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Google’s Chrome browser overtakes Apple’s Safari

Sunday, Jan 3, 2010Sunday, Jan 3, 2010 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

Boosted by an expensive advertising campaign which included  full size billboard posters (the London tube’s plastered with ’em), newspaper, magazine and TV adverts, Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Apple’s Safari …

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Google / stuff / web

Google’s New Year treat!

Saturday, Jan 2, 2010Saturday, Jan 2, 2010 - by mike s

Google have slipped in a nice little treat for the New Year. Go to Google.com or Google.co.uk today and click “I’m Feeling Lucky” (without entering a search term) and see what …

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iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

iPhone Outdoors: Ordnance Survey mapping for walkers

Saturday, Jan 2, 2010Monday, Aug 9, 2010 - by mike s - 8 Comments.

There’s not much we like more than stomping through the British countryside, navigating a path through remote terrain to reach a welcoming pub. Naturally, an Ordnance Survey map is an …

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stuff / transport

Welcome to the future: the flying car arrives!

Friday, Jan 1, 2010Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s

There’s been loads of attempts to create practical flying cars, but most of them have ended up as unholy bodges that made the Titanic seem a more agreeable transport option. …

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computing / stuff

Robots invade Korean schools – videos galore

Friday, Jan 1, 2010Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We suspect that many UK small children would run screaming if one of these weird things came charging into their classroom, but after looking at these videos, it seems that …

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gaming / mobile apps / Palm

webOS hacker gets Doom to play on the Palm Pre

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

With its  latest firmware update to webOS 1.3.5, Palm included a software library called SDL (or Simple Directmedia Layer) which grants low level hardware access to developers – which is …

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computing / web

Radiohead – House of Cards video gets the DIY treatment

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s

We’re big fans of Radiohead, and we loved the disturbing yet beautiful video to ‘House of Cards’ when it came out last year. The video was created using cutting edge …

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stuff

Arise Sir Capt. Jean-Luc Picard!

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s

He’s an incredibly versatile actor who has mastered the Shakespearian classics and played a vast array of roles on stage and screen, but the 69-year-old Yorkshire actor Patrick Stewart is …

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web

Online video: Surprised Kitten pwns Michael Jackson

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s

We’ve already published YouTube’s list of their most watched videos of 2009, but social bookmarking site AddThis has chipped in with their own list of their most-shared articles from sites …

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mobiles / Palm

Palm app store edges towards 1,000 apps. UK users left out in the cold

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Their App Catalog is still trailing a considerable distance behind Apple’s bulging App Store, but US Palm Pre and Pixi users should soon have over a thousand apps to download …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / photography

Gorillacam camera app for the iPhone serves up 1.6 pics per second

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Brought to you by the company that created the legendary Gorillapod bendable tripods, the new Gorillacam app introduces a slew of useful tools to improve your iPhone snapping. The free …

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Blackberry / mobile apps / mobiles

Four essential Blackberry apps

Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 - by mike s

If Santa slipped a shiny new Blackberry into your festive sack and you haven’t had time to enjoy a good rummage through the offerings in BlackBerry App World, we’ve hand …

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Apple / business

Nokia vs Apple – the patent war heats up as Nokia counter-countersues!

Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 - by mike s

We reported back in October that the Finnish mobile giant was suing its rival Apple for infringing their mobile phone technology patents with the iPhone, and things seem to be …

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Google / mobiles

Google Goggles image recognition mobile search: video demo

Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 - by mike s

Google’s futuristic mobile image recognition  feature — Google Goggles — has been demoed on the Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10. Although the Xperia is yet to be released, you can see …

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mobiles

Dropped your phone down the loo? Don’t panic!

Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 - by Lee J.

A report a while back reckoned that getting on for a million mobile phones are sent crashing down UK toilets every year, at a cost of £324 million. With the …

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