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While talking to fellow Editor Calvin about a meeting we were to attend I crudely drew a map of our destination, realising that what drew was a mass of lines of no real meaning I turned to Google Street View to pin point the location. This is when I came across Google Street View’s Date. Young love, so precious!

Wow Twitter has just gone down for routine maintenance, it’s 20:25 BST, and I’m missing it already! They say the will be back in an hour so contented with that in mind, I have decided to think about 2 newsworthy things that I can say about Twitter. 1. Twitter is now as mainstream as it gets. Even the DJ on Kiss FM has a feed, (I know this, as this is what the gym I attend like to play). [...]

We have 3 cars in our household and over the course of 2 days we realised that all the remote locking wasn’t working on any of them! We tried all the different keys we had for each car, but nothing. batteries even seemed ok. Then we realised that the recent HQ 5.8GHz Video Sender Kit we had bought when switched off didn’t stop our remote locking from working! Problem solved. The reason [...]

Two years after being available in the US/Canada, Microsoft Surface has finally reached British shores. Retailing for a whopping £10,000 means we’re probably not going to see them popping up all over the place any time soon, unless you often stay in 5 star hotels (Sheraton Hotel group use Surface tables for self-check ins by tapping your credit cared on the table – creepy) . Microsoft [...]

They’re not really, but they could do if they wanted to according to the new Terms of Service released. It basically says that everything we’ve ever uploaded to Facebook can be edited and used in anyway they want. They can also sub-license our videos and pics, even if we remove the content from the site. Could this possibly make way for an iStockFacebook Service? You can see it here and [...]

I’m shaving off my dreadlocks for Red Nose Day, please sponsor me! 🙂 http://www.myrednoseday.com/calvin

Evolution spawned life from the depths of the oceans and thrust it out of seas and on to dry land, from that humans evolved, spent an aged getting smart, then worked out they should get into industrialism and start destroying the earth. So far so good, then along came the wise people at google, who just want to document everything and be the best library on earth. Yet again, good job. Not being content [...]

StopBadAware provide an  service to google, to prevent users from visiting phishing sites, or sites with trojans and all kinds of nasty stuff. You may have noticed on the odd occasion when you try and browse somewhere dangerous from Google, you receive the warning “This site may harm your computer.” If you try and visit the site, you’ll instead see a page which informs you “Warning [...]

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