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transport / web

Disused Stations: the melancholic romance of abandoned railway lines

Friday, Mar 19, 2010Friday, Mar 19, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

If you’ve only a passing interest in Britain’s railways, its architecture or industrial past, you should find Subterranea Brittanica’s Closed Stations site an invaluable and compelling resource.

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web

BBC iPlayer 3.0 to include Facebook and Twitter integration

Friday, Mar 19, 2010Friday, Mar 19, 2010 - by mike s

The BBC has teamed up with the bods at Facebook, Bebo and Twitter to add social networking options in the next update to their excellent iPlayer, which allows viewers to …

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mobiles / Palm

Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus coming to O2 in April?

Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 - by mike s

The filmiest of rumours are circulating that the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus could be heading in the direction of a European carrier next month. Advert-bedecked UK tech blog …

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photography / reviews

Ricoh GXR camera plus S10 24-72mm lens module gets reviewed

Thursday, Mar 18, 2010Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 - by mike s

We’ve always been big fans of Ricoh’s approach to compact cameras, and their fixed lens GR Digital compact remains one of our favourite cameras ever. A while ago Ricoh pulled …

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software / web / Windows

Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 9, packed with HTML5 goodness

Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010 - by mike s

It’s been a long time since Internet Explorer was our first choice of browser, but things have been steadily improving since IE6’s near-undisputed reign as the worst browser ever released. …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Android Market passes 30,000 apps – but is the app advantage fading?

Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010 - by mike s

A Google spokesperson has confirmed that there are now officially 30,000 free and paid apps sitting in the Android market ready for your downloading pleasure. Back in December, Google pegged …

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mobiles / Palm

New Palm TV advert: “Life Moves Fast” – with no spooky lady!

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

After baffling consumers with the Spooky Woman (see below), Palm has put out a far more accessible advert which we reckon does a pretty good job selling their innovative webOS.

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

National Trust launch Apple iPhone app

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Keen to prove that they can still get down with the hipsters, the National Trust has launched its own, rather snappy, iPhone application.

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portable / Windows

Archos 9 PC Tablet gets reviewed – and it’s full of fail

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

We’ve rather liked some of Archos’s multimedia products and were looking forward to checking out their new Archos 9 tablet – after all, these guys have been making tablets for …

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computing / stuff

Japanese baby robot Yotaro: unsettlingly weird

Monday, Mar 15, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Certain to scare the bejesus out of adults and children alike is the bizarre baby robot, Yotaro. Hailing from the home of all things robotically weird, Japan, the glowing robot …

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stuff

London Razor – high tech skyscraper with built in wind turbines

Monday, Mar 15, 2010Friday, Mar 19, 2010 - by mike s - 5 Comments.

Looking like it’s sprouted from the set of Bladerunner is London’s newest high-rise apartment block, the ‘Razor.’ The 148 metre-tall high-tech tower will feature built in wind turbines – a …

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stuff / web

iPad goes on pre-order, Doritos scores a hit with an excellent parody

Saturday, Mar 13, 2010Saturday, Mar 13, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

As a thousand over-excited fanboy bloggers squealed with expectant iJoy as Apple went through its usual charade of closing its online store for a minor upgrade, snack food supremos Doritos …

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Google / web

Blogger cruelly shunts off FTP support, adds a template designer

Friday, Mar 12, 2010Friday, Mar 12, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

After seriously miffing off old school bloggers with their troublesome decision to withdraw all FTP support, Blogger are looking to sweeten the pill with their new Blogger Template Designer tool. …

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computing

HP’s ‘Let’s Do Amazing’ TV ad campaign amuses – videos galore

Friday, Mar 12, 2010Friday, Mar 12, 2010 - by mike s

With the company shelling out no less than $40 million on this TV campaign,  HP are looking to make a splash with the public, with a slew of adverts hitting …

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mobile apps / mobiles / Palm

Palm’s App Catalog hurtles past 30 million downloads

Thursday, Mar 11, 2010Thursday, Mar 11, 2010 - by mike s

After checking the data in their webOS App Gallery, Palm-lovin’ website PreCentral has calculated that there’s been over thirty million downloads from the App Catalog.

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