7th October 2011
Gooii collaborators Tim McCourt and Wesley Louis have just won the awards for ‘Best of British’ and the ‘Audience Award for Best Film’ at this year’s highly respected ‘Canterbury Anifest’. This is great news for the director/animators and we are very excited to be working with them on an exciting short film for a new…
Read More20th September 2011
The highly respected website ‘Fun Educational Apps’ has just reviewed the first three games in the Fab-Phonics series. Highly rating the apps, they describe them as “engaging and easy to use fun learning…” saying they are “cute, simple and effective learning… the kids loved it and we are sure yours will do too”. To read…
Read More21st July 2011
Mac OS X Lion is sitting in my dock, winking at me, waiting to be installed. Despite the great temptation to install, I’m going to hold off for a day or so, as my current copy of Xcode, the software used to build and complile iOS apps, isn’t Lion compatible. In the meantime the Lion…
Read More20th July 2011
Mac OS X 10.7, or Lion as it’s better known, is released today and it’s just not its weatlh of features that sets this release apart. Lion is the first operating system to be released almost exclusively as a download, as well as being one of the cheapest OS at only £20.99 (or $29.99 if…
Read More14th June 2011
The ever insightful Jeffrey Zeldman recently lectured on the skills and opportunities that should be the top of every web designer’s list. Titled ‘What Every Web Designer Should Know’, his keynote speech in Atlanta confirms the best practices we feel important here at Gooii. Great importance is placed on designing around content, my personal belief…
Read More2nd June 2011
This is a great story about how an app called ‘Hidden’ was used to recover a stolen MacBook. Apple has long had an app that can locate a lost iPhone or iPad but ‘Hidden’ goes one step further by taking photos from the laptop’s webcam and sending them back to the owner. In this case…
Read More2nd June 2011
Blast those ghosts and learn your tables with this great new App, adapted from the Primary Games classic. Try and score 100 hits as fast as you can by tapping on ghosts which are a multiple of your chosen number. Be careful though, tapping an incorrect multiple will see your score reduced by 10 and…
Read More26th May 2011
Doctors in Canada have been studying the ability some blind people have to “see like bat” by listening to echoes. The doctors found that “visual brain areas play an important role for echolocation in blind people… which seems uncannily similar to vision”. Dr Lore Thaler of the University of Western Ontario hopes that with further…
Read More16th May 2011
If you’ve ever tried, or are lucky enough to own a 3D TV, you’ll notice a crisper, sharper image than that experienced in the cinema. With glasses free 3D still a few years away, the biggest problem facing 3D TV manufactureres is that of content. Samsung are looking to addess the issue by providing a…
Read More6th April 2011
Nottingham based Crytek are currently top of the UK gaming charts with the excellent Crysis 2, available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. What’s especially impressive is they’ve managed to beat off all software releases for the new, and rather spiffy, Nintendo 3DS console. As well as being the UK’s top selling game, Crysis 2…
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