Every now and again we find ourselves a little bit bored. Not quite knowing what to do. If only we had something to keep us occupied on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Well luckily for you, you have the internet. And that means you can access instructables.com – a website dedicated to giving you great ...
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Over the weekend AOL announced their new branding for the upcoming spinoff on December 10th. Here at Crenk we didnt really think too much of the new branding and even if AOL paid £10 for this, we thought that was over priced. The picture to the left is our take on AOL branding!Here is their new b...
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Storage is a huge topic for most technology users. Whether we store locally or in the cloud, there’s never enough space. As a content creator, video, audio, photos, writings, this all takes space, and the more frequent you do it the more quickly your space fills up.I’m a firm believer...
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Everyone’s been a tourist at one point in their life. Being a foreign country, a different city, is something we experience at least once, and that experience can be good or bad depending on the tools we have to get us around. Maps are a thing of the past. If you’re still folding and ...
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Google Wave has taken the online Google community by storm. For many months there was teasing from Google on the development of a collaboration tool that would tie into all of their existing Google Apps, and revolutionize how we communicate with our colleagues, community, and groups. The release ...
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It was earlier this year that I reviewed an online community for pet lovers, and in that time span since, we’ve seen online communities pop up around the internet for just about any specific niche thinkable. Ning is a popular niche community building site, and in that popularity we’ve...
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I have only ever really had 2 laptops and they have both been Thinkpad’s from Lenovo. For some reason I really enjoy using the trackpoint and find it a lot better than a pad. Anyways Lenovo have leaked information about their up and coming X100e. The 3-pound X100e will have an 11.6-inch dis...
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We have never really profiled any high tech camera’s here on Crenk, so thought it was about time I did. The sexy looking camera above is the thinnest and most rugged camera in the world at just 0.78 inches, the Casio EX-G1 is a camera to check out.Features:12.1 megapixelvery thin at 0.78 in...
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The PogoPlug, reviewed earlier this year, is a simple no-fuss NAS solution. PogoPlug offers a lot of bang for the buck, costing only $129.Features include:Four USB portsNew address book featureGloabl search across all drivesPlus all the PogoPlugs associated with a single accountHere’s the full pr...
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Sony has announced that they are planning on launching their own Apple iTunes competitor which will be an online store selling music, movies, and books as well as other downloadable applications for mobile products. This does sound very familiar, as Sony has already tried to compete with iTunes o...
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Google Image Search is used by most of us when we want to find an image for our blogs our websites – or even our desktop wallpapers. I’d like to introduce to you a new type of image search (currently in Google Labs) called Image Swirl. It’s a new way of displaying search results and it make the w...
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Cross Fire is a completely free online multiplayer First Person Shooting game.Gameplay:It is very clear that the developers have aimed to just build a normal game that everyone will want to play. No photon lasers, No energy fields, Just some blood and guts.Due to the developers spending less time...
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We thought we would let everyone know what our favourite five blackberry applications are.Facebook For BlackberryEveryone knows what Facebook is! Facebook lets people share pictures, messages and online applications with their friends. Facebook seems to be everywhere and they even have a Facebook...
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Last week I did a post about how the Internet was getting all decked out in preparation for Black Friday. Well this morning when I checked my e-mail I had a newsletter from Amazon Affiliates who I occasionally use on my blog. They were pretty much telling me that if I wanted to make money now was...
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So much has happened in the last few months with regards to Skype. eBay which bought Skype for $2.6 million back in 2005 has finally settled its litigation with Skype’s founders, and now the sale and restructure has been finalised.The result: Skype now owns all of its technology, the founde...
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There’s a lot of sites out there that offer collaboration tools. From the simplified office collaboration tools like Google Documents and Zoho Writer, to the more sophisticated like Basecamp. In the end each of them appeal to different markets, different segments of the industry and each of...
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It’s not uncommon for us here at Crenk to come across web applications that do the same thing, the only differences are that some might do it better or worse than another. In this case, the team has come across a very interesting music listening application called TubeRadio.Once again for t...
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Traffic analysis is one of the most important parts of understanding your sites and its readers. Im a firm believer that sites and blogs need to really get to know their audience and offer them whatever they want.GoSquared has launched their new LiveStats product in which they are trying to combi...
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There’s nothing like finding that application that helps get you through your day. Whether it’s a productivity application, or a business appliation, or a creative application, whether the need, it’s nice to know that there are alternatives to the costly pay versions. Sometimes ...
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Real estate, whether it’s hot or not, one this is true, it’s all about the location. With that in mind, for those of us that are seeking a place to hang our hat, to call our home, there’s lots of apps out there that can help us find that dwelling. Whether your single, married, r...
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The new Google Android phone on the market is the Acer Liquid A1. Instead of waiting a few months for Google Android 2.0 it has decided to move forward with 1.6 and get this great phone into market.The Acer Liquid A1 is scheduled to be released in the next few weeks in the UK and is priced at £28...
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The vacuum, long an instrument for chasing cats, has now been turned against its own. What better use for automatic home appliances than to have them chase each other in classic video game style?Five Roomba vacuum robots and a software, originally developed to control unmanned aerial systems is a...
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Here at Crenk we have been lucky enough to have access to the new Seesmic for Windows. Seesmic is a Twitter and Facebook client that lets you track and update you streams from one simple location and via multiple accounts.At the Microsoft PDC09 conference yesterday, Seesmic announced their new na...
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SnailMailr is a cool web app that basically allows you to send normal postage mail via the internet. It works by you filling out details such as your address, the address you want the letter posted to and writing your letter. You can send a letter with four pages for $1 anywhere in the United Sta...
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I remember when 80MB hard drives were are really big thing and now Hitachi is coming out with a very sleek 2TB hard drive which is part of their SimpleDrive family.I also thought the price of this hard drive was going to be quite expensive, but then it turns out its only $250.So what do you think...
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If you’ve rode the bus, gone shopping or just been in a public area then the chances are you’ve touched the dreaded H1N1 virus. It was probably just some guy sneezing and then hundreds of people touched the same handrail as him. I guess that’s how it spreads. Then, you went home and turned on th...
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The folks behind TIME magazine at TIME Inc. have just launched their new technology website dubbed Techland. The new website has many old faces from TIME on its masthead including their Tech editor Lev Grossman who’ll be a regular contributor.They’ll cover the more ‘user orientated’ area of the m...
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Tweeting is now done mostly by third-party apps on mobile devices and on PCs It’s now becoming a rarity to tweet via the actual webpage. It’s becoming even more of a rarity to tweet via SMS as apps become more available even for the most basic of Java enabled mobile phones.However, t...
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There’s a lot to be said of the games from our past. I’m just as big a fan of the modern day gaming systems as anyone else, but sometimes we just want to play the classics and by now some of our older systems have collected too much dust, or they just don’t work like they should...
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