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Archive for December 2009
iPhone Home button stopped working – a workaround
A couple of weeks ago, a terrible thing happened to my favourite gadget. Yes, I dropped my iPhone in a sink full of water. Initially all looked fine and it worked as normal. However, the next morning the water that had penetrated the phone started to corrode its components and the Home button stopped working. … Continue reading
HarperCollins eBook windowing
HarperCollins is the latest publisher to say that it will delay the eBook verions of some of its new titles. From next year the News Corp-owned publisher will delay the online release of five to 10 new books each month for between four weeks and six months. This will give it a chance to sell … Continue reading
Nothing new under The Sun
Time’s gadget of the year may well have been the Droid Android phone, but the iPhone still retains its place as my gadget of the year. However, for all the iPhone’s improvements in graphics, the PSP Go gets special mention for delivering high end gaming experience on a handheld. The iPhone has been great for … Continue reading
Spotify the Nokia
Spotify’s premium music service, which includes its offline playlists, is coming to the Symbian operating system (owned by Nokia). The new version mainly supports Nokia phones, including popular models like the 5800 XpressMusic and E72, but also supports Samsung’s Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson’s new Satio. The premium service, £9.99 a month, is already available … Continue reading
Mariah Carey-Oke
With an awful pun worthy of this blog, UMG are releasing an iPhone app, Mariah Carey-Oke. Fans get to sing along to four of the her songs and are awarded points if they match her vocals – Singstar in an app, an interesting way to tie in the iPhone’s microphone functionality. In addition, the app … Continue reading
