Archive for September, 2010

Google New: for news on what’s new!

TweetI think it’s fair to say that Google, as a company, is difficult to keep up with: security updates here, unexpected news there, competitive changes here, and program improvements there. Well, now there’s yet another new Google site that collects them all for you: Google New! It doesn’t list itself as a new product – [...]

3DS rumoured to have impressive specs

TweetThe Nintendo 3DS isn’t set to hit UK shores until sometime in Spring 2011, whch you must admit feels absolutely ages away. This hasn’t stopped IGN from reporting what they claim to be the technical specifications of the upcoming handheld.

PSP emulation on PS3

TweetA video has just cropped up on the internet from a Russian hacker named GameSuper demonstrating how he has managed to emulate PSP titles on his jailbroken PlayStation 3.

Google Apps accounts will be more secure

TweetIt’s second-nature for experienced users that keeping your online accounts secure is a must, and Google will soon begin rolling out an improved two-step authentication system to its Apps customers. Beginning with Google Apps Premier, Education, and Government users, you’ll soon be able to utilize a smartphone-generated verification code as a second layer of account [...]

Google Earth starts real-time flight tracking

TweetNow I never expected this: Google Earth’s latest layer lets you dynamically track any airline flight over the United States in real time. Okay, it’s not quite real time. For security reasons, the FAA doesn’t allow live flight tracking, so Google’s info is 15-20 minutes behind the actual planes. Still, the data (provided by Flightwise.com [...]

Facebook Places hits UK

TweetThe Facebook opt-out service ‘Places’ has hit the UK version of the popular social networking site today, a feature which the American and Japanese version of the site have had for some time. If you are unaware of what Facebook Places is, it is basically a location-based check in service similar to that of rival [...]

Microsoft presents its polished product…

TweetAs you can see in Ed Bott’s screenshot below, Microsoft has gone with a more subdued, minimal look for IE9. Tabs are positioned to the right of the address bar, and home, favorites, and settings buttons appear at the far right. Also like Chrome, IE9 sports a unified search and address bar, but like Firefox, [...]

Firefox auto-updates put on hold

TweetAfter a number of reports from users, Mozilla has temporarily suspended updates to Firefox 3.6.8 and 3.5.11 due to crash issues. Mozilla’s Mike Shaver told InfoWorld: We’ve limited updates to Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12 at this time as we evaluate some early feedback which indicates that a subset of our user base may be [...]

HTC Desire HD and Z announced!

TweetHTC have just announced the HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z, something that everybody has known about via rumours for quite some while.

DigiLounge Community Network!

TweetA week or so back I looked at DigiLounge and had a good long think about the site: What’s missing? We post blogs, you comment: end of story, where’s the connectivity between users then? We simply can’t connect with each other unless we do it via adding every one of our users on social networking [...]