Friday lunchtime has rolled around once more, and while there’s just a few hours to go until the weekend, the headlines have shown no sign of slowing down. See what’s been happening today in gadgetry here in the lunchtime lowdown.
December, 2010
It’s Friday and that means it’s Sites We Like time. Here’s our selection of five great sites we like this week including an easy way to part-own a satellite and do good, ways to make your Advent Vega better and lots of ace little social media tools and ‘ting. Read on and enjoy this week’s guide to time wasting…
Got that Friday feeling yet? Maybe you need the Electricpig Advent Calendar to give it to you. Click the headline or Read More button, drop a comment at the bottom of the post, and you could win a new laptop, Android tablet, gaming PC, digital photo frame or PC accessories!
Today we’re asking for Christmas carols. The first person to log in using their 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.
Twitter has released a really cool report on its year, celebrating hitting the milestone of 100m registered accounts. The Twitter 2010: Year In Review is full of interesting stats and suchlike but our favourite part is the infographic showing which celebrity Twitter followers joined the service this year. It stretches from geek royalty like Bill Gates to football stars like Ronaldo, legends including Leonard Nimoy and grumpy people like Russell Crowe. We’ve grabbed some images for you to take a gander at above but you can see the whole infographic at the link below.
Out now | £free | Twitter Year In Review
We love Cut The Rope, so the news that it is following Angry Birds in the Christmas-themed app theme is welcome. Cut The Rope Holiday Gift will feature 25 new levels with a Christmas theme and new Christmas Sock teleport function. There’ll also be candy-cane covered new menus, festive music and new achievements to get. It’ll be free but Chillingo, the developer, hasn’t announced exactly when Cut The Rope Holiday Gift will be released but it’ll be here before Christmas!Out TBC | £free | Cut The Rope
Apple has outed its end-of-the-year lists with the best iPhone apps and best iPad apps of 2010 listed with free, paid and top grossing app lists. Angry Birds dominates the field but there are other extremely successful franchises holding their own (Rock Band for instance) and the app that made the most cash this year? Apple holds that crown…Read more
On the hunt for the best Windows Phone 7 apps? Then you’ll know that Microsoft’s app store is no easy beast to navigate. With everything from apps, games and even MP3s popping up in an especially jumbled up fashion in any search results, even trying to find a Twitter app can bring up everything from the genuine article to obscure album tracks by random artists you’ve never heard of.
Until Microsoft comes to its senses and partitions Windows Marketplace a little more ruthlessly, however, Electricpig’s monthly rundown of the best Windows Phone 7 apps does the hard work for you, separating the wheat from the chaff and keeping any tracks by unsung bands firmly off the radar.
Earlier this week we were invited to get hands-on with a selection of new iPad games from publisher EA set to hit the Apple App Store (hopefully) in time for Christmas. Some we can’t talk about just yet, but some we can, such as the brilliant iPad-sized versions of Monopoly and Sim City Deluxe. Read on for our first iPad impressions and hands-on photos.