February, 2011

Best iPhone apps: app of the day – imo

February 22, 2011 5:10 pm by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: Apple, best iPhone apps, imo, iPad, iPhone

We already have a few IM apps in our best iPhone apps library but imo should make a good addition to your armoury. Unlike lots of other IM apps which have tussled for a place in our best iPhone apps selection, imo doesn’t ask you to sign up for a new account, instead it lets you hook together existing logins for MSN, Skype, AIM/AOL, Yahoo, Google Talk, Facebook, Jabber and MySpace chat services.

imo’s cleverness and ease of use earns it a spot in the best iPhone apps pantheon. Push notifications get to you for 72 hours after you close the app so you can restart chats without needing to keep the app in the background burning battery and most useful of all the app lets you fire off voice IMs for when your fingers are too busy to bash out a message. Check out the iPad version of the app in action after the break…

Read more

Bulletstorm review

February 22, 2011 5:00 pm by Stephen Ebert

Categories: Gaming Tags: Bulletstorm, Epic Games, People Can Fly

Bulletstorm has heard the Word, and the Word is the first-person shooter genre has gone stale and is in need of a revival. Armed with over-the-top weapons, a host of one-liners and a few tricks up its padded sleeves Bulletstorm aims to give it some CPR by encouraging players to ‘kill with skill’. According to developer People Can Fly, Bulletstorm “Puts the fun back in first-person shooters.” We’ll see about that in our Bulletstorm review.

Read more

7digital adds Last.fm, ups BlackBerry support

February 22, 2011 3:30 pm by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: 7digital, Android, app, apps, Blackberry, html5, RIM

7digital, one of the three of biggest music download services along with Amazon and iTunes, is upgrading its apps. If you’re running Android you’ll now get scrobbling to Last.fm (making it easier for you to knock Lady Gaga off your top spot perhaps?) and 7digital is also adding support for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and BlackBerry 9780.

There’s also a nifty new HTML5 mobile page, which means you can stream full tracks through the mobile site, instead of having to go through an app.

Out now | Free | 7digital

Sony Vaio S series: super slim notebook PC

February 22, 2011 2:53 pm by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: notebook, PC, s series, Sony, vaio

Sony’s third release for the day is the Sony Vaio C series. This is the least exciting of the three announcement from today, but probably the most practical: it’s a super slim 13.3-inch laptop, that’s just 24mm deep, and weighs 1.75kg. Phwoar!

Read more

Get a job playing games for a living

February 22, 2011 2:30 pm by Electricpig staff

Categories: Gaming, How Tos Tags: games journalist, games tester, job, strategy guide writer

You queue for every new console, bail on the pub in favour of beating a particularly tricky boss, and take a day off work whenever a new Mario game hits the shelves. You even have a GameCube. And a GameGear. And a Dreamcast. But what if playing games could be more than a hobby? What if it could pay the bills?

Playing computer games for a living is your dream job. But getting there needn’t be the stuff of nightmares. We’ve chinwagged with a games journalist, a top strategy guide writer, and a games tester, to get the real-life low down on what life’s really like, working at a joypad instead of a keyboard. Is your dream job is really as dreamy as it seems? Read on, and get the inside track.

Read more

Sony Vaio C series: Nu-rave is not dead

February 22, 2011 2:10 pm by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: c series, Laptop, PC, Sony, vaio

Along with a family desktop PC full of gesture tech, Sony also announced this range of blindingly bright neon monsters, the Sony Vaio C series. If you’re not blinded by the light, read on, to find out how these things are actually kicking light out of their plastic bodies. Read more

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play launch date revealed

February 22, 2011 2:08 pm by Ben Sillis

Categories: Mobile Phones Tags: Android, Sony Ericsson, Xperia Play

Spotted: the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play on the Mobiles.co.uk website up for pre-order. We’ve just confirmed with the British online store itself that stock is due on 28 March, so if you fancy taking home one of these Android gaming giants home on day one, you can place your dibs on one right now.

Read more

Sony Vaio L series: Two types of gesture controls for HD family PC

February 22, 2011 1:28 pm by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Computers & Accessories Tags: L series, PC, Sony

Sony has announced the Sony Vaio L Series today, a 24-inch family PC that’s packed with not one set, but two batches of touch-sensitive smarts. The Sony Vaio L series Desktop runs Windows 7, and has a touchscreen plus a touch sensitive bezel. Read on for more info.

Read more

February, 2011

Hot chat, right here!