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Google’s Model Your Town competition – cast your votes now!

Friday, Apr 2, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Now entering the voting phase is Google’s Model Your Town competition, which invited users to ‘show their civic pride’ and create a 3D portrait of their  community.

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Apple / Google / software / web

Google Chrome to offer built-in Flash support. Apple quietly fumes.

Wednesday, Mar 31, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Google has confirmed that future versions of its Google Chrome browser will integrate Adobe’s Flash plug-in. The move looks set to aggravate relations with Apple a little further, who have …

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Microsoft / mobiles / Palm / Windows Mobile

Windows Phone 7 Series promo walks along with Palm

Thursday, Mar 18, 2010Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

We’re sure it’s just one crazy coincidence (after all, adverts usually take a long time to produce) but there’s some astonishing similarities between Microsoft’s promo advert for their new Windows …

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Vlingo iPhone app
iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Vingo 2.0 iPhone app for ‘sexy’ voice-to-text Tweeting

Thursday, Mar 18, 2010Thursday, Mar 18, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

For folks who aren’t so keen on doing battle with the iPhone’s virtual keyboard, the latest Vlingo app promises to make it easier to input text by simply nattering into …

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Google / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Buzie Google Buzz iPhone app hits town

Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Although Google Buzz runs fairly dandy from within the iPhone’s browser, the first dedicated app for the innovative social networking tool has been sent out into the wild. Called Buzie, …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

NASA launches ace iPhone Game: Lunar Electric Rover Simulator

Monday, Feb 22, 2010Monday, Feb 22, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

When we were young, we used to look up at the Moon and imagine we were heroically piloting a lander, ready for some top notch lunar exploration before heading back …

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Apple / software

New Google Chrome for Mac beta offers extensions, bookmark syncs…

Thursday, Feb 11, 2010Thursday, Feb 11, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Since releasing the Chrome for Mac beta browser at the end of last year, Google’s techie bods have been busy bunging in new features, and have today decided to share …

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software / Windows

Ninite: simple, brilliant installer for the best free Windows software

Thursday, Feb 11, 2010Thursday, Feb 11, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Some of the best apps are the simplest, and they don’t come much simpler than Ninite, which lets you install all the essential free downloads you’ll need for your new/upgraded …

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computing / hardware

BenQ shuffles out the V2220: the world’s thinnest 21.5″ LED monitor, no less

Monday, Feb 8, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Set to make your current monitor look like a pie-eating lardbucket is BenQ’s flagship V2220/V2220H which positively insists that it’s the thinnest 21.5-inch monitor in the known universe. Thinner than …

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transport

Stunning Aircruise hydrogen airships promise a new era in luxury travel

Wednesday, Feb 3, 2010Wednesday, Feb 3, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

London-based design and innovation company Seymourpowell has whizzed up an incredible vision of a giant, elegant ‘clipper in the clouds’ airship that’s got us scrambling for our passports and monogrammed leather luggage.

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portable

Scottevest comically tries to wedge an iPad into a fisherman’s vest

Wednesday, Feb 3, 2010Wednesday, Feb 3, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher - 2 Comments.

If your idea of style is a fisherman’s sleeveless vest stuffed full of pockets, loops, zips and straps and you think strutting around town with an iPad strapped inside your …

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Google

Google explains its privacy principles (video)

Thursday, Jan 28, 2010Thursday, Jan 28, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

With today being International Data Privacy Day, Google has decided to mark the occasion by publicly publishing their guiding Privacy Principles, accompanied by an explanatory video. We reckon anyone using their services should …

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mobile apps / mobiles / Symbian / Windows Mobile

Skyfire browser for Symbian/Windows Mobile hits v1.5

Monday, Jan 25, 2010Monday, Jan 25, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher - 2 Comments.

An updated version of the Skyfire web browser has been released for Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition smartphones. The free app claims to bring a PC-like browsing experience to mobile devices, …

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computing / web

NASA astronaut’s tweets are out of this world

Friday, Jan 22, 2010Friday, Jan 22, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are now able to access what’s been described as the ‘ultimate wireless connection,’ and took not time in swiftly despatching the world’s first ‘Space …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles / stuff

Wikitude 4 augmented reality app released for Android OS

Monday, Jan 18, 2010Monday, Jan 18, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Wikitude, one of the earliest augmented reality apps to hit the Android apps, has now been upgraded to version 4. The latest update adds new geo-location information-services (aka “overlays”), like …

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