dannyallen

Danny Allen | Publisher Danny is a former editor of Gizmodo Australia, and before that, contributing editor for Gizmodo US. He has over 12 years of editorial and digital experience, and a ruinous obsession with all things shiny. Before founding PC World Magazine’s GeekTech blog (while Senior Associate Editor in San Francisco), he co-authored The Ultimate Guide to Mac OS X and won Best Technical Journalist (Consensus IT Writers Awards) in 2005.
  • Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Wednesday Night

    Jailbreaking (or Rooting) Phones Could Become Illegal Again In The US Exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could run out soon. Ten Common Misconceptions Debunked In Under Four Minutes Do people really only use 10 per cent of their brain? Does gum really take 7 years to pass through your system? Watch this video…


  • All The Latest Tech Gear You Need To Know About

    CES is now behind us, but in its wake is a cavalcade of fantastic new tech gear. We covered it all during — and in the past week since the show — and compiled this handy list to keep you up-to-date. Without further ado, here are the new phones, headphones, tablets, televisions, laptops, cameras, lounge…


  • Screw 3D, The Future Of TV Is Holographic

    That might be where we’re headed, but TCL’s prototype at CES was too much like that 90s arcade game, Hologram Time Traveller – more smoke and mirrors than Princess Leia freespace projection. The more immediate future of TV is all about OLED, 4K, Crystal Display, 8K glasses free 3D, and possibly, transparent screens. In fact,…


  • Some Sydney Grindr Accounts Reportedly Hacked

    How’s your Friday night going? If you’re planning to hook-up or get flirty tonight via those Grindr (LGBT) or Blendr (straight) location-based hook-up apps – and hey, Grindr alone has around 100,000 Aussie members — heads up: the SMH says hackers have found a way to impersonate users and log-into your account. Updated