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Freaking Facebook infuriates further with more flipping flaky errors

Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Man oh man, are we getting more and more fed up with freaking Facebook, which is throwing up so many random errors these days that it’s beginning to rival MySpace …

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photography / web

Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight recreated in stunning video

Sunday, Apr 17, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

To mark the 50 years since Yuri Gagarin was launched into space, a stunning, real time recreation of his pioneering flight has been released on YouTube.

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computing / open source / web

Firefox slowing to a crawl? Check out the bad boy extensions here

Monday, Apr 4, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

We got so fed up with Firefox getting slower and slower that we switched to Chrome, but Mozilla’s now gone on the offensive and pointing the blame at the developers …

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web

Twitter wobbles again, won’t let people change their profile pics

Thursday, Mar 31, 2011Thursday, Mar 31, 2011 - by Lee J.

This has been driving us crazy until – ironically – we searched on Twitter to see if others were suffering the same thing, and found the problem is affecting a lot of users.

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business / web

BBC website outage: BBC and Siemens get huffy

Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011 - by Lee J. - 2 Comments.

The day after a “faulty switch” sent the entire BBC website empire off air for an hour, a shouty row has broken out between the corporation and Siemens, its IT …

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web

BBC website is down: 10:55pm, 29th March 2011

Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011 - by mike s - 12 Comments.

This is such a rare occurrence that eyebrows tend to raise whenever it happens, with a few alarmist explanations and daft conspiracy theories usually quickly lobbed in the mix via …

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business / web

Wirefresh reaches a million views!

Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Please forgive us while we give ourselves a slightly indulgent gentle pat on the back for hitting the landmark of one million views today – a good reason for a trip …

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portable / web

Amazon launches innovative cloud-based music storage/streaming service

Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

In a bold bid to establish itself as the de facto online storage centre for music, Amazon has taken the covers off its new Amazon Cloud Drive and Player offering, …

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mobiles / transport / web

TfL looks to offer wi-fi at 120 tube stations [Update: it’s delayed]

Monday, Mar 28, 2011Friday, Apr 1, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Keen to get it all working in time for the 2012 Olympics, TfL have invited telecoms companies to tender for wi-fi provision at up to 120 stations across the network …

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Google / web

Avoid catastrophic email blunders with Gmail Undo Send

Friday, Mar 25, 2011Friday, Mar 25, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Have you ever fired off an angry reply, told the boss to shove it or shared an wildly inappropriate joke with all your colleagues in a moment of madness – and then immediately regretted what you’ve …

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Google / web

Google launches Think Quarterly, a swish online magazine

Thursday, Mar 24, 2011Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

We certainly weren’t expecting this: Google has just launched its own quarterly glossy publication called ‘Think Quarterly,’ which aims to create a “breathing space in a busy world.”

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web

WordPress wobbles like an oscillating jelly. And it’s all Matt’s fault.

Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011 - by Lee J.

WordPress users (and that includes us) are currently experiencing a series of errors, with the dashboard throwing up all sorts of curious messages. The good news is that they’re currently …

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software / web

Firefox 4 promises ‘huge performance enhancements’ [video]

Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011 - by mike s

Set to arrive today across the Windows/Mac/Linux platforms is the latest version of Firefox, serving up a less-cluttered, minimalistic interface, synchronisation and a claimed thumping great speed increase.

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web

Twitter knocks out a backslapping 5th birthday video

Monday, Mar 21, 2011 - by Lee J.

Keen to big themselves up and show what a fabulously useful service they provide, Twitter have produced a video showing off famous and not so famous folks positively bursting with …

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stuff / video / web

Hitler rages at the sell out of the SXSW tech event [video]

Saturday, Mar 19, 2011Saturday, Mar 19, 2011 - by Lee J.

These ‘Hitler Downfall’ videos tend to get taken down pretty sharpish, but this one is well worth seeing while it’s here.

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