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Freaking Facebook fecks about with the Select All Friends function again

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by Lee J. - 5 Comments.

Already the buggiest site on the whole internet as far as we’re concerned (it’s the only site that regularly crashes every day without fail on our Chrome/Windows 64 bit system), …

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Microsoft / web

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 annoys before it’s even begun

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Doing our best to forgive and forget the beastly browser creations that Microsoft has foisted upon us in the past, we thought we’d give their shiny new Internet Explorer 9 a spin.

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Google / web

Google’s blogging service Blogger to get major overhaul [video]

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

With self-publishing mediums like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Posterous and WordPress dominating the headlines, it’s easy to forget that Google’s Blogger is still a formidable force, and Google  are set to …

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Google / web

Google posts Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami resource page

Monday, Mar 14, 2011Monday, Mar 14, 2011 - by mike s

To help those involved in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Google has created a comprehensive page offering resources, updates and relevant information about the disaster.

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web

Britain’s first libel damages paid over a Twitter entry

Monday, Mar 14, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 2 Comments.

Plaid Cymru candidate Colin Elsbury, the former mayor of Caerphilly, south Wales has become the first Brit to lose a libel case based on a Twitter entry.

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Google launches Person Finder as devastating earthquake hits Japan

Friday, Mar 11, 2011Friday, Mar 11, 2011 - by mike s

Following the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck 230 miles off the coast of Tokyo, Japan – the sixth largest earthquake ever recorded – Google has announced a free Web-based tool to …

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video / web

YouTube’s first five years celebrated in video, hiring now

Friday, Mar 11, 2011Thursday, Mar 10, 2011 - by Lee J.

It seems like they’ve been around forever, but YouTube’s roots only go back as far as January 2005 when the idea was born in a garage.

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gadgets / web

Google TV and Logitech release fabulously WTF Kevin Bacon video

Thursday, Mar 10, 2011 - by Lee J.

Delightfully odd and well worth 3.33 minutes of your time is this quirky as hell promo/mini-film starring Kevin Bacon as, um, a Kevin Bacon obsessed Kevin Bacon fan.

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Android / Google / iPhone / mobiles / web

Google adds handy Instant Previews to mobile search

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Now available on Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices and in 38 languages is Google’s new Instant Previews feature which offers a speedy and interactive way to evaluate search results.

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mobiles / web

Facebook now used by half of the entire UK population

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Facebook has announced that it is now used by 30 million people in the UK, effectively reaching an astonishing half of the population.

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Google / web

Google cocks up catastrophically: claims BMJ and urban75.org are ‘content farms’

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

Google recently announced a “pretty big” change in the way that its search engine would rank websites, promising to downgrade “low-quality” or “shallow” websites from online search engine results, in …

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Google / software / web

Google Cloud Connect keeps MS Office and Google Docs in sync

Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 - by Pete Railton

The helpful folks at Google have dished out a natty free utility that lets users synchronise Microsoft Office documents with the cloud-based Google Docs service.

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web

Internet memes combine to create truly crap movie

Thursday, Feb 24, 2011Thursday, Feb 24, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

It’s about about as bizarre as you’re going to get, but a cluster (or should that be a ‘failure’?) of internet meme ‘stars’  have got together to create a trailer …

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open source / software / web

WordPress 3.1 released – now ‘more of a CMS than ever before’

Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 - by Pete Railton

WordPress, the open source Content Management System that powers 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites on the planet has just received an update, with version 3.1 being christened ‘Django”’ in …

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business / web

We Are The Future – hideous marketing promo backfires spectacularly

Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 - by mike s

PHD Global, a self styled “global media network” thought it would be a whizzo idea to show off their marketing prowess and insider know-how by creating a video called, “We …

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