Some of the latest goings on in the tech world as well as tutorials to help you along
The Blackberry Z10 has failed the UK governments strict CESG security tests, but has not been rejected and are working closely with CESG for the approval of the new OS in the near future. Below is the press statement that Blackberry released earlier regarding certain media outlets misleading the initial test results: “Media reports alleging [...]
Google have released a new function for image searching which will please people who love animated GIFs. If you have ever spent any amount time on message boards, forums or reddit, then you’ll know just how popular they are. Here’s how it works: Type in the type of image you are after, in my example [...]
YouSendIt, who are one of the largest file sharing services in the world, have released an interesting infographic showing some of their stats in 2012 by their 40 million users. In total, users of the file sharing service uploaded over 7300 Terabytes (7.1 Petabytes) comprised of approximately 295 million files last year. The US alone [...]
The IPTC released their findings last week for a study on how some of the biggest social media sites deal with the copyright information and EXIF data stored within people’s photos. So if you want to see how any of the sites that you choose to share images with fared in the tests, read on. [...]
The Team Hacksung developers over at CyanogenMod have announced that they won’t be supporting development for the Samsung Galaxy S4, meaning that fans of the custom Android ROM’s may have to look elsewhere to enjoy the stock Android experience. The statement was released today by XpLoDWilD on behalf of Team Hacksung Nobody at team hacksung (the team behind [...]
Pinterest, which began early development in 2009, first hit the web back in 2010 as a closed Beta, and then an invitation only Beta consisting of a mere 5,0000 people. Since then more and more people were invited to join in the Beta by friends and the site started to grow exponentially. In August 2012 it was fully opened [...]
Over the past 24 hours now Google has been causing quite a stir online, but not in a good way. Firstly they announced that Google Reader was to be shut down on 1st July 2013 which raised the hackles of a lot of people who have relied heavily on the RSS Feed service for many [...]
Yesterday Google announced that there were going to be shutting down their very popular web-based aggregator Google Reader so that they can focus more on some of their other products. The official day for Reader to shut down will be 1st July 2013 which means that you have until then to back up your current RSS [...]
A new Pope has been selected by the conclave of the 115 Cardinals as signified by white smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The voting began in isolation on Tuesday afternoon and there had been 4 inconclusive votes up until today. No news as yet to whom the new head of the [...]
Google have just released 13 detailed videos that are aimed at webmasters for major companies down to individual bloggers who may have had their sites compromised by malicious hackers. In total there is over an hours worth of video instruction given by different Google members including Tiffany Oberoi, a Google Webspam engineer, Lucas Ballard, a Safe Browsing engineer and the [...]
Twitter is without a doubt one of the most well-known names when it comes to Social Networking tools and has been growing exponentially since it was first released to the public back in July 2006. Brief history of the service: The 140 character limited micro-blogging service was created by Jack Dorsey in March 2006, and was originally [...]
Starting today, Pinterest have started to roll out a brand new Web Analytics tool that will allow site owners to track how people are interacting with their business, blog or organisation via their Pins. This new feature is available for free to any user who has verified their site with Pinterest, and will help publishers [...]
343 Industries have just released the details for the new Castle Map Pack for Halo 4 which will be available to download from April 8th. The three maps that are being released are Daybreak, Outcast and Perdition which range from medium to large in size, and will provide 9 new Achievements worth a total of 250 gamerscore. [...]
A man has had 75% of his skull replaced by a 3D printed copy in a first of its kind procedure. The unnamed man from the US had his head scanned first prior to the procedure prior to the plastic prosthetic being grafted to his existing skull. The company behind this incredible technology is the Connecticut based Oxford Performance [...]
Google have launched a new interactive site for their I/O 2013 with quite a few hidden Easter Eggs for people to find. Users can try to get to the various hidden pages by clicking the I’s and O’s in the correct order, which when entered correctly will take you to the corresponding page which has [...]
Today at the Court of Appeal, Kim Dotcom won the right to sue the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand for their illegal spying on Mr Dotcom during the investigation into his company Megaupload. What hasn’t been made clear though is whether any of the evidence against Dotcom or his associate, Bram van der Kolk, one of the [...]
Yesterday, the world most unsinkable file sharing site, The Pirate Bay, sent the internet a buzz with the speculation that their site was now being hosted by North Korea. Then a couple of hours later they went even further by releasing a Press Statement regarding the new host location. Then a short while after the initial speculation [...]
Earlier today the Norwegian Pirate Party were forced to cut the bandwidth that they were supply for the Pirate Bay due to huge financial pressures from the copyright industry, however a North Korean ISP seems to be taking up the slack. The NPP (Norwegian Pirate Party) released a Press Announcement earlier explaining the current situation in Norway. The original announcement [...]
Today, BSkyB have announced that they are to purchase the home broadband and home phone services of O2 and BE Broadband who are owned by the Spanish multinational Telefonica, for a consideration of £180 million. The move, which will boost Sky’s numbers by approximately half a million, will make Sky Broadband into the country’s second largest broadband ISP after BT, nudging [...]
Six major UK ISP’s have today been ordered by the UK High Court to block access to the file sharing sites, Kickass Torrents, H33t and Fenopy. The ruling, that was made today by Mr Justice Arnold, was granted after 10 record labels including EMI, Sony and Universal petitioned the court in October 2012 to order the [...]
