News and Reviews on the latest exciting new electronic gadgets available.
And it’s official the OS X will be here in a few days.. here’s the official press release :
Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard(TM) will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard builds [...]
With Windows 7 just around the corner I decided to have some fun with my new Acer Aspire One D250 netbook. The D250 comes installed with Windows Xp on it, and well, Xp is old, sorry but it is, I’ve moved to Vista and have not had any problems with it at all. Anyway, I [...]
We all have our gadgets and such, and we spend quite a bit of cash for them, but the majority of them do not come with cases so we need to buy one… Kind of obvious there right? Seriously though, we spend all this money on our stuff, and then we’ve got [...]
Having an iPhone in your pocket gives you a powerful tool to not only get information while traveling, but it also gives you a link back to your home, allowing you to monitor it for security and peace of mind.
There are many ways to make this work, and we will explain a few of the [...]
After 2 years at the helm of iGadgetLife.com, I have decided to call it a day and sell the site and handover to some new owners.
It’s been great fun, I have met some brilliant people, been to some cool places and of course been able to play with some great gadgets!
This isn’t the end for [...]
Win a Nokia N97
Nokia are running a treasure hunt that has 7 N’s located across the British Countryside*.
Myself and some of my fellow bloggers were invited to London last week by WOMWorld/Nokia for an exclusive mysterious screening. Unfortunately I was unable to attend due to work commitments, but for those lucky enough to go to [...]
Nokia N95/N95 8GB Video hits 1 millions YouTube Views
Back in November 2007 I was fortunate enough to be one of the first people to be sent a Nokia N95 8GB, the much anticipated update to the hugely successfully Nokia N95. Due to the huge interest in the handset at the time, I wanted to be [...]
Google Voice Search now for British & Australian iPhone owners
Google have updated their iPhone App for British and Australian citizens to better recognise their accents when using the voice search feature.
Being a Brit I have previously had problems using the Google iPhone App, as most of the time it failed to recognise what I had [...]
Beam me up with a Nokia 5800
Today Nokia announced that there will be a Limited Edition Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone sold exclusively through Phones 4U in the UK from 1st May.
The Limited Edition Nokia 5800 touch screen handset which features a 3.2 MP Camera, A-GPS and 16GB of storage will have the following additions:
Four special [...]
Free XBox Live for the Bank Holiday Weekend
XBox Live are running another Xtival over the weekend of the 1st – 4th May ‘09 that will allow all you (European) Xbox Live Silver members to experience some Online Gold for free during the special event.
There are even bigger competitions and tournaments to rock, and loads of [...]
1 Billion Apps in 9 months – WOW!
Amazing when you think that it took nearly 3 years before 1 Billion music tracks were downloaded from iTunes in 2006!
Love it or hate it, the iPhone really has shaken up the mobile industry!
Free Skype Calls & Messages from 3UK – No Top-up or Contract required!
Mobile network innovators 3UK have announced today that from 1st May you will be able to make free Skype to Skype calls over the 3 network with no top-up or contract required.
To start with any compatible 3 mobile handset will be able to [...]
James Whatley talks mobile apps
Mobile blogger and voice of SpinVox James Whatley, or Whatleydude as he is more commonly known in these circles made his first prime-time TV appearance on the BBC News at Six here in the UK yesterday.
In a piece by the BBC’s technology correspondent about how developers are making money from mobile [...]
Sky Replace Viewing Cards
Satellite TV provider Sky, are starting to roll out new viewing cards for all of their 9.2 million subscribers. You should received yours within the next few months.
From time to time we need to replace your Sky viewing cards with brand new ones to ensure you receive a secure and up-to-date service.
When [...]
Get Tweetie for your Mac
For all you Twitter users out there, you may have heard of a very slick iPhone app called Tweetie, well now atebits, the team behind it, have announced that their Tweetie for Mac (aka BigBird) will launch on Monday 20th April.
Tweetie for the iPhone has a gorgeous interface, allowing multiple Twitter [...]
Sky+ Remote Record from your iPhone
Sky have released an official remote record app for the iPhone. The new app will allow you to access your Sky+ Planner from your iPhone to record your favourite shows when you are out and about.
After logging in you will be presented with the familiar Sky+ TV Guide, where you [...]
Twitter via SMS in the UK
Twitter have teamed up with Vodafone UK to allow customers to send and receive messages as part of their standard monthly text allowance.
Twitter text updates can be sent to shortcode 86444.
Receiving messages to your Vodafone mobile will be free, a first outside of the USA. To celebrate the announcement, for the [...]
Google have just launched a Beta of their Google Sync for Mobile Phones.
The new service opens up Microsoft Exchange connectivity direct to the Google Cloud, so that you can sync your Contacts and Calendar to a variety of mobile phones:
iPhone
BlackBerry
Nokia S60
Nokia standard
Sony Ericsson
Windows Mobile
This means that companies like NuevaSync who have currently been filling the [...]
Google Tasks goes Mobile
Google have announced that their Google Tasks, recently launched as a Gmail Labs addon, is now available for iPhones.
The interface is clean and simple and enables you to update or create Tasks for use within your desktop GMail.
Goto gmail.com/tasks on your iPhone.
