Skin makes iPhone / iPad look like Polaroid Land Camera
…And other devices as well
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First there was the skin that made your iPhone look like a Leica M9, and now you can change your Apple handset into the spitting image of [...]
New Year’s Google Doodle goes all Roman on us…
…And we don’t mean Abramovich
After a year of interactive Google Doodles, with games, animations and the like, it’s almost quaint to see a good, old fashioned doodle gracing the top of the search engine on New Year’s Eve.
The latest effort replaces the inner letters with “MMXI”, 2011 in Roman numerals and, er, that’s it.
And a [...]
HTC tablet to be called HTC Scribe?
Two filed trademarks suggest so…
HTC has filed two trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the names “HTC Scribe” and “Scribe” in relation to a “handheld wireless device, namely, a tablet computer”. This suggests that the company has plumped for a name for its forthcoming tablet device, and there’s not a “pad” [...]
Amazon Kindle Book Lending opens up
Start your own eBook club
Amazon has opened up a new free service, Kindle Book Lending, which allows owners of eBooks bought from the site to share them with their friends and family. At present the new service is only available on Amazon.com, but is expected to roll-out across the globe early in the new year.
To [...]
Football Manager supremo lands OBE in New Year’s Honours List
Studio Director Miles Jacobson recognised
The Queen has recognised the videogames industry in the latest New Year’s Honours List by awarding Miles Jacobson, the long-standing studio director of Sports Interactive, an OBE (Order Member of the British Empire).
Jacobson started at the Football Manager developer as a games tester 15 years ago and worked his way up [...]
More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
Tim Bray’s “Year’s End View of the Mobile Market” is a great read. I like that he’s an Android guy, I’m an iPhone guy, but yet we’re largely in agreement about where things are heading. I do disagree with one of his points, though:
Apple will totally do a 7” device. Anyone who’s spent quality
time reading [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY – Year in Review
Has it really been just 12 months…?
There are literally hundreds of sites running their reviews of the year, so the biggest problem we’ve had is picking one.
Yahoo just about steals it with their eclectic and thorough look back at a turbulent and eventful 12 months.
From the sporting achievements and spectacular failures (yes, that’s the England [...]
1969 Chupa Chups Logo
Designed by Salvador Dali. (Via Cabel Sasser.)
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VIDEO: Asus Eee Slate detailed
Latest CES teaser spills the beans on tablet range
Earlier this week we reported on some pictures of Asus’ Eee Pad that we said would make you go “ooo”. Well, now we can show you the video that will make you go “ahh” as it answers a few questions.
First up, the name. There’s no “pad” mentioned, [...]
2010: A year in review, October
Huge launches from Apple, Google and Microsoft
After the IFA-fuelled mayhem that was September, we thought perhaps that there may be a bit of a lull in the tech industry whilst we all tried to catch our breath after the Berlin blitz. But no, the major players all had other plans with huge launches from arguably [...]
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