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Goodbye music cassettes – you served us well

Wednesday, Apr 6, 2011 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

It’s rather a sad day here at Chez Wirefresh, as large boxes are being filled with vast piles of music cassettes ready for throwing out. Unused, unwanted and – for …

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Android / Google / mobiles

Google Maps 5.3 for Android adds location history dashboard

Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011 - by Pete Railton

The team at Google have just released Google Maps 5.3 for Android, which lets you see your Google Location History dashboard, check in at ‘home,’ and add your own aspects …

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photography

Nikon D5100 16.2MP dSLR comes with 1080p video recording

Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Nikon Canada  has just slipped out news of another tempting mid-priced offering in the shape of the D5100, which replaces the popular D5000.

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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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Android / computing / portable

Acer offers dual core 7″ A100 Honeycomb tablet A100 for just £299

Monday, Apr 4, 2011 - by Lee J.

Just arrived on Amazon is Acer’s new Aspire ICONIA TAB A100 7 inch tablet, a fully spec’d dual core Android 3.0 Wi-Fi only tablet retailing for a very reasonable £299.

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gaming

Fitness First jogs up with a Wii Motion Controller with pedometer

Monday, Apr 4, 2011Monday, Apr 4, 2011 - by Pete Railton

As the evil LibDem/Tories series of ruthless cuts continue to bite into Brits’ threadbare wallets, more folks are abandoning expensive gym memberships and choosing to fire up the Wii instead.

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Android / Apple / business / Google / iPhone / mobiles

Android’s growth leaves iPhone ‘dead in the water,’ Apple fans should be ‘scared to death’

Monday, Apr 4, 2011Monday, Apr 4, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 4 Comments.

It seems like every week we’re posting up news about the continuing growth of Google’s Android OS, and the latest figures reveal that it’s leaving Apple behind in the dust.

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computing / Google

Google wows with GMail Motion – type without hands!

Friday, Apr 1, 2011 - by Lee J.

Everyone knows that clattering away a little keyboard appears almost medieval next to all the cool spacial aware stuff that’s been going on with the likes of the Wii and …

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Apple / video

Woman makes interactive iPad out of plasticine [vido]

Friday, Apr 1, 2011Friday, Apr 1, 2011 - by Lee J.

We think this one should perhaps be filed under “slightly obsessed,” but this clever stop motion animation shows a plasticine iPad being put through its places.

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Apple

PLAYMOBIL Apple Store Playset for junior fanboys

Friday, Apr 1, 2011Friday, Apr 1, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Man, we love this – and what  a perfect toy for those folks sitting in long iPad2 queues to play with while they wait!

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photography

World’s largest photo: a stunning 360 degree panorama of a Czech library

Thursday, Mar 31, 2011Thursday, Mar 31, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

A record smashing panoramic photo of a reading room in a Prague monastery library has just been created by a fella called Jeffrey Martin, and it’s a whopper, alright.

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Firefox for Android: ‘three times faster than stock Android browser’

Thursday, Mar 31, 2011Thursday, Mar 31, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Mozilla has launched the final version of Firefox 4 for Android and is promising high speed downloading jinx for all.

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photography

Sigma DP2x high end compact gets hefty price and UK launch date

Thursday, Mar 31, 2011Thursday, Mar 31, 2011 - by Pete Railton

It’s fair to say that Sigma’s DP range of high end compacts hasn’t exactly sent photographers into paroxysms of delight, but Sigma are hoping that their latest iteration of this …

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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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