Confession time – my name is Jen and I’m an online shopaholic. From ASOS to Zalando, I can spend hours clicking from site to site, my virtual shopping bag bulging.
Retail websites are a great alternative to high street shops, and the internet will never judge you for buying another pair of shoes. Take a look at my top tips to really make the most of your online shopping trip…
From snakes to angry birds: how mobile gaming got serious
Remember Snake? When I brought my first mobile phone, a Nokia 5110, this game was the premier ‘app’ of the day. The concept was simple: steer your snake around the screen at increasing speeds, eat dots (which make you grow), and don’t hit the walls or your tail. Like many easy-to-play but difficult-to-master games it [...]
The Ultimate in Online Vanity: a Completely Personal Domain Name
When I was a kid we used to use Letraset to make signs including our names on our schoolbooks and the like. Now, it’s a lot simpler to see your name all over the place: buy your own personal domain name.
But when you do that you’ve always got the difficulty of deciding whether to go [...]
Is it time to join the contactless revolution?
We are all glued to our mobile phones more than ever before, but I have to admit I’m struggling to get my head around the idea of using my phone to pay for coffees, sandwiches, newspapers and even the odd pint at the pub, simply by waving the handset over a reader.
Following hot on the [...]
HomeSafe – a mum’s view
I am genuinely excited by TalkTalk’s new product: HomeSafe. If it wasn’t for Blog Camp, it would have passed me by as I am not one to read the leaflets that are in with my bills, and even now that I have read them, I don’t think they do HomeSafe justice. Incidentally, Blog Camp took place on Thursday 12th May, the week that HomeSafe was launched.