You’ll be able to get a much closer look at Somerset House from today without even needing to set foot in London, thanks to Microsoft and its increasingly popular Bing Maps. Head over to the service on either desktop or mobile and you’ll...

Since even before the time when Neolithic man started to scrawl on the walls of his cave, there has been a human tradition of telling stories.

From campfire tall tales to elaborate operatic sagas, throughout the ages we have loved to tell each...

If your weekend started like ours, with a cursory glance at the TV schedules just to confirm that there really was absolutely naff all on, you might’ve done what we did.

We ignored the crappy karaoke and the dancing dogs (literally) and...

Finding somewhere decent to stay is one of the hardest tasks in life. Whether you’re looking for a room for a night, a villa for a week in the sun, or somewhere to stay for a few months, finding your perfect pad can be a time-consuming and ultimately...

The posters have been bugging me for weeks. I’ve seen them every day at Charing Cross Tube station.

But I have stood firm.

I have resisted.

I have not let advertising...

Apple has released a software update for Mac OS X Lion on Wednesday night, bringing the OS up to version 10.7.4.

The 10.7.4 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability,...

When’s the last time you just took a moment, stopped where you were and looked up? It’s something we probably all did a lot more of when we were younger, before the everyday distractions of adulthood got in the way of simply enjoying things...

Here’s one that’s been making waves over the past few days, on Twitter especially, with music fans the world over getting a bit hot under the collar as John Peel’s music collection was published online. And we’re only talking...

We’ve been playing around with Adobe’s Creative Suite 6 (CS6) for a few weeks now, and boy is it impressive stuff.

Originally released as a public Beta, the final product packages are now shipping.

Whether you chose to buy...

To say the internet tends towards being quite large is akin to saying glaciers tend to be a bit chilly and Pamela Anderson tends to sleep on her back a lot.

It’s huge, bordering on immeasurable now, so it’s odd that when you search...

A court has heard that Google’s Android OS lost the internet giant money in every quarter of 2010.

Google avoids publishing its financial reports on Android, but during the case in which software developer Oracle is suing Google for copyright...

The only way to watch DVDs on Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 8, will be through purchasing Media Center or other third-party software.

The absence of any native DVD player was announced on Microsoft’s official Building...

My wife always knows when I’ve been cooking. The kitchen’s upside down, the smoke detector is blaring and the dog is cowering under the stairs. Oh, and the stereo is cranked up to full volume - not just to drown out the smoke alarm though.

I...

We're not sure who it was first suggested that time is an abstract concept, but even they would probably be a bit gobsmacked by www.standard-time.com.

It's a new twist on an old favourite: the screensaver clock.

We've...

Apple has added a Do Not Disturb feature to OS X Mountain Lion Notification Center, for developers using the dev preview version of the OS to check out ahead of its official launch later this summer.

Presumably worried that some users might...