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It’s not often that we find a technology company with such terrible service that we feel the need to advertise it to our reader-base, but on this occasion, we saw a serious need to expose the terrible practises that are at bay. This personal story below is printed as-is from a personal blog and is not the opinion of Sporkings.com. No, our opinion of Overclockers is much lower than this; It all [...]

Calvin Robinson, Editor of Sporkings.com discusses Facebook Privacy Policy issues on Channel 4 News in the UK: We previously wrote an article instructing users on the steps necessary to delete a Facebook account; Image via Wikipedia Whether you have concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies, or you simply don’t want to keep a profile on the website anymore, Facebook make it extremely [...]

Oopsy! We’ve seen some bugs in our time, but this one puts the cherry on the cake. A new exploit discovered in Twitter’s system is the ultimate ego sweller. By simply typing “accept [username]” into Twitter’s homepage, you can automatically force people to follow you, without them even knowing it. Try it for yourself, tweet “accept Sporkings” and we’ll [...]

It’s become a familiar cycle now. Apple launch an exciting new product, it hits the US market first, leaving the rest of the World waiting around for a month (or two, in this case). When the product finally reaches UK shores, we suffer what has become known as the ‘Apple Tax’. This is a price-bump which is often argued to be a result of VAT or exchange rates, a myth we proved [...]

Sporkings is receiving an ever growing number of visitors from Smartphone users lately, so we thought it was about time we gave you Smartphone owners more attention. We’ve been very busy as of late, testing out a range of mobile accessories from chargers to cases. First up is the ‘Proporta USB Turbocharger 3400 World Pack‘. Now, in all honesty, this has to be my personal favourite [...]

Whether you have concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies, or you simply don’t want to keep a profile on the website anymore, Facebook make it extremely difficult to actually close your account. If you follow the ‘Help’ section of Facebook, you’ll eventually be led to ‘Deactivate’ your account – which basically means your data is still on [...]

Image via Wikipedia Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe has responded to Steve Jobs‘ article which ironically claimed that Adobe do not develop open platforms. Narayen spends most of the interview plugging Creative Suite 5, but he does address a few of the points raised by Jobs’ and claims this has “nothing to do with technology”. This is in an [...]

Image via CrunchBase Steve Jobs has released a statement clarifying his opinion on Adobe’s Flash platform and it’s place on the web / mobile: Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe [...]

Hosted in San Fran, this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference will be hosted on June 7 – 11. It was reported earlier in the month that Apple had reserved June 22 at YBCA, it was rumoured that this may be the date for WWDC, but industry analysts insist this date was too late in the month. Apple tend to host WWDC in early June. That leaves the iPhone announcement. Could Apple [...]

On the corner of Berwick Street today, in the old Tiscali HQ, TalkTalk opened their swanky  new office space. They’ve setup several floors of high-tech goodness. The ground floor is a walk-in PC zone. Think Apple Store, but instead of iMacs they have rows of desktop PCs with large monitors running Windows 7. This floor is for the general public – to play around on the web (you can only [...]