December, 2010

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Hubba-hubba! It’s day 14. We’re over half way through our Electricpig Advent Calendar prizes, but there’re still loads of great gadget prizes to give away. Just click the headline or Read More button, drop a comment at the bottom of the post, and you could score yourself a new Advent laptop, Android tablet, gaming PC, digital photo frame or PC accessories!

Today we’re asking for Christmas carols. All you have to do is log in using your Facebook ID (that’s really important, without it we can’t reliably contact you, or check you’re based in the UK) and tell us one in the comments section will win! Once we have a winner, we’ll reveal the prize they’ve scooped.

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Hurrah! Voice DJ brings voice control to iTunes on your iPhone or iPod touch in a way that still has our head spinning a little. While Android owners are familiar with voice control throughout the device, iOS voice smarts are still a little limited. Voice DJ turns iTunes on your mobile device into your robotic servant and we’ve been putting it through its paces with some pretty impressive results. Read on to find out what Voice DJ will do for iTunes on your iPhone…
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Oh Street Fighter, so much to answer for! Ryu’s fireball shooting skills have been made real by hardware hacker Glass Giant who’s created a wrist-mounted fireball launcher. File this one under Bad Ass But Seriously Unsafe. The Street Fighter-style wrist-mounted flame thrower uses a module strapped to the underside of your wrist which stores and ignites a combination of flash cotton and flash paper.

The flammable materials are kept in a small aluminium tube touching a glow plug which heats it up. A slider switch acts as a safety measure to complete the circuit from the built-in battery to the glow plug. It’ll heat up when the flame thrower is held at the right level producing that Street Fighter-esque Fireball you’ve always dreamed of. Head through to see it in action but as ever, Blue Peter-style, don’t try this one at home you maniac!

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Cydia is prepping a Mac App Store. The cheeky little rebels have been offering jailbroken apps to go with your iPhone jailbreak but now they’ve hoping to muscle in on the Mac App Store action too. That isn’t quite as vital as the service they offer for folk with a jailbroken iPhone, iPod touch or iPad simply because Apple has, as yet, not proposed any restrictions on what OS X Lion owners will be able to download.
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Best Android apps of the week

December 14, 2010 10:10 am by
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It’s time for another Best Android apps of the week rundown. But before we charge headlong into the good stuff, let’s recap a little.

If you’ve been wise enough to check out our extensive Google Nexus S review you’ll be well aware that it’s been quite a significant week in the world of Android. If you’re wisely contemplating a purchase or you’re simply an existing user who’s looking to upgrade, you’re naturally going to want some salient app suggestions for this new Android 2.3-packing superphone, and that’s where we come in. Here’s a rundown of the best Android apps released over the past week or so, and why they deserve a space in your phone’s precious internal memory.

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Getting a little tired of Call of Duty: Black Ops now? Well, see it through fresh eyes after the break in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Lego fan remake. It’s an ace little recreation of the latest Call of Duty installment entirely rendered in Lego blocks. If you’ve not read our Call of Duty review take a peek at that then dive through to the other side of this story to see Lego men slogging their way through Call of Duty Black Ops battles. Lego Call of Duty anyone?!
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The Gmail HTML5 app has had a power up. The mobile webapp version of Google’s ever-changing email service has grabbed whole fists full of new features to make surfing your emails via Safari on iPhone or Android’s myriad of browsers a whole lot better. Hop to Gmail with your phone browser and you’ll be greeted with the new user interface. It features offline support, smart links for Google Maps, YouTube and Google Docs, support for labels, an improved layout for teensy touchscreens and better support for starring, threaded conversations and search. You can see the new Gmail HTML5 app in action in the video after the break. It’s snazzy…
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Tempted by the Google Nexus S? Not quite sure whether it’s worth your cash? Already sold? Wherever you sit, if you want to try out the very first Android Gingebread phone ahead of release, come on down to our reader inquisition in London’s West End tomorrow lunchtime from 1pm. All you’ve got to do is email editor@electricpig.co.uk and we’ll get you on the list – see you down there!

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