Software
Nintendo’s Wii Fit have announced a tour around the UK to show off the Wii Fit and how people can integrate it into getting themselves … well, fit.
When the Wii Fit was recently launched in the UK, it was reported as selling out pretty much instantly, which grabbed a few headlines.
Continue reading Wii Fit Tour Analysed and How Consoles Do Get You Fit
It may be six years old and primed for official retirement, but fans of the venerable Microsoft Windows XP are hell bent on keeping the operating system alive.
With Microsoft set to start taking XP off shop shelves in June this year, users have been loudly pointing to its superiority over its successor Windows Vista, which has garnered lukewarm reviews since its January 2007 launch.
Continue reading Users Petition To Keep XP Alive
Chasing down the platform red-faced and jumping on the Eee bandwagon is HP’s new 2133 Mini-Note PC.
Aimed at the same student/family demographic and hoping to emulate the rip roarin’ tearaway success of Asus’s supercheap Eee laptops, the Mini-Note is available in a variety of configurations ranging from $499 upwards (that’s roughly 250 of our British pound notes).
Continue reading HP 2133 Mini-Note PC Goes After The Eee
Thanks to PapaSnuff for sending through the video of Quake 3 running on an iPod itouch and it looks pretty cool.
It’s been reported that the hack was carried out by Scott from games developer Hermitworks. Being a hack, don’t expect a release date.
Futuresonic, an Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas (as they describe it), is being held again this year.
It’s running 1-5 May in Manchester and is looking like a really interesting, rounded event.
Of equal value, if not greater, to Skype’s voice calling is the IM (Instant Messengering).
Given the IM usefulness, we thought we’d pass on to you on a tip that we found out a little while ago.
Continue reading Skype Tip: Editing Your IM Text
In a world where we’re all becoming more spied upon by many organisations including, but not limited to, governments and supermarkets – why not volunteer more information to your fellow humans instead.
Dutch techno-fashion label Wickd, have a line of clothing, primarily T-shirts, each of which have a unique circular code graphic — they using ShotCodes — on them.
What is thought to be the first UK trail involving Facebook has ended in the dismissal of the case at Birmingham’s magistrates court.
In this final part of our review we check out the software, test the battery and give you our conclusion.
Software
Palm packs a generous package of software with the Centro including the excellent Documents To Go 10 (for reading, editing, creating and syncing full Office 2007 Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text files), Pocket Tunes for MP3 playback, and all of the usual Palm PIM applications and utilities.
Continue reading Palm Centro Smartphone Review (Part 4/4 – 88%)
AOL will be buying social Networking site Bebo for $850m cash.
Well done to all of those at Bebo, the social network that (more or less) quietly got on with building its 40 million members while the other social network shouted about what they were up to.
It’s interesting that the deal is all cash, with one interpretation of that being that Bebo and its backers wanted to cashout rather than receive stock that might decrease in value.