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How Mouldy Bread could charge up your Phone

How Mouldy Bread could charge up your Phone

There’s not much you can do with mouldy bread…but in the future it could be useful to charge up your mobile phone. Scientists at the University of Dundee in Scotland have been playing around with some mouldy sandwiches and have discovered that rare red bread mould that has electrochemical properties.   So far they’ve had promising results using the mould to[Read More…]

The Shrinking iPhone

The Shrinking iPhone

Just when you thought smartphones couldn’t get any bigger…they didn’t. Available in stores from Thursday this week, the new iPhone SE will feature a 4-inch display, yet Apple has packed it with plenty features to ensure it’s best in class. For starters the iPhone SE will feature the same processor chip as the iPhone 6s and 6s plus, 12 megapixel camera with[Read More…]

Self-help for Facebook distractions

Self-help for Facebook distractions

  When you work in front of a computer screen all day the temptation to see what else is happening in the world on Facebook, Twitter or even a news website can be too great…so here how you can get back in control and be more productive. If you work on a Mac, download the Self control app and set[Read More…]

Celebrating 10 years of "tweets" this year

Celebrating 10 years of “tweets” this year

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the very first “Tweet”. Twitter, the online social networking service which now carries over 500 million tweets per day, has 241 million monthly active users and support over 35 languages. So what did that first tweet say? Two years ago after Twitter turned 8  I spoke to Karen Stocks, the managing director of Twitter Australia.  She[Read More…]

GasBuddy App helps you track cheap fuel

GasBuddy App helps you track cheap fuel

  If you’re on the hunt for cheap petrol Gasbuddy is the app that could guide you to the best price. Already a massive hit in the U.S the Gasbuddy app uses the power of crowd-sourcing to track the price of petrol in your area – that means other users of the app are able to report prices at various[Read More…]