Track your Photos and Videos with Nokia viNe
Back at the beginning of September I was fortunate enough to be part of the Nokia viNe Beta trial. For those of you unfamiliar with Nokia viNe, its an application you can install on your Nseries handsets that will record your journeys out and about and when and where [...]
Get free credit from Tesco
British supermarket giant Tesco have some great deals on their Tesco Mobile to beat the credit crunch.
Simply top-up your pay as you go Tesco Mobile and they will give you extra credit free!
Top-up £10 and get £10 free giving you a total of £20 credit
Top-up £15 and get £30 free giving [...]
Mac users rejoice – Five have updated their online TV catch-up service Demand Five to stream in Flash, meaning that you can all now watch your favourite Five TV shows on your lovely Apple Macs!
Mac users have a tendancy to be forgotten about, or not supported for a whole host of services. The BBC first [...]
For all you Gadget Show lovers out there, set your Sky+ for 8pm this Friday as your favourite gadget presenters are back for The Gadget Show Road Trip Special.
The guys, with new presenter Otis, will take part in a series of tech challenges on their way from Edinburgh to London.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD_zqOW7cJk
The Gadget Show is on 8pm [...]
The Samsung Show with built-in Projector
It was only yesterday that I wrote about my experiences with the 3M MPro110 Pocket Projector, and how I was looking forward to seeing how this will develop in the future and arrive in actual mobile phones.
Well in my RSS Feeds today I came across an example of such a [...]
3M MPro110 Pocket Projector
The projector has taken a massive leap in technology recently, but not a major leap in size, the total opposite in fact. Miniature projectors have started appearing that can display great images, but the unit is the size of your average mobile phone and in some cases actually built inside a mobile [...]
A little while ago I was fortunate enough to be sent a Google G1 to have a play with…
I guess like most people we have all read so much about the new Android phone by Google – simply called the G1. Pictures of the handset to be honest didn’t make me go wow like the [...]
Congrats to Mark from The Nokia Blog on his wedding to Shelia a little earlier. Mark was kind enough to share their special day with us all straight from his Nokia handset using steaming video service Qik.
It was only a couple of months ago that Mark proposed to Shelia and shared with us how he [...]
This is long, long overdue – Facebook have FINALLY updated their faulty iPhone App with some much needed bug fixes.
The incorrect timezone dates, duplicate contacts and the dreadful crashing since the 2.2 OS update have been fixed.
For me the Facebook App was one of the best apps on the iPhone, although it’s taken months for [...]
I never understood why you weren’t able to download music directly from iTunes on your iPhone 3G over the mobile network, you could only do it via a Wi-Fi Hotspot. There have been quite a few occasions when I have been out and about, used Shazam to identify a track and clicked to purchase from [...]
It has been a long time coming, but today Google finally announced that the popular Windows Photo Management tool Picasa is now available for Macs (in beta). I wonder how this will compare to the already established iPhoto?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDKFjc3_wrk
Download Picasa for Mac.
To all my readers I’d like to wish you all a very Happy New Year.
I wonder what wondrous Gadgets 2009 will bring us?
Google have just announced that Google Street View is now available in their latest version of Google Maps for Mobile for S60 handsets.
Street View is spreading across mobile handsets quite rappidly, with the G1, iPhone and Blackberry already getting a piece of the action.
Goto m.google.com either on your PC or phone to download your copy.
Nokia are the biggest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world, and with that comes so. much. choice.
If you cant decide which Nokia handset will be the ideal Christmas present this year, then why not take a look at their ever-so helpful Nokia Christmas Gift Guide.
You can filter on who you want to give to [...]
It would seem that getting live TV on your iPhone is one step closer thanks to the guys at Livestation who have been demoing their Livestation App for the iPhone. The P2P TV network have previously offered its TV coverage via a downloadable desktop app (available for Windows, Mac & Linux) and via its website [...]
That was the verdict of The Gadget Show, as they announced that the Apple iPhone 3G was the must-have gadget of 2008.
What do you think? What is your Gadget of the year?
Can you believe it, Argos are selling a Blu Ray player for less than £100. The Bush DB01 previously retailed at £299.99. OK it might not be the best Blu Ray player in the world, but for those of you who are just after a nice little unit to watch films on your H-iDef TV, [...]
Video streaming site Joost have released a Joost iPhone/iPod Touch App free to download.
The first version of the iPhone application provides access to our full content library via Wi-Fi. You can browse, search, or simply enjoy some of our most popular programs.
Download Joost for your iPhone/iPod Touch
Tomorrow is the big day for Nokia fans, as it would seem that Nokia have something up their sleeves to announce to the world in a live broadcast from Nokia World 2008 titled Transforming the way we connect.
What could it be about? Grab your seat tomorrow morning to watch the live feed. In case you [...]
As I mentioned at the beginning of October, The Gadget Show Live will be at the Birmingham NEC from Friday 17th April to Sunday 19th April 2009.
You can now pre-order your tickets from the Gadget Show Live website.
Advanced ticket prices are as follows:
Adults: £12.95
Under 12s: £5
Under 5s: Free
There will also be special live performances [...]
Great news people – Google have just released their amazing Google Earth for the iPhone.
The app allows all the normal zooming and searching and of course uses the iPhones location feature to zoom in to where you currently are.
One nice touch is tilting the iPhone to a more vertical position and the view you see [...]
