Wordpress have been nice to webmasters and bloggers and given them an early present in the form of Wordpress 3.5.  As users of Wordpress we are used to the odd upgrade that is easy enough to install, even if you are self-hosting all you need to do is press the link for the auto install and everything is done for you, and you can be confident that the latest security updates are in place.

Yesterday though when people pressed that button they were in for a surprise.  There are quite …

Last year Jawbone released a gadget that promised a lot, it was to be a bracelet designed by Yves Behar that tracked your exercise and along with an app for your phone allowed you to plan out your daily routines in an aim to get fit.  Combining fashion and fitness with the use of your phone it all looked good and the hype was in full swing, then people actually tried it.  The problem was that the bracelets were breaking.

Refunds had to be given and things went silent on the Jawbone…

Windows 8 is finally here and Microsoft is ready to make it's big impact on the world of touch screen, while trying to keep the rest of their users happy who don't have this luxury.  Windows 8 is looking to unify the world of the smartphone, the tablet, computer and even the console with this update and are dragging it's users along for the ride.

The user interface is in for a big change, the tiled start menu is now the first thing you see when you log on and touch screen or not it h…

In the war torn smartphone OS world it’s often easy to forget that RIM are still developing their next version of the Blackberry operating system.  We often watch Apple, Google and Microsoft fighting it out with iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8, waiting on the next news about when Jelly Bean will be ready or what Apple is offering us, soon though BlackBerry 10 will be released onto the world to join the fight.

The question will be of course can it handle the fight? RIM has to come …

Now that the iPhone 5 has been launched and we’ve been shown just what it can do, it’s time for the release of iOS6 not only for the new phone itself but for some of the previous versions.  Adding upgrades to existing applications such as Siri, new maps functionality and further integration to Facebook Apple is looking to add to the enjoyment for people who don’t want to upgrade to the latest phone just yet.

Of course Apple don’t want people to just stick with what they have now, t…

As we get closer and closer to the release of Windows 8 Microsoft want to sell the idea that this is the operating system that everybody will want.  We’ve also been shown Surface that is designed to run the system in all its touch screen glory.  The big problem that has to be on everybody’s mind though is does the PC need a touch screen operating system when we rarely have touch screens for the computers we already own?

Of course this is not the only problem Microsoft are going to ha…

While Microsoft is busy readying it’s new version of Windows, giving new toys such as the Metro interface and optimising it so that it’s ready for touch screens as well as adding integration between gadgets and computers, Apple have released their next iteration of their OS X Operating system, the Mountain Lion.

This is a surprisingly cheap update to their existing OS X, adding over 200 additional features to the operating system users are going to have plenty to play with.  The ac…

Microsoft is pushing ever closer to the release of Windows 8 with its new Metro interface.  This of course leads to Microsoft having a good excuse for a new release of Office.  The problem is of course that most of the functionality that Office has offered in the past can now be provided for free, so is there much need for these tools anymore?

Microsoft of course believe there is, and with integration into the Metro interface and added touch functionality Office 2013 is being provide…

Along with the announcement of the Nexus 7 Google made quite a few announcements at the Google I/O 2012 developer conference.  One of these was the official revelation of Jellybean, Googles new version of their Android Operating system.  Jelly Bean, also known as Android 4.1 looks to improve performance, update a few issues with the operating system itself and add functionality to compete with other smartphone operating systems.

With Apple’s new release of their iOS operating system …

Google have finally made the move and Chrome is now available on the iOS systems iPhone and iPad.  Google argue that Chrome is the most popular browser available at the moment and it is definitely popular especially with the ability to propagate the browser settings over numerous computers and now onto your tablet and phone.

The problem they may have though is now Google have moved into Apple’s domain they have to play by Apple’s rules.  This means that Google has to run through Appl…