This web app from BBC News lets you compare yourself to Olympic athletes and find which one you resemble the most. full story ![]()

Christopher Poole, the man behind some of the web's biggest hits like 4Chan and Canvas, launched a new iPad app today. DrawQuest is a painting app that lets you doodle on templates to create cartoon scenes and share them with ...
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Google continues to quickly iterate its Chrome OS platform, with the latest developer build showing a much improved Files app. And it is an app; something called a Packaged App that can have more functionality than a web app.
gigaom.com (2 months ago)

Web and app-based games are under scrutiny from the Office of Fair Trading amid accusations they "bait" children to make money.
sky.com (2 months and 7 days ago)
Twitter's new #Music app will be available on the web and in the iTunes store on Thursday. The app integrates music from iTunes, Spotify and Rdio and lets users tweet songs from the app.
gigaom.com (2 months and 1 day ago)
Oscar Pistorius has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend after she was shot inside the Olympic athlete's home in South Africa.
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So-called "free" web and app-based games for children are under investigation following concerns that users can run up substantial costs.
standard.co.uk (2 months and 7 days ago)
The disabled Olympic and Paralympic athlete was dining with girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and a group of close friends at the time
mirror.co.uk (3 months and 29 days ago)

We've known for some time that Google has been looking to bring some of its Chrome OS features to other operating systems, and now new information all-but-confirms that a Mac version of the Chrome OS app launcher is on its way. The leak came from Chrome engineer François Beaufort, who also provided a picture and a link to a beta version that's ready to trial. You will,...
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iOS 7 is beautiful. It's exciting. It feels like a completely different phone-vibrant, alive and a design refresh in the truest sense of the world. But, um, what about them app icons? Some are nice but most are bizarre looking and possibly even ugly. How can something look so good inside but so weird on the face? The Next Web reports that Jony Ive used two different teams to...
gizmodo.com (5 days ago)
The FT launched a new version of its iPad offering, a move that reinforced the publication's contrarian web-only mobile strategy, and an FT executive predicts that the problem of collecting mobile payments outside of app stores will soon be solved.
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