Ubuntu for Android
As awesome ideas go, this one’s pretty cool. Ubuntu are proposing that future Android handsets come embedded with Ubuntu OS in them – the idea being that you simply dock your phone and use that to work on, instead of having a second PC. I have no reason to believe that this isn’t perfectly feasible – Ubuntu runs bloody well on very crappy hardware and it makes perfect sense to me to have all your ‘stuff’ in one place. I wonder what the take-up will be though.
Read MoreHövding – Instantly Deployable Gas Powered Head Protection for Cyclists
Hövding is an ‘invisible’ helmet for bicyclists. It utilises similar technology to cars to compute when a cyclist has been involved in an accident and deploy accordingly. It inflates in 0.1 seconds and provides full protection for the head by inflating an eveloping shroud using a cold gas inflator full of helium. It’s available now and the fashion conscious cyclist will be pleased to hear that the protective collar will be available in a range of trendy styles.
Visits – Google Analytics in a Menu Bar App
Google Analytics is undoubtedly one of the most useful tools that Sergey and Larry ever gave us. By inserting a bit of code in your website you can drill right down into the data on your website’s visitors and improve your pageviews and bounce rates. However the actual Analytics website isn’t the most accessible and checking visitor metrics becomes something of a chore. Visits is a small Mac app that enables you to view top content, referrals, search keywords, browser stats and locations for all your tracked sites. It distills the pertinent data down into an easily digested format and is always at hand on the menu bar if you want to see how your day’s views are going.
Read MoreTaxi for Mr Heywood Jahbloemee – Letterboard for iPad
It wouldn’t make much sense running this particular app on anything less than an iPad, because your intended audience would probably need their reading glasses to see it. Letterboard enables you to create the kind of signs the limo and taxi drivers hold up at the arrivals lounge at airports. It’s classy, simple and undoubtedly easier to read than Sharpie on cardboard.
Read MoreRedNotebook – An Excellent Cross-Platform Journal App
If you’re the sort of person that likes to record daily events, but doesn’t necessarily want the world to know that the Swedish meatballs you ate for dinner have given you explosive diarrhea so violent that you can’t sit down without a doughnut cushion, then private journalling apps are a good option. The exact opposite of blogs, journal apps like RedNoteBook enable you to record your life’s twists and turns in private, tag and format your text and insert images and files within a secure personal environment. Should you have a change of heart at some later date and decide that the world needs to learn about your collection of 1970s caravan catalogues, then you can export to PDF, HTML, Latex or plain text.
Read MoreFlipTime XL – The Perfect Partner for your iPad Dock
I‘ve always loved flip clocks – there’s something so very comforting about that old analog action and its coolness can even survive being transformed into an iPad app. There are plenty of flippy-number clock apps on the App Store, but I reckon FlipTime XL is the best one and the ideal app to have running on your iPad when you plug it into that fancy desktop dock of yours.
Read MoreTrack Your Local and Broadband Traffic and Bandwidth with Networx for Windows
With ISPs in many countries cracking down on bandwidth and rolling back the generous packages they used to lure everyone onto broadband, it’s more important than ever to be able to track your usage. Networx is a great free utility that enables you to track and analyse every aspect of your network connections whether they’re LAN, WAN or off-plan. It can monitor your broadband usage and alert you when you’re getting close to your cap and, if you have an SNMP enabled router, will even monitor that directly giving you the full picture of all traffic on your household network. You can get it here.
Read MoreCobra Tag – for when ‘down the back of the sofa’ won’t cut it
The Cobra Tag neatly tackles two first-world problems in one go. Firstly it functions as a proximity alarm, reminding you when you’ve left your keys, bag, infant child (or whatever else you tag) on the bus. Secondly it can be used to locate your missing items by sending out an alert sound when you trigger it. The whole system is controlled from an Android or Blackberry app called PhoneHalo. It’s available now for $79USD.
Fly Free Photo Editing & Viewer Software
Fly Free Photo Editor is a well designed Freeware Windows image editor with a great feature-set and a slick Mac style interface. Features include, batch resize, batch photo slideshow PowerPoint, direct upload to Flickr, Google and Facebook and an HTML to image web page converter.
