WIN: Tickets to Ibiza Rocks to see Maverick Sabre and Labrinth live
Epic prize courtesy of Sony
Win tickets to Ibiza Rocks to see Maverick Sabre and Labrinth live!
Courtesy of our friends over at Sony we have a great competition up for grabs. After a wet start to the summer we’ve got a great way to turn it into a scorcher – you and a friend could win [...]
Twitter suggests who to follow according to your web history
Separate the wheat from the chaff
Twitter is changing the way it recommends to its users who to follow based on the websites they frequent.
Previously, when a new Tweeter signs up the suggestions tend to be the likes of Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian and Rihanna. In other words those with mammoth amounts of followers.
However, the new [...]
ICANN and the dot anything: do we care about domain names?
The web is changing
Do we still care about .com and .co.uk? Does anyone even bother with www.? Well thanks to ICANN, a body in charge of licensing out new top level domain names, the way we search for a website might be just about to change.
Most people who type Google into an address bar are [...]
Twitter Is Tracking You on the Web
Dustin Curtis:
Basically, every time you visit a site that has a follow button or
a hovercard, Twitter is recording your behavior. It is
transparently watching your movements and storing them somewhere
for later use. Right now, that data will make better suggestions
for accounts you might want to follow. But what other things can
it be used for? The privacy [...]
APP OF THE DAY: Cinemagram review (iPhone)
The common GIF goes arty
Apps that make it easy to do something clever will always be popular. Plenty of apps have picked up on the retro imaging trend and that doesn’t appear to be slowing up.
Today we’re looking at an app that might achieve great success, but its very nature requires a little more creative [...]
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition sells over 400,000 copies on day one
Hints Markus “Notch” Persson
After Pocket-lint’s estimation that Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has been the biggest launch ever on Xbox Live, Microsoft has confirmed such by releasing a statement that it has, indeed, eclipsed Trials Evolution (the previous record holder) on day one sales. It hasn’t actually released any figures, however.
There is more than one way [...]
CoPilot GPS app enables offline guidance
Maps wherever, whenever
ALK Technologies has released a free GPS app for Apple and Android devices that works even when you have no mobile signal.
CoPilot GPS stores its maps onboard your smarpthone or tablet so you have access to them at all times.
You can select your destination manually or via one of the pre-installed points of [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY: The Space
Ever wondered what was in John Peel’s record box??
Here’s one that’s been making waves over the past few days, on Twitter especially, with music fans the world over getting a bit hot under the collar as John Peel’s music collection was published online. And we’re only talking about the “A’s” too.
Apparently, some people felt he [...]
Target Dropping the Kindle
Love this quip by Tom Reestman on Twitter:
How long before Amazon sicks the DOJ on Target?
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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Standard Time
Time, but not as we know it
We’re not sure who it was first suggested that time is an abstract concept, but even they would probably be a bit gobsmacked by www.standard-time.com.
It’s a new twist on an old favourite: the screensaver clock.
We’ve had the handwritten one, the humanclock.com one and the even one that tells you [...]
