We’ve had a look at some of the best WordPress themes updated/released in 2012 so far, here is a selection of some of the best, all free to download and use on your blog! Some of these use HTML5 and CSS3 so your blog will be using the latest web languages and looking very pretty at the same time!
BlogoLife is a simple and attractive theme built in HTML5 & CSS3 for personal blogging , it’s fully customisable and clean so can be styled if you want to change it, otherwise it can be used straight away. Read More »
A team of US engineers working at the University of California, Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have revealed the result of their latest research, a material they claim to be the world’s lightest. Read More »
Yesterday Apple announced the iPhone 4S at a press conference in California which you can view here. A quick breakdown of the new and improved features over the iPhone 4 follows:
Upgraded Camera – To 8MP from 5MP, increased aperture size, additional lens, improved start-up time, face-recognition & image stabiliser
Upgraded Video Recording – To 1080P@30FPS from 720P@30FPS
Added Siri – Voice command system
Added iCloud – Adds features sharing all media, documents, photos, apps, calendar, mail, contacts between Apple devices, remote backup to iCloud, find friends and locate iDevices remotely and wipe them. Read More »
This is a very stylish fashion boutique store theme offering many features such as: product image sizes controlled in the back-end, slideshow with over +20 transitions, mega-menu with many multiple columns styles, constantly updating new products, best-seller, the promotional information. Featuring clean lines with large product images and an attractive layout it’s perfect for a high end fashion store. Read More »
If you’re new to Chromebooks I’d recommend you start with our Chromebook Preview.
The Samsung Chromebook Series 5 is the first of the Chromebooks to be released, and can be found for £349 at Amazon, but what do you get for your money? Not a whole lot really.
Allow me to elaborate, the Chromebook is a fairly stylish (if somewhat dated Apple-esque looking) 12.1″ netbook running Chrome OS which is essentially a browser based operating system. Now I used the word netbook which certainly isn’t a glowing adjective, but to describe it as much more would be generous. This is an Intel Atom N570 based netbook (note that Intel themselves describe it as a “processor for netbooks”) with 2GB RAM and a 16GB SSD and whilst this low power CPU means that 8-9 hours of battery life is a possibility it also means that Read More »
If you’re a regular reader of Slashdot, El Reg or TechCrunch then you’ll no doubt have heard of Bitcoin, the digital currency that has recently started garnering a lot of attention as the currency is gaining significant value. As of the moment of writing this article there are currently precisely 6,859,400 bitcoins in existence (You can check the current number here). The current market value of these is £8.58 each (taken from Britcoin) valuing the currency at £58.8 million or $95 million, not too significant on a global scale but certainly enough to make people take notice.
How do I get bitcoins?
Well, you can buy them from various exchanges for whatever currency you use, alternatively you can create your own through a process known as “mining” Read More »
With recent announcements by two of the biggest companies, namely Facebook and Google, both offering free to use video chat are these business behemoths going head-to-head in a Haye vs. Klitschko style world video chat unification bout? Well… no actually. Whilst the thought of it is an exciting prospect, much like the boxing match the reality is a much tamer affair.
Facebook have made it clear that group chat is not a priority for their video chat, citing the fact that Read More »
I’m sure at one time or another we’ve all had those extravagant purchases, perhaps that late night venture onto eBay for a Michael Bolton CD you simply had to have, but I can’t help thinking the Ministry of Defence may have gone a step too far offering the HMS Ark Royal with an Add to Cart button. Read More »
If you haven’t heard of graphene yet prepare to find out about a material that could lead the way in future technologies. Only discovered in 2004 by Dr Konstantin Novoselov and Dr Andre Geim – from the University of Manchester – experimenting with sticky tape and graphite (found in common pencils) they have already been awarded a Nobel Prize for this discovery.
What is graphene?
You may well have heard of it’s little brother, carbon nanotubes which are sheaths of carbon atoms rolled into cylinders with diameters roughly 10,000 times smaller than a Read More »
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have announced that it will be possible to apply for your own domain extension if you have suitable justification, most likely these will be the reserve of big corporations and cities. This is down in part to the $185,000 application fee attached, don’t be surprised if you find .apple, .coke and .london being picked up by their respective companies and councils. Read More »