The free “Find My iPhone” app allows you to quickly locate your Apple based mobile device from another supported device (you can also achieve much of the functionality from the iCloud web service) as well as being able to lock and remote wipe a lost device. From a personal perspective it could Read more [...]

The “Dictionary.com – Dictionary & Thesurus – Free” app, for the Apple iPhone, has recently become my new best friend whilst studying for my teaching assistant qualification at College. This mobile version of the popular website of the same name allows for word lookups and alternatives directly Read more [...]

Covers and cases for the Apple iPad seem to crop up pretty regularly as alternatives to the official products but it is always interesting to see an official product, as the designers intended, to see how well it complements the primary product. In this review we will be taking a look at the official Read more [...]

In this review we will be taking a look at the book “Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet”, by Andrew Blum, to be released on 7th June 2012 published by Viking, an imprint of  Penguin Books (also available as a Penguin eBook). The author, Andrew Blum, is a correspondent at Wired magazine and Read more [...]

The book “Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the battle for the Internet”, from Guardian technology editor Charles Arthur, and published by Kogan Page is a journalistic exploration into three of the major players in the modern technology industry and how the internet became the battleground Read more [...]

It seems most document editing software these days includes a feature to export a working document into the more portable format, particularly Adobe “PDF”, but what if you want to do something more than simply save in that format? And what happens if you want to manipulate an existing PDF and do Read more [...]

This review will take a look at the Philips Sonicare DiamondClean rechargeable sonic toothbrush (HX9342/04). The “DiamondClean” refers to the diamond-like shape of the bristles on the brush head and the HX9342 is Philips latest and, as they say, “most advanced Sonicare toothbrush”. The most striking Read more [...]

“Tubes: Behind the scenes at the Internet”, by Android Blum, is “a book about the people and places that make our virtual world actual.” The Internet is all around us and many of us spend much of our time in this virtual connected world and yet we cannot see it or touch it – or can we? For Read more [...]