http://girlygeekdom.com Science, Engineering and Technology news and reviews, for women, girls, students and teachers! Thu, 17 May 2012 13:45:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Science, Engineering and Technology news and reviews, for women, girls, students and teachers! GirlyGeekdom no Science, Engineering and Technology news and reviews, for women, girls, students and teachers! http://girlygeekdom.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://girlygeekdom.com/category/entertainment http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/my-gadget-buddy http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/my-gadget-buddy#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 13:45:30 +0000 Zoe http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20465
Traditionally we invest in insurance for things that are large purchases – we invest in home and car insurance, or insure specific costly items. As technology progresses and gadgets get smaller, we find that we’re carrying around more and more expensive kit – I personally carry a netbook, an iPad and a smartphone. If I [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/my-gadget-buddy/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/fujifilm-finepix-f600exr-review http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/fujifilm-finepix-f600exr-review#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20486
I’m not what you would call a digital SLR geek but I love my point & shoot cameras so I was curious about the FujiFilm Finepix F600EXR.  Why have all that weight to carry around when all you want is a decent picture with the least amount of fuss! My usual camera is a Panasonic [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/fujifilm-finepix-f600exr-review/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/orbitalsound-t12-v3-review http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/orbitalsound-t12-v3-review#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20475
I’ve been “playing” with the latest Orbitsound device, the Orbitsound T12 V3 which is a long slim speaker system. The speaker has a slot for an iPhone/ iPod so that you can play your music through it but it’s really set up as a living room sound system that sits really nicely underneath the TV. [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/orbitalsound-t12-v3-review/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/events/hands-on-with-samsung-galaxy-s3 http://girlygeekdom.com/events/hands-on-with-samsung-galaxy-s3#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 13:07:55 +0000 Motoko http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20438
The hype was slowly building and it has been ramping up for several weeks now. But the wait is finally over, as I entered Earl’s Court to discover what new device Samsung was unveiling to the world. Samsung have done well to be very tightly lipped about what new device they have been working on, [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/events/hands-on-with-samsung-galaxy-s3/feed 3 http://girlygeekdom.com/education/bafta-announce-young-game-designers-competition http://girlygeekdom.com/education/bafta-announce-young-game-designers-competition#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 09:00:54 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20400
    GirlyGeekdom and BAFTA are very excited about the imminent launch of BAFTA’s Young Game Designers Competition 2012. This year the competition is going to bigger and better than ever with TWO ways to enter. Game Concept Award - Do you love the way your favourite video games look? Are you itching to have a [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/education/bafta-announce-young-game-designers-competition/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/how-to-guide-to-draw-something http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/how-to-guide-to-draw-something#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:44:56 +0000 Zoe http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20291
DrawSomething has just passed the 50 million download mark in under 2 months since its release. Find out why everyone is playing this addictive game in my video “how to”. “How to” video About Zoe CunninghamZoe Cunningham has been working in technology for over 12 years and is currently Operations Manager at Softwire Technology. In [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/how-to-guide-to-draw-something/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/how-to-guide-to-instagram-picframe-and-pingram http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/how-to-guide-to-instagram-picframe-and-pingram#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:42:33 +0000 Zoe http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20286
In this video I explain how to create gorgeous pictures with Instagram, combine them into composite pictures with PicFrame and create a Pinterest-like pinboard of them with Pingram. And it must be good because literally minutes after I published it to YouTube, Instagram sold for $1bn. Instagram “how to” About Zoe CunninghamZoe Cunningham has been [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/how-to-guide-to-instagram-picframe-and-pingram/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/events/alienware-event-a-model-of-yours-truly-by-nvidia http://girlygeekdom.com/events/alienware-event-a-model-of-yours-truly-by-nvidia#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:09:15 +0000 Motoko http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20320
If you remember, I attended the launch party of the Alienware X51 gaming PC. In between getting abused at the Street Fighter tournament and playing on shiny new boxes, I took a break to have my face scanned by NVIDIA. A 3D wireframe was generated based on this facial scan to construct models, using 3D [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/events/alienware-event-a-model-of-yours-truly-by-nvidia/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/gaming-entertainment/bluestacks http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/gaming-entertainment/bluestacks#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:15:43 +0000 Zoe http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20280
So addicted to mobile games, you wish you could get them all on your PC? Well now you can, along with any other Android apps. Bluestacks allows you to copy apps over from your phone and run them on a Windows machine. One of the best uses for this is to run larger screen versions [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/gaming-entertainment/bluestacks/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/sharing-music http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/sharing-music#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:30:04 +0000 Zoe http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=20275
It’s a too common complaint. For all the ease with which we can now carry round our sound systems in our pockets, we still hark back to the days when we could pop over to a friend’s house with an LP, cassette or even CD to share our music without being targetted by anti-piracy police. [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/sharing-music/feed 0