Not only is it the best selling iPhone game ever, it’s actually the best-selling paid app of all time. So what’s the secret to its success? We spoke to a psychologist for the lowdown on what makes flinging those birds so addictive.
March, 2011
Still watching movies in plain old standard definition? Well, it might be the perfect time to think about canning your old DVD spinner and upgrading to a Blu-ray player, capable of shovelling gorgeous 1080p onto your television screen alongside lossless surround sound and, in some cases, 3D images. Fancy one? We’ve found five of the best Blu-ray players money can buy – let’s see why the experts like them so much…
We’re half way through the week gadget guzzlers, so pull up a chair and get your quick fix of Wednesday’s top tech titbits. We can see Friday from here.
As if there weren’t already enough iterations of the Galaxy Tab, Samsung is teasing yet another version of the Tab: its the 8.9-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab we’ve heard speak of in the last few weeks. That’s to slot in the form factor slot between the 10.1-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab we saw at MWC 2011 and last year’s 7-inch Galaxy Tab.
Not a fan of Vatican Warlock Assassin/man-having-a-serious-mental-episode Charlie Sheen? If you want the web free of Charlie Sheen quotes, Charlie Sheen news and general Charlie Sheen stuff there is a solution. Greg Leuch and fffff.at have put together a Google Chrome/Firefox plugin called Tinted Sheen which will banish all mentions of Charlie Sheen from your browser.
If your were using it now the first sentence of this post would read like this: “Not a fan of Vatican Warlock Assassin/man-having-a-serious-mental-episode XXXXXXXX? If you want the web free of XXXXXXX quotes, XXXXXXX news and general XXXXXXX stuff there is a solution.” Isn’t that better? In fact, you could almost say it’s WINNING!
Out now | £free | Tinted Sheen (via Boing Boing)
Right now, Instagram is a phenomenon on iPhone but now a new service, Instaprint, is using the Instagram API to turn snaps from the app into physical Polaroid-style photos.
Instaprint uses a modified Polaroid Zink photo printer to spit out photos tagged with a particular hashtag. The company is planning to rent Instaprint boxes to events and will be demoing the service during SXSWi if you happen to be hanging out in Austin Texas. It’s a seriously cool way to make photos that usually only exist in the cloud real. Hit the link below to see it in action.
Out now | £TBC | Instaprint
Microsoft has been talking up Windows Phone 7 and Kinect a lot recently but Zune? Zune has been stuck in the corner relatively unloved. That may be set to change.
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley spotted that Microsoft is employing staff for a cloud-based music and video project dubbed Ventura. Job postings describe the Ventura project as a “tight group of music and video lovers that create services and experiences revolving around music/video discovery and consumption”.
One of the big complaints about Kinect has been a lack of more full-on games but Microsoft has promised that’s set to change. At the firm’s spring showcase, senior producer Kevin Unangst said a whole raft of new Kinect games are on the way: “There are many [hardcore games] coming. This is sort of scratching the surface of what’s happening but we’ve got Child of Eden here today, we’ve got Twisted Pixel’s Gunstringer…and certainly you’re going to see more.”