Category: News
Checking out Marks & Spencer LED TVs
As LED televisions increasingly flood the market, it is becoming increasingly impossible to deny the benefits in their quality. After all, merely a few years ago these televisions were still somewhat rare, and could only be found in the outlandishly expensive sections of electronic stores. However, if you walk into just about any electronic store [...]
ReTrak Competition Winners
The recent competition to win retractable ReTrak USB cables was very successful and I’m happy to announce the 4 winners… Robert Durr from Puckeridge. Rebecca Hipkin from Sutton Coldfield Anthea Holloway from Dorset G Grant from Midlothian Congratulations to them all and a cable is on its way! A new competition starts tomorrow where you [...]
Artiss Content Reveal 2 released
Artiss Content Reveal (formally Simple Content Reveal) has had a major revamp to version 2. Apart from being extensively re-coded with various administration improvements (there’s an editor button for it, extra meta data in the Plugins menu, etc), there’s a lot of big improvements… Cookies now store the state of each hidden/revealed section for each user – so [...]
Win 1 of 4 ReTrak retractable USB cables
Yes, I have 4 ReTrak retractable USB cables to give away. Two are the type with the star adapter ( as I reviewed last week ) and another two have changeable tips. These are seriously good products and each is worth up to £24.99. To enter, simply wander over to the competitition page and answer a really simple question. The competition closes on [...]
Philips announced Fidelio Docking Stations for Android
The one problem with not owning an iPod or iPhone is the lack of peripherals specifically available for your phone. Android is humongously popular, but each phone manufacturer seems to do things differently and, hence, its difficult to produce “one size fit alls” solutions. Philips, however, have announced a number of new docking stations which [...]
ReTrak high speed HDMI 1.4 retractable cables
Building on from their success in the United States and Canada, Emerge Technologies is bringing their ReTrak brand of high speed HDMI Cables to the UK. Emerge will initially bring 70 of their top retractable accessories products to the UK market, which cover the main categories of mobile and smartphone, iPod and MP3, tablet, eBook [...]
Artiss YouTube Embed 2.1 released
I’m happy to announce the release of version 2.1 of my WordPress plugin Artiss YouTube Embed . There are a number of new features, some of them cleaning up changes made recently to work around some issues that users were having. For example, you can now turn on and off options to use HTTPS instead of HTTP. [...]
The SPEEDLINK XEOX Gamepad
I often get press releases from SPEEDLINK – gaming mice and the such for PCs. However, a recent announcement got me interested. They are due to reveal at Gamescon a number of console accessories, one of which is named the XEOX Gamepad – the image is to the right (click for a larger version). Here’s [...]
Picasa increases storage – but only to Google+ users
Hidden away in the Google help screens is something that gives Google+ users an extra reason to be happy! The amount of free storage for Picasa Web Albums is 1GB. However, this doesn’t include certain photo sizes. For non-Google+ users this is anything up to 800 x 800 pixels. For Google+ users this is a much better 2048 x 2048. For videos [...]
YouTube Embed Version 2 WordPress plugin released
I’m very, very proud to announce the release of version of YouTube Embed, now named Artiss YouTube Embed. Months in the making, it’s been totally re-written with a host of new features. It’s also compatible with a wide range of existing plugins, in case you wish to migrate! Changes include… XHTML and HTML5 compliant – [...]
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