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Radio Garden lets you click on dots to listen to radio station all over the world
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Radio Garden lets you spin a globe and listen to radio stations all over the world, from Alaska to Aberdare

Wednesday, Feb 10, 2021Wednesday, Feb 10, 2021 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Well, this is rather wonderful. Radio Garden lets you spin a map of the earth, with thousand of green dots displaying the location of radio stations all over the planet. …

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Y-Cam Evo: quite the worst home security camera you can waste your money on
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Y-Cam Evo: quite possibly the worst home security camera you can waste your money on

Monday, Sep 11, 2017Monday, Sep 25, 2017 - by mike s - 1 Comment

I’ve been reviewing software products and gadgets for getting on twenty years, and nothing has proved as frustrating and annoying to own than the Y-Cam Evo home security camera, which unleashed …

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Don;t be fooled! Phishing Facebook advert claims that actor Hugh Laurie has 'taken his own life'
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Don’t be fooled! Scamming Facebook advert claims that actor Hugh Laurie has ‘taken his own life’

Sunday, Apr 16, 2017Monday, Apr 17, 2017 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Facebook is bad enough with all its dodgy privacy-busting shenanigans, but we’ve just uncovered something that is particularly distasteful – and we thought we’d best warn you NOT to click on a link …

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View wonderful art with every browser tab thanks to Google's new Chrome extension
Google / web

View wonderful art with every browser tab with the Google Art Project Chrome extension

Thursday, Mar 12, 2015Thursday, Mar 12, 2015 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

We rather liked Google’s Earth View experiment which reveals stunning satellite images from Google Maps every time you open a new tab on Chrome, but we think we like the Google Art Project even …

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Google takes its Contacts interface out of the Stone Age, check out the new preview here
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Google takes its Contacts interface out of the Stone Age, check out the new preview here

Wednesday, Mar 4, 2015 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

It’s long been one of the ugliest interfaces we’ve had to look at every day, but Google have finally despatched a designer in the direction of their Google Contacts web app …

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The most popular passwords of last year are unbelievably easy to crack
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The most popular passwords of last year are unbelievably easy to crack

Tuesday, Jan 20, 2015 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

Every year, SplashData takes a look at the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the twelve months, and puts them together in order of popularity. And boy oh boy are …

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Pointless but wonderful: an ever-changing hex colour clock
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Pointless but wonderful: an ever-changing clock powered by hex colour code

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2014Tuesday, Dec 16, 2014 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Some of the best things on the web are, frankly pretty useless, but it’s often their very pointlessness that makes them so compelling.

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Wordpress version 4.0 serves up a redesigned interface and improved writing experience
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WordPress version 4.0 serves up a redesigned interface and improved writing experience

Thursday, Sep 4, 2014 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

WordPress has today announced the release of WordPress 4.0, a new update to the popular blogging software which adds a load of handy new features designed to give authors a “smoother writing …

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Google doodle celebrates Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette leader
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Google doodle celebrates Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette leader

Tuesday, Jul 15, 2014Tuesday, Jul 15, 2014 - by Tony Fletcher - Leave a Comment

It’s great to see today’s Google ‘doodle’ celebrating the birthday of Emmeline Pankhurst, the inspirational leader of the British suffragette movement who fought bravely to ensure that women would get …

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Disgruntled WhatsApp users switch to rival open source Telegram app
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Disgruntled WhatsApp users switch to rival open source Telegram app

Friday, Feb 21, 2014Friday, Feb 21, 2014 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

It seems that not everyone was delighted by Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of the popular messaging service WhatsApp, with the news sparking a wave of defections to the rival Telegram …

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Artist recreates scenes from Bladerunner with over 12,000 water colour paintings
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Artist recreates scenes from Bladerunner with over 12,000 water colour paintings

Thursday, Nov 21, 2013 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

In a considerable labour of love, artist Anders Ramsell has animated several memorable scenes from the cult sci-fi movie Blade Runner by painting 12,597 different water colour paintings and turning them into …

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Winamp - one of the longest serving media players in history - is shutting up shop next month
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Winamp – one of the longest serving media players in history – is shutting up shop next month

Wednesday, Nov 20, 2013Wednesday, Nov 20, 2013 - by Tony Fletcher - Leave a Comment

It used to be king of the music players, but the folks behind the long serving AOL-owned mp3 player have announced that they will be shutting up shop for good on …

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What the hell is wrong with the new Google Maps?
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What the hell is wrong with the new Google Maps?

Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013 - by mike s - 7 Comments.

After the Apple Maps debacle it looked like Google had been gifted an unassailable lead over its rivals, but it seems that the search engine giant seems to be busy …

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O2 dishes out a year's free subscription to Evernote Premium to customers
mobile apps / mobiles / web

O2 dishes out a year’s free Evernote Premium subscription to customers

Thursday, Oct 24, 2013Thursday, Oct 24, 2013 - by Tony Fletcher - Leave a Comment

UK mobile operator O2 and note taking supremos Evernote have pressed the flesh and high fived each other in celebratory style as they announce a suitably synergetic partnership.

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Facebook broken as users remains unable to upload images
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Facebook broken as some users remains unable to upload images

Monday, Oct 21, 2013Monday, Oct 21, 2013 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Facebook has been broken for several hours today, with some users complaining that they are unable to upload images to their profiles or event pages. Other users are reporting more …

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