Websites

VIDEO OF THE DAY – N900 multi-tasking

Smartphones really are something aren’t they? You can leave the house with just one gadget that does it all now. And it does it all well.

But one thing that has been known to take the shine off many a smartphone's performance is the fact that opening up...

VIDEO: Google Translate gets substantial update

Google has given its much-loved Translate service a lick of paint and a bucket of useful new features. The service can translate between 51 different languages - meaning 2550 language pairs - which Google claims represents over 98% of internet users in the world today.

There's...

101 life-saving Christmas shopping websites

This is Pocket-lint talking to you on behalf of the better part of yourself. Do your Christmas shopping now. Do it now and do it online. You know you/we are right. If you do it now, you can do it all from the comfort of your own home with not a single bit of car park...

Facebook offers cyberbullying prevention advice

Facebook's European director of public policy, Richard Allan, has written a blog post to address the slowly growing problem of cyberbullying on the service. It coincides with National Anti-Bullying Week in the UK, and BBC Radio 1, BBC 1Xtra, and websites like Bebo, Habbo,...

Orange debuts MMS Twitter updates

Orange has announced a new service for Twitter users that'll allow them to send images to the microblogging service by attaching them to MMS messages. It's called "Snapshot" and is apparently the first service in the world to offer that functionality.

Oh, and...

WEBSITE OF THE DAY - Vetika

We may not know much about art (it’s been said before, after all), but we do know we like this site.

Vetika sells limited edition art, prints and photography from some of the best emerging talent around. And at prices that won’t break the bank.

The...

iTunes still most popular music service by far

A survey of 2000 internet users in the UK from GfK NOP has found that iTunes still remains by far the most popular music service, but that new entrant Spotify is shooting rapidly up the charts, despite having only just celebrated its 1st birthday.

The survey asked...

VIDEO: Get Safe Online Week 2009 begins

Get out your bunting - Get Safe Online week 2009 has officially begun. Get Safe Online is an initiative between the government, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and various private sector partners which aims to educate individuals and small businesses on how to keep...

VIDEO OF THE DAY - Space Chair

So, here it is. The much talked about Space Chair ad from Toshiba. 

It's really quite something when you see what they had to go through to make this work and the results are sure to receive some kind of awards.

Toshiba have been running various...

WEBSITE OF THE DAY – Parentline Plus

The world is changing at an alarming rate. Technology is making our lives faster, better and easier to manage and most of us can’t imagine where we’d be without a mobile phone and an internet connection.

But, as always, there’s a price to pay.

Bullying...

Daily Tech Deal: SwapGame launches game trade-in service

An interesting tech deal for you today, which should suit gamers, as SwapGame.com has announced its new online trade-in service, giving you credit - not cash - for unwanted games, thereby reducing the price of your next purchase.

The launch comes on the back of...

Postcode Paper created from government data

Ever since the Data.gov.uk repository was launched, there's been a bunch of enterprising coders who are trying to create interesting mashups of the information it provides about the UK. One startup - Newspaper Club - put the data into a dead-tree publication instead,...

VIDEO OF THE DAY - water bouncing

Did you know that water floats? In water? Serious question. 

It might seem daft to say that, but it's true.

In fact, water goes beyond floating - it actually bounces, as these amazing super slo-mo pictures prove.

I can't wrap my head around...

Google announces SPDY project

Google has a bit of a thing about speed. After releasing Chrome - probably the fastest browser around, if a little bare-bones - and minimizing page load times for its search engine, Google has now announced a research project called SPDY (and pronounced "speedy") that...

VIDEO: YouTube gets 1080p HD functionality

Google has announced that its YouTube video-sharing site is going 1080p. It's available to test right now on some videos, but will be going live for all users at some point next week. Until then, you can see some 1080p content by appending "&fmt=37" to the end of the...

WEBSITE OF THE DAY – 80s-izer

It’s official – the Eighties are back.

For those of us who had to endure them the first time, it’s something of an ordeal. Legwarmers, a perm, hoop earrings and no socks was never a good look. Especially on blokes.

But, a new generation...

Vimeo vs YouTube - which is the better video service?

It's all too easy to go to YouTube as a knee jerk reaction whenever you want to find a video on the internet. In fact, the term has passed into common parlance to refer to any user-generated internet film footage much the same as Google has come to refer to search. But...

Add a crossfader to YouTube

If you don't fancy shelling out the best part of £6000 for a pair of Pioneer DVJ-X1s and a decent crossfader, here's a cheaper alternative for budding VJs. It's called "Two You Tube Videos And A Motherfucking Crossfader", and it does exactly what it says on the tin.

Just...

YouTube intros skippable pre-roll adverts

YouTube has begun a "small test" of a new kind of advertising on the site, in an attempt to finally meaningfully monetise the billion videos it serves on a daily basis.

While initial testing for pre-roll adverts on the world's most popular video site did not...

Dating site stats reveal Brits are ugliest people

A newly global online dating site is angling for publicity by stating that Brits are among the ugliest people in the world.

The site, which asks "do you want to guarantee your dates will be beautiful?", works on the premise that those who want to join have...

VIDEO OF THE DAY – High Five Hollywood

For consistency, Funny or Die have been difficult to surpass in recent times when it comes to bringing new comedy to the masses online.

They’ve just started their own YouTube channel, which is well worth bookmarking, and this is one of our favourites.

Almost...

WEBSITE OF THE DAY – Trivial Pursuit – Battle of the Sexes

This is an argument that has raged since Adam and Eve first clapped their eyes on that apple.

Who is smarter - men or women?

I know the answer in my house: Mrs H knows everything.

I just think I do.

www.trivialpursuitexperiment.com

If...

Google "dramatically" cuts Gmail and Picasa online storage costs

Google has "dramatically" reduced the cost of its online storage linked to its Picasa Web Albums service and Gmail accounts.

The online giant is now offering twice as much storage for a quarter of the old price of its 20GB plan, on top of the free allowances...

VIDEO OF THE DAY – Hadron explained

So, have any of you been drawn into conversations about the Large Hadron Collider in recent months? Is it the most ambitious and exciting scientific experiment ever? Or is it potentially the end of the world as we know it?

Those crazy eggheads in Geneva seem to...

WEBSITE OF THE DAY – The App Garden

Apps make life worth living don’t they? There’s 85,000 of the things available just for the iPhone and in the past few months everybody’s been jumping on the appy bandwagon.

Flickr are no exception as they launch their App Garden.

I say...