Author: Angela West

Copywriter by day, Angela's ultimate dream is to open a Fallout-themed pub featuring authentic Squirrel on a Stick and wait staff with Pip-Boys.

As The Facebook Turns - Winklevoss Twins Sued for Their Stake

Dec 11 by Angela West | add comment

In yet another bizarre twist in the Facebook story, now  made very public by “The Social Network” movie, a man who was partnered with the Winklevoss twins in a business venture is now suing them for a slice of their Facebook cut. Chang and the Winklevoss brothers merged the Winklevoss more »

Google Zeitgeist 2010 is Out - Stats Geeks Everywhere Rejoice

Dec 11 by Angela West | add comment

The Google Zeitgeist for 2010 is out. Some of the “Fastest Rising” results are surprising, some are expected. The iPad, for example, taking the crown as the most searched item makes complete sense, since people were not only searching for Apple’s newest little slice of more »

Like Tron? Signature Tron Furniture at Design Miami 2010

Dec 4 by Angela West | 2 comments

If you were a fan of Tron or are a fan of Tron: Legacy, you’ll survive nicely in one of these fabulous chairs. Designed by Dror Benshetrit for Walt Disney’s Signature line, they will be on display at Design Miami 2010. more »

Javascript Object Fuels Rumor of Video With Skype on Facebook

Nov 28 by Angela West | add comment

While Tal Ater was working on his Green Any Site Facebook application, he stumbled across a javascript object called Video Chat. This object had properties that were referential to Skype’s video chat features, pointing to potential video integration between the two sites in more »

Boyfriend Uses Girlfriend's Favorite Website to Propose To Her

Nov 27 by Angela West | 20 comments

Scott’s girlfriend, Leslie, was a power user of the popular Mom community site CafeMom. Scott sought to enlist their help in crafting his proposal to her through their popular Achievement Awards program. He sent Cafe Mom the following e-mail to initiate more »

Remembary - Turning Your Online Life into a Digital Journal

Nov 22 by Angela West | add comment

Remembary is an iPad app that allows you to import your Twitter history and up to three RSS feeds from your various blogs and collect them all in one place with an auto-sort into daily entries. You can further edit your daily Remembary entries more »

Who Buys In-Game Property for $335,000? This Guy.

Nov 21 by Angela West | 2 comments

Think you’re a hardcore gamer? It can be argued that nobody is more hardcore than the guy who spends enough for a decently sized house – on a video game. Yan Panasjuk, a software engineer living in Boston, recently paid $335,000 real world dollars for a number more »

Dirpy Lets You Turn Your Favourite YouTube Videos Into MP3's

Nov 7 by Angela West | 9 comments

Want the dubstep version of “Because I Backtraced It” on your iPod? This dream has come true with Dirpy, a cheeky little app now in Beta that lets you turn your fave YouTube or Google videos into lovely ear candy. It only works with Google and Youtube’s API’s, but that is more than more »

Facebook Isn't Sharing Their Toys; Google Bars User Data From Facebook

Nov 6 by Angela West | 7 comments

Starting very soon, you won’t be able to import all of your Gmail contacts in one shot into your Facebook account. Looks like Google is a little miffed at Facebook for not making tools available to let the information flow both ways; Google wants more »

How To Make a Juno iBurger Mobile Phone

Oct 31 by Angela West | add comment

Nothing screams hipster like anything from “Juno”, most notably her iconic hamburger phone. Now, you too can haz Juno hamburger, if you are ready and willing to transform your iPhone into a hamburger phone. Its creator, Karen, wanted to be Juno for Halloween, and more »

Mount Everest Gets 3G Broadband Service

Oct 30 by Angela West | 3 comments

Nepali telecom company Ncell touted its new setup at the base camp of Mount Everest. This means Everest trekkers can now feed on sweet 3G broadband internet while on the slopes of the world’s tallest mountain. “Today we made the (world’s) highest more »

Apple Introduces Lion, new MacBook Air, more at Today's Apple Event

Oct 20 by Angela West | 1 comment

As usual, there were a few exciting things released by Apple today. Here are the main items: Apple Brings App Store to Mac, Gives Peek at Lion Apple gave a sneak peek of Mac OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating more »

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