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Google / web

Google contacts: sort out duplicate contacts with one click

Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009 - by mike s

If you’ve got a mighty big list of names stored in Google Contacts and it’s become a bit of an unruly, sprawling mess with loads of  duplicate entries, there’s a …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Evernote Android app released

Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009 - by mike s

It’s been available on the iPhone and BlackBerry for some time, but a fully fledged version of the note taking app Evernote is landing in the Android Marketplace today. Evernote …

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mobiles

Sony Ericsson unveils ‘Greenheart’ Elm and Hazel handsets. They’re not lookers.

Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Falling off the ugly tree and hitting just about every branch, twig and nut on the way down before landing in a juicy, wet cowpat is Sony Ericsson’s new Elm …

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broadcasting

Goodbye Teletext, the football fans friend

Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Older viewers will recall the thrill of watching football scores slowly update onscreen via Teletext, or perhaps remember basking in the glory of its uber-blocky pixellated renditions of maps and …

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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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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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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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Google

Google launch Living Stories – a new way to read news

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

Ever keen to come up with new ways to present newspaper content online, Google has conjured up a new experimental project called, Living News. It’s currently only using content from …

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broadcasting

Hook up Humax Freesat with your BBC iPlayer: video

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

Humax Freesat have just served up a short video showing its users how they can grab a chunk of BBC iPlayer goodness through their Freesat equipment. The beta update should …

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