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Mmm…wonder if it works?

hmm..interesting July 2, 2007 posted by

Sign of the times – iPhone unlock…the race is on

Hmm…a goodly chunk of my current search referrers are for the phrase ‘iphone unlock’. There you go, read into that what you will. Poor old AT&T eh? Pssst….the Unlock Your iPhone people claim to have cracked it already. As does this mailing list. Snort! These guys are totally serious. As are these guys. Weird stuff… Tags: iphone, unlock


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Gadgets June 27, 2007 posted by

Ikan – take the hassle out of shopping and avoid people alltogether

Ikan is a new home barcode scanning system which lets you shop as you consume. Just swipe your empty containers under the scanner on their way to the trash can and the system will add the products to a list which you can either print out and use yourself, or send to your preferred online supplier for them to deliver. Hey, soon we won’t have to leave the house at all, won’t that be great? And guys, that video is the scariest…


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hmm..interesting June 25, 2007 posted by

Voice Pay – biometric voice signature service for shoppers

Voice Pay is the world’s first ‘voice biometric’ payment system that lets you sign for your purchases using your voice. Sign up, buy something and make a phone call to verify your purchase with your voice. Sounds interesting, although we’re pretty sure that cyber-villains will be dusting down their digital voice recorders as we speak. Not to mention the need for lots of stores to use the system for it to work properly. [via Textually]  The Voice Pay account lets…


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Bookmark This! June 20, 2007 posted by

Internet television report card – A for effort, C for content…

Babelgum has just moved into public beta which means that we now have a posse of potential Internet television superstars lining up to slug it out, channel to channel, for our eyeballs. First indications are that the technology is starting to deliver the kind of image quality that the consumer demands, but the content still leaves much to be desired. Joost. The Joost team have done wonders with the image quality. If you’re on a half decent broadband pipe of 2 Mbps and up…


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hmm..interesting June 19, 2007 posted by

Phantom Vibration Syndrome – is that a vibrating phone in your pocket…?

Oh good grief, so I’m not alone. According to a USA Today report there is a phenomenon known as ‘phantom vibration syndrome’ where you go to answer a vibrating phone in your pocket – only to find that it’s not actually vibrating at all. So it’s official, eh? Thank goodness for that, I thought it was only me that suffered from this embarrassing little problem.  Psychologically, the key to deciphering phantom vibrations is “hypothesis-guided search,” a theory that describes the selective monitoring…


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Gadgets June 13, 2007 posted by

iBall GPRS SMS Globe – cool text message viewer

The iBall GPRS SMS Globe. Send text messages from any mobile phone to this globe and it will display them on the 360 viewable screen. The unit contains a SIM card and 64 MB of memory for storing messages and uses 85 ‘super bright’ LED bulbs to do the display stuff. This is actually a pretty cool product application if you need to distribute information to a room quickly from lots of roaming agents with mobile phones. I’m thinking things…


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hmm..interesting June 8, 2007 posted by

Synthasite – create your own website Ajax style

I’ve been playing with the very early version of the Synthasite web site creator service and have come away impressed in parts and disappointed in others. It’s very ‘test preview’ which means that it’s slow to use, which can be very frustrating when you’re trying to slap a site together fast (which after all is what these tools are all about). The nice bits are the drag and drop and relentlessly Ajaxian interface. The bad bits are the overly complicated componentisation and the…


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Bookmark This! June 5, 2007 posted by

The best of Google Street View – voyeurism goes global

There’s a shed load of text floating around about the new Google Street View, so I won’t add too much more lest you get over tired. However if you’ve got a spare minute or two why not visit the Favourite Google Street View Locations site and take a look at some of the interesting, bizarre and sometimes cool things that the GoogleCam car has captured on its wide ranging route? Or even submit your own finds?   Below is a list of the best…


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cool tech June 5, 2007 posted by

EyeOS 1.0 – the operating system comes to the browser

The new EyeOS 1.0 is being billed as an Open Source ‘web operating system’, which means that you can install applications, tweak settings and do a whole passel of O/S type things just using your web browser. The technology is all very innovative, but will it really deliver some compelling new experience, or is it just another online desktop alternative? Only time will tell. In the meantime take a look for yourself and let me know what you think. I’m not fully ‘getting…


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hmm..interesting June 4, 2007 posted by

Gaboogie – conference calling calls you

Gaboogie is an online conference calling service with a twist. Instead of someone having to run around hustling everyone to log on to the conference at a particular time, this system calls each participant on the dot to make sure the conference starts as it should. No having to remember log in codes or passwords either. The system will even call three phone numbers in turn for each participant to track them down and make sure they attend on time. A very…


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Free Software June 4, 2007 posted by

Yod’M 3D – cube based desktop manager for Windows

Yod’m 3D is a Windows desktop manager which sports one of those swivel cube interfaces so beloved of…well…interface designers. It probably has no real advantage over just switching desktops using a task bar icon, but there’s no question that it looks cooler all round. One for intrepid interface adventurers?  Yod’m 3D is a virtual desktop manager with the fashionable effect : the cube Tags: yod’m, 3d+windows+interface


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hmm..interesting June 1, 2007 posted by

Face recognition comes to Google – behold, the ugly mug ball

According to Google Blogoscoped [via Ars Technica], Google searches can now be filtered by face. So if you want to search for a set of faces only in the images section, just add ‘&imgtype=face’ (without the quotes) to the search string in the address bar and select the images tab, and you’ll see a bunch of faces lookin’ back atcha. It’s pretty freaky if you do a search on your name I can tell you! Try it – http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Your%20Name&btnG=Google+Search&imgtype=face Tags:…


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hmm..interesting May 25, 2007 posted by

The ROKSO spammers list -here they are (some with photos)

The ROKSO Spammers List provides details on around 200 of the top spammers in the world. Apparently 80% of the world’s junk email comes from or via these people. Lovely. It makes you wonder though, why they can’t be stopped?  200 Known Spam Operations responsible for 80% of your spam. 80% of spam received by Internet users in North America and Europe can be traced via aliases and addresses, redirects, hosting locations of sites and domains, to a hard-core group…


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