a little too demanding on your peepers, you may be interested in looking up the Adobe AIR desktop application, Flickroom. Once you’ve got the …

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audio / software

Spotify offers offline playback to desktop users

Thursday, Oct 1, 2009Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 - by mike s

Users of the mobile iPhone and Android Spotify apps have already been enjoying the ability to keep on grooving to Spotify playlists after their web connection has gone kaput, and …

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photography / software

Lumix LX3 v2.0 firmware update: bad news

Thursday, Oct 1, 2009Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Judging by the traffic to our article, a lot of people here  (including ourselves) must have downloaded the v2.0 firmware update for the Lumix LX3 camera – so here’s some …

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audio / web

Spotify adds PayPal payment option. Do you care?

Thursday, Oct 1, 2009Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

From today, subscribers to the Spotify Premium service will be able to shell oot for their monthly fix of unlimited music using a Paypal account. The Paypal option is only …

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stuff / web

Everything is OK video. A must see.

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

If this doesn’t cheer up your day and get you thinking, nothing will. It’s a truly wonderful satire on our CCTV culture and the growth of private, corporate security forces. …

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photography / stuff

Stephen Colbert: man arrested for taking pictures of trains

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009 - by mike s

Despite the law being clear on a citizen’s rights to freely take pictures in public places, UK photographers have often found themselves doing battle with clueless cops and power mad …

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Google / software / video

Google Earth comes alive! View real-time traffic and people onscreen.

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Cunningly clever researchers from Georgia Tech have come up with a way of taking real-time, real-world information from CCTV cameras and layering it onto a ‘live’ Google Earth, so you’ll …

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transport

Lambretta Bicicletta: the ‘Quadrophenia’ bike

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009 - by mike s

When we saw the title of the press release we thought we’d be in for the kind of  hairdryer powered, multi-mirrored scooter you’d see being frantically driven around by a …

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