Month: February 2011
HOW TO: Watch Premier League football without Sky on a foreign satellite
Football fans and pub owners alike were crossing their fingers and holding their breath in anticipation, following the news that Karen Murphy (landlady of the Red White and Blue in Southsea) stood on the verge of a landmark ruling that…
Pub fights Murdoch over Premier League broadcast rights, may have bagged cheaper Sky TV for us all
We always love a story about an underdog taking on the big mega-corporations, but they're especially sweet if their actions may well serve to save us all a few quid in the long-run. As is the case of Karen Murphy…
APP OF THE DAY: Blogger (Android)
It may be one of Google's key web destinations, but the search giants have been in no hurry to port their Blogger blogging platform to their mobile OS Android, despite a loyal community crying out for a mobile app alternative….
Nintendo 3Ds pre-orders drop below £200 at Sainsbury's
The Nintendo 3DS, the gaming giant's forthcoming glasses-free 3D handheld, holds the dubious title of being proclaimed the most expensive portable games console ever, with an estimated retail price of around £229. Ouch. If you're on a tight budget but…
REVIEW: System Mechanic 10 PC tune-up software
Name: System Mechanic 10 (iolo) Type: PC tune-up software Minimum Specs: Click here for recommended specs Price: Free to try, download from CNet Like a car racking up the miles or a guitar rocking through a tour, a well-loved, well-used…
Cycling gets even greener with Nokia bicycle phone charger
Cyclists! Fancy adding even more green credentials to your zero-emissions commute? Now you can, by charging your Nokia phone through pedal power. Yours for £25, the bicycle charger is based on the old-fashioned dynamo, but instead of charging your…
APP OF THE DAY: Funambol wireless sync (BlackBerry)
Enterprise BlackBerry users may have the luxury of syncing information and contacts between a PC Outlook account and their smartphones, but regular users have to go through the painstaking task of manually inputting any new contact info if they're looking…
Nintendo lessons, anyone? Teach videogaming in school to keep Britain up to speed in booming industry, report suggests
9AM – Playstation. 10AM – Xbox. 11AM – Wii. How's that for a Monday morning at school? The call to bring videogaming into schools comes from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), whose report warns…
Instagram photo sharing app to expand beyond iPhone with fundraising
First the app, then the world. Instagram, the popular iPhone photo sharing tool, has raised $7 million for expansion. Only four months old, Instagram has already attracted nearly two million users, who collectively upload 290,000 photos each day. Following…
Flickr accidentally deletes user with 4,000 pictures in cloud computing horror story
It might just be a website, but for Flickr afficinados it's the ultimate betrayal. Users of the popular picture sharing site tend to be a bit, shall we say, passionate about their favourite web destination. The thought of it…