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Five essential gadgets for Glastonbury 2007
Have you seen the weather forecast for Glastonbury this weekend? If you missed out on tickets, you really should check it out – you’ll be riding the schadenfreude wave for weeks. Which, co-incidentally, is the same amount of time Glasto-goers will be washing Pilton mud out of random orifices.
YouTube is the mystery extra iPhone application
So much for wishful thinking. After all the rumours that the mysterious ‘twelfth icon’ on iPhone’s homescreen was GPS, it turns out that it’s actually YouTube. Yes, Apple has announced that it’s designed a native iPhone application to stream YouTube videos to the handset via Wi-Fi or the mobile network.
Facebook’s growing pains: there’s my friends, and then my real friends…
Stuart Dredge writes…
What defines a Facebook friend? When I first joined up, it was easy: my first few friends were, well, friends. People I hang out with in the real world, when I’m not geeking out in front of a computer. It didn’t take long to decide that this was a neater way to all stay in touch digitally than our previous method (Yahoo Groups, since you ask).
Pet Shop Boys Go Fest – in Second Life
The world’s finest pop/dance/social commentators are performing a concert in Second Life at the end of the month, according to accidental internet revelations.
Get an £18k Ferrari Art.Engine speaker system
Call me simple if you like, but I tend to get a bit lost amid the jargon and specs of the high-end hi-fi world. However, paint a big speaker red and slap a Ferrari logo on it, and I’m sold. At least, I would be, if I had 18 grand to spare.
Yahoo launching UK beta version of Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0
Yahoo has announced that this Friday, it’ll be releasing the beta version of its Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 application, which provides access to mapping, personal organiser apps, news, photos and email (among other stuff).
'Microsoft security worker' ranked 6th worst job in science
The latest issue of Popular Science ranks the ten worst science jobs and ‘Microsoft security worker’ is number six, since — and if you’ve ever done tech support you know this — nobody ever calls security because they’re happy. Other jobs include Olympic drug tester (watching people pee gets boring after a while), elephant vasectomist, and, depressingly, oceanographer, because the oceans are in such lousy shape. Eep. [GT]
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Tech Digest's Robot World Cup: Round Two
Robots: they haven’t taken over the world yet, but they’re already capable of pouring us beer and controlling our home entertainment. If that’s not a crafty strategy for leaving us sofa-bound while they stage a cyber-coup at some point in the future, I don’t know what is.
