Archive | February, 2009

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Google Mail Down, Has this opened your eyes?

I’ve been trying to access my gmail account all morning, and it appears that both my personal account and Gaj-it.com mail account are down. According to the BBC the service went offline at 0930 GMT with Google saying its was “working hard to resolve this problem”. More than 113 million people use Google mail worldwide, [...]

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USB Panic Button: Play Games at Work

How often do you get so annoyed with work that you just have to go and surf the net to keep your sanity in tact? Well if you’re on this site now, chances are that you do this quite a bit. The USB Panic Button is an ingenious device that will let you surf and still save your job.

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The iChange: An iPhone Controlled Car

The iPhone already has the ability to tell you how to get from A to B, but now it will actually get you there. The iChange is the latest iPhone accessory… and it’s a car. Instead of grabbing your chunky set of keys as you leave for work each morning, you’ll just need to remember [...]

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Cardboard Computer Case Promises Simplicity, Easy Recycling

Designer Brendan Macaluso recently made a trip to his local recycling centre and was astounded by the piles of discarded computers he saw.  Shocked, he decided to try to solve the problem by devising a smarter solution. The Recompute PC is a working computer with a case composed of corrugated cardboard. The concept is simplified [...]

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Lewis Hamilton: A Real Crackberry

Nowadays, sports celebrities are always in the spotlight and often their lives involve a hectic training schedule as well as doing a lot of PR schmoozing as a sport celebrity. A chaotic lifestyle also means very little time to keep in touch with friends and family and the latest goings on within the sports world. [...]

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Microsoft’s secret “iPhone Killer” mobile phone design stolen

If you’ve ever had your mobile stolen, software giant Microsoft may now be able to empathise with you. Its prototype mobile phone dubbed the “iPhone killer” has been stolen from the pocket of a top executive hours after the handset’s launch was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Microsoft bosses now fear that [...]

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mushroom mini vacuum cleaner

Did Mario have a hoover mushroom?

I’ve been sat here trying to transcribe the noise from the Mario games. I got as far as ‘duh do do dodo duh do do’ and then scrapped the idea.

Why the Nintendo nostalgia? Well, I’ve found the cutest little gadget I’ve seen all week. It’s the Mushroom Desk Mini Vacuum Cleaner. Available in red, green, purple or orange it’s a handheld hoover for your home

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DRM, take 7.

Again there has been feathers flying over a Windows operating system and its implementation of DRM. Again, we are seeing a good old bit of Windows bashing. This most recent kerfuffle has started over a legitimate copy of CS4 that had a DLL replaced with a cracked version to prevent a registration pop-up. The claim [...]

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