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Evil Twitter kills off Tweetdeck app to focus on web-based application
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Evil Twitter kills off Tweetdeck app to focus on web-based application

Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 - by Tony Fletcher

Now this is annoying. We’ve long been fans of the versatile  Android, iOS, and desktop client TweetDeck which immediately became our Twitter client of choice years ago.

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The rise and fall of CDs, vinyl, cassettes and othe rmusic delivery formats in an animated GIF
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The rise and fall of CDs, vinyl, cassettes and other music delivery formats in an animated GIF

Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

This simple but fascinating animated gif shows the rise and fall of music formats across three decades, from 1980 to 2010.

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BT's 360-degree view of London is the largest panoramic photograph ever taken
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BT Tower 360-degree view of London is the largest panoramic photograph ever taken

Thursday, Feb 21, 2013Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 - by Tony Fletcher - 2 Comments.

BT recently commissioned a massive 360-degree view of London from the 29th floor of the BT Tower, creating the largest panoramic photograph ever taken.

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http://allthingsd.com/20130201/twitter-hacked-250000-user-accounts-compromised/
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Twitter gets hacked and 250,000 user accounts may have been compromised

Saturday, Feb 2, 2013 - by Pete Railton

Twitter has announced that its systems had been attacked in the past week by a bunch of unidentified ne’er do wells who had potentially gained access to the usernames, email …

Twitter gets hacked and 250,000 user accounts may have been compromised Read More
BT launches free BT Cloud locker service backed by Android and iOS apps
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BT launches free BT Cloud locker service backed by Android and iOS apps

Friday, Feb 1, 2013 - by Tony Fletcher

BT has launched BT Cloud, their new new cloud storage service offering access for residential BT Broadband subscribers to their “pictures, videos and other files” from smartphones and tablets.

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Browse the web securely and privately with any browser thanks to Fixtracking's nifty guide
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Browse the web securely and privately with any browser thanks to Fixtracking’s nifty guide

Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013Monday, Jan 28, 2013 - by Lee J.

A new handy site offers a fantastic guide on ensuring that when you’re browsing the web with any browser, you’re able to do so securely and anonymously, if you so desire.

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Virgin Holidays Flash Mob on the London Underground video will make you reach for the vomit bag
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Hideously smug Virgin Holidays Flash Mob tube video will make you want to hit people. Hard

Monday, Jan 28, 2013 - by Tony Fletcher - 4 Comments.

We’ve seen lots of misfiring attempts by corporates to get in on the craze for flashmobs and viral videos, but we’ll wager you’ve never seen anything as cringeworthy as this barf-inducing effort from …

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Watch an endless stream of generally pointless Vine Twitter video updates
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Watch an endless stream of generally pointless Vine Twitter video updates

Saturday, Jan 26, 2013Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 - by mike s

Twitter’s new app, Vine, has been designed to let users “create and share beautiful, short looping videos,” and it’s already proved a big online hit.

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Samsung releases Overly Attached Computer video. And it's overly weird
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Samsung releases Overly Attached Computer video. And it’s overly weird

Monday, Nov 12, 2012Monday, Nov 12, 2012 - by Pete Railton

We can’t work out if this is a masterful stroke of PR or the sound of Samsung jumping the shark in spectacular fashion, but it certainly is rather compelling.

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Has Twitter asked you to reset your password because of a compromised account?
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Has Twitter asked you to reset your password because of a compromised account?

Thursday, Nov 8, 2012Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

  We awoke today to get a worrying message from  Twitter saying that we had to reset our password as our account had been “compromised.”

Has Twitter asked you to reset your password because of a compromised account? Read More
Spot the International Space Station with NASA's new web app
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It’s above you! Spot the International Space Station with NASA’s new web app

Monday, Nov 5, 2012Monday, Nov 5, 2012 - by mike s

With NASA celebrating no less than twelve years of the International Space Station being continuously crewed, a new web-based service has been unveiled to help earthbound humans spot its whereabouts in the night …

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Google announces nifty new compose window upgrade to GMail
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Google announces nifty new compose window upgrade to GMail

Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 - by Lee J.

We’re rather chuffed to see Google fixing one of the rather minor annoyances in their otherwise excellent GMail product. Currently, if you’re half way through writing an email and want to look up a previous …

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Google rolls out new Crisis Response maps as Hurricane Sandy hits the US
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Google rolls out new Crisis Response maps as Hurricane Sandy hits the US

Monday, Oct 29, 2012 - by mike s

Google has launched a new Crisis Response set of tools to track the path of Hurricane Sandy as it hits the US east coast.

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Google Maps get 250,000 mile Street View update, rubs salt in Apple Maps wounds
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Google Maps get 250,000 mile Street View update, rubs salt in Apple Maps wounds

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

As if to kick more sand in the face of Apple after their disastrous attempts at mapping, Google has announced the biggest ever update to their Street View coverage, with more than …

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Kickstarter UK launches on October 31st, users invited to building start projects right now
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Kickstarter UK launches on October 31st, users invited to building start projects right now

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 - by mike s

The hugely popular crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has announced that UK users will be able to launch their projects on the service starting from October 31st, 2012.

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