Mobile Gallery – Your WordPress Portfolio Made Mobile

Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The WordPress CMS has gained a lot of traction with artists and photographers due, in part, to some excellent portfolio plugins. Now Raygun Design have produced an app that hooks into their Portfolio Framework plugin and reproduces it on an iPhone or iPad. The clear advantage of this is that you can concentrate on building a cool portfolio on your website and not have to worry about syncing your work to your iPad when you want to show it off to someone. The WordPress plugin is $28, but the Mobile Gallery app that displays everything on iOS is free.

Geekosity – Finalist in the 2012 Ultrabook Blogster Awards

Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Didn’t see this one coming, but it’s great that it did. Short while ago I entered this blog in the Blogster awards based here in Australia. I’ve now been informed that the site’s been picked as a finalist in the Tech, Media and Culture category. If you could spare 10 seconds to go and vote for the site, please do so here, because a portion of the vote is garnered from ‘Likes’. Voting closes on Monday the 4th of June and the awards ceremony itself takes place on Friday the 8th of June.

Brydge – Transform Your iPad into a Netbook

Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock – One Port One Dock Lots of Sockets

Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Thunderbolt port that Apple has built into the latest iterations of its desktop and laptop range has endured a long wait for useful peripherals that can leverage the incredible bandwidth it’s capable of. Belkin are on the case however, with their Thunderbolt Express Dock which was previewed at CES2012. The idea is that you have just two leads plugged into your Mac – power and Thunderbolt. The Thunderbolt cable goes to this dock which offers gigabit Ethernet, three USB 2.0 ports, one Firewire 800 port, one HDMI port, one 3.5mm Audio port and two Thunderbolt ports (one upstream and one downstream) for daisy-chaining to another Thunderbolt compatible device. Nice.

Leap – Control a Computer in Three Dimensions With Your Natural Hand and Finger Movements

Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012

While you were asleep, the future of computer control interfaces arrived and it only costs $69.99.

Wallpaper of the Week – Prometheus

Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2012

About the only thing I’m more excited about than the release  of Prometheus in cinemas is the fact that they’re seriously looking at a Blade Runner sequel and have most of the old team on board. Anyway – here’s a terrific wallpaper which was produced by the guys over at the Prometheus website. I’m not a huge fan of the text blocks top and bottom, but they’re pretty easy to snip away.

8bit PopUp Cards

Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2012

Looking for some inspiration for a card for that geek friend of yours? Look no further - Mini-eco have an awesome homemade solution in the form of these groovy popup cards. All you’ll need is some paper, a craft knife, a ruler and a needle – all the templates are available for download free on the Mini-eco website.

Tivoli Audio SongBook – AM/FM/iPod

Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2012

No matter how advanced technology gets, no kitchen is complete without a radio of some sort. The Tivoli Audio SongBook won’t clash with your kitchen no matter how modern it is and it can survive the rigours of the room thanks to a rubberised outer coating. It’ll play AM or FM radio and has an auxiliary input so you can plug your iPod/iPhone/Android in while you’re cooking up a storm. It’s yours for $199.99.

PAL-V Flying Car – Half Sports Car and Half Gyrocopter

Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2012

EveryMe – The AntiSocial Network that Cuts Out the Crap

Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2012

Facebook addressed the issue by adding groups and Google+ introduced us to circles, but what if you don’t care to share your stuff with random strangers or friends of friends of friends? EveryMe is an antisocial network – a closed bubble in which your posts only appear for those you explicitly wish to share them with. They even block indexing by Google, so those pictures of you getting blown by a stripper on your stag night don’t appear in Google Images. There are iPhone and Android apps all ready to rock and sign-up is, of course, free.