Author: Katherine Hannaford
YouTube Hits: Microsoft Xbox 360's Parental Street Cred disaster
Those clever Microsofties, they’ve put together half a dozen videos educating parents on their children’s behaviour. Better than attending a weekly Nursing Mothers’ Association meeting, anyway.
Parental Street Cred is their attempt at convincing the parental unit into buying an Xbox 360 console for the family, but what do you think? At least they’re not passing it off as UGC, like the disastrous All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP episode…
Time to close down your Twitter account! The UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is Tweeting!
According to reports, the Prime Minister is on Twitter.
Unsure as to whether it’s actually him who’s logging those entries (which are mostly feeds from the 10 Downing Street website’s news feed), we’re quite impressed with the staid black background and ominous ’10’ Twitter logo. With 146 followers, they’re not actually following anyone themselves, not even the Dogg himself, Snoop Dogg.
Gordon Brown is likely to be the world’s first head of government to use Twitter. Which just begs the question, really – has Twitter jumped the shark, then?…
World's first in-depth review on the Nokia N96 disappoints greatly
We’re currently hugely jealous of the Russian chaps over at Mobile Review, who have just published the world’s first in-depth review of The Mobile Phone Of The Year (according to me), the N96 from Nokia.
I’m unsure whether Mobile Review has committed the sin many of us do, whereby they build something up, only to knock it down once it’s proved popular or successful, but they’ve written a damning reviewing of the N96, including thoughts on the screen (“the front face is extremely easy to soil with fingerprints and smudge; basically, it gets so dirty in a matter of minutes that a cleaning cloth becomes a must-have for its owners”), the size (“it feels more like some sort of shovel in the hand…
Adobe pleases poor designers and bloggers with the release of the free Photoshop Express
As we wrote about last September, Adobe has been working on a not-so-secret online version of their Photoshop program for a fair amount of time. Thankfully, they’ve saved us from the trauma of having to use SnipShot when in dire need of a free online image editing program, by releasing Adobe Photoshop Express today.
Having fooled around with it for the better part of today, I must say I’m hugely impressed. In the above screenshot you can see I’ve used several effects on poor Gates and Jobs, including ‘distort’, ‘pop color’ and ‘sharpen’, along with standards such as cropping and resizing. Flash 9 is the driving force behind it, which…
Shiny Video Review: four best PMPs for watching Lost on, from Archos, Creative, Apple and Sony
In case you haven’t been suckered into it, Lost has left our screens for a four-week hiatus, so I thought it was high time to review four of the best PMPs for storing the last four seasons of the addictive show onto, for watching when you’re on the train to work, at the football, or waiting for your colleague who’s in a sex shop.
Take a look above at the video, which we just filmed on the streets of London’s Soho district, for our thoughts on the Archos 605 Wi-fi, Sony PSP, Creative Zen, and Apple iPod Touch….
Opus wants to improve your home cinema experience with the WCU600 wall keypad
Opus has designed what is essentially a wall-mounted remote control for your home entertainment room, enabling fast and easy access to all those electronic boxes you have littering your lounge which cause all those arguments with the wife.
Fully customisable, the touch-screen WCU600 can control your Opus 500 system along with your home cinema and audio components and even the heating and lighting! The 3.5″ touch-screen LCD screen…
More details announced about Samsung's HD digital camera, the NV24HD
Some more news regarding those HD digital cameras that Samsung announced back in January at CES, the NV24HD has shown up on the pages of AVING, who are claiming the model will have a 2.5″ AMOLED screen.
That’s the camera, not that insanely good-looking model holding the camera. I bet his AMOLED is more than a couple inches long. Ahem.
Anyway, it’s got a 10.2-megapixel sensor, plus a 24mm ultra optical wide 3.6x zoom lens. It can record video at 30fps, in 1280 x 720 resolution…
Shiny Video Preview: Nintendo Wii Fit video game
Susi recently had a session on the upcoming Wii Fit game for Nintendo’s Wii console, so take a look at her attempts to ‘get fit’ in the video above.
Never fear though, as soon you’ll be making a fool of yourself too, when it launches on April the 25th, for £69.99…
Shiny Video Preview: Sony α700, α350 and α200 D-SLRs
This morning I went down to the Sony Alpha exhibition, where climber and photographer Mike Robertson’s photos from his UK tower-scaling stunts are on show to the general public as of tomorrow.
He may’ve taken them on the α700 D-SLR, but at £999, perhaps you and I better look at the α200 and α350 instead, which are all shown…
Steve Jobs collage created out of Apple products is proof of the cult of mac
Sadly this image isn’t available in a resolution higher than the pop-up you’ll get if you click on it, so if you were hoping to print it off, laminate it, and use it as a shower curtain, you’ll have to think twice…
