‘Tis the season of fun and joy but sometimes people tend to party way too hard. Nobody likes to end their nights too early especially in holiday season. So, it’s great to have a nifty companion in hand to notify you when you’re going over the limit with your booze.
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We all have a little pilot inside us, from paper planes to flight simulators, everyone wants to zoom around, right? Recently radio controlled planes have become more popular than ever because the technology makes them easier to fly and more fun too. And now there’s a new generation of smartphone controlled craft which makes it all even more enjoyable.
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Looking for a fix for your Robin Hood fantasies? Maybe you have been aching for the chance to strap on a leather girdle and some tights and do a little damage in the nearest forest? Whatever, there’s nothing like a bit of down home archery to calm the soul, and now there’s no need to waste time and money on an actual bow and arrow to make it come true.
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Steve Jobs taught us one important thing about the iPhone. No matter what you can think of… “there’s an app for that!” But that doesn’t mean everything is solved by simply installing an app, there are other things an iPhone can do without software. Take for example self-defense… and NO … by this I do not mean using your iPhone as an ultra expensive hand-thrown projectile!
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Oh sweet Blackberry, where did it all go wrong? RIM (parent company of Blackberry) announced recently that it is selling the company for the bargain basement price of $4.7 billion (the company once had revenues of over $19 billion in a single year). The company will be taken over by a group of Canadian private equity firms, but what happens next is anybody’s guess. The future of the Blackberry brand is now uncertain, astonishing when you remember it was once…
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Rather like using dynamite to fish in a lake, bargain hunting is becoming something of a killer sport, and the writhing creatures on the end of the line are the retailers, struggling to balance lower margins with increased price competition. Of course it’s technology that’s changing the odds in favor of the consumer, and a couple of new mobile apps are pointing the way to the future.
Read MoreHere’s the problem. Money. It’s become far too abstract. Not only is it usually dispensed via bits of colored plastic, or transferred from place to place in digital bits and byte, but we have lost sight of the true value of the things we buy. Rather like our governments, we’re divorced from the reality of our spendthrift ways. Well no more.
Read MoreGoogle Currents, the tablet and smartphone formatted feed reader app has just gone international, and in celebration The Red Ferret is now published on the Google Currents platform. This means you lucky readers with the money to buy iPads and assorted tablet type toys (and smartphones) will be able to read us in magazine style, with a cool funky layout and everything. The only gripe we’ve got with the app is the fact that the titles aren’t live links, which means…
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