Hanging out on Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm has its place (usually the workplace), but just as we all have different friendship groups for different real world activities, social networks serve different purposes online. If you want to get away from the mainstream and go somewhere where … [Read more...]
Nursery Rhymes for the iPad
It might make you cringe at first -- the idea that we're now so phone-fixated we even do our parenting remotely -- but once you get over that initial gut response, you'll probably realise there are plenty of times when you'd quite like to read stories to your child when you're not actually there to … [Read more...]
Colour blocked kitchen gadgets
Colour blocking has got the fashion bloggers in a froth of late. We thought it only right to bring you a piece about kitchen electricals that was bang on trend. So if you're ready for a full kitchen makeover and you think you could cope with the sight of a rainbow bright array of appliances first … [Read more...]
Samsung Galaxy S2 and Motorola Xoom Tablet
Mobile World Congress (MWC) allowed Susi and the Frackulous team access to the two latest 'must-have' time-sucks -- The Samsung Galaxy S2, a phone so skinny you might as well smash the screen as soon as you take it out of the box (it's going to happen anyway), and the Motorola Xoom Tablet which … [Read more...]
Being Human: Russell Tovey’s “Wall of Tovey”
Russell Tovey content will follow this brief intro: While Toby's busy working on a review of Daddy Ghoul, the most recent episode of Being Human, we've been wandering around the Beeb's official Being Human website, and it seems there is much additional Tovey face-time to be had. In this video, … [Read more...]
How to become a supreme being
Are you a supreme being? If you had Mary Poppins's measuring tape, what would it say about you? Much as I'd like to think I was practically perfect in every way, I suspect mine would probably just read "could do better". And yet I persist in attempts at personality makeovers. I'm always on the … [Read more...]
How to green your website
The aviation industry gets a bit of a bum rap when it comes to energy consumption. OK, it's hardly the poster child for energy efficiency, but there are other industries out there guzzling power without a care in the world. The tech industry for example. Now, it's not gone unnoticed that web … [Read more...]
The best retro gadgets you can still buy
Ever hanker for the days when mobile phone batteries lasted all week and calls were never randomly dropped because your phone suddenly suffered a nervous collapse? Miss the days when your watch slightly patronised you by telling you the time in numbers and beeped every hour that went by? Well, … [Read more...]
Sky Anytime+: Video-on-demand launches
Tomorrow is the launch of Sky's video-on-demand (VoD) service, which will be rolling its way round all Sky+HD subscribers. The service is similar to the Anytime service already in place, but instead of programmes being downloaded automatically to your box, you'll be able to select the ones … [Read more...]
Beatles Yellow Submarine Buggy from Maclaren
Once the initial novelty of wheeling your enormous great baby transport system round the place wears off (usually around the time your little one turns into an enormous great baby), most parents see the light and purchase a Maclaren. I've yet to meet a parent who says "we miss the Bugaboo, this … [Read more...]
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