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Facebook Updates – Even Boring When You’re on the Run

by Jay Garrett on December 23, 2009

This just shows how ingrained updating your social networking pages has become.

The last thing on my mind would be to send tweets or update my Facebook status – but not so Craig Lynch.

Lynch is actually an escaped prisoner and he’s been updating his friends about life on the run via his Facebook page – much to the annoyance of the old Bill.

Craig Lynch, 28, was serving the final portion of a seven-year jail term for aggravated burglary when he escaped during day release.

Police are now trying to catch Lynch using clues left in his Facebook updates as well as appealing to his 248 friends for information regarding his whereabouts.

A photograph on the page shows Lynch looking at the camera and holding up a finger in an apparent defiant gesture.

While on-the-run Lynch posted details of him nearly crashing his car in the icy weather, and of the meals he had.

Hmmm……… you’d think that an escaped con would be able to have more exciting updates than “just ate some toast” or whatever wouldn’t you?

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ViconReview – Auto Life Blogging 30 Seconds at a Time.

by Jay Garrett on October 19, 2009

ViconrevueYou update your Twitter and Facebook regularly and your Twitpic and Flickr pages are awash with little glimpses into your life.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a specially designed camera for lifeblogging updates?

Say, a snap every 30 seconds?

The ViconRevue was developed to help stir the memories of Alzheimer’s sufferers, but now the Oxford-based manufacturer says that a consumer model could be out by next year.

Sling the cam around your neck and it will automatically take pics regularly.

The cleverness continues as it’s fitted with an accelerometer and light sensors that recognise new environments and will activate the shutter because something new and exciting must be happening!

Not only that but it also has a heat sensor to detect the presence of other people in front of the wearer so it’ll steal their soul snap them as well.

The ViconReview sports 1GB of memory so there’s plenty of room to take pics of the pub-crawl, the club, the person you tried to convince to go home home with you, the occupants of the night bus and finally the ceiling. In fact: 30,000 images.

A model aimed at medical researchers is expected in the next few months priced at £500, with a consumer model pencilled in for 2010.

Just remember to switch it off when you head to the toilets or the gym changing rooms yeah? ;)

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Foursquare Social Gaming Comes to London – Earn Points and Badges by Eating, Drinking and Partying Round the Capital

October 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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Foursquare has announced that it’s bringing its location-based social networking game here to London.
The service that started in March awards points and badges for experiencing things in certain locations and is apparently quite the hit over in the USA but remains pretty much unknown on this side of the pond.
Foursquare is a location service-based social network/game.
It’s [...]

INQ Chat 3G and Mini 3G – New Socially Active Mobile Phones

August 4, 2009 Click to read more →
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It’s almost a year ago since I reported about INQ’s Facebook mobile the INQ 1.
Now they’ve gone ahead with a pair of new socially aware phones that promise not to hurt your pocket – named Chat 3G and Mini 3G.
The INQ Mini 3G follows directly from where the INQ 1 will hand over with its [...]

WWDC iPhone 3.0 – Cut and Paste, Tethering and MMS

June 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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iPhone 3.0 brings “100’s” of new features.
These include a landscape keyboard works in email, notes, and messages – oooo and MMS (finally!)
Search. You can search calendars, music, notes and email.
Tethering so you can share iPhone internet connection with a PC.
Also Cut, Copy and Paste is there – but we all kinda knew that right?
We’ll [...]

Last Day For Updates Here – Next Stop GadgetyNews.com!

March 27, 2009 Click to read more →

Yup, even though I’m still tweaking the new place I think it’s time I moved in.
I wont be updating this site anymore after today but all the latest gadgety news will be appearing at http://gadgetynews.com
You’ll be best off by updating your bookmarks, RSS feeds and email subscriptions from now.
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Palm Pre Coming to UK

February 20, 2009 Click to read more →

Now those rumours can be put to rest.
Palm wouldn’t say if/when the Pre would come to Europe whilst at MWC 09.
But, just checking the Palm UK site it is indeed now there.
Well, you’re able register for updates as to when it will be available at least.
Go forth if you’re eager to know more and register for that further information.