Fun With Charts, Fox News Edition
Almost comically shameless.
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Polar Bear Farm’s One-Day Sale to Help Christchurch, New Zealand
Must-read letter from Layton Duncan, founder of the software shop Polar Bear Farm in Christchurch New Zealand, on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake:
Our city has been destroyed. It’s hard to find a natural disaster
anywhere which has a larger effect on a country than this
earthquake is having here. In relative terms, the effect on New
Zealand [...]
Nightline: Apple’s Chinese Factories (Requires Flash)
ABC News’s exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Foxconn’s Apple product factories. I thought it was both fair and fascinating. Absolutely worth watching.
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‘Dell’s the Computer to Use if Taking Photos of Fat Guys Farting Is Your Thing’
I know what you’re thinking — you’re thinking this headline from The Loop’s Peter Cohen is an over-the-top bit of anti-Dell sensationalism. But it’s actually an accurate description of this artsy fartsy video.
Update: As Tim Coulter observes, it’s obviously a spoof, because the production values are too high for an actual video from Dell.
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APP OF THE DAY: Flickr review (PS Vita)
Snapped
The Vita isn’t just good for gaming you know, it can do so much more thanks to its slowly growing application store. At day one, only the likes of Facebook and Flickr are available and its the latter we are going to concentrate on here. Why not Facebook you ask? Well because Flickr does a [...]
What else can my PS Vita do?
Get playing
Many of you may have been waiting patiently by the door this morning for the postman to drop a shiny new PS Vita through the letterbox. You might have even queued up late last night to be one of the first to pick up the handheld . Either way, you got one and are [...]
UK 4G network to cause Freeview fuzziness
Up to a million homes may need filters
The UK’s 4G launch has hit another bump in the road, with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) telling the BBC that up to 900,000 homes could need filters installed to prevent Freeview TV interference from LTE mobile signals.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey admitted there was [...]
Best PlayStation Vita accessories
Pimp out your PSV
The Sony PlayStation Vita has arrived – in fact, if you want to know all about it you can read our Sony PlayStation Vita review – but you’ve probably already bought one. In that case, what you’ll need to do now to maximise your enjoyment of the latest and greatest in handheld [...]
Android powered Google AR glasses to land this year
According to the New York Times
According to a report by the New York Times tech section Bits, we could be seeing the much-speculated Android powered Google AR glasses landing before 2012 is up.
We first got wind of the project at the end of last year when 9to5Google ran a story claiming it was an open [...]
The Beatles ringtones dial-in on iTunes
Ringtones in 2012….
Do you like ring dings? Want to re-live 2002 all over again? If so, iTunes has the answer for you as it secured the rights to the first official ringtones from The Beatles.
Yes, ringtones. You read that right. The Fab Four are taking on the likes of The Crazy Frog in the wacky [...]
