TINDER grows by 15% per week

Mutual Interest- Saves time I suppose, but what was my last blog-post about? Maybe the smart devices will get you into bed?
A most contradictory blog day!
http://bbc.in/1bQn9I5

Grand Designs- Marissa's Mother from FL?

Is your dream to be totally self sufficient? Danish Windmill, Solar Panels, Boreholes, Geothermal pumps. http://www.geologicboreholes.co.uk/ground-source-heat-pumps/
Horticultural tendencies?
I can see Marissa's Mum doing the whole hog.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fighting-Love-A-Romantic-Comedy-ebook/dp/B0075MKBBE
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs
Love a bit of Kevin drama:)

I-Phone 5c - COLOURFUL CHOICES + Glamour & Glitz on I-Tunes

No excuse not to download now! Even if you are holding out for colourful I-PHONE 5 c;)
It's gonna be a hit with the ladies whatever the press might say, we can choose colour!!! We like that:)
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/nina-whyle/id470142104?mt=11

PRISM v PRIVACY v Big Brother v Small Sister

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22839609
Always a heated topic full of intrigue, when is it too much although it maybe in all our interests?
Is it morally wrong? Stamping on and blatantly ignoring what democracy stands for and why is it America tends to act the most paranoid whether that be now or McCarthy days (this is not the first time ghosts of the enemy have let governments act outrageously) Or is it that AMerica knows too much therefore acts covertly?
Hmmm nice and light subject for a Monday!

Apple iOS7 v Skeuomorphism

OOOjjjjhhhh...
 I sort of like the pretty icon's, and all Japanesy twee things that fly!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22840833

Apple Smart Watch

I'd love to see the Apple Products being scrutinised in Dragons Den (before popularity)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21547947

New Technology - Movie made through Audience Reactions

Yes it's revolutionary but can see the technology ending up in the dirtier side of films! If you walk into a cinema, the air is musty and all the attendee's are concentrating male species linked up to sensors... leave, run and don't forget your popcorn! Hopefully an adaptation of MUOM is screening in the next room down;)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21429437

How to Test Your Wi-Fi Signal- Latest Technology!

Although correct I'm still slightly despondent on having the same electrical properties as a bag of spuds!
We all remember making Potato clocks! After devouring a Crimbo dinner, there's probably little difference in the aesthetics too!  Yummmm, indulgence and bloating- nothing that the female species isn't used to;)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20813441

20 th. Anniversary of Texting!

Is it good or bad? We do tend to have our heads like ostriches these days, are we missing out on our surroundings delving deeper into the Matrix world? Well it does preoccupy boring train journeys quite well;)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/20562748

TRANSFORMER ROBOT FOR SALE-The Christmas Gift for one who has everything!

Seriously I got quite excited seeing an opportunity to be your own transformer!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2012/nov/28/robot-kuratas-giant-video

How the Internet ignites Independence!

A lot of people fear for our computer reliant world, even say globalisation and homogenised thinking is seeping out of it's fibre optics. But what it has done is open up a quirky marketplace for creative people who would have otherwise been trapped in the corporate world of spreadsheets and presentations, growing greyer and greyer by the day as their only remaining highlight was the actual use of highlighter pens.
People too shy to approach the wider market for fear of rejection and ridicule have found their outlet online. Of course my own publishing journey is not a far jump and skip from this. I did hound publishers only to be told you have to have an agent and agents saying you have to be published. The most frustrating chicken and egg game ever, so much so I took the plunge and went the kindle way. (OK the access to 7 editors would have been handy and quite frankly save me several (cough)
"I'm so sorry" mails until the updated versions came along) but the internet has had a positive butterfly effect.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19599168

3-D Printing at Home - Reality

It will be an exciting day when you can design your own outfit before you go out, perfect for woman who know exactly what they want in their minds but the shops never stock it. We've all had that experience, I'm guessing there will be a lot more CAD self taughts among us!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20047744

Simple Things- Dyslexia Font helps

Often we overlook the simple solutions in life, I have about as much common sense as a binary obsessed hat wearing lemur, often we complicate problems by thinking up complicated solutions when one quick addition often suffices. This special font designed to help dyslexic people keep the letters around the right way is genius, simple yet so effective. Brilliant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19734341

The Natural Sat-Nav

Nature has all the answers! I have visions of bossy garrulous bee's accompanying me on my next UK country expedition, with them and the Babel fish my techno glove compartment is complete ;)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19799806

Facebook deleting Fakes!

Quick can you all like my page! Only joking, there's never any point feigning popularity, loyal and steadfast my readers are and I thank them for that, they have their own (steadily expanding) cyber bubble of popularity xxx
But seriously... tell your friends and family to like my page, otherwise I'll have 2 followers; one's a cat and one mistakenly 'liked' because he thought he could get cheap garden fertiliser. That never counts!
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19741484

TATE MODERN - A Dane with a Message

Go see... if you're in London.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19664574

Google Maps v Apple's IOS6

I had a sneaking suspicion on how Apple were supposed to trump Google Maps when they've been working solidly on gathering information for years. I have the old, olde worlde, prehistoric, pre Bieber 4 and was reluctant to upgrade because of the loss of Google Maps. So from someone with no sense of direction even if armed with Map, giant landmarks, sundial, satnav... google get me there as I can follow my blob as I'm walking. BTW I suggest Apple make an App where Siri can have a personality of your choice....   Hal is within our reach!
Personally I would like a high brow ironic sense of humour with an attitude... think Holly (Red Dwarf) Marvin the Robot (Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy)... endless entertainment, but remember HAL! Gulp
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19659736

Twitter, Tweets and Re-tweetering!

There's no doubt social media is a part of every day life now, unless you've been stuck in the outer regions of a Mongolian Monastery for the past 20 yrs after taking a vow of "un-matrixed""un-wired""what's that? Mobile phones? But how? I-want-nothing-to-do-with-evil-invisible-witchcraft" kind of vow.
I'm sure spiritual leaders are now catering for this.
(Yes all right, all right, one of those lines is blatant plagiarism from MUOM but I'm allowed to lift lines from my own book and pass them off as my own?!?!...hmmm interesting conundrum.)
It's a nice little marketing pitch for those sacred (often strange places) to recoup some costs, a monastery on the Isle of Wight offers such a placement! I wonder if the Abbot has wi-fi?! Otherwise how would he know who's coming to stay? Everywhere is nearly connected Blofeld... (stroke white cat:) & who are our Mr Smiths?
That remains to be seen. (And no it's not me! I would at least offer cake with a pleasant chat before engaging in anti-gravitational fighting.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9347886/Monastery-makes-pitch-for-the-gap-year-market.html

Fashion Forward to the Limits!

My mind is left reeling, as a writer and of course as a woman when I saw the headline I automatically filled in the story! From pucci print ipads to Marc Jacobs smart hats, Vivienne Westwood Devices that accentuated your womanly form! Siri in a bodice, the style advisor!
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120907-lasers-made-from-silk