Social Media

Sep 8, 2010

5 of the latest photo sharing digital cameras with one-touch photo upload

Posted by Ian McGurren in Cameras, Featured, Flickr Gadget, Lists, Pictures, Social Media
KODAK slice

Digital cameras are a huge improvement over their older film-based counterparts, but they have one gigantic drawback: all the pics you take generally end up buried on your hard disk, never to be seen again. Fortunately there’s a solution. The latest generation of digital cameras have all manner of social photo features that let you [...]


Sep 2, 2010

Is the Sony Bloggie Touch the blogger’s perfect video cam?

Posted by Ian McGurren in Camcorder, Flickr Gadget, Manufacturer, Social Media, Sony, Video and TV, YouTube Gadget
Sony Bloggie Touch

With a name like the Sony Bloggie Touch, you don’t have to be a genius to work out Sony’s demographic for their cute little video camera. Aimed squarely at bloggers, the Bloggie Touch comes with a touch screen, and a 3″ capacitive one at that! That’s not the only trick it’s got up its sleeve [...]


Sep 2, 2010

6 TVs with YouTube – making the TV social again

Posted by Ian McGurren in Featured, HDTV, Lists, Social Media, Video and TV, YouTube Gadget

If you’ve never thought of a TV with YouTube, it might be time to give it some thought. TV is going through a transformation the likes of which it’s not seen since the birth of Satellite TV. New Internet TVs don’t just give you a TV with YouTube – they give you a whole new [...]


Aug 25, 2010

Record, upload and playback video with YouTube Mobile and a Samsung Galaxy S

Posted by Ian McGurren in Social Media, YouTube Gadget
YouTube mobile

The web’s foremost video site, Google’s YouTube, has revamped its mobile site for the first time since its launch in 2007. Using the much hyped HTML5, the site is built from the ground up for modern smartphone browsers such as the WebKit-based browsers found on devices like the iPhone and Android phones. Google claim to [...]


Aug 23, 2010

6 gadgets to bring Last.FM into your Living Room

Posted by Ian McGurren in Audio, Featured, Gadgets, Last.FM, Last.FM gadget, Wireless Stereo Systems
gadgets to stream Last.FM to your Hi-Fi

Last.FM is an intelligent Internet Radio station that streams millions of tunes, tailored to your tastes, direct to your PC for free. But what if you want those tunes piped through your expensive home HiFi instead? Simple: get one of these 5 glorious gadgets that stream Last.FM to your stereo, and the perfect radio station [...]


Jan 15, 2010

Sony Bravia Internet Video brings social media to your 3D TV

Posted by admin in CES 2010, DLNA, Events, HDTV, Social Media, Sony, Video and TV, Wi-Fi
Sony Bravia Internet Video HDTV

The new Sony Bravia Internet Video platform is Sony’s answer to the huge interest in Internet video that we’ve seen this year. Featuring 25 different applications from the likes of YouTube and Netflix, the Sony Bravia Internet Video system comes built into many of Sony’s shiny new HDTVs, which, together with Wi-Fi and 3D, provide [...]


Jan 12, 2010

ICD Vega Android tablet offers full HD for the kitchen

Posted by admin in CES 2010, Events, Portable Gadgets, Social Media
ICD Vega Internet Tablet with T-Mobile SIM

T-Mobile and ICD beat Apple to the punch at CES 2010 by showing off a new tablet. Developed by ICD, the ICD Vega is a 15″ tablet that’s described as a “portable family hub tablet”, which is not exactly a term that’s likely to catch on! Dodgy naming aside, the ICD Vega actually has some [...]


Jan 11, 2010

From Facebook to fish, the Kodak PlaySport pocket camcorder captures it all

Posted by admin in CES 2010, Cameras, Events, Facebook Gadget, Pictures, Social Media, YouTube Gadget
Kodak PlaySport camcorder

Kodak have put on an interesting demo of their new Kodak PlaySport pocket camcorder at CES 2010 – they’ve shoved it in a goldfish bowl! Obviously this is to show off the PlaySport’s waterproof abilities, as it will work happily in depths of 10 feet or less.


Jan 10, 2010

Samsung F-Series camcorders bring their own editing software to the party

Posted by admin in CES 2010, Camcorder, Events, Samsung, Social Media, Video and TV, YouTube Gadget
Samsung SMX-F40

Samsung announced a series of new camcorders at CES 2010, each optimized to work seamlessly with YouTube. The Samsung SMX-F40, SMX-F43 and SMX-F44 camcorders do this via Samsung’s Intelli-studio 2.0 software, which lets you edit, play and upload videos from any PC. The interesting thing about Intelli-studio 2.0, though, is that all of the software [...]


Jan 9, 2010

Boxee Box Review – why your HDTV and you need this remarkable media center

Posted by admin in CES 2010, Events, Media Receiver, Social Media, Video and TV, Wi-Fi
Boxee Box review

Look around CES 2010 and you’ll see acres of HDTVs and Blu-ray playes, all showing off their flashy Internet TV features. YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and a billion other social media apps, all viewable on a shiny new $5,000 HDTV. But what if you don’t have $5,000? Or worse, what if you just spent $5,000 [...]