So you may have noticed the web kicking off about how you can now play addictive life-drainer Cut the Rope online for free. It’s part of an Internet Explorer marketing gimmick, but we’ve discovered a dirty secret behind the whole thing… Read more
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Good morning, and welcome to Wednesday. Yep; it’s Wednesday – that bank holiday fooled us too. In a good way. Whatever the day, we assume you’d like some tech news? Let us guide you through what you may have missed. Read more
Android Beam, the ability to wirelessly chuck files to nearby Ice Cream Sandwich handsets via NFC, is one of the tastiest new features to come to Android. But it might be about to get superseded by Microsoft, if the company’s ‘Beaming’ concept video is a sign of things to come. Read more
Morning. Tired? Don’t worry – we’re only 21 days from the shortest day of the year. If you’ve been too bleary-eyed to soak up as much tech news as you’d like, you’ve come to the right place; let us walk you through what you’ve missed.
Does that new Xbox 360 Dashboard look nice to you? Me too. Microsoft’s been very uncharacteristic, of late. It’s suddenly started to produce products that can be genuinely described as ‘attractive’, ‘enjoyable’ and ‘well thought-out’. Thanks to some talented (and presumably new) user interface designers, Microsoft’s about to see a 2012 where everything it offers is exceptionally pretty – a 2012 where it could very well claw the ‘coolness’ top spot of tech status symbols away from Apple for the first time ever. Read more
iCloud is now out for all Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 users, quietly working its way in the background to store all your important details and data in a server in a faraway land. It does also work with PCs however, something Apple hasn’t made much of a song and dance about. If you’re a Windows iPhone user, you’ll want to check out this free new download which lets you monitor it straight from your desktop.
The latest in Dell’s UltraSharp displays, the 24-inch U2412M, is now alive and kicking on the company’s website in the US and Japan. The U2412M joins the U2410 as Dell’s affordable 24-inch UltraSharp flagship and features the same 16:10 widescreen aspect ratio, IPS panel, and anti glare with hard coat 3H.
The dynamic contrast ratio has been bumped from 80,000:1 to 2,000,000:1, but the brightness is down from 400 cd/m2 to 300 cd/m2 and the response time is 8ms instead of 6ms. We’d say those are minor concessions considering the generous 33 percent price cut.