Jun
29
2011

Review: HTC Cha Cha – The phone for facebook socialites

HTC Cha Cha

We’re all about devices that can make communication that little bit easier here at MOFU, so we were delighted to receive the new HTC Cha Cha to test and review. The HTC Cha Cha is aimed squarely at 14-21 market, it currently has an average UK contract price of £20 per month, and a sim free cost of £200. It’s been dubbed one of 2 (non-facebook) facebook phones alongside the HTC Salsa! In fact it’s [...]

Jun
12
2011

Building a simple Titanium App – Part 1

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Appcelerator Titanium makes cross-platform native application development easy. As a free and open source application development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP. It’s also vastly under documented, so the good guys over at Testled have kindly decided to run us through a building a simple titanium app. Let’s begin!

Jun
12
2011

Win one of 6 Piolos! The perfect little iphone 4 stand!

Piolo - The little stand for the iphone 4

When Sheffield based Industrial Designer Andrew Bond was looking for a stand for his iphone 4, he struggled to find one that suited his needs – so he decided to design one himself! This little iphone 4 stand is perfectly formed from a thin strip of thermoplastic elastomer to keep it sleek and pocket size. It even has a hole to hook it onto a keychain. Perfect for the consummate traveller who likes to watch [...]

Jun
8
2011

Red Pop for iPhone

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Beep Industries, the Manchester-based collaboration behind such ingenius inventions as MIXA and MoviePeg, has managed to secured funding for their latest concept. Red Pop is a device that attaches to your iPhone, giving you the option of taking photos with a big red button rather than the on-screen button on the Camera app. The button works with a free Red Pop app from the iTunes store which, once downloaded, opens automatically when you plug the [...]

Jun
6
2011

INTERVIEW: Cosmic Mission (aka Fabio Basile)

Cosmic Mission

Tell us all about Cosmic Mission and what it’s all about. Cosmic Mission is my company, is my little shop front to the wide web It’s currently being overhauled as I will be offering different types of services just after the summer, a designer is never happy with his / her site and I spend a lot of time scrapping ideas and tweaking pixels. What software do you use? I try to keep my toolset [...]

Jun
6
2011

The Desktop Wallpaper Project – iPhone and iPad Wallpapers

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It’s always good to add a little colour to your devices. The Fox is Black, an art and design blog run by Bobby Solomon and friends, is host to The Desktop Wallpaper Project. Each week, they upload a wallpaper created by a different illustrator, photographer or designer. Luckily, each of these wallpapers is available in a variety of formats, including iPhone and iPad. Recent wallpapers have been designed by the likes of Brighton-based illustrator Matt [...]

Jun
5
2011

ios5 is truly magic

IOS5-magic

With the hotly anticipated ios5 imminent, Magician and performance artist Simon Pierro runs us through a beta preview on his iPad. It’s truly magical stuff.

Jun
2
2011

Unit Portables

unit-portables

With a lot of people now carrying more than one handheld device – mobile phone, iPod, iPad, camera, laptop – it seems that the time has come for somebody to create a bag to cater for all devices. Unit Portables is that somebody. Their range of bags and pouches is numbered, so that you can mix and match for your belongings. Unit 1 is the main bag and is tailored for your computer, with extra [...]

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