The days started growing longer; friends started banging on about the Glasto line-up, and lunchbreaks were taken with approximately three minutes of sun before the skies opened up on us...that was May, in a nutshell. But wait! What were you lot reading on this here site, and which technology were you using? In the warbled words of Shania Twain, come on over... Read More >>
Featured comment by Kat Hannaford:
"Yeah, I must admit I'm not a fan of them either -- we're trying to change how they display, so fingers' crossed that's done soon!" More »
Number-crunchers, clamp your eyes around our figures for March, right here and right now. Compared to February, we saw some interesting changes -- hello, Rockmelt users! Check out last month's stats below. Read More >>
Featured comment by Someone Else:
"Read the discussion above, they have that many commenters registered, but not everyone of them commented last month." More »
Digging into the data this site accumulates makes for fascinating reading; so much so, that we thought we'd start sharing some of these details with you in a monthly specs-sheet. Did you know, for example, that 49 per cent of our mobile users view Giz UK through iPhones? Or that Chrome is by far and away the most popular browser, with 48 per cent? Read More >>
Featured comment by alienvariety:
"Well, you don't have to stoop to the lowest level of reporting for click throughs, you could aspire to raise the standard of readership.
Not having..." More »
QR codes are a technology that desperately wants our attention. They appear everywhere from supermarket shelves and magazines to hiking trails and tombstones. Never heard of a QR code? You're looking at one right now. Scan the image at the top of this article, and it'll open a link to the mobile version...of this article. Very meta. Read More >>
Buyers of the Kindle Paperwhite who purchased their readers through Waterstones aren't very happy, thanks to the book chain adding its own adverts to the device's lock screen -- even though it costs the same amount as the ad-free model sold through Amazon. Read More >>
If you run a little business and would like to start taking payments by card, iZettle is by far the cheapest, easiest and newest way to do so. For £20 you get a card reader that attaches to an iPhone, iPad or Android mobile, then away you go. It'll be just like working in Tesco. Read More >>
Desktop computing may be dying, besieged by ultrabooks and tablets, but that doesn't mean people aren't still loving their crazy desktop setups. Here are the very best ones—located in the homes of artists, musicians, engineers, mad gamers and people who just love computers—compiled from readers' submissions and hours of searching. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"I'm not sure what you mean by pretty limited usefulness. Multiple monitors is pretty much the gold standard in terms of productivity at the minute. Bu..." More »
E-Ink readers are great for reading books, or anything really, but mainly books. But many of them offering 3G, and apparently non-book-reading-and-buying activity is high enough that Amazon had to limit browser usage to 50MB per month. Read More >>
Sony's got a new ereader. It's actually quite nice. It's just not as nice as all the other ereaders that are either out or about to be out. And sadly, it's more expensive than its direct competitors, too. Poor Sony. Read More >>
Featured comment by cmsd2:
"I've been living with a kobo touch and a sony prs-t1 for a while now. The kobo is altogether pretty good. The feel of the unit is nice, and there's a ..." More »
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