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.

iPad May Exceed Sales Forecast Figures of 4 Million

May 6 by Angela West | 2 comments

Apple recently announced that they hit the one million mark on sales of the iPad without the device even being out for a month. By comparison, Amazon sold one million Kindles throughout all of 2009. The new iPad 3G sold over 300,000 units over more »

Google Chrome Versus Potato, Lightning and Sound

May 5 by Angela West | add comment

The speed tests in the above video were filmed at actual browser rendering times. Here is a list of the equipment used, courtesy of the Youtube page that the video is hosted on: – Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed – Monitor – more »

The British Are Coming! Spotify to Invade North America With Music Streaming Service

May 4 by Angela West | 4 comments

While a specific date has not yet been given, the popular UK-based music streaming service Spotify is threatening a US launch before the end of 2010. No doubt the new Spotify features we reported on last week were partially in preparation for the big reveal. Spotify is a music streaming service that offers more »

Advertising Agency Dishes on iAd Visit From Apple Reps

Apr 15 by Angela West | add comment

A couple of people from Apple displayed the new platform in person at the Hill Holliday agency in Boston, and Ilya Vedrashko blogged the experience. Just some of the interesting things they stated over and above Job’s presentation last week: Branding “Each banner more »

Overseas Customers Can't Get Their iPads Until the End of May

Apr 14 by Angela West | 2 comments

If you are not in the US and you were looking forward to the delivery of your shiny new iPad, you’ll have to turn to eBay or employ a forwarding service in the US to actually get an iPad if your gadget lust can’t wait for another month to be satiated. more »

No. Fracking. Way. This Battlestar Galactica Car is Street Legal

Apr 10 by Angela West | add comment

This formal US Postal Service Jeep has been transformed into a contraption that the most hardened fighter jock could climb into after a night of gambling and hard drinking of ambrosia in the pilot’s mess. Yes, Dean Shorey, the master ride mechanic more »

Twitter Can Be Used to Predict Box Office Take: HP

Apr 10 by Angela West | add comment

Hewlett Packard recently concluded a study that used Twitter to very accurately predict box office numbers for movies before they were released. The system studied over 3 million messages and accurately predicted box office takes for a number more »

Apple's iPhone 4.0 OS Jailbroken Less Than One Day After Announcement

Apr 10 by Angela West | add comment

Within 24 hours of Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 4.0 OS beta, a hacker from the iPhone Dev Team who goes by the handle of MuscleNerd announced that he had jailbroken the OS. The process of “jailbreaking” allows users to run apps not authorized more »

Adobe Developer Flashes Some Drama at Apple

Apr 10 by Angela West | add comment

Lee Brimelow is a Flash evangelist and developer at Adobe, and the author of the Flash Blog. Needless to say, Brimelow is less than pleased at Apple’s decision to “slap developers in the face” by removing Flash support on the iPhone OS 4 update. more »

Skin to Be Bioprinted Onto Burn, Accident Victims By New Technology

Apr 10 by Angela West | 3 comments

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has come up with a new technique of skin grafting that works like a printer to improve the treatment of anyone who is unfortunate enough to lose skin. Dr. Anthony Atala calls the new technique more »

Google Confirms Site Speed is Factor in How It Ranks Websites

Apr 10 by Angela West | add comment

Google confirmed officially on its blog that it takes site speed into account when it decides how highly a website will be ranked on its search engine results. While usability experts have been preaching fast loading times for a while, the official announcement from Google more »

How to Use Any Bluetooth Keyboard With Your iPad

Apr 6 by Angela West | add comment

For those of you not content to wait until Apple rolls out the iPad keyboard, or those of you who don’t want to pay the price they are certain to charge for it, the tech gods at Tipb have unveiled a tutorial video that illustrates how to use a Bluetooth more »