Your criminal record gets wiped clean the moment you turn 18, but every idiotic screenname and angst-ridden Xanga remains in perpetuity. GOOD had a few online journalists (including our own Mat “emptyage” Honan) share their first handles, to amusing but mostly harmless results.
iOS 5.0 is pretty great and hits a lot of the bullet points iPhone users have long been complaining about. But, of course, jailbreaking still lets you do more with your iPhone. So what’s favourite jailbreak apps?
One of the most exciting things about Microsoft’s Kinect gaming peripheral (aside form Dance Central) is the awesome ways that hackers took it and used it to create really interesting and new user interfaces for engaging with technology. And now that Microsoft has officially launched an SDK that lets users create their own apps using the Kinect camera, we’re wondering if any of you have downloaded it yet.
This week is a huge one for upcoming gadget and gaming news. Both Apple and the games industry are holding massive, news breaking events where dreams can be made or shattered in a matter of seconds. We’ve already told you what we think you can expect to see this week, but now we want you to tell us what you actually want to hear?
In a survey of 7000 16-to-30-year-olds, a not-entirely-surprising 53 per cent chose tech over their sense of smell. Most of us here at Giz picked tech, since we’d obviously be massively unemployed without it. When we put the question to you on Twitter, most of you agreed with us, though our readers might not be the most impartial audience.
With Telstra’s announcement overnight that it is building the infrastructure to kill off bill shock by throttling users’ mobile data speeds once they’d exceeded their monthly allowance, we’ve started wondering if maybe there isn’t a place for both plans.
It was interesting to see that not only was the long form feature article on Portal 2 released as an iPad app, but that it was also well received by fans of the game. Perhaps most surprising is the fact that it wasn’t simply part of a high quality digital magazine.
