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While Christmas is traditionally the time that sees traffic levels plummet on websites as folks head off to far flung families or incoherent revellers find themselves unable to type due to dangerous lager levels, Facebook enjoyed a veritable festive frenzy.
Continue reading Facebook Notches Up Record Traffic Over Christmas
One of the fears/ dangers of opening up to public comments on a Web site is that someone will get involved who has the ability to produce words at a remarkable pace and those words will be destructive. Another outcome is that they’re hilarious.
Continue reading Paul Ross Canvas: Hilarious Amazon ‘Reviews’
If you haven’t heard, mxiwit, the great Web service that lets people create their own online mixtape, complete with a player that looks like a real old compact cassette tape with rotating reels, is closing, describing their situation as being “between a rock and a hard place.”
There’s two pieces of good news to add to this sad news.
In part one we rated the Palm Centro, the Asus Eee 901 netbook and LG GSA-E5ON portable CD/DVD rewriter as travelling companions. Read on for our round up.
Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini
With only 12GB of storage available on the Eee 901, we needed to back up our precious photo files on to this handy USB portable hard drive (as well as backing up to a 16GB memory card in the Eee).
Continue reading Our Gadgets On The Streets Of New York (Part Two)
We’ve just spent a fortnight in New York, and being the tech freaks we are, we dutifully packed our bags full of out latest gadgets. Sadly. not all of them managed to impress. Check out our report to find the winners and losers.
Continue reading Our Gadgets On The Streets Of New York (Part One)
A couple of new Twitter converts came to our attention last night, despite what
Nick Curtis thinks of it.
Oasis, who are on a tour in the US at the moment, jumped on to Twitter a couple of days ago with their @OasisOfficial account.
They haven’t exactly gone mad on it, making only two posts, but they are picking up followers fast.
Continue reading Oasis Joins The Growing Band Of Twitter Fans
We’ve been salivating over the Canon 5D Mark II dSLR since details started leaking about it.
Now we’re starting to see the quality of video it’s capturing, we’re in overdrive.
Continue reading Canon 5D Mark II dSLR: HD Video Is Stunning (Videos)
Yahoo has published their “Year in Review,” covering search over 2008.
They’re keen to point out that it isn’t just what the top 10 searches were, but Top 10s of lots of catagories.
Beyond the Top 10s there’s also some analysis of what those things could have meant.
In yesterday’s instalment, we loved the Ricoh, Panasonic and Lumix. Read on for our conclusion today of the best high-end digital compact cameras.
Continue reading Christmas Guide: Seeking The Perfect High-End Digital Compact Camera (Part Three)
The Met Office, well-know weather forecasters, are to offer a world’s first – a free-of-charge (beyond any of your own mobile data charges), video on-demand weather service to your mobile phone.
Access will be via a branded portal (lovely to hear that phrase again :) ), giving access to weather forecasts that will be updated several times a day – currently the mobile site is saying it’s three times a
day.
Continue reading Met Office To Offer Free VOD Weather To Your Mobile