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LEGO Brings Physical Toys to the Digital World

Oliver Haslam — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:13:44 +0000

Everyone loves LEGO, and I'm no different, so it was with great excitement that I read about Life of George, a new LEGO game that incorporates real, physical LEGO bricks with the magical (and revolutionary, of course) world of the iPhone.

Our Xbox 360 Wedding Cake

Oliver Haslam — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:24:42 +0000

As some of you may know, my fiancée and I got married last week and we wanted a wedding cake that reflected our personalities a little more than the usual three-tier floral affair. After visiting the excellent Creative Icing we were confident they could put together what we wanted - a wedding cake in the shape of an Xbox 360. What we received was beyond even our wildest dreams and as the photos show, they put together one hell of a fancy cake complete with myself and Rachel sat atop the machine with iPad and PSP in-hand. It's all in the details folks!

iPad 2 – The best fridge magnet, ever.

Oliver Haslam — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:00:01 +0000

Filed firmly in the entirely pointless but super-cool category, MacRumors brings us the best and certainly most expensive fridge magnet in the world - the iPad 2.

Chromium OS, on an iPad?

Oliver Haslam — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:31:26 +0000

Chromium – Google’s OS designed for netbooks and presumably tablets – appears to have been ported to the iPad by well-known hacker Hexxeh.

I say appears, as so far there’s only a photo as proof, but it sure looks legit.

Chromium for those who [...]

Guitar Hero gets Game Center support

Oliver Haslam — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:53:31 +0000

Game Center compatibility is finding its way into most games these days, and Activision’s Guitar Hero is no different.

Along with Game Center, version 1.2.0 also adds multitasking support and the less exciting ‘bug fixes’.

I’m off to find out I don’t have nearly as [...]

Want to charge your iPad from any USB port?

Oliver Haslam — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:24:42 +0000

I posted this over on Touch Reviews this afternoon (did I say I’m their newest writer?) and thought people here would be interested too.

We’ve all experienced the problem of our iPads not charging from most USB ports. It turns out the iPad needs 10v to charge, and most USB ports can’t deliver it. [...]

Apple’s Game Center – Xbox Live for your iPhone

Oliver Haslam — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:32:03 +0000

After months of betas and subsequent pulling of said beta, Apple finally let Game Center loose on the world with the release of iOS 4.1 last week. We’ve all had some time to test it out, and now we finally have some games that take advantage of all the new APIs. A week later, [...]

iOS 4.2 & Printing from an iPad (video)

Oliver Haslam — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:21:21 +0000

Today finally saw the release of the first beta of iOS 4.2 on both the iPad and iPhone. One of the most interesting things for a lot of people is the inclusion of the new printing feature, which is something many of us have wanted since we first learned of Apple’s tablet device at the [...]

iPhone 3G meets the washing machine & lives on!

Oliver Haslam — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:58:08 +0000

If you follow me on Twitter, the chances are you read about our iPhone 3G finding its way into the washing machine on a 60 degree (Celsius) spin cycle! Much panicking ensued, and an old T-Mobile G1 was even pressed into service as a temporary device. We were not happy.

24 hours later, and I’m bored. Off [...]