Time in timeless design.

QLOCKTWO makes you pause and allows a different view of time. The typographic front combines the moment with the written word and makes it a statement. “It is half past eight.” This clock forms a

Apple Unveil iPad tablet

After almost a decade of speculation, rumor and myth, Apple finally unveil what many have been anticipating – the iPad. At 1.5 pounds, and half an inch thick, it boasts some phenomenal features in a small, neat and unmistakably Apple package.

iPhone features hidden from you…

Iconic, Japanese little icons that are locked away from the rest of us. The iPhone would have flopped if it wasn’t for these little Emoji’s Go to the app store now, download ‘Spell Number’ and

Djay – A great bit of mixing software for $50

Great utilisation of the MacBook’s multi touch gestures. New feature that allows for quick beat matching – good for parties. People have even hooked this up to surface tables!

100k iPhone apps

Apple have reached an incredible landmark of 100,000 applications in the app store. Ok, so 990,000 of those will be pure dross, but there are still some extremely good examples available.

Physical computing – another way to play

Arduino – I’m looking at doing a course on this for phun. There are a lot of cool things being done at work on this – one is an arty display that illustrates how often

My bright idea – Is it any good, or is it just me?

I hate getting mail, unless it’s money but let’s face it, the relaity is quite the opposite. Tax, bills and banking are just part of everyday life, what gets me is that we still get

Google’s rainbow in the cloud

Google Apps – Very bloody cool that we even use it here at Subpar, so there you go! http://www.google.com/apps/ I think that they may be working on an OS for the cloud

Relational databases on the cloud – Bingo!

I haven’t read this properly but know that recently Amazon have cracked it with relational databases in the Elastic Computing framework. I’ve also looked at Microsofts Windows Azure platform, which has also a lot of

Bespin » Code in the Cloud

My heads in the cloud! What is Bespin? Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology. https://bespin.mozilla.com/

Never miss a show again

Ever want to catch an episode of your favourite TV show/soap but your stuck at your computer? TVCatchup is for you! On the go with your iPhone? No problem, check out the iPhone version!

Mashup Mixage

Mashups are awesome, there’s no denying it. Take a track with some dirty bassline, add another track with some slick and recognisable vocals, a sprinkle of samples from some epic floor fillers and you have

Remembering milk…

I have trouble remembering things. And as the number of things I have to remember grows, my ability to remember any of them diminishes. With that in mind, I turned to the web for help.

WordPress 2 for iPhone

The WordPress 2 App for the iPhone was released today with a whole host of improvements and features over the original version. Note that this is a new app and not an update of the

Test Post: Return to sender

I’m on strike!

Its magic…you know!

Apple have just unleashed their new product range on the UK store, and the highlight for me, aside from a tidy new MacBook, sexy looking iMac and Mac Pros is the ‘magic’ mouse. And it

Chutzpah!

As a massive Wildhearts fan, I’ve been anticipating the release of this album since I read about it on their blog. It’s even available on Spotify!

Websafe, blud.

Millions of colours are not enough. So spare a thought for those that are still stuck with only 256 of the little blighters.

Slashes are redundant

This guy owes me some time. Some serious time. In an interview with the New York Times, Tim Berners-Lee admitted that there’s actually no point in those bloody slashes.

Squarespace is funkeh

If you need a quick and powerful CMS solution for your website, then you can do far worse than Squarespace.

Sky Songs. Really?

So Sky have released the latest attempt at an ‘iTunes killer’. Personally, I’m shocked that Sky have taken on this marketplace, although their proposition is not a bad one…

GTR. Period.

I’ve been spending a lot of time searching for the Supra’s successor. Possibles are Lotus’ Exige, Audi’s S5 and Porsche’s Cayman S. But nothing has come close to the GTR, yet.

Raphael library impresses

Raphael is maturing nicely, and now comes with several very impressive demo’s to showcase it’s potential.

Modern Warfare 2, Gimme!

Having just read yet another preview piece over at @NowGamer, I feel a greater sense of urgency surrounding the imminent release of this incredibly anticipated sequal.

Virb. Really quite good

Well we went ahead and put up a good old profile at social-music-video-everything site, Virb. And I have to say, I’m impressed. Just a little, you understand.

Spotify. iPhone. Epic

It can’t be put in to words just how good Spotify is as a mobile app. But by joe I’m going to have a crack at it anyway! The revolution will not be televised, it

Pixar = animation gods

This week sees the release of Pixars latest animated offering, and I’m reminded at just how good they are at this CGI lark.

We are subpar. Are you?

Well, we are subpar. And we are here. Finally. As I sit and look at this post, I’m reminded of the long journey we’ve taken to get here.

iMac, do uMac?

I remember the first time I played with a Mac. No way in hell would I fall for the hype – never, ever.

we.are.twittered.

Yep, you can keep up with the Subpars general collective wellbeing by being a good twit and following us at http://www.twitter.com/wearesubpar

WordPressed for time?

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