Category: General Entries

  • Haven’t got time to scan the secret documents you just stole? ScanR can turn your phone’s camera into a scanner – Take a photo of a document and it’ll return a searchable PDF. It’s a free service so I fail…

  • Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic (WordPress.com, WordPress.org, etc.), gave more details on the funding that founder Matt Mullenweg wrote about a few days ago on his blog. WordPress is, in my eyes, the best blogging software around, and considering…

  • Saw this article on the Beebs a few days ago, and I think these ladies are getting their knickers in a twist over nothing… Feminists in France have petitioned the French government to remove the title Mademoiselle or Miss from…

  • London buses have joined the trend and solved budgeting issues by using Google AdSense on the ad panels of its fleet of buses. Somebody made a funny!

  • Google UK is holding a competition for kids: It’s your chance to design a Google logo and take over Dennis Hwang’s job for a day! Rupert at Google says: “Here in the UK, we wanted to let Dennis have the…

  • It’s cute, buzzing with conversations without being overly noisy, and no one’s making you feel guilty for having only a cup of green tea and a plate of spicy chips with garlic mayo (which, by the way, were very tasty!).…

  • Last week, I posted that I was attempting to leave behind my pale almost-light-emitting look (as my sister would call it…) for a “summer glow” without sun. My sister and a few readers have been poking me repeatedly (ok, virtual…

  • YouTube‘s been the breeding ground of many 15-seconds-of-fame videos. Some were just bizarre, some were very funny, and others, well… the vast majority, are just dull and you might as well watch paint dry. It’s also home to the best…

  • I used to go on to my coworkers about my great advertising ideas, a few of which involved paint, oversized ads and Google Earth (usually after a few pints, they seemed GREAT!) But it looks like Maxim magasine has beat…

  • Last month, I mentioned that Audi and John Lewis had impressed me with the quality and simplicity of their customer service. We always think of our relationship with insurance companies as complicated, lengthy and generally dull. Of course, you’ve got…