Faerie Planet: AR app that lets you find fairies at the bottom of your garden
Catch them if you can
A new app is hoping to allow you to capture fairies at the bottom of your garden and become the next hit sensation on the iPhone.
Called Faerie Planet, the iPhone app uses a combination of regular gameplay mechanics and augmented reality to help you – or more likely your children – [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Sport Relief
Get your joggers on and raise some serious cash
This weekend will see millions of people do all kinds of sporty things to raise money.
It never ceases to amaze us just what lengths some people will go to. In past years, www.sportrelief.com has seen Eddie Izzard run more than 40 marathons in just 51 days and [...]
Fitbit Android App lets Google phone users now get fit too
Free app
Fitbit, the digital pedometer that lets you track your fitness like steps taken, or flights of stairs climbed, has launched an Android app for Google phone fans to be able to see how much exercise they are doing.
No longer just for iPhone fans, the new Fitbit Android app is free to download from the [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Home Run London
The mean city streets were never this rewarding
A fairly niche audience for this one, admittedly, but we still think it’s a brilliant idea – especially as most Londoners are starting to wonder how the hell they’re going to get around once the Olympics start in a couple of months. Our nation’s capital is hardly famous [...]
APP OF THE DAY: Six3 review (iOS)
Visual voicemail literally
Sometimes a text message just isn’t enough. There are even moments when a picture just won’t do. This is usually fixed by a quick Skype call or some FaceTime with a friend. But what if you can’t get through to them?
There are a few options, a message in a bottle, actually go and [...]
Friends Reunited to relaunch 27 March… Remember me, it says
Memory storage
Remember Friends Reunited, the social networking site that helped you get back in touch with school friends and ex-work colleagues? You know, the site that people all used to talk about and use before Facebook took over? Well, it’s undergoing a massive relaunch and redesign in order to win back your hearts and minds, [...]
Sky Anytime+ now available to customers on other ISPs
No longer need Sky Broadband
Pocket-lint has received numerous reports from readers that they can now access Sky Anytime+ on their Sky boxes when using an internet service provider other than Sky Broadband. We already knew that Sky was to change its policies on rival ISPs?before Easter (6 April), it now seems that has happened earlier [...]
GAME shares suspended as group prepares for voluntary administration
Delisted from Stock Exchange
It is becoming apparent that UK retailer GAME is preparing itself for voluntary administration after its board has requested that the company be taken off the London Stock Exchange. A statement released by the troubled video games store chain claims that there is “no equity value left in the Group”.
Yesterday, games industry [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY: ITV News
A new place to get your news fix
As a society, we can’t get enough news. We’re addicted to it. We willingly let it bombard us 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through print, the digital domain and by good old-fashioned word of mouth.
The concept of “rolling news” is no longer just about newsreel [...]
Samsung Galaxy S III shifts from Qualcomm to own-brand quad-core processor
To use Exynos chip
The forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, which has been the subject of more than a few rumours of the last couple of weeks, will use one of the company’s own brand quad-core processors, rather than one by Qualcomm. A “high-ranking” Samsung executive revealed that the new device will switch to the [...]
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