Google have now incorporated live service data for the London Underground from TFL (Transport for London) into Google Maps. If you’re like me and plan out your journey using Google Maps this is a great tool not only including live tube time data, which now also accounts for line closures and delays as well as [...]
READ MORE »Google have launched a great new tool called “Multitask Mode” which allows you to be more productive online with multiple mice so you can actively perform numerous tasks at once. Yes, we know this is an April fools – But fun isn’t it?
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It’s recently been announced that in an interesting acquisition Google has now acquired Apture. Apture is a great service which I use on most of my blogs, which provides “instantaneous access to information with its award-winning in-page search technology. Its products let readers immediately find and browse the best content from across the web – [...]
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Japanese firm Toshiba have confirmed their iPad and Galaxy rival, the AT100; will be available for purchase from all good retailers tomorrow (01/09/11) and I heard that there are some canadian coupon available for it, too. The first tablet released by Toshiba will come with the Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system and will be powered [...]
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Tablets are cool, and are only getting cooler by the day. The new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is an awesome device, based on the incredible Android OS as well as the Touchwiz 4.0 which includes great additions like Live Panels and the Mini Apps Tray to make it easy to flick between apps with the touch of [...]
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Google announced yesterday that it has now acquired g.co, which it will now be using as a new private short URL for Google products and services. This means what when you see short URLs which start g.co you can be safe in the knowledge that it leads to an official Google page – so no need to worry! Google has previously [...]
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It seems to be a select roll out at the moment but Google seemed to have added their +1 button to search results allowing you to plus the results for all your friends to see, if any of your friends use +1 which I doubt. The only time you ever see this is if you [...]
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YouTube announced on Twitter the other day that they’ve now got a custom Nyan Cat YouTube Player, and well. It’s awesome. In that geeky meme kind of way! This is something I know Lewis appreciates a lot!
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Google have recently applied for a trademark in the US for “Photovine”. I think it’s safe to say that this will be some sort of service involving pictures and has been officially identified as “Communication services, namely, transmission of visual images and data by telecommunications networks, wireless communication networks, the Internet, information services networks and [...]
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Welcome back to week 2 of my picks from the Interwebs, and I would like to start off with an application which has really helped me recently and was suggested by @linkyboy321. It’s called F.lux and it changes the colour of your laptop screen based on the time of day, while this may seem useful [...]
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