Author: James O'Malley
Yahoo launch Fire Eagle location-based internet… thing
Last night Yahoo finally took it’s long awaited (by nerds) Fire Eagle out of private beta so now anyone can sign up and use it.
But… What is it? Like everything web 2.0, the name doesn’t describe it very accurately. Basically it’s a system designed to act as the middle-man between you and a whole load of location-aware applications, so that you only have to log your location once and it’ll syndicate it with every other Fire Eagle equipped location service you use…
Look who's stalking: FindMe now supports s60 Nokias.
Facebook stalkers everywhere will be delighted to learn that Electric Pocket has finally got around to releasing a client for FindMe, the Facebook stalking geo-location application, for s60 mobile phones (ie: most high-end Nokias).
FindMe has been available for Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices for ages, and can be used to “tag” locations (“home”, “work”, etc) and automatically update your Facebook profile with your location. Somewhat uniquely, it doesn’t require your phone to have GPS to function – it works out your position based on nearby mobile phone masts alone. Whilst this is perhaps slightly less accurate than GPS, it does mean that more phones are compatible…
Scope Clock takes aim at style-conscious consumers
Cathode ray tubes aren’t old-hat now we have flatscreen TVs – it turns out that they have another use: making damn cool clocks…
Olympic flash drives don't make up for your lack of sporting ability. Sorry.
Back in the days of Chairman Mao China was really not big on capitalism and sneered at what it saw as the decadent west chucking its money around on pointless consumerism. Things have changed now though, and China is a total sell-out. It’s like they’re the band who were in it for the music but at the first whiff of cash signed to a major record label and slapped its logo on everything in order to score some cash. Sure, the band doesn’t have any principles, but at least it’s making a lot of money and can buy lots of nice things because of it.
The Olympics is proving even more lucrative for China, with Lenovo producing a line of… Olympic-themed flash drives…
Lenovo announces Thinkpad with built in Wacom tablet. It's huge.
Laptops are generally known for portability – the idea being that you can sling it in your bag and carry it with you wherever you go. I wouldn’t try lugging about the Lenovo ThinkPad W700 too much though, as you might risk back problems. It’s massive.
Perhaps the main reason it is so gigantic is the built in Wacom tablet – which in the photo looks like a massive touchpad…
Vodafone to offer free access to BBC Olympic content
Vodafone is going for gold in the race to provide the best mobile Olympic service, and I’ve just died a little inside after using such a horribly clichéd figure of speech.
Vodafone has joined up with the BBC and is offering free access to the latter’s Olympic coverage, which is no doubt music to the ears to those stuck on stone-age mobile phone data tariffs (so pretty much everyone in Britain, then)…
"I am Rich" iPhone app video walkthrough surfaces, Apple admits it has a "kill switch" and can hold world to ransom
Remember the “I am Rich” $1000 iPhone app? We reported on it when it first became available and then when it was prompty removed only a day later. Brilliantly, someone has now posted a video “walkthrough” of the app on to YouTube so we can actually see what’s behind that $1000 toll booth…
A post about DIY Terminator sunglasses that doesn't use a single Arnie catchphrase
Are you an emotionless killing machine sent from the future to kill the mother of the leader of resistance against the machines? If so, this probably won’t interest you. If you’re not an emotionless killing machine but wish you were though, Vince Veneziani over at Gearfuse has got you covered – he’s put together a tutorial on how to make yourself some sunglasses like those worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first Terminator film…
Google Street View invades privacy of fire. Fire says it has right to smoke in its own home
Something tells me that the Google Street View pictures of Eagle Point Drive in Sherwood, Arkansas are going to be rendered out-of-date slightly quicker than Google might have hoped…
Ikea to sell solar panels. Some assembly required?
IKEA must be feeling a bit guilty about cutting down all of those trees to manufacture flat-pack furniture, as they’re pouring €50m into ‘GreenTech’ projects and will be selling solar panels, water conservation and purification devices and “alternative light sources”…
