WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Lend With Care
Lend a few quid and change a life
How often do you lend your mates money? Quite often? Good on you if you do. It’s what friends are for.
And what did they do with the money? Buy a round of drinks? A CD maybe? Do you really care?
Possibly not. But at lendwithcare.org you could actually change [...]
Wi-Fi blocking wallpaper to paper over security concerns
Cellular and radio signals allowed
A wallpaper that blocks Wi-Fi signals is being developed to help protect people’s networks, whether at work or in the home.
Although the paper will stop skinflint neighbours from jumping on board your Wi-Fi signal, the wallpaper has been designed in such a way as to still enable both mobile phone signals [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 is the "best smartphone ever" according to…..Siri
Eh?
Ask Apple’s speech recognition software Siri, what the best smartphone ever is, the answer would surely be its own champion handset the iPhone 4S right??
Wrong! According to Siri the answer is actually the Nokia Lumia 900, well at the time of writing at least. Go on, try it for yourselves.
Siri’s answers are actually based on [...]
Facebook trialling ‘pay to promote posts’ in New Zealand
Would you shell out?
Facebook users in New Zealand are being given the option of paying to highlight particular wall posts and updates.
Payments of 25p, 50p and even ?1.25 have already been paid to the social network via credit card and PayPal. In return Facebook will promote posts by keeping them at the top of news [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY: FlatNav
Find your perfect crash pad
Finding somewhere decent to stay is one of the hardest tasks in life. Whether you’re looking for a room for a night, a villa for a week in the sun, or somewhere to stay for a few months, finding your perfect pad can be a time-consuming and ultimately fruitless exercise.
The mad [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Food Beats
Music to make a meal of
My wife always knows when I’ve been cooking. The kitchen’s upside down, the smoke detector is blaring and the dog is cowering under the stairs. Oh, and the stereo is cranked up to full volume – not just to drown out the smoke alarm though.
I love music when I cook, [...]
The No Future League
Will Bunch of the Philly Daily News on NFL great Junior Seau’s death:
He was just 43.
And it was an apparent suicide, no less — a self-inflicted
gunshot wound to the chest.
But while the Twittersphere and Facebookland erupted in the usual
rituals of 21st Century celebrity death, with TMZ racing to report
the grim news that Junior Seau had [...]
Spotify for iPad pictures and hands-on
Get playing
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Spotify for ipad is now live in the app store. We have had a good play with the app, uncovered its secrets and figured it best we share them with you.?
Those [...]
The $399 iPad 2 Is Selling
The ever-astute Matt Richman noted yesterday that average selling prices are down for both the iPhone and ipad:
The $399 ipad 2 must be selling very well for it to make ipad ASP
drop more than 8 percent in one quarter.
Tim Cook, during yesterday’s conference call:
On ipad 2, with the change in the entry price to $399, [...]
Jay Yarow: ‘Android Is Suddenly in a Lot of Trouble’
Good piece by Jay Yarow at Business Insider laying out the case against Android. But I disagree with the headline. It’s not that Android is suddenly in a lot of trouble — it’s that a lot of people are suddenly realizing that Android has been in trouble all along. Nothing here is new. The fragmentation, [...]
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