Tag: christmas
Christmas Wishlist: Top Ten Games of 2009
In a bumper year for gamers, here's the best the past 12 months of gaming had to offer. Which will you find nestled under your Christmas tree?
iPhone – Top Five Christmas Apps
Christmas songs are all over the radio, mince pies are stacked high in Tesco's and you've started whacking your thermals on before you get into bed for the night . Yep, the festive season is officially in full swing.
You Booze You Looze iPhone app helps keep a check on your pub-session calorie intake
Just in time for Christmas, far too late for my liver
Aino handset withdrawn by Sony Ericsson just days after Satio recall
Hot on the heels of the Satio debacle come fresh pre-Christmas woes for Sony Ericsson
Santa USB stick heading to your stocking this Christmas
Dust proof, water proof, probably snow and reindeer-proof too, the Santa USB stick has it all. Except a shirt, it would seem.
Facebook is… the nation's most popular thing-to-do on Christmas Day
Astonishing figures from web stat counter Hitwise estimate that one in 22 of all internet data requests was for a Facebook page on Christmas Day, as everyone used their new netbooks to change their status to read “…is stuffed, drunk and nauseous.”
That’s up 69% from the traffic Facebook managed to harvest at Christmas of 2007, giving the popularity-boasting friends/dating portal a 4.65% share of the ENTIRE INTERNET and making it the…
VIDEO: 49 microwaves play "Jingle Bells" – one note each
If this video is legit, then it’s right up there with staggering works of artistic genius like the Mona Lisa, the Taj Mahal, and Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. It’s a series of microwaves timed perfectly to go ‘ding’ so as to play Jingle Bells. If they actually managed to do it, I’m enormously impressed, but I have a lingering suspicion that it might not be entirely real. If anyone’s able to prove it, either way, then let us know in the comments.
(via Core77)
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Googlers getting G1 for Christmas
Normally companies pay out cash as a Christmas bonus, but not Google this year. The search giant will be handing out T-Mobile G1 phones to all its employees as thanks for their hard work this year. The phones will come without a SIM card, but unlocked. They’ll also be specially customized, with a “‘droid” on the back.
The company, in their Christmas email, jokes that it’s a great chance for them to ‘dogfood’ the product – i.e. get employees of the company to test it. Perhaps this mass stock clearout (20,000 people work for Google!) lends weight to yesterday’s rumours that the G2 will be coming along sooner than we think.
(via Valleywag)
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Christmas Tech Trumpet: Twelve Days of Christmas
It’s the third Christmassy Tech Trumpet, where I attempt to make vaguely musical (and festive) sounds using a variety of gadgets and computers.
Actually, I’ve cheated a bit this week due to the pressures of Christmas preparation and a lack of Vitamin C, and instead am sharing with you one of the most wonderful Christmassy MIDI files I’ve ever heard…
Top 100 Christmas Presents 2008: 5 to 1
Well here we are ladles and jellyspoons. This is it, the end; the final day of our epic top 100 Christmas presents list for 2008…
