The weekend is very nearly here, but there’s still a few hours to go, and more importantly, still juicy tech stories breaking left, right and centre. See what they are here in our lunchtime lowdown news roundup.
November, 2010
Our Advent Vega review is coming very soon, but there’s still time for you to have your say and shape it to your satisfaction. Got any burning questions you want answered about this low price Android tablet? Whatever they are, just click on through and leave them in the comments – a video unboxing awaits you after the break.
Remember the Facebook Gmail spat? Well, a Chrome extension has broken grip of the mighty Facebook fist on your friends data. Fb-exporter grabs your contacts list from Facebook for you and will export it in CSV format or directly into your Google Contacts aka your Gmail account. Sorry Mark Zuckerberg but this beats the Facebook Export Tool.
Out now | £free | Fb-exporter
On the hunt for the best free iPhone apps? We don’t blame you. If you own an iPhone, you need something to run on it, but you might be feeling a little light of pocket after shelling out for the pricey fella itself. In these tricky economic climes, we know you’ll want to cut down on your expenses so why not start by checking out the best free iPhone apps Top 5? They’re all to the right of the full post.
Another Kinect hack! And once again our mind is blown. The cool kids at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group (what a badass thing to put on a business card) have created a system that allows Kinect to become a Minority Report-style tool for web browsing. It can’t be long before we see an arm-waving plugin for the Boxee Box or Apple TV can it? Hurrah! Hit the jump for the video of the Kinect hack in action…
Friday is official cheekily-look-at-website-instead-of-working day and we as ever are here to help you. Today’s Sites We Like is a cracker. We’ve got the iPhone dictionary going loopy, Akira The Don taking MySpace out to the woodshed with an axe and evil intent, a grass roots protest campaign with cake and The Beatles…on ukulele. Read on for all that linky goodness…
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The Boxee Box impressed us when we got our hands on it for our Boxee Box review but it’s safe to say there are a few software issues. Thankfully, the first Boxee Box software update arrives with lots of bug fixes that sort issues like the 1080i playback problem and WiFi connectivity issues. Your Boxee Box should find the Boxee Box software update automatically but if it doesn’t you can ask it to grab the update manually.
Out now | £free | Boxee
It’s best BlackBerry apps of the month time! BlackBerry may be the poor cousin of the smartphone world in app terms, with only a small percentage on show in the App World compared with iPhone and Android, but it means you need to be even more eagle-eyed to make sure you don’t miss out on the gems. We’re here to dig them up for you, so sit back and fire up your phone…