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A few months ago, a petition started to force sectors of the UK Government to upgrade away from Internet Explorer 6, to more modern browsers that support the latest technology – such as HTML5, CSS3, among others – or even just to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. Well, the petition [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 40 mins ago No Comments OTHER NEWS
![]() BlackBerry ‘BlackPad’ Rumoured for November Recently two sources came forward to Bloomberg with some interesting information regarding the new BlackBerry tablet in the works, the ‘BlackPad’, which will have a 9.7″ screen, similar to the iPad, including WiFi and Bluetooth Tethering to a BlackBerry smartphone, to share the Internet connection, rubbing salt in the wound [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 2 hours ago No Comments ![]() IsCaliforniaOnFire.com Warns About California Fires IsCaliforniaOnFire.com tells you when California is on fire. The website is updated frequently to say either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, depending on whether the state is on fire or not. For example, at the moment, the site says ‘Yes’, and sure as hell there are 3 fires in California. What else [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 3 hours ago 1 Comment ![]() North Korea Has Strong Web Coding North Korea codes their websites with great strength! Yes, if you look at the source code of the Korean DPRK, you’ll find they really do like their <strong> tags. Repeat: This is not a joke. It’s probably not sinister, but I mean seriously, think about it – WTF. That’s a [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 1 day ago 1 Comment ![]() Russia Bans YouTube It’s true – Russia have blocked the popular video-sharing service YouTube, after a court dispute over an apparently extremist video, ‘Russia For Russians‘. With it, in the same fell swoop, Russia also blocked the Internet Archive, and three online libraries, all found to contain (or contain a copy of a [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 1 day ago No Comments ![]() Google Helps Make Custom Web Fonts Easy Google add another product to the already mighty list – Google Font Preview. Google Font Preview is an extension to the Google Font Library and the Google Font API that was launched way back in mid-May, making it easier to embed certain fonts into websites, change the way they look [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 1 day ago No Comments ![]() A Challenger Appears! New Amazon Kindle Already, Amazon have updated their Kindle eBook Reader again. They boast features such as 50% better contrast (how you measure this I’ll never know), a slightly longer batter, a slightly smaller size, and a new color – nothing terrific, don’t worry. It comes in 2 scoops; WiFi-only and 3G version, [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 2 days ago No Comments ![]() Breakdown: All The New Apple Gadgets Apple have had another busy week – simultaneously launching a set of new iMac computers, with i3, i5, and i7 processors, updating the Mac Pro line, and introducing the ‘Magic Trackpad’; a sort-of upscaled version of the Macbook Pro trackpad. Each seems to compliment the others; the trackpad designed for [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 2 days ago No Comments ![]() ‘Google Me’; Facebook Rip-Off If it’s not enough to completely copy Twitter, something which drastically failed, Google have plans for a new product: a Facebook clone. ‘Google Me’, as suggested by former Digg CEO Kevin Rose, and confirmed by various people within Google, seems spot on for a Facebook rip-off. Although it appears heavily [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 2 days ago No Comments ![]() So, What’s New? [TekCube] So here we have our latest update for TekCube, July 2010 edition. We hope it’s a lot better and easier to use – as well as being nicer-looking, more modern and more fun. It’s certainly easier for authors to write – for example I’ve removed Custom Fields from being necessary [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 2 days ago No Comments ![]() 100mil Facebook Account Details Leaked in Torrent BREAKING NEWS Ron Bowes, hacker from Skull Security, has created a 2.8GB torrent containing the account details of roughly 1 in 5 Facebook users. Scary stuff. The torrent, containing 100 million users Facebook details, has been described as “awesome and a little terrifying”, although nothing illegal was done to collect [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 2 days ago No Comments ![]() Microsoft Street Slide is Totally Trippy Remember when Google introduced Street View? Way back when? The only logical choice for map competitors (for example, Microsoft’s Bing’s Map feature) would be to emulate street view, somehow. Instead of choosing to adopt the same idea that Google had (with ‘Bubbles’ of 360º images), Microsoft have created their own [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 2 days ago No Comments ![]() Safari 5.0.1 Brings Safari Extensions Safari 5.0.1 is out, and it brings something previously only for developers, to front-end users – Safari Extensions. Safari Extensions is virtually the same as on Google Chrome. On launch, there are already a large amount of apps from companies like Twitter, Bing, The New York Times, MLB, eBay and [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 2 days ago No Comments ![]() The New iMac: Complete with i3 Processor Less than a year ago, in October, Apple updated their iMac line with larger screens and ambient lighting. Apple have updated them again – now with a few new features, but nothing too exciting. First up, the prices are exactly the same. The sizes are also equal. It’s still at [...] Posted by Marc Lequime, 3 days ago 1 Comment ![]() TIA! App of the Day 22/07 TIA – our new feature at TekCube – is Today in Android. Today, I’d really quickly like to share a fantastic new app from Google, that appeared in the Marketplace a short while ago. Gesture Search is an app that, you guessed it, searches your phone… But with this one, you [...] Posted by Adam Ratcliffe, 9 days ago 4 Comments |