Archive for Ian Hughes
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Yummypets
24 May 2013Occasionally, just occasionally we are struck dumb by something we are sent. Sometimes it’s an exclusive story, or a sneaky peek at an upcoming new gadget. Sometimes it’s just something so mind-blowingly awesome that you simply can’t find the words....
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Repixl
23 May 2013It’s rare these days that you’ll see an image that isn’t of at least passable quality. The age of grainy, out of focus, badly exposed photos is fast coming a distant memory as the technology we all carry around in our pockets makes capturing brilliant...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Coffitivity
22 May 2013If you're lucky enough to be employed somewhere that supports flexible working, you’ve probably stretched the boundaries of where it’s possible to do some work from time to time. Trains, planes, boats – they all have Wi-Fi these days. Heck, you...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: GeoGuessr
21 May 2013Here’s an easy question for you: where are you? Where are you, exactly? Said it was easy, didn’t we? All you need to do is take a quick glance around and you’ll know exactly where you are. It’ll be somewhere you’re very familiar with, or if...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Please Press 1
20 May 2013There aren’t too many things more soul-destroying on the phone than hearing those dreaded words “if you’d like to pay your bill, press 1”. Because then you know you’re heading into a labyrinthine world of options, sub-options, dead ends and...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Food Revolution Day
17 May 2013Are you a foodie? If so, how old were you when that happened? At what age did you actually say “Ooh, that looks nice” or “I think I’ll try something different for dinner…”? We’re guessing it probably wasn’t when you were a child, because,...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Space
16 May 2013Back in March we were all a-flutter about the Voyager space programme and whether or not it had finally reached the edge of our Solar System. The debate rages, but one thing we couldn’t really answer at the time, was just how far away is that? You can...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: This Isn't Happiness
15 May 2013It’s difficult to explain exactly what thisisnthappiness.com actually is, because it’s not really a blog and it’s not really a standard Tumblr either. What is most definitely is though, is a collection of links, images and design-orientated ephemera...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Textastrophe
14 May 2013Are you a trusting soul? Do you always like to see the best in people? Do you want to believe that everybody has at least some redeeming qualities and that essentially they are all, at heart, basically honest? Has the internet taught you nothing? If you...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: People Tree
13 May 2013We touched on this topic last week, but the clothing industry - and, specifically, where our clothes actually come from - is still in the news. For decades, we’ve all enjoyed affordable fashions, and very few of us have given a second thought to the...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Partridge Gets Lucky
10 May 2013We shouldn’t complain, but four-day weeks always unsettle us a little bit. Tuesday feels like Monday, all of a sudden it’s Wednesday, which feels a bit like Thursday for some reason, and wait – isn’t it Friday yet? Hang on, yes it is. No, wait,...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: The Love of Coffee
9 May 2013Regular readers will know that this journalistic army marches on caffeine. We love a good brew, but we’re all very different people and the way we all take our coffee is as varied and eclectic as we are. For some it’s straight up, black, unadulterated....
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Glamping
8 May 2013We have been basking, yes basking, in temperatures above 20C here the UK, and, naturally, the media have gone mad. Pictures of packed beaches, video footage of families eating ice creams and stories of people wantonly enjoying a rare spell of fine weather....
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OnlineWebsite of the day: In Love With Fashion
7 May 2013We’ve talked about buying clothes online plenty of times. And very often one of the most persuasive factors for doing so is price. High street fashions at bargain prices are something that many people go looking for. But, in light of what happened...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: My Player Twin
6 May 2013They’re starting to hand out the silverware, the wooden spoons and the usual clichéd platitudes as the football season heads towards its final days. How will footy fans survive without their fix? There’s Fifa 13 of course, and YouTube. That might...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Join My Band
3 May 2013Relationships can be tricky at the best of times. Working relationships, family relationships, personal relationships, long distance relationships - they all take a bit of work. Creative relationships are just the same. If you want to create beautiful...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Kim Jong-Un Looking At Things
2 May 2013So, we sort of mentioned a certain North Korean leader yesterday and it prompted a discussion (initially quite constructive) about what he actually does and whether he’s really in control over there. The second part of that is quite hard to answer....
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Friends of the Earth
1 May 2013It’s almost laughable when you think about it. But the thing that might actually be the end of our extraordinary little species isn’t a mentalist in North Korea with his fat finger on the button, or a hunk of space rock the size of Birmingham smashing...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Texts from Super Heroes
30 April 2013Oh, the fun you can have with an iMessage emulator. It’s become a staple of the social networks and can work very well indeed – remember Text from Dog? That’s now a book. An actual, printed, published book. We’re not sure Textsfromsuperheroes.com...
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OnlineWebsite of the Day: Canon Explains Exposure
29 April 2013With digital photography there used to be a natural order to things. You'd progress through certain stages as you explored the capabilities. You'd start with a cameraphone, snapping away at your mates and your pets and whatever else you thought worthy...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: The Good Guide
26 April 2013Good and bad – a couple of abstract concepts that follow us through life like the proverbial angel and devil on our shoulders. Most of us instinctively know what bad is. Take Justin Bieber, for instance. But good? That’s often a bit trickier to put...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Pointer Pointer
25 April 2013We’re the first to admit that we occasionally include something in this slot that’s a little, well, pointless. But that’s the point in itself – the internet is the playground of the pointless. How much of it, as a percentage, actually makes sense?...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Everything 5 Pounds
24 April 2013It’s not surprising that sites like everything5pounds.com are booming. Everybody is trying to make their money go a bit further, so this outlet for women’s and kids’ fashions is proving popular. As the name might suggest, everything here is a fiver....
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Symbaloo
23 April 2013A homepage that you can personalise isn’t exactly a new idea. You can do it in Google, Facebook, Twitter, anywhere really. But what if you want to take a step back and have something that houses all your other homepages? The idea of tiles or icons which launch...
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OnlineWebsite of the day: Glipho
22 April 2013We’re known to feature blogs in this little corner of Pocket-lint from time to time. Why wouldn’t we? There are some absolute gems out there. Insightful, incisive, informative and for the vast majority, largely unread. This is a crying shame, but...