Google doodles are great, aren’t they? Back in June, I wrote a feature for PC Pro detailing – in my opinion – the ten most iconic Google doodles to date. But after today’s effort, I think we may have a new contender for the coveted #1 position. Visitors to Google on the 23rd November will [...]
Twitter is already a very active social network. Updates are pushed in real-time, users can ping messages back and forth through the use of mentions (or @ replies, as they’re known) and Twitter even accommodates sensitive communication, through the use of direct messages. It could be argued that Twitter is overly saturated with conversational tools, [...]
Faerber and Oberdorster – the pair behind 4S is 4Steve Apple fan or not, there’s no denying that Steve Jobs was an innovator when it came to technology. Described by many as a ‘visionary’, Jobs was largely responsible for the success of the Apple brand and the development of the multimedia tools that we take [...]
To accompany the several MEDL Mobile applications that are now dual-platform, both Android and iOS, and also to celebrate the impending launch of the iPhone 5 mobile phone, a plethora of applications released by the mobile development studio have been made available for free, for a limited time. Search through iTunes, and you’ll find a [...]
Valve, acting on Ubisoft’s behalf, recently began offering refunds for the new god-sim title From Dust, due to numerous complaints concerning the implementation of overzealous DRM. DRM has never been a popular concept, but gamers often ‘put up’ with it on the grounds that it’s a once-only affair; by which a retail game is ‘activated’ [...]
Rob’s iPhone 5 experiment is quickly becoming something of a regular feature here at TechCritic, which is no surprise given his latest achievement: today, Rob featured both in the Coventry Telegraph newspaper, and also on their website. And that’s no small feat. Those who follow MEDL Mobile developments may recognise an application called Problem Halved, [...]
Every pitch, marketing stunt or PR campaign needs a competitive edge, something to separate it from the competition. I’m sure most of you are aware of Rob’s iPhone 5 experiment by now, but for those who aren’t: Rob is planning to travel down to London and camp outside the Covent Garden Apple Store, prior to [...]
The database search system that Daniel Grzelak introduced With the spate of recent hacking attempts making the news, it’s difficult to know whether your accounts have been compromised. Thankfully, many organised hacking groups, such as LulzSec or Anonymous, release their ill-gotten account information online. This is a legal grey area, though, and as such it’s [...]
This is a guest post by Torey Hendrix, editor of casino games, news and reviews website CasinoTopLists.com. Online poker fans got a bit of good news this week, with the announcement that PokerTracker 4 will be released in 2011. A beta version is also available now, for some users. Online poker has proven to be [...]
Up until a week ago, Bitcoins were relatively unheard of. Throughout this week though, the peer-to-peer virtual currency has graced headlines, both on and off the internet, for all the wrong reasons: namely a virtual theft, to the tune of $500,000. But it’s not quite as bad as it sounds. Of course, theft is a [...]