Hunter Research and Technology
My thanks to Hunter Research and Technology, maker of fine iOS and Mac apps, for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Their apps include Theodolite, a top-selling multi-function augmented reality app with optical compass, two-axis inclinometer, and rangefinder; <a href="http://hrtapps.com/wxipad/”>Wx for ipad, a fast, clean, and functional weather app with data from the US [...]
Best websites of 2010
Our favourites from Pocket-lint’s Website of the Day
We love a good website on Pocket-lint. In fact, we love it so much that we tell you about a new one each day in a feature known as Website of the Day, just in case you’ve managed to miss it all this time. With the year nearly [...]
Pocket-lint’s top 10 stories of 2010
In terms of popularity with readers
Over the last few days, we’ve brought you a round-up of the entire year of technology, from January through to December, illustrating the highs and lows of the year. However, these don’t necessarily reveal what most peaked your interest. So, in a final bow to 2010, here’s Pocket-lint’s 10 most [...]
2010: A year in review, December
Samsung Nexus S unveiled, Angry Birds mania and the Pocket-lint Gadget Awards
New Year’s Eve is upon us so it’s time to prep the party poppers, chill the bubbly and make the resolutions that you’ll have forgotten by the morning. But before all that, it’s time to take a look at the biggest stories from the [...]
Crotchety Old Power Users
Chris Clark:
In a nutshell, Facebook is better than email unless you’re some kind of email expert. And for email’s successor to support all the expert features of email, none of its myriad problems would be solved.
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Microsoft Bing reveals 2010’s most searched for celebrities: Cheryl Cole, basically
And scandals… Oooo….
The new year is thundering towards us like the queue outside the Harrod’s sale, but let’s spare a thought for 2010 and the most important stories, people and events we’ve witnessed.
Not in technology, of course, but in the juicy world of celebrities, movies and TV, as Bing and MSN UK have combined to [...]
Technology in 2011: Pocket-lint’s predictions
A year into the future according to the team
With Christmas out of the way, we’re just a hop, skip and a jump away from seeing in the New Year. January brings CES – the biggest tech show in the world which will be where thousands of new gadgets make their debut. But what kind of [...]
Self-portrait balaclava made with Brother knitting machine hack
Not great for bank raids
First came the complex but ingenious hack for a 1980s knitting machine, and then came the all over knitted self-portrait ski mask/balaclava, which is in equal parts amazing and utterly scary.
Using a hacked version of the Brother KH-930e knitting machine, which can be fed bitmapped patterns from a computer using a [...]
2010: A year in review, November
Sexy hard drives, lots of Angry Birds and a sad day for photography in Kuwait
After the tsunami of gadgets that washed up on our pages over, well, the rest of the year really, November 2010 was quite a pleasant time to take a closer look at the few that were afforded a big launch that [...]
AC/DC’s Rock N Roll Train is world’s first Excel music video
Ascii version of vid in .xls spreadsheet
Rock band AC/DC may be adverse to digital downloads, snubbing iTunes and the subject of running battles with Napster, but that’s not to say that they shun technology altogether. Indeed, with an Ascii version of their Rock N Roll Train video they can lay claim to a world’s first.
It’s [...]