Syndicate – Bullfrog’s Old 16-bit Masterpiece Gets a Makeover
The Guardian have pimped a great preview of a remake of Bullfrog’s old game Syndicate. I actually played the original against Peter Molyneux at Bullfrog’s offices prior to the game’s original release and loved the multiplayer mode which was an awesome LAN gaming experience.
Game on: Syndicate – previewGamers with the urge to fire guns in an apocalyptic or dystopian future aren’t exactly short of options. They can, to name just a few big franchises: bust caps in the irradiated asses of Fallout’s post-nuclear ghouls; tear Mass Effect’s space-faring mercenaries new ones; pump Deus Ex’s digitally-enhanced terrorists full of cyber-lead and mow down weird insect-zombie-aliens in Gears of War. Clearly, shooters-in-nightmare-futures aren’t exactly in short supply. So launching a newcomer in a marketplace this crowded is a very bold move indeed. Lucky for Syndicate (PS3/Xbox 360/PC) that it’s not a newcomer then. In fact it’s older than any of the above. It’s 19 years since developers Bullfrog released the original Syndicate for home computers on the MS-DOS operating system (essentially Windows before the windows) and 16 years since sequel Syndicate Wars for MS-DOS and the original Playstation, the last instalment in the franchise until now. The originals were, like much of Bullfrog’s output, classics – bold, innovative games full of very cool, very new ideas. In the original Syndicate – as in the reboot – the player takes on the role of a microchip-enhanced super-agent working for one of the many shady corporations doing battle for world domination. In this dark tomorrow every man, woman and child has had a computer chip (and clunky metaphor for consumerism) implanted in their brain by their parent corporation. As your syndicate’s dirty enforcer you have the power to hack in to these chips, mess around and, if the situation demands it, blow the chip and the brain around it to smithereens. Making your messy way through missions with a team of up to four agents you bribe, blackmail, kidnap and brain-explode your way to full-scale corporate global dominance. In essence, it is a mafia game re-imagined by a drunk, psychotic William Gibson. Now, having been badgered out of retirement by a new developer like a cyberpunk Paul Scholes, the franchise has undergone a radical makeover.
WinLauch – the Mac OS X Launchpad for Windows
It’s somewhat ironic that one of the features most criticised by Mac OSX users should be a target for emulation, but that’s precisely what’s happened. WinLauch (currently v0.3) is an application for Windows that emulates Lion’s LaunchPad application launcher. I suppose if you’re going for that complete OSX customisation in Windows then it’ll be of interest, but I’m not sure I understand the wider appeal. Read More
Wunderkit for Mac OSX Released
In short time the nice people at 6Wunderkinder have released the first version of the desktop client for the excellent Wunderkit task management suite. It doesn’t do much that you can’t accomplish on the website at this time, but it’s nice to get it out of the browser and into its own app for organisational purposes.
Previously: Wunderkit iOS App Released, Wunderkit is Now Open to All, Wunderkit – First Look and Wunderkit brings recurring tasks, notes and collaboration to Wunderlist interface
Read More12 Awesome Mountain Wallpapers
Ah, mountain scenery, the views, the peaks, the snow-capped ridges – you can almost smell that cool fresh air. We’d like to celebrate mountains with a round-up of some of the better wallpapers out there. We’ve poured over Wallbase, tip-toed through InterfaceLift and managed to filter out the anime bollocks that infects every single category at DeviantArt to bring you the finest mountain wallpapers around. Enjoy.
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ProCSSor – Excellent CSS Editor Mac OSX
CSS is the backbone of all good websites and as key to a modern web designer’s skill-set as creating animated GIFs were to the last decade’s pre-bubble coders. And while there’s a certain masochistic streak in many programmers that dictates that they have to use the most primitive text editor available, others have embraced the joys of bespoke CSS editors.
ProCSSor does two main things – it enables you to edit CSS code and it enables you to save that code with all the speed-sapping detritus removed. All code written in the app is beautifully colour-coded to enable you to quickly discern your divs from your desktop. It has a cool droplet function to enable you to colour-code any CSS file and user-configurable formatting styles. It’s available in the App Store now for $6.99.
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