A Good Spot(ify) Listen to any track for free right now. Surely this is either highly illegal or too good to be true. I couldn't believe it either until I was sent an invite to participate in the private beta of Spotify,...
MoBank: The future of mobile banking? Need to check your bank balance whilst in Tesco? Need to buy cinema tickets whilst on the bus? Well now you can with MoBank which looks to be the first real contender for universal UK mobile banking. At...
Hilarious rap and even better dance moves with Swine Flu Skank. Much more entertaining than the official government videos and the advice is much more memorable. Just Catch it, bin it, kill it and do the swine flu dance
With the whole world is on the brink on panic about the Swine Flue pandemic I have stumbled across a light-hearted game in which you must save the world from killer pigs.
The game was launched on 27th April 2009 when just 9 people played the game. By the 3rd May this number had soared to 3.2 million. This game is certainly proving to be a lot more virilant that swine flu itself!
Visit Swinefighter site
I’m starting to think that these are actually more entertaining than the full shows
As the world goes crazy for Twitter Slate V offer some light relief with their mockumentary about the new nano blogging environment, Flutter. with ‘Flaps’ limited to just 26 characters (a full alphabet set) you can really cut down the amount of time it takes to read and write ‘Flaps’. The service is likened to a hummingbird with it’s wings flapping so quickly, much faster than a regular bird tweets.
“I think a lot of people don’t have time to Twitter. It just takes too long to compose a message with 140 characters, and then you start getting bombarded by a few tweets and it’s like hundreds of characters that you have to read.” , CEO Zak Ryman.
Just in time for tonights installment we have the latest BolegBros take on last week
Another great episode remastered
As the day that no one trusts anyone draws to a close I thought I would share some of the best April Fool’s announcements/pranks that I came across on Twitter, my feed reader and the web.
Opera Face GesturesSpeed up browser interaction by controlling your web browsing with a set of facial gestures. It’s now much easier to navigate by simply blinking right eye to go forward and left eye to go back. Let’s not forget how easy it is to bookmark the page by sticking out your tongue. Full instructions
Amazon Cloud Computing – In the cloudsAmazon are packing computers into helium filled blimps for their latest product, Floating Amazon Cloud Environment ( FACE), The airships will automatically travel to bring the cloud to you and then communicate via WiMAX or laser. More info
Using pigeons for an extended WIFI networkQualcomm has come up with a great solution to the limited range of WI-FI base stations. They have been implanting mini routers into pigeons. Not content with just that they also improved performance by joining pigeon and wolf genes together.
Think GeekSome great ‘new’ products including a Tauntaun Sleeping Bag. Like Luke Skywalker you too can snuggle up nice and warm in the guts of Tauntaun. More details
Nokia 5800 Sauna EditionWe all know how much the Finns love their saunas so the logical next step would be to a phone that would be safe to use in the sauna or steam room. It also comes with an anti-humidity coating and thermometer/hygrometer adjustment app called Nokia Löyly. More details
Google CADIEIt’s a tradition that Google launch something new on 1st April. This year’s offering was weaker than previous years but still a good effort. CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity). Its Google Brain Search tool would use CADIE technology to index web users’ brains, “improving the speed and accuracy of memory retrieval” and eliminate “tip of the tongue syndrome”. More info
Once again Sir Alan has managed to scrape the barrel of business talent and get 15 arrogant idiots to make fools of themselves over the next few months. I will be there glued to the screen fascinated at how inept people can be whilst still thinking that they are the best thing since sliced bread. An amusing summary from episode one has been done by Watch With Mothers
The return of the Apprentice also marks the return of my favourite viral spinoffs. Yes, the episode spin-offs by Boleg Bros are back with more Lego based fun (episode one below).
This video never fails to crack me up. The content is actually pretty good though.