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A few hundred thousand? Try a little over a flippin’ million and you’ll be there or thereabouts. In fact, exactly 1,063,084…wait…089…095. Argh, the counter on http://www.androlib.com/appstats goes too fast for me to keep up. Anyway, that’s a lorra, lorra downloads, Android fans, and the little graph showing the download rate is looking...

Did you know the Great Pyramid was by far the first of the classical 7 Wonders of the Ancient World to be built and that it is the only one remaining? Are you aware that until the 19th century the self same Great Pyramid was the tallest man made construction in the world? Good grief, I hear you say, I was quite interested in the HP G61-410SA but now that he’s gone all...

Of course you do. What sane, well balanced person wouldn’t? Well if you have a Samsung Galaxy S (cue groans from users of other phones) hop along to the Samsung Apps Store and get yourself tooled up with Samsung’s funky new Android app called Road SMS. The app itself is a text messaging program but the way the screen shows the images captured by your camera...

NASA have given out details of a competition for engineering students; design an inflatable home for space travellers. Beforce you start scribbling down ideas and dreaming of the cash prize on offer you might want to check the rather demanding criteria thet have set.  The blow up house has to last a quarter of a century with no maintenance work or resource consumption...

Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, has ended its first year of life with a 12.7% share of the market, according to research recently carried out. Not at all bad for a new kid on the block, although still significantly behind Yahoo (18.9%) and number one and still undisputed champion of the search engines, Google, whose facility is used in over 62% of the searches we...

Now then. Now then. Now then. What do we have here, eh? A docking speaker system for your iPod or iPhone you say. Pull the other one young man, that puny thing could never deliver a refined bass sound. Let’s have a little look and find out what it really is. Design Nifty thing isn’t it? It’s not the most compact docking station in the world but just stick your...

A short list of my most embarrassing moments (part 1 of many). 1)    Boy mistakenly enters ladies toilets at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Boy hears woman’s voice, realises mistake and decides to wait in locked cubicle until she goes away. She doesn’t go away. More women arrive. 2)    More grown up but only slightly less foolish boy/young man orders fish in green...

Users of Windows 7 Professional have until 2020 to decide that they want to downgrade to Windows XP. Windows 7 Ultimate users will have until 2015 to make the same decision. In a statement, Microsoft said that the long, long downgrade period was decided upon for “consistency” and to help out companies who do wholesale upgrades to the new platforms. I wonder...

iBuyPower have announced the launch of a gaming laptop which is capable of showing 3D images.  The Battalion 101 W860CU-3D includes an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, a DVD/Blu-ray drive, and of course those 3D glasses which we so enjoy putting on. The launch price is comfortably over $1500 and, with around 400 3D games currently available, some gamers may prefer...

Now that the World Cup is almost over (sniff) there are several reasons why you might be interested in buying a giant 55” Full HD LED TV: 1)    You watched a game on a friend’s big screen and were amazed at the quality and definition. 2)    You put a shoe through your own telly when…(make your choice from the long list of potential footwear hurling moments) 3)   ...