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12.19.2011Google gets festive with 'let it snow' trick
We've seen Google add a few different games and tricks to its homepage over the past year or so, but we love the latest festive trick, which sees snow fill up the homepage if you type 'let it snow' into the search bar. If it fills up too much though you can quickly hit the 'defrost' button to get rid of all the snow! Posted by Becca
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10.26.2011Cupcake Ipsum makes web design more cute and fun
If you've ever played around with web design you'll know that it's important to add some random text to your website in order to see how the layout looks. Usually budding designers use "lorem ispum" text generators to get these chunks of text, but a new site called Cupcake Ipsum aims to make web design a little more sweet, cute and fun. Here's an example of the text we just generated: "Chocolate cake carrot cake wafer lollipop donut danish tart gingerbread gingerbread. Ice cream applicake macaroon gummi bears gingerbread bear claw oat cake carrot cake. Gingerbread brownie sweet jujubes tart jelly-o gummies candy pudding. Caramels halvah jelly tart danish. Chocolate toffee gummies tootsie roll icing muffin wafer macaroon danish. Gingerbread apple pie marzipan." It's making us very VERY hungry. Posted by Becca
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10.24.2011New fashion site donates sales to charity
A new flash sale fashion site called Community Collection is set to change the way we shop online by donating 20% of its profits to a charity which the designers choose. Featured on Mashable last week, the new ecommerce site offers 30 day flash sales from designers such as Helmut Land and Alexander Wang. However, their clothing isn't discounted, but focuses on giving a percentage of sales to charity instead. It'll be interesting to see whether people prefer to buy products from the website because of its charitable donations, but the site's founders aim to give customers even more of an incentive in the future by stocking limited edition collections and much more exclusive products. [Via Mashable] Posted by Becca
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09.28.2011Followgram creates a follow button for Instagram
There are all kinds of Instagram related products and services being launched at the moment and Followgram has to be one of the most useful. The website allows you to create a custom 'follow' button to help other users find all of your retro, filtered snaps! The site also gives you a web interface for Instagram too, so you can easily see all of your photos, who you follow and images you've like all online. There's also a tool to create a special vanity URL for your Instagram account too. Visit Followgram to create yours. Posted by Becca
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09.23.2011Facebook introduces TimelinesLast night at Facebook's f8 developer conference the social network revealed a LOT of changes, the most notable one being Timelines. Like the name suggests, these will be long Timelines of your WHOLE life which will replace your current Facebook profile, you can even scroll down to when you were born! There's been a lot of mixed reactions to Timelines so far and there's also only limited access, so just a select few can play around with theirs until the feature is rolled out to every user in the next few weeks. Check out the video above to see Timelines in action and make up your own mind. Posted by Becca
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09.20.2011MoodPanda: How are you feeling today?
A new iPhone and web application called MoodPanda aims to track your mood through a series of diaries, graphs and calendars. Although it would be hard to keep up with entries regularly, we think it's a great idea and will mean you can find out what makes you feel down and what lifts you back up again! And don't worry, you can share your information with others on Facebook or Twitter, but everything is kept super private if you'd rather keep your moods a secret. Available from iTunes for Free. [Via Lifehacker] Posted by Becca
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09.19.2011Can you REALLY be allergic to WiFi?
Yahoo today reported that an increasing number of people are claiming to have Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (or EHS), which means that they are experiencing headaches, muscle spasms, burning skin and chronic pain due to over-exposure to mobile phones and wireless internet. Now we've all heard of "cell phone radiation", but is it really a threat to our health? Various spokespeople and organizations have claimed that these symptoms are real, but apparently The World Health Organization set the record straight: "EHS has no clear diagnostic criteria and there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF (electromagnetic field) exposure. Further, EHS is not a medical diagnosis, nor is it clear that it represents a single medical problem." Phew. Via Yahoo.
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09.16.2011Clibe: the new digital notebook app
There are so many apps available at the moment, especially those designed for note taking and to-do lists, that we've been a bit overwhelmed for the last few months! Sure Evernote is great and syncs up with any device, but we've been looking for something a bit more... fun and we think we may have found that with Clibe. Continue reading "Clibe: the new digital notebook app" Posted by Becca
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09.14.2011Sonar and Linkedin make networking more interesting
A location app called Sonar that tells you which of your social media contacts is around you is now moving to Linkedin, making professional networking events much more interesting. The app launched earlier in the year and helps you to find which of your contacts have checked-in around you, letting you get in touch with anyone you find is nearby directly through the app itself. This kind of application would certainly be a good ice-breaker at awkward networking events, assuming you recognize the right the person from their profile. Hmm, getting the wrong would be even more AWKWARD. Via Mashable. Image via iTunes. Posted by Becca
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09. 9.2011Lyst keeps you up-to-date with catwalk trends
New online fashion site Lyst will soon be integrating a tool called Runway Tracking, which will allow designer fashion fans to find out as soon as catwalk trends hit the high street. The tool will mean that fashion bloggers and designer junkies will be able to see a piece on the runway, save it and then be notified when they can buy it themselves, as well as information about where they can get it from. It's an ideal tool for those who watch events and catwalk shows a whole season in advance and means they don't forget the special pieces that caught their eye months down the line. Mashable featured the site earlier today and raises the interesting question of whether Lyst will help designers predict what will be popular on the high street. It could also mean many partnerships with big brands, not to mention a whole host of very very happy designer fashion fans. Via Mashable. Posted by Becca
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