From now on, Google Docs is the cuckoo in the Microsoft Office nest. Google has launched Google Cloud Connect a new plugin that lets you share and edit Microsoft Office documents in the cloud. We’re sure Steve Ballmer is delighted. No need to use Microsoft Office web apps…
November, 2010
Want the best iPhone 4 apps to go with your new phone? We have what you need right here. Check after the jump for our picks of the Retina Display ready apps you simply have to download – they’re all in the list to the right of the full post.
iPhone SMS tones got an overhaul in iOS 4.2 with a slew of new alerts for your texts and…they’re uniformly awful. We have to applaud greater choice but the sounds we actually get are painful. It’s like they’ve been grabbed from a cartoon SFX CD and they’re strangely long for SMS tones. More bad news – iPhone 3GS owners seem to have missed out…
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Electric cars (like the Nissan Leaf) have one big problem right now – they need plenty of places to charge and we don’t have the infrastructure now. New Zealand firm Halo IPT plans to counteract that using the principle that you can charge a vehicle using electromagnetic fields – it’s Powermat and the Palm Pre charger meets Scalextric…
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Chrome OS has been promised for yonks. The latest rumour was that Google wouldn’t get Chrome OS out this year after Eric Schmidt said at Web 2.0 that Chrome OS would be out in “the next few months” suggesting it won’t make it’s 2010 deadline. However, Google PR is now pushing a slightly less annoying line – Chrome OS is still coming this year but it’ll be a beta…
The best Android apps this week will change the way you use your phone day-to-day. That apps can have this power is one of the things we love most about Android. Unless you hack your iPhone, apps can’t fundamentally change the way your phone works, but they can in an Android phone. Apps can change how your phone looks, how you navigate through its features and how it reacts to incoming messages, emails and other communication.
Fancy giving your Android phone a features boost? Read on…
After the slightly troubling/exciting news (depending on which way you look at it) that there are plans afoot at Sky and the BBC to broadcast the royal wedding in 3D, we want to know whether you, the people, actually want to see the wedding on 3D TV. Do we really want to see Wills and Kate dressed up to the nines, dripping in jewels, and popping out of the screen at us? Click and tell…
A royal wedding 3D TV broadcast could be coming our way if plans within Sky and BBC come to fruition. Sources within both the public service broadcaster and Sky suggest the organisations are weighing up whether to roll out 3D royal wedding shows next year. But what will those whispers turn into in reality? Here’s what we know so far…