The appiest days of your life: Five of the best educational apps September 4, 2013 Studyblue Studyblue allows users to create electronic flashcards that are great for revision. The creators claim to have tailored their app to the specific learning requirements of children who have grown up with the internet. Notes are stored in the cloud and students studying the same subjects are able to help each other. Duolingo Duolingo [...]
Stay away from prying eyes online August 28, 2013 effortlessactuality.com ONCE upon a time, there was a quaint idea that a conversation between two people was private. In light of revelations that the US’s NSA and the UK’s GCHQ are able to intercept private emails and phone calls, as leaked by Edward Snowden, it’s hard to imagine that anything we do or say these [...]
Finesse your 5S August 21, 2013 The latest iPhone is coming – send it into orbit with these stellar accessories Tarra Motors Scooter Price: TBC Asian scooter production company Tarra Motors has announced its latest creation: a scooter with an inbuilt iPhone docking station. The docking station in the dash allows the scooter to store information such as electricity consumption while [...]
Troll, alt, delete August 14, 2013 Waging war on the cyber bullies IN BOOK two of Plato’s Republic, Socrates’ sidekick Glaucon attempts to bolster the argument that humans are not intrinsically just by invoking the Ring of Gyges, a myth in which a poor shepherd stumbles upon a magical ring in a cave. The herdsman is astonished to find that he [...]
On your head be it: we road test four of the best headphones August 14, 2013 Sennheiser Momentum £259.99 sennheiser.co.uk In understated black these Sennheiser Momentum headphones deliver a detailed, nicely balanced sound that is perfect for classical and acoustic music. However, for dance music with heavy bass they lack a brutal punch. Beats Executive £269.95 uk.beatsbydre.com The garish branding can make Beats headphones seem a tad tacky but there’s no [...]
Keep busy when the sun goes away August 7, 2013 Summer is rubbish for technology releases. Screens don’t work very well outside, and everyone is too busy lounging on the beach or frolicking in fields to appreciate them, anyway. Thankfully we’ve only got a few weeks more before we’ll be holed up in our freezing flats, shivering and pretending the outside world doesn’t exist. And [...]
Top gadgets to take on your holidays July 31, 2013 Travelling can be far easier if you have the right technology in your suitcase STOCK up on these essential gadgets to avoid the holiday pitfalls of dead batteries, communications black-spots and gigantic roaming charges. 1. Loewe Speaker 2Go £269; currys.co.uk This brilliant portable speaker will connect wirelessly with your phone, giving you top [...]
Top travel apps July 31, 2013 PocketGuide PocketGuide is a fantastic app that allows you to download audio guides of cities across the world. Each individual guide comes with maps, facts, suggested walking tours and audio commentary. If you prefer to just wander aimlessly, the app will use GPS to let you know when you have stumbled across a site of [...]
Don’t get tangled in the web July 24, 2013 Web wizard Andrew MacKay gives his top tips on how to get the most from developers if you’re thinking of taking your business online YOUR website might have been cutting edge in 2003, but with the current rate of technological change, one that’s even a few years old is the modern equivalent of a shop [...]
‘Appy days – App Store at 5 July 17, 2013 Alex Dymoke looks back at the five year history of Apple’s revolutionary online shop THE app was unleashed on the world with a typically smart advertising campaign from Apple. A niggling problem in your daily life? There is, they assured us, an app for that. “A what for what?” was the reaction from most people [...]