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We’ve found ourselves whiling away long hours at this fabulously addictive website which invites you to look at a scene from around the world and guess where the chuffing heck it is.
Try to work out where in the world you are with the addictive GeoGuessr quiz website Read More
We can’t even imagine how dedicated you’d have to be to put this five minute animated film together, but we’re definitely enjoying the results – and learning a lot about type faces along the way.
Learn all about typography with this superb, hand-crafted animated short film Read More
Samsung’s latest advert for its GALAXY S4 smartphone is a curious affair as it barely shows the phone, preferring to feature a stick thin model pointlessly cavorting about to a cod-tribal punky …
Samsung releases awful ‘punk rock’ advert for the ‘rebellious’ Galaxy S4 Read More
We’ve been using GMail for donkey’s years but have to admit that we hardly know any of its handy keyboard shortcuts. Thankfully, the thumping big graphic from Visualeks (below) is on …
The king of Gmail cheat sheets lists every keyboard short cut in the known universe Read More
Keen to entice more punters on to their broadband deal, UK retailer John Lewis are offering 6 months free broadband with every web-connected device they sell – even down to the humble £69 …
John Lewis bundles 6 months free broadband for every web-connected device they sell Read More
We’ll be honest, when we think of award-winning great design, the ultra-minimal UK government site gov.uk isn’t the kind of thing that springs immediately to mind. But there’s much more …
Design Museum declares the ultra simple Gov.uk website to be the ‘Best Design of the Year’ Read More
We’re really loving this time lapse animation that is currently on the front page of Microsoft’s Bing search page, and we’ve grabbed a video in case it disappears.
Bing search homepage animation is a real treat [video] Read More
Everyone knows that Mars is a ruddy long way away from Earth, but rarely has that distance been brought home so effectively than by this clever web animation.
Brilliant web animation shows just how far Mars is from Planet Earth Read More
As April Fool’s pranks go, this one is pretty good: YouTube have announced that it will be closing down and accepting no new videos. The video insists that YouTube was in fact …
YouTube announces that it’s closing down for ten years in video statement Read More
There must be red faces all round at the BBC as their official weather Twitter feed was hacked for a whole two hours this afternoon. As hackings go, the culprits …
Red faces at the BBC as official weather Twitter feed hacked by Syrian Electronic Army Read More
We’ve been battling away with different note-taking apps for a long time but – like U2 – we still haven’t found what we’re looking for – so we’re pretty excited …
Google Keep note-taking web and Android app takes on Evernote – review Read More
Here’s some good news for freeloaders who can’t get enough of an individual song: Spotify UK has now dumped the five play limit on the free version of its music streaming …
Spotify Free dumps five-play limit in the UK, freeloaders rejoice! Read More
There has been howls of outrage across the web after Google’s earlier announcement that they will be dumping their popular Google Reader RSS service – and we’d like to add our voice …
Users enraged at Google Reader closure, Feedly steps in to fill the void Read More
Google has announced that it will be closing its incredibly useful Google Reader service on July 1st 2013, cutting off millions of users.
Google to shut down Google Reader service – and we’re mightily miffed Read More
If you’ve ever been bored enough to mull over the question of how many calories it takes to make a click of the mouse, then the good news is that the answer …
How many calories does a mouse click burn up? Want to burn more? Read